Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-10-20
ASKOV


day morning.
Bennett Larsen and Clarence Jen-
sen left Monday for Laurel, Neb.,
where they will husk corn.
Attorney Albert johnson of Sand
stone, was business caller in Askov
Saturday. Buttermaker Robinson
was also a caller here the same day.
At the last North Star Farmers
Club meeting it was decided to
change the regular meeting nights
from the second Friday to the second
Tuesday of each month.
Chr. Christensen of Palisade, for
mer Askov buttermaker, writes in a
letter that Mrs. Christensen is at
a Duluth hospital with an abscess
of the lungs. She has been quite ill
but is improving.
DIR. Ejvind Fenger came up from
Glen Lake Sunday to spend the day
at the home of his mother, the oc-
casion being her birthday. A num-
Der of friends called and spent a
pleasant afternoon.
The Misses Othelia and Theresa
Paulsen went to Minneapolis Monday
to meet Miss Agnes Smith from
Withee, Wis, and the three young
ladies proceeded to the west coast,
bound for Santa Barbara, Calf,
where they plan to work this winter.
AS in former years lists can now
be found at the various stores in the
village where folks can subscribe
amounts as they see fit for the up
keep of the local park. 1t is desired
that the money be gathered soon so
that the expenses for the past year
may be paid.
Jens ]. Jensen, north of town, was
injured few days ago while in the
act of prying a big stone loose with
a pole He slipped and fell to the
ground with the result that there
was an external cut on his right
cheek and several teeth were knocked
loose. He was laid up from work a
few days.
C. A. Lundgren, the Moose Lake
tailor, was a business caller in Askov
last Thursday. He made arrange
ments with the Petersen Clothing
store so that work for him may be
left there. Mr.. Lundgren has been
located at Moose Lake the past three
years and enjoys a good business.
He was formerly located at Mora.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. p johnson came
here from Tyler Saturday for visit
at the L. A. Paulsen home. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hans Andersen came down from
Eveleth the same day, also for
visit at the Paulsen home. Return
ing home Sunday, the Andersens
were accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
johnson who will make their home
with them this winter.
Rev. o. R. Graupner, the Lutheran
pastor at Holyoke, was caller in
Askov last Thursday. Rev. Graupner
is a young man and was married just
before taking up the pastorate at
Holyoke few weeks ago, filling the
place formerly held by Rev. E. B.
Glade who then resided at Sandstone.
Rev. Graupner is also preacher for
the German Lutheran congregation at
Bruno, where he breaches in both
German and English.
An advertisement for mail messen-
ger service was posted the first of the
week in the lobby of the post office.
Same reads in part as follows: Sealed
proposals for carrying the United
States mail (including parcel post
maiD on Messenger Route No. 241507
between the post office at Askov and
the Great Northern depot, each way
as often as required, will be received
by the postmaster at Askov until Oct.
%. Blank bids and full information
may be secured from the Askov post
master.
Thorvald and Alfred Jacobsen who
have been working in the harvest
fields near Dagmar, Mont, returned
to Askov last Thursday. Their
mother, Mrs. L. P. Jacobsen, who ac-
companied them on the trip out, will
remain there this winter, at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur
Frost. There were eleven Askov
boys working on various threshing
rigs near Dagmar this fall. Besides
the Jacobsen boys who just returned
Henry Simonsgaard, Albert Krogh,
and Hans Nielsen returned home a
couple of weeks ago; Joe Rasmussen
and Albert Sorensen have gone to
Idaho and will work there for a while
before going further west; Thorvald
Sorensen, Elmer Morgensen and Hol-
ger Dixen have gone west also and
are likely in Oregon or California
by this time. When the Jacobsen
boys left Dagmar they were travelling
through four inches of snow which
gradually turned into slush and made
travelling on the Montana mud roads
a tough job. On the trip home they
stopped off for visits with relatives
and friends in North Dakota and at
Minneapolis They report the small
grain crop of Montana as very good
this year and there was plenty OF
work with only few delays on ac-
count of rain.