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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
HIGHWAY PATROL
MEN ARE BUSY
Warn 2,467 Motorists of Danger
Many Other Violations Shown
I'm Report for August.

During the month of August the
newly organized state traffic patrol
gave 2,467 motorists warning of the
danger of parking or stopping on the
travelled portion of the highway, ac-
cording to report made public this
week by the State Highway depart
ment.
The patrolmen also warned 1855 for
improper lights, 1872 for improper
licenses, $40 for failing to slow up in
congested areas, 334 for not driving
on right, 81 failing to stop at stop"
signs, AS improper signaling, 1913
improper passing. 81 cut out open, 81
stickers on windshield, IS cutting in
on traffic, 60 passing on curve, go one
arm driving, 81 dealers encroaching
on highways, As improper brakes, 43
soliciting rides on highways, 3S i'm
proper turns at intersections, % pass
ing on crest of hill; miscellaneous 116.
Thirty-one motorists were arrested
in August and of this number % were
driving while intoxicated, four for
careless driving, four for overloaded
trucks, and one for driving without a
chauffeur's license.
In addition to those warned concern
ing licenses, 124 were given red tags
for not having proper license plates.
OF these AZ had one plate, 10 no plates,
60 wrong class of plates, and had
plates from other states on cars re-
quiring Minnesota license. Those
warned on account of licenses were in
most cases on account of dirty plates
or plates hidden by bumpers or lug
gage or otherwise obscured.
The nine officers who constitute the
first squad of the State Highway pa
troll travelled 26,250 miles during Au
gust, or an average of 2,917 miles per
man. They gave road information to
1,051 motorists, delivered gasoline to
"a, called garages for IS, made minor
repairs for 80, gave aid to 81 whose
cars were in the ditch and gave aid
to 90 others in various ways. Both
motor cycles and small cars are used
by the patrolmen.
|. The total amount of fines imposed
was $1,467. Twenty-fOur cars were
taken into custody, some due to lack
of license plates and some due to the
driver being drunk. All but one were
released before the end of the month.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
FORMER RESIDENTS
VISIT PINE CITY

Frank Belle, his mother, and two
sisters, Miss Catherine and Miss AIDE
line, who were former residents in
Pine City, visited there Sunday. At
the time the family resided in Pine
City the senior Belle, now deceased,
conducted a harness shop there for
many years. Frank Belle is at pres
ent production manager for the Van
der Bic Ice Cream Co. of Minneapolis,
Catherine is an instructor in the do
nestle science department of the
University of Minnesota, while AIDE
line is employed in a railroad office.
Vladimir is now a practicing dentist
in Washington, while Lulu, we'll
known in Pine county court house
circles, as she worked in the county
auditors office for many years, is the
wife of DR.. ]. L. Kubicek, Waseca,
MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26

County Boy Will Fulfill
Ambition in World Series

After playing six years in major
league baseball, George E. "Rube'
Walberg, a product of Pine county,
will realize the fondest ambition of
every professional baseball player
that of playing in a world series game.
Walberg, as it will be remembered
is a member of the Philadelphia Ath-
letics and is rated as one of the lead
ing pitchers of the major leagues.
He will undoubtedly play an i'm
portant role toward bringing the
worlds baseball championship to his
team and Philadelphia when they
meet the Chicago cubs, winners of
the National leagues pennant, in the
first game of the series at Chicago,
Oct. 8.
The winner of the worlds series
must win four games out of seven
and the first two games of this will
be played at Chicago with the next
three Gf it goes that far) being
played at Philadelphia.
Phil Seleski of Pine City, and the
Walberg boys of Royalton township,
brothers of RUDE, are those from the
county, who are sure of seeing him
perform.
The Pine county fans are back of
you, RUDE, go to 'em!
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26

Danish branch establishments; in
Denmark the plan to abandon these
branches is regarded as a sure sign
of the increasing stability of the
cOuntry's own banks.
Not So.
Chicago paper a few days ago
launched rumor to the effect that
Knut Hamsun, Nobel prize winner
and the foremost novelist of northern
Europe, was planning to visit the
from Oslo, Norway, says that Hamsun
has no such intentions. He was in
this country twice when he was a
young man; he starved and worked
hard, and went back disillusioned.
writing his scathing criticism, 1.-THE
Spiritual Life of Modern America
and since then he has not been across
the Atlantic. Last year Mr.. Hamsun
wrote for a st. Louis newspaper an
article setting forth some decidedly
modified opinions of America, but in
spite of the fact that distance during
the many years has lent new en-
chantment to the writer's vision of
America, he is not planning to comes
The Mail Came-Late.
Robert Ljunglund of Stockholm,
arrived a few days ago in New York
bringing the mail which was to have
been forwarded by the Swedish
Nuremberg airplane expedition via
Continued on Page 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
CATTLE, SHEEP
NUMBERS HEAVY
Both Cattle and Sheep Meet Declines
on Heavy Marketings; Hogs Uneven
But Mostly Steady to Strong; Pigs
Hold Steady.

(By u. S. Bureau of Agricultural Eco
Monies and Minnesota Department of
Agricultural
South st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. %, 1929:
The largest run of the year to date in
on a 25c or more lower level, with
only partial clearance effected. A
few odd fed yearlings reached $3.50,
with grassy kinds salable from $1,000
down. Weighty heifers sold up to
$1,000, with COWS at $500 to 1925, the
bulk of the cows, however, selling at
$3.50 to $500, with heifers at $500 to
$500. Strongweight cutters bulked at
$3.50 to $780, with low grades $500
to S5.25, bulls selling largely at SS.25
down. Vealers were SOC lower, with
the bulk at $3.50 to $1,000.
Although the market in the hog al
leys was uneven, it was a mostly
steady to 1Oc higher deal with desir-
able 100 to 220 pound averages sell
ing at $1,000 20 $1,000. Butchers
weighing from 235 to around 32j
pounds cashed at 1915 to S10.25 most
ly, with packing sows at $3.50 to $S.75
or better, and pigs at $3.50.
The largest one days salable supply
in the sheep house for the season
found better grade lambs selling weak
to Csc lower, others and sheep holding
about steady. Bulk of the medium
to choice lambs cleared at $11.50 to
$3.50, with fat ewes mostly at $500
to $500, thin kinds down to S1.50.
Feeders and Suckers.
Stocker and feeder steers moved ex-
tremely slow, with such sales as had
been made appearing 25c lower. De-
sirable stockers cleared upward to
$1,000 to S10.75, a sizable string Sat-
urday reaching S11.00, while bulk of
today's steer run appeared salable at
$3.50 to $10.25. Stock pigs showed no
price change, bulk of these selling at
$3.50. Desirable range feeding lambs
tOtaling around 1900 sold Saturday
at $11.75 to $1,000, some down to $40
SO. Most of the native feeding lambs
cleared at $1,000, small lots down to
$3.50
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
NEWS AMONG SCANDINAVIANS

1t paid four Swedish maids to stick
to their jobs, which is evidenced by
the fact that Anna Bergmark re-
ceived $4,000, Elisabeth Clausson,
$1,000, Erica Johnson, $4,000, and Mrs.
Christina Berg, $1,000 after having
worked in the home of the late Brook
Ign, N. Y, millionaire, c. T. Cross
who in his last will and testament
stipulated that, these maids were to
be rewarded for their faithfulness;
the amounts were graduated according
to the length of the peroid which each
maid has served, the basic rule being
that those who had been in his house,
hold for ten years were to receive
$4,000. and those who had been there
longer than that, would receive 800
for each additional year. Thus Miss
Bergmark received, $500 for having
worked in the Cross home for period
of 16 years.
Branch Abolished.
The National City Bank of New
York is planning to abolish it's branch
in Copenhagen, Denmark, according
to advices from the East; likewise.
the Danish branch of the National
City Co. will be closed, and all Danish
business concerning these firms will
be managed from the Berlin offices.
The reason for taking this step is that
since Denmark has ceased borrowing
money in very great amounts there
is no further need of maintaining
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
PINE CITY HOST
TO PRESBYTERY
Thirty.tive Ministers Convene for An.
nual COnventiOn.-Ma ImpOr-
tant Items Hold Attention.

The Duluth Presbytery met at Pine
City on Monday and Tuesday of this
week in their annual convention with
about thirty-five ministers of the Pres
byterian faith in attendance. The
meeting was called and presided over
by the Rev. A. G. Bailey of Virginia,
the retiring moderator. The min
listers considered several topics of in
terest to the work of their churches,
the regular docket being carried out.
Overtures were submitted to the gen.
eral assembly by the Presbytery re-
garding the ordination of women as
bishops, pastors and ruling elders,
the Duluth Presbytery approving.
A local choir from the Pine City
congregation furnished the music for
the service on Monday evening and
the sermon was delivered by the Rev.
A. G. Bailey of Virginia. For the en-
suing year, the Rev. H. r. Brown of
Ely, was elected moderator, the Rev.
A. F. Wittenberger, ClOquet, stated
clerk; the Rev. T. S. Thompson, Gill
bert, permanent clerk; the Rev. L. G..
Bechtel of Superior, was one of the
principal speakers delivering a splen-
did address on loyalty. The Rev.
George E. Halves of Philadelphia, was
also present and spoke on american
Law and it's Enforcement
The ministers enjoyed their stay in
Pine City and were well entertained
at the homes of various members of
the congregation. A banquet was
given at Petschel's cafe Monday eve
ming and Tuesday the Ladies' Aid
served luncheon and dinner at the
town hall.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
OGEMA FAMILY'S
HOME is UPSET
BY PROVIDERS

In the absence of Mr.. and Mrs. E.
j. Huntley of the Ogema community
who had spent Sunday at church
and visiting, their home was ran
sacked and thrown in disorder. Every
room had been visited and the con-
tents misplaced and upon investiga-
ton, they found a man crouching in
one corner of the porch. Regardless
of the questions asked him he stub
bOrnly refused to admit being the
perpetrator of the crime. Nothing
however, was reported missing.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
MOOSE LAKES NEW
HOSPITAL OPEN NOW

The new Moose Lake community
hospital that has been under con-
struction for the past Several months
is ready now for occupation and a
large patronage is looked forward to
by those in charge.
The hospital was built by popular
community subscription added to a
large sum donated by a Duluth man
and will be in charge of DR.. Thomas
Moe, a local physician.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
FORMER PINE CITY
SCHOOL MAN VISITS

Mr.. Ayres, well known in Southern
Pine county, as he spent several years
in charge of the agricultural depart
ment of the Pine City high school
spent Monday in Pine City. Mr.
Ayres, his wife and one child are liv-
ing on farm near Two Harbors. He
was the first secretary of the CO.
operative creamery at Two Harbors
it being one of the Land OLakes
creameries.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
EASTERN PINE TO
ORGANIZE LEAGUE
FOR TAXPAYERS

A meeting will be held in the Will
ma town Nall at Duxbury Thursday
afternoon, Oct. 10 at o'clock for the
purpose of organizing taxpayers
league consisting of taxpayers of east
ern Pine county. The tax problem
will be gone into and probable solu-
tions for same will be heard by var
ious speakers. Those interested are
requested to attend.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
BAYPORT MAN WINS
IN PINE CITY GOLF

Sunday was again won by Matt Mac
MILAN of Bayport. Andy Cherrier of
the Pine Poker office, played off the
final game with Mr.. Macmillan for
first place. Records were broken Sun
day by Mr.. Macmillan and Robert
Wilcox, the judge of probate, who
made the course in % shots. Mac
MILAN now has two firsts.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
WILLOW RIVER SHOW
WILL BE PULASKI
MEMORIAL BENEFIT

A movie show sponsored by the
various organizations in Willow River
will be presented to the public Sun
day, Sept. 20 at s p. m. at the Will
low River theatre. The proceeds OF
the show will go toward the memorial
honoring General Casimir Pulaski, a
Revolutionary war hero.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26
FRANK OLSON ENTERTAINS
HUNTING PARTY

During the past week the Frank
Olson farm was the hunting ground
of the well known Gibbons brothers,
Mike and Tom of st. Paul, and Carl
Bunholder and Otto DeHoot, also of
that city.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26

Mrs. Henpeck- (sarcastically) i
s'pose you've been to see a sick friend
holding his hand all evening!
Mr. Henpeck-(sadly)-if I'd been
holding his hand, I'd have made some
money.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-09-26

First hunter: Were lost"
Second hunter: Lets shoot an
extra deer so the game warden will
find u.s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
We0ther Afects Hogs

THE hog appears to have no more sense than
many humans, when it comes to a ques-
ton of coming in out of the rain, and as o.
result the losses from pneumonia and swine in
f1uenza are sometimes severe, as was the case
this Fall.
The common practice of letting pigs rum
wild and giving them little or no protection,
under the impression that they don't mind the
cold, is decidedly adverse to a prosperous year
for the raiser.
The lack of hair makes the pig susceptible TO-
cold and sudden changes in temperature, and
particularly is this so when it is allowed to lie
on wet ground.
The symptoms Of the two diseases are some~
what similar to those Of hog cholera, and have
led to an erroneous belief many times that,
cholera was responsible for deaths that might,
have been prevented with little shelter during:
bad weather.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
Farm Talues Reduced.

HE steady decline in farm values which l,s >
gone on since the war imitation has
reached the point where, considering the pur-'
chasing power of the dollar, rural real estatac
Is worth about 20 per cent less tl,:l before
the war.
In spite of the steady drop l. values, the
number OF farm foreclosures has shown a con.
siderable decrease for the 12-month period end
ing March Is, 1929, from the preceding period.
The figures which are just now available indi.
cate foreclosure rate Of about 1914 for each
Thousand FARMS as comp with 228 for the
period ending In 1928.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
SnddeSt SantaS IN the W1Oyld.

as that of . small store. A long bench is al
ways filled with applicants. He takes them
10 at q time and according to years. They
sit in the dingy haf-light while an old-fash-
Toned electric torch shivers in winds that creep
through cracks All through the day he outfits
now this man and that; using Shrewd discrimi-
nation and uncanny perception in tripping up
frauds
His clothing neutrality-suspicious. the
overcoat, underwear and sweater department.
operates from october to Spring. Not only is
he perennial Santa Claus, but he has keen,
an intelligent sense of ironies, travesties and
satires. Perhaps the most original public dem
onstration to be seen in Manhattan each year
is "Zero'S Easter parade" When swelldom Is
marching up and down Fifth avenue in its
finest raiment, Zero emerges from his dugout
with an elaborate collection of buns. He
dresses them in broken silk hats and grotesque
dress suits. He parades his underdogs before
the eyes Of the rich and tries to walk into the
SWEETEST churches with them.
And some of them are on the annual list of
Santa Claus Job seekers.
THE types who show up with great regularity
are extremely diverse. A couple Of years
ago, at the Volunteers of America Santa Claus
employment bureau I met young fellow who
was veteran Of the World War. He had been
badly wounded and jObless for months. His
address turned out to be a room over on the
East Side worthy Of place in a Dickens tale.
There was no furniture In the room; bat
tered cot in one corner and q stove which was
kept slightly warm by sparse assortment of
fuel.
On the cot lay a young woman who had,
seemingly, been attractive not so many years
before-but now she was haggard from hunger
and worry To her breast she Rugged a wan
child born but q few months before and OBJ
viously succumbing to malnutrition
Yet out in the street the husband was PLAYING
Kris Kringle to "the poor" And he was happy
because 1t meant that the wife and baby would
eat on Christmas day and there would be a toy
for the little one and fire in the stove
incidentally, his story became known and he
was given work shortly after.
That's but one case. You'll come upon rnanv
such in the long lane Of Santas who stand ling
ling bells and urging the shoppers to drop their
dimes
OF course, not all these ST. Nicks of the Side
walks are men who are down on their luck
temporarily or permanently. Some of them are
prosperous citizens who get a holiday thrill out
OF playing Santa to the poor in this very real
fashion. But the majority, perhaps, have only
vague notion Of where their own Christmas
dinners are coming from.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22
Continued from Fifth Page

fables have grown up around him-fables Of a
lad from q good family in New York who went
to the dogs; fables of a lad with a family
who comes back every Christmas season to
his city, who makes this one gesture and
then goes back to the life of a bum. This
however, Is sheer conjecture.
MANHATTAN has but one recognized Santa
Claus; Santa who works among the
down-and-outs throughout the year. His name
is Ledoux, but he prefers the anonymity Of
mfr. Zero" His now famous institution has
been titled 1.-THE Tub" and lies between the ele-
waited tracks Of Third avenue and Second ave-
nue., hub Of the East Side THE Tub" is haven
for all Observation-Disclosures wool buns and for
men who merely happen to be jobleSs, or down
on their luck
In the Tub meals are served the year round
for cents EACH And upstairs where crowded
cots clutter the murky gloom of a huge space
which was once the ballroom of an old-timc
mansion. Mr.. Zero gives away overcoatS shirts,
socks, Shoes underwear hats sweaters, neckties
and all that comes into his hands.
Mr.. Zero asks no questions, except where
age is concerned.
How man became a bum does not interest
him. Nor does he expect to save the soul of a
bum or a voorhees, unfortunate.
In his code, congenial drunkard can be as
cold as deserving victim Of misfortune. A
blowsy wastrel can get just as hungry as a poor
but proud son of honest misfortune.
Ledoux, or Mr.. Zero-since he prefers it
looks like some combination of cherubic william
Jennings Bryan and an old-time ham actor.
His voice appears to wear a halo. When he is
working among the poverty stricken 1t suggests
a dramatic benignity; it bestows blessing
while giving a shirt
HIS system Of disposal is simple and prac-
tical. It is based on the obvious hypoth-
esis that the elderly need things worse than
the young. So Mr.. Zero scales his gifts of
clothing according to age. Men of any age
can eat downstairs for a nickel but only those
SO or more in years can come upstairs for an
overcoat or shirt He appreciates the diff
culties of a man past his middle ffties
In giving his donations he starts with the
Oldest man in any given group Thus, for in
stance, one who Is rs or Whereabouts gets the
hrst choice and the first consideration The
next might be a man of 10 or &c. and the next
man Of CO. Under SO, he reasons. man
with food under his Belt should be able to earn
himself a shirt.
His clothing department is as well stocked
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22

had no choice, for since the natives had taken
this trouble it would never do to be Indifferent
They would not understand and their interest in
helping us to tigers would suffer slump. Sc
we stole forward, picking our way through
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22

bull Our clearing was so tiny that we felt
as if we were at the bottom of a well, dark
walls about us and pale-green sky overhead
Eagerly we waited for the stars.
Below us, the little dogs, full of our suppers
curleo up into cozy nest of fern and went
to sleep. The goat settled down philosophical
ly and the bull stood silent, meditating on his
wrongs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
400 Raids Have Been Made.
SENATE MICROPH0NE
BILL is INTRODUCED
Senator Dill Urges Broadcasting of
Important Debates From
Chamber.

The movement to have the Senate
chamber equipped WITH n.:srophones for
the broadcasting of important debates
was revived yesterday, when Senate:
Dill (Democrat) of Washington intro
duced new resolution on the subject.
Senator Dill announced at the same
time that he hoped to have the COM
mittee hearings on this resolution
broadcast at as early date as he can
induce the committee on audit and
control to arrange for such hearings.
Il have already discussed the subject
with one of the chain broadcasting
companies and am assured that it will
be glad to broadcast these hearings. If
we can arrange to hold the hearings in
the evening, I believe there will be a
tremendous listening audience. because
I am sure there is great demand for
the passage of this resolution In order
that it may be possible for Senate de-
bates to be heard throughout the
country"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
ROBERTS LEAVES $4,000
Will Of Engraving Company Head
Is Filed.

William F. Roberts, president of the
William F. Roberts Engraving Co., who
died February Is, left an estate valued
in excess of $175,000, according to the
petition of his son, Bertrand H. Roberts,
for the probate Of his will. He owned
real estate assessed at $63, 1874, and had
stocks, bonds and other personally
valued at $ll3,082.21. He Is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Catherine H. Rob-
erts; a daughter, Mrs. Edna r. Scott.
and the son. Attorney Kenneth F.
Brooks appears for the. executor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24
SIX POLICE PRIVATES
PROMOTED TO CLASS |
Probationary Period Extends fol
One Year-Draw 81 800
Per Annum.

The District Commissioners yesterday
appointed six privates in the Police De-
partment to the rank of private, class /,
drawing 1900 per annum. The men
promoted are James E. Armstrong, Her.
man A. Sauer, Karl G. Mccormick, John
B. Monroe, William z. Rogers and Fred
j. Hack.
The men promoted will take the
places of r. H. Mansfield, promoted /;
r. L. Garrison, pensioned; w. p. Barnes,
promoted; F. K. Mclaughlin and r. C.
Hosier, transferred to the White House
police force, and B. H. Hoffman, re-
moved from the force.
The order was effective today for o
probationary period Of one year.
Vanity sometimes Spoils a multitude
of real virtues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24

own consumption" Carbary said.
A general overhauling Of Carbarys
staff of investigators was understood to
be under way.
400 Raids Have Been Made.
More than 400 liquor raids had been
made prior to the De King killing IN
Carbarys campaign to dry up Kane
County.
Storeis of members of the De King
family-accounts of the visit of the six
deputy sheriffs the night of March %
and events following-were to be heard
by the jury today.