Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-16

should have a reply He said in part:
'If present conditions continue to pre-
vail the situation in all Of Pine coun-
ty 10 years hence will be the same
as now prevails in the northeastern
townships"
This of course might have been left
out of the report, as it is not good
advertising for the county, but the
American believes in reporting a
meeting as nearly correctly as pos
sible and giving a true picture of
what transpires. That is our mis-
sion as newspaper. 1t looks like
a case of misery loves company.
Things have gone "hay-wire," as the
expression goes, in a few of the town
ships along the 500 Line, but certain
ly that is not the situation all over
the county nor will that be the stu
alton. The community here at Askov
was established only few years be-
fore the railroad was put through in
eastern Pine county. We are meet
ing our obligations in the township.
village. and school district, bonds IRE
being paid when due and the village
is on a cash basis. Pine City and the
surrounding territory is all very solid
and in good financial circumstances.
About forty years ago the very
grounds that that village is located on
was sold on tax title and the same
holds true of much of the farm lands
in vi mi ~ hn re
ritory is going along good, meeting
its obligations. Hinckley was haru
hit with the extensive water and
sewer improvements of few years
ago but they are meeting their obli-
cations and gCing ahead, Willow Riv-
er is overcoming the heavy school
burdens. Sturgeon Lake is sitting
pretty and several townships in the
county are on cash basis, so we see
no reason for such an unwarranted
statement as that made by Mr.. Rash.
Take look at the report of co-opera-
tive creameries in the county for the
past two years, published in this is
sue, and anyone Will readily see that
Pine county as whole is going ahead
in agriculture. and that in commune
ties where they get down to brass
| tacks" ana attend to business instead
of building air castles they are fOrg-
ing ahead.
Eastern Pine county has lacked
| good leaderShip-we may as well call
spade spade. A few years ago,
believe it was more prevalent then,
delegations after delegations from
there appeared before the board of
county commissioners asking for ap-
preparations and help. At nearly every
meeting of the board person could
| expect to find two or more from the
500 Line asking for something. This
got so much on the nerves of the COM
missioners that one member of the
board named them jack-pine savagcs.
Ii wasn't very pretty name, but it
goes to show how inefficient leader
ship can sometimes do damage to
the whole community. Our sympathy
goes out to the actual settlers and
| farmers in those communities who
have labored hard and done their
| DcSl W Scl dHcutl, Dul
caps They have lacked markets and
good cooperation, markets that Likely
could have been established and set
tiers encouraged to stay if more &C
tual work in their behalf had been
done instead of so much talking. So
if the remaining settlers in that vi
entity can sell their lands to the gov
eminent, get the bonded Indebtedness
paid up and save something out of
their efforts, by having those town
ships become a part of a federal re-
serve established mostly in Wisconsin
that may be the best way out of it
and we wish them success in that eff
fort For the whole of Pine county,
should we lose three or four town
ships on the tax rolls, it will natur-
ally be up to us, or rather the Of
ficers, to strike as good a bargain as
possible with the government in get
ting delinquent taxes paid and the
bonded Indebtedness taken care of.