Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-07-25

Carl Miller and family were callers
in Duluth yesterday.
Edwin Sorensen was a passenger to
Minneapolis yesterday.
Miss Astrid Gravesen left Friday
for Chicago and has secured employ
ment there.
Mrs. Fred Degerstrom's m t h +
went to Minneapolis Saturday to visit
sister who is i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Byron Olsen of
Minneapolis, visited at the home of
his folks here over Sunday.
Miss Regime lessen who has been
visiting at home for some time, re-
turned to Minneapolis yesterday.
John H. Sorensen of the Service
Garage, sold his Oakland car last
week to Mr.. Cruel on the Sandstone
road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Simonsgaard
and son. Kaj. left Sunday for visit
with friends at Chicago and other
points.
Albert Thomson and family motored
to Minneapolis Saturday evening for
visit over Sunday with relatives and
friends.
Walter Taylor and Miss Margaret
Chandler and another couple from
Ogilvie, visited with T. w. Hansen
Sunday.
Rudolph E. Petersen left last week
for West Denmark, Wis, where he
will be one of the instructors at the
summer encampment.
All the business men on Main street
of Askov are requested to meet with
the Village Council Thursday evening,
August LIST, in the town hall, to dis
cuss the selection of uniform and suit
able hitching posts.
The regular fourth Saturday in the
month d. B. S. social will be held i'm
the hall Saturday evening, July q.
Ladies will please bring cake or sand
witches. For entertainment a one-act
play will be presented by Thorvald
and Carl |. Jensen and dancing as
usual will follow that
Mrs. Nelsine Gisselman sold her
SO-acre farm, east of town, the former
Albert Rasmussen place, to Hans Ras-
mussen, Monday, at consideration of
$4,000 giving possession at once Mr.
Rasmussen and family however have
rented place for this year and will
likely not move before next spring.
L. Mosbak sold the former H. R.
Buck S0-acre farm last week to N. P.
Nielsen of Starbuck at a consideration
of $4,000 cash, giving possession at
once. Mr.. Nelson is engaged in farm
ing at Starbuck and will not make
arrangements to move up here before
next spring; in the mean time the
farm here is rented out
About $50 people gathered last night
in the church basement in response to
a general call. The original object
of the gathering was to indicate to
the Rev. and Mrs. o. H. Dyreborg that
they are highly appreciated and liked
here and in this manner influence
them to remain here rather than
move East as had been rumored.
With A. Gravesen as master of GER
emonies short talks were given, in
the order named, by Mrs. Jorgen
ouiSCL, n. f1dTdIQ
johnson, Svend Petersen, Chr Soren-
sen, Mrs. Frede Stottrup, P. P. Kill
stOfte, Julius Petersen, Adolf Jensen.
and Johannes Juhl; all expressed
their urgent desire to have the Rev.
and Mrs. Dyreborg alter their decision
and remain here. In very able
and pleasing manner the Rev. Dyre-
borg advised the audience that his de-
cision had been made and could not
under any circumstances be altered.
They plan to leave about the first of
November for Perth ,Amboy. N. j.,
where he has been asked to come to
take charge of the Danish Lutheran
congregation. Askov's loss will be
Perth Amboy's gain. Jens P. Miller
of Pine City was also present and
spoke; there were many songs in be-
tween the talks, and the Rev. Dyre-
borg terminated the evenings festiy-