Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-10-20
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Johan Sorensen came up from the
Twin Cities Saturday for visit with
friends over Sunday.
Chr Sandahl left Tuesday after
noon for Waterloo and Cedar Falls,
Iowa, on a business trip.
Mrs. Guy Watson from up Ker-
rick way, was in Askov last Thurs
day for medical attention.
Christopher Nielsen went to Mime
apolis Monday for routine examina-
tion at the Veterans hospital.
Sigurd Lunde, Henry Simonsgaard,
and Werner johnson are leaving Sat-
urday for Nebraska to husk corn.
Owe Krag left the first of the week
for the north part of the state to seek
employment in the lumber camps.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Hansen and
Miss Myrtle Gammelgaard visited
with friends in Coleraine Sunday.
Jens Hyldahl had his house moved
onto his lot in the village the first
part of the week, X. S. Sorensen doing
the work.
Erwin Krogh and Theodore Jensen
were in Minneapolis from Friday till
Monday. While there the latter
bought a used Ford car.
Thorvald Nielsen, northeast of town,
left last week for Laurel, Neb, where
he will husk corn while, expecting
to return home at Christmas time.
Miss Julia Rasmussen returned the
first of the week from few days Wis
it in Minneapolis. She plans on leav-
ing for the west, coast next week,
Viggo Justesen, L. C. Petersen, DR..
III. E. Levin, and Hjalmar and Svend
Petersen were in Pine City Monday to
attend the banquet rendered Matt
Poferl.
The Misses Margaret Mittelstadt
and Corrah Iversen, of the local
school faculty, and Paul N. Frokjer
visited friends in St. Cloud Saturday
and Sunday.
Lunde left yesterday in auto for AL
bert Lea. The former expected to
get work there, but if not successful
would journey on with the others to
South Dakota to seek employment.
The next meeting of the Parent
Teachers Association will be held on
Thursday evening, Nov. 8, at the
school house. 1t is expected that a
man from the State Educational De-
partment will be here as the princi-
pal speaker. Another parent-teacher
meeting is planned for the fore part
of December, it being the last one
for this year.
P. P. Kilstofte, N. S. Petersen, and
Werner B. johnson came over from
Medford, Wis, Saturday; the two lat
ter will remain home for the time
being. Mr.. Kilstofte returned to his
work again Monday morning accom-
panied by his son, Skiold, who has
been home several weeks nursing a
broken elbow which he sustained in
a fall while laying brick.
AS was announced recently the la
dies of the local church have decided
not to make a house to house can
vass for donations to the Women's
Mission Fund this year, but have
placed list in the bank where folks
can sign their names and subscribe
whatever amounts they will. Dona-
tions may also be left with any of
the officers of the Ladies' Aid: Mrs.
A. Gravesen, Mrs. o. H. Dyreborg, or
Mrs. Carl Eriksen.
At the Rebekah whist party last
week Mrs. Hans Koed won first prize
for the ladies and Chris Eriksen for
the men; Henry Petersen took BOBBY
prize honors. Leroy Lindgren held
the lucky number on the blanket, and
Thorvald Andersen (shoemaker) won
the goose. Being a bachelor Mr.. An
dersen had no particular use for the
goose so he donated it to the Re-
bekahs again and it was sold on auc-
ton, bringing $1.75.
Clifford Petersen, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. N. G. Petersen, left Friday for
Minneapolis to join 81 other Mime
sofa boys in "a trip to the National
Dairy Exposition at Memphis, Tenn,
expecting to be gone about twelve
days. The Minneapolis Journal acted
as host for twelve of the boys, Cliff
ford being one of them. The round
trip with all expenses paid was
granted to % Minnesota boys for high
honors received in their All Club
work
Superintendent v. Justesen's lee
ture on journalism at the Young Peo-
pies Society meeting Sunday evening
was good and was listened to atten-
lively. He said that in recent years
the tendency has been toward con-
solidation of the big daily press and
there has been too much of it for the
public good. Primarily the newspaper
editor was a crusader-had definite
convictions and fought for them, but
there has come change and the big
daily press is more like financial
organization-its first consideration
being that of making it pay. The
editor as a rule is not money man.
The money man that backs him is
the publisher and he is in the BUSH
ness for the money-naturally catering
to the big advertisers. There are of