Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-03
ASKOV

]. Albert johnson is confined K
bed with case of lagrippe.
Chris Krogh, west of town, has beer
under the weather the past week.
Lloyd Grover who has been stayin,
at Jens Gregersen's, will make hi
future home with the A. c. JorgenseI
family.
Ingstrup and Asger Gregersen pur
chased used car last week witt
which they left for Nebraska to seel
employment picking corn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Niels Hede and two
children from Minneapolis, visited
over Sunday at the homes of hel
brothers, Niels B. and Carl Miller.
H. Simonsen who has not been in
the best of health lately, left the first
of the week for Lake Benton, and will
likely remain with his family there
over the winter.
Jess Petersen who has been visiting
at various points in Iowa and Montana
the past five months, has returned to
Askov and will spend the winter al
the home of his sister, Mrs. Jorgen r
Petersen.
Jens C. Jensen, Thorvald Andersen
Martin Isaksen, and Ludwig Madsen
were in Pine City Saturday. the two
former to make application for their
final citizenship papers and the two
latter acting as witnesses.
The various members who assisted
with the program and otherwise
helped at the Danish Sisterhood
sale gathered for a social evening
Monday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
John Bell. The evening passed rapid
ly with social visiting and cards, and
q fine lunch was enjoyed.
A number of the usual Halloween
pranks were played by the young
folks Monday evening Some of the
pranks played were not good sports.
manship however, such as blocking
a main and public highway which
can easily result in serious accidents
and cause material damage.
Chris Jensen, southwest of town
with his sons, Sigfred and Victor
drove his truck to Kimball, south OF
St. Cloud, Monday and brought back
a load of corn. He went over there
again yesterday, accompanied this
time by Sigfred and Erving, and
and brought back another load Of
corn.
Edward Dietz left last night fol-
Minneapolis and from there he will
go on to Darlington, Wash, for q
visit with relatives and possibly seeh
employment. Mr.. and Mrs. P. Christ
ensen, uncle and aunt of Edward
who resided at Askov a short time
several years ago, are farming neal
Darlington.
Carl Miller has just had another
furnace installed in his store anG
promises to make it "hot" for his
customers. A number of changes
have also been made in the store sc
as to better display his wares; and he
has put in a modern electric lighted
Toledo scale, which all tends tc
brighten up the place materially.
p. p. Kilstofte and son, Skiold
were home over Sunday from their
work at Medford, Wis. From Mime.
apolis they were accompanied by
Miss Ruth Kilstofte who is nurse al
Wabasha, and the Misses Gudrun and
Gertrude Kilstofte who are students
at the anniversary. They all returned
to their respective places Monday.
For the past year the reputed new
Ford car has been scheduled to come
out "the first of next month. That
however has become obsolete and now
it will be out zone of the first days"
What the car will be like is still q
mystery, but the latest dope on it is
to the effect that it is six cylinder
with all modern and latest improve.
ments.
X. P. Christensen, his son, Carl
and daughter, Ethel, and Ben Stoke
from Birch Creek township, were cal.
lers in Askov last Thursday. They
came just in time to see the last
run on the American and took ad.
vantage of the opportunity to get ac-
quainted with the shop They are ole
settlers in the northwest corner OF
the county and Mr. christensen is
president of the farmers co-opera.
tive creamery at Denham which is
forging ahead and doing we'll.
A check of the books at the Great
Northern depot shows that for the
month of October, this year, there
was shipped out from Askov 4 car.
loads of cattle and 146 carloads Of
bagas and potatoes together. This is
an average of about six cars a day fol
each working day of the month and
ought to be pretty good business fol
town the size of Askov. The in.
coming freight is of course not nearly
so great, yet there is enough loca,
freight to make the average trair
crew cusS.
Mrs. Anna Madsen and Hartvis
Paulsen of Minneapolis, visited at the
John Bell home from Saturday til
Monday While here they furnished