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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-11-14
BROOK PARK

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ekmark visited in
Duluth Tuesday.
Mrs. Owe Rasmussen had the mis-
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Remer Rypkema spent
Thursday in Minneapolis.
Pat Dumphy of Minneapolis, visited
here between trains Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Adams and Mrs.
Jessie Smith were Mora callers Satur-
day.
John Christensen, Pat, Claud, and
Frances Dumphy of Hinckley, were
Brook Park visitors Sunday.
Edward Bakeburg and Arnold Abbat
of Wyoming. spent the weekend at
the E. G. Mankin home.
Miss Ila Engstrom went to Mora
Tuesday to complete her dental work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lehman were Mora
callers Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Orr and daugh-
ter motored to Onamia Sunday for a
visit with the T. ]. Orr family.
Mr. and Mrs. Dell Kelley and son
spent Sunday in Milaca visiting Mrs.
Kelley's parents.
A very pleasant surprise party was
held at the Earl EmmOns home Fri
day night, dainty lunch was served
and everybody had nice time.
Miss Hope Shaske arrived home
from st. Cloud Friday to spend the
weekend with her mother and sister,
returning to her school duties Monday
noon.
from the southern part of the state,
where he has spent few weeks work
ing.
Chester Swedlund, Mrs. M. Beeman
and children motored to Mora Satur-
day night.
Herman Gross had the misfortune
of tipping over with his brother Les
ter's car Friday night. Nobody was
injured.
Mrs P. Rose of Fair Haven, is Wis
iting her daughters, Mrs. Bill Ander-
son and Mrs. VIM. Breckbill.
Mr. and Mrs E. j. Wright attended
creamery operators meeting at Rush
City Thursday.
Mrs. Guy Johnson entertained Mr..
and Mrs. D. w. Hall, Mr.. and Mrs.
B. L. Brewington, Mr.. and Mrs. E. G.
Strain, Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Wright at a
card party Monday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Berndt were in
Minneapolis Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Shafer of Fin
layson, called at the E. j. Wright
home Friday night.
Miss Alice Ziegler of Ely, spent the
weekend at her home here.
There will be a meeting at the
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CLOVERTON

Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Smell and family
visited at Chas. Lewis home Sunday.
Eldon Lewis and Jack Scabber visi-
ted with his parents Saturday.
John Dilley returned to Minneapolis
Friday. Mr.. Dilley, who is at the
University hospital, is about the same
Bertha Lewis visited with her sis
ter, Mrs. Smell, Wednesday night of
last week.
Freda Sielitz returned to her work
at Web Lake Sunday.
The Ladies' Aid will give their an
nual bazaar at the school house Fri
day, Nov. 18th. Everyone welcome.
A farewell party was given for Chas.
Halsted and family, Monday night
They will make their, future home at
Brainerd.
The killing of Mr. O'Connell is still
mystery. No clue or evidence has
yet been found
C. ]. Ashlock was a Cloverton Wis
itor last week.
The third kitten ball game with
Markville resulted in a great victory
for Cloverton. The girls kitten ball
team have won from Markville all
three games. The result for the boys
was victory for Cloverton and one
for Markville.
One cent per word for a Want ad
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ASKOV SCHOOL NOTES
Esther HenrikSen)

1t is now possible to tell Askov Sem
iors apart from ordinary people by the
Senior class rings which arrived last
Thursday. The rings are a combina-
tion of silver and gold and bear the
inscription A. H. S.-1930. The Seniors
have chosen Grin and Grind" as
their class motto.
Supt. Petersen took his Physics
class on a tour of inspection of the
American printing plant Tuesday
morning of last week. The entire evo-
luton of the newspaper was disclosed
from the time written news and adver-
tisements arrive, until the paper is
folded and addressed, and also the
mechanism of various machines used
in job printing. The linotype is un-
doubtedly the most complicated of
the machines, as it has several thou
sand parts. Mr.. Conway stated that
the inventor died in an insane asylum
and many operators had landed there
since. Then the class went down to
the tracks to examine the Westing-
then saw a practical application of a
differential pulley at the Askov Ga
rage.
Immediately after first recess Mr..
Petersen again had an expedition, this
time with his Biology class, when they
went out to Big Sand Greek to see the
beaver dam. These industrious little
animals have been busy lately, and
now have large dam to their credit
However, the visitors had no chance
to see how the work is done, as the
proprietors of the plant retired until
their callers had left
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-11-14
FINLAYSON

Celia Mae Henry of Sturgeon Lake,
visited Irene Nyberg from Friday till
Monday evening
Glen and Leo Pitts of Groningen,
were guests of Mandus Nyberg, Jr.
from Friday until Sunday.
Sam Bosch returned Sunday from
a few days visit in st. Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Shafer and
daughter and Mr.. and Mrs. V. E. Sha-
fer were dinner guests at the Newbert
home in Mora Sunday evening and
attended the show there afterwards.
Mrs. S. S. Larson, Mrs. Hugo Wick
strom, Mrs. Ed Arth and Mrs. H. f.
Shafer were entertained at the Sam
Shore home in Willow River Wednes-
day afternoon of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Bud Dunphy and chill
dren and Miss Dorothy Granville of
Proctor, came down Saturday to the
Wickstrom home. Sunday morning
Mr.. and Mrs. Dunphy went on to Wis
cOnsin to attend the funeral of Mr..
Dunphy's father. They all returned
to their home in Proctor Monday eve
ming.
Saben Larson had his tonsils re-
moved Monday and is getting along
very nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Shafer and
daughter Eleanor, accompanied by Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Carlson and daugh-
ter, Lucille, of Moose Lake, motored
to Duluth Saturday where they spent
the time sightseeing and attending
show.
Ed Jacobson, son of Gus Jacobson
of this place, is critically ill of blood
poisoning, caused by Infection through
blistered heel.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Nyberg and Mr..
and Mrs. V. E. Shafer were guests at
the Shore home in Willow River We'd
nesday evening of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Shafer visited at
the Wright home in Brook Park Fri
day evening.
Henry Lewis of Minneapolis, was
the guest of Miss Bjork over the week
end
Mr. and Mrs. c. ]. Hoglund accom-
panied by the Misses Mcdonald,
Holm and Murphy visited at the Lin
grin home in Bruno Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Frederick Brandes visited at
her parental home in Pine City from
Thursday till Saturday.
The Mesdames John Arth, H. E.
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Martin Johnson has been more or
less crippled up this week with in
flammatory rheumatism; he is just
able to be around but is entirely
minus his usual pep.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. c. Bendiks, George
Lindgren and Carl Johansen came
here Wednesday evening from Chica-
go for visit with old friends, being
guests at the Svend Petersen home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Ecklund and
baby and Gustaf Swanson came here
Tuesday of last week from Chicago,
for a visit at the formers folks. Mr..
Swanson will remain Indefinitely
while the others will likely return
home again this week.
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GRONINGEN

Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Haglin and
children of Duluth, spent the weekend
at the Severt Haglin home also Fred
Nelson's of Pine Lake.
Lenord Nelson spent the weekend
with his father Chas. Nelson.
Mrs. L. Soderstrom called on Mrs.
Postma Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Nelson spent Sun
day evening at the L. A. Larson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Koppi and
children and Mrs. Chas. Pearson and
daughter, all of Duluth, spent Sunday
at Severt Haglin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sig Nelson took their
little boy to Willow River for medi-
cal attention.
Anna Erickson entertained Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Schwartz and children Sun
day.
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and V. E. Shafer spent last Friday
afternoon with Mrs. Sam Dosch and
were treated to six o'clock dinner.
There will be American Lutheran
church services on Thursday evening
Nov. 21st. An invitation is extended
to all.
The American Lutheran Aid wishes
to thank all those who contributed
to the success of their bazaar and
chicken supper. They are very CRATE
full for all donations and especially
so for donations which were made by
those who are not members of either
the aid or the church.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Morrison of Mime
apolis, motored here to Balmy Air
farm Sunday.
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GARDEN CLUB ELECTS

The annual meeting of the Askov
Garden Club was held at the town
hall Monday night. Mrs. A. w. Con-
away read paper on Putting
the Garden to Sleep" after which
Hans Mosbak gave a demonstration
on how this is done, by showing how
shrubbery and plants are to be COW
cred in the fall before winter sets
in.
Mrs. Chris. Frederiksen was re-
elected president of the club, and Mrs.
A w. Conway was reelected vice.
president. Other officers chosen were
Anker H. Petersen, secretary; Mrs.
MAIDS Nielsen, treasurer, and Mrs.
Fred Jorgensen, librarian.
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(FrOm Another Correspondent

Hazel and Orval Asleson and Toivo
Norlund were Sunday visitors at the
Erick Pyykko home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-11-14

Brook Park Trinity Luth. Church.
S. T. Palm, Pastor
Services Sunday, Nov. II, at II
o'clock. Sunday school from 10 o'clock
to II o'clock
All are welcome.
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REPRESENTATIVE IS RECOVERING

Representative ]. E. Therrien of
Pine City, is in st. Luke's hospital, st.
Paul, recovering from an operation
which he underwent some weeks ago.
1t is reported that he may still be
obliged to undergo another operation
although this will not be for another
two weeks. He is getting along fairly
we'll, although somewhat weak from
the effects of his first operation.
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THANKS

We wish, through this medium, to
probation to all who contributed
with entertainment, and otherwise as
sisted with the work, as well as for
the many donations, and to the gen.
eral public for their liberal patronage
at our bazaar Saturday evening.
DANISH SISTERHOOD LODGE,
by Bazaar Committee.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-11-14
ATTENDING CONFERENCE

County Superintendent of Schools
J. P. Miller drove to ST. Paul yester-
day to attend a conference of county
of schools from all
over the state, which is being held
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of
this week.
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Literal Obedience.

Hired Man: "My employer just told
me to get out and go to the devil. Can
bring suit against him."
Lawyer: What did you do after
leaving his placer"
Hired Man: Il came Immediately
to you"
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Brook Park Community M. E. Church.
Elsie Hartman, Pastor.


Elsie Hartman, Pastor.
Saturday, Nov. 1890 p. mum
ior League for the boys at the par
sOnage. 200 p. m. the girls will
meet at the parsonage and go out to
Swedlund's for Junior League and
Bible study.
Sunday, Nov. 17.-1O:OO a. NJ
Church school; 400 a. m. Divine
worship. Theme, where Are Our
Treasures?" 500 p. m.-Epworth
League and evening worship, Sub
ject, "The Good Samaritan"
Wednesday, Nov $500 p. NJ
Choir practice at the Stevenson home.
Thursday, Nov. 21.-2:3O p. m The
home of Mrs. o. Swedlund, Mrs. A.
Klement and Mrs. Edwin Fosberg are
hostesses. All invited
Monday, Nov. 1S.-The official board
will hold it's monthly meeting at the
parsonage. All members are urged to
be present.
POkegama NJ. E. Church.
Sunday, Nov. 17.-2:OO p. m. Church
school; 800 p. m. Divine worship.
Tuesday, Nov. 1872. There will
be special meetings each night this
week.
The Rev. L. S. Sloan, pastor at
Nashwauk, will bring the messages of
the week.
Saturday, Nov. 23rd.-7:0O p. m. The
annual bazaar and chicken supper
will be held at the Guiding home. All
are cordially invited to come.
POmrOy Community Church.
Sunday, Nov. 17.-10:3O a. NJ
Church school, Mr. w. L. Bradley,
superintendent. All are cordially in
vited to come.
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school house Saturday at 1870 to dis
cuss child project work.
The M. E. Ladies' Aid will meet
Thursday at the Ole Swedlund home
with Mrs. Art Klement and Mrs Ed
Forsberg entertaining.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
SCIENCE MONITOR URGES EDUCATION CAMPAIGN
ommend Saloon League for Sessng
Points Fact That Political Work Largely Accomplished;
Law on Result of Education;
Enforced by

The Christian Science Monitor, of De-
cenlber 10, in an editorial entitled "Edu-
cation and Prohibition" commends the
And-SaIoon League for its increased edu-
cational activities, prefacing its remarks
with a statement that it can not be as
serted that enforcement is as yet salts
factory and probably never will be until
the American public is educated to OBJ
serve voluntarily the law. The editorial
says:
For this reason it is interesting and
important to note that the Anti-Sa-
loon League, most powerful Of the or
carnations thus far enlisted in the
work of furthering prohibition legis-
lation, has determined to turn from
the political to the educational field.
The political work indeed is COM
pleted. No frontal attack upon
either the amendment or the Vol
stead act is for the present to be
feared The most menacing of as
saults, the nomination by a major
party of a presidential candidate
who repudiated his platform as not
wet enough, and appointed as his
campaign manager a man who finds
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has increased very markedly. We use
hundreds of gallons of denatured alcohol
which costs, without the internal revenue
tax, from 20 to So cents a gallon, in
alcohol rubs for patients. in making
tincture Of green soap which is very eX-
tenSively employed in cleansing wounds
and preparing fields for operation, and
we use seventy per cent of denatured al
cohol as the best method of sterilizing
fields of operation the hands of the sur
geon, the assistants and nurses, in at
tempting to secure an aseptic field The
exposure for ninety seconds of any germs
which produce suppuration to a seventy
per cent solution of alcohol produces
death of all of these germs.
THE ABUSE OF PRESCRIPTION
WHISKY
Alcohol is no longer used by scientific
physicians in acute infammatory dis
eases, such as pneumonia and grippe. 1t
is not only not beneficial but definitely
harmful in such conditions. 1t is no
longer used in septic conditions. Its only
use, outside Of its external use, in modern
scientific medicine is found in cases Of
individuals who are chronic users of al
cohol and who are brought to the hos
pital suffering from some accident or
some disease in which moderate amount
OF aICOnOl Is cOll0ueG Tor Cllrle III Or
der to prevent the development Of de-
lirium tremens.
1t, of course has been matter of
common knowledge that the prescribing
of whisky by physicians since the passage
of the prohibition amendment has been
grossly abused I think very few of us
realize how gross this abuse really has
been and what a disgraceful situation has
been brought about by the provisions Of
the prohibition amendment for the pre-
scribing Of whisky. I have taken pains
to investigate this matter with a good
deal of care, and desire to submit to you
some of the important results of that in
Yestigation. The figures which shall
present to you are accurate in the sense
that they give a correct picture of the
situation in gross figures.
Year before last there were issued from
the government warehouses a total of
100000 gallons of hard liquor. This was
almost entirely whisky. Approximately
ninety per cent of this was issued on
physicians prescriptions. This would
make 1920 900 gallons-there are eight
pints in a gallon-making approximately
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01

in prohibition only a "damnable af-
fiction ended in defeat. 1t left
Congress drier than ever and sent to
private life the two noisest vets in
the Senate.
But violation goes on. The boot
logger fouriShes. A vast body of
people. for reasons ranging from silly
social vanity to the lust for criminal
and eXorbitant gains connive at the
publication of the law. It is to
these that an educational campaign
must be addressed. The stronger
arm of the law may deal with the
bootlegger, the even stronger arm of
enlghtment and reason must be
brought to bear upon his customers.
The editor then points to the fact that
1t was not politics but education that
finally caused the people of the United
States to decree the prohibition of the
or sale of Intoxicating
liquors, and concluded:
with proper effort the ideals which
then controlled public sentiment can be
again aroused The Anti-Saloon League
and all other agencies for accomplishing
this end merit support In their en-
deayors"
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that a small amount of alcohol can be
burned up in the body just as starches,
fats and sugars can be burned up. The
amount that can be safely used as
food, however, is very limited, probably
not more than an ounce and a half q
day, as even in comparatively small
amounts alcohol has a definite deleterous
affect upon the nervous system. Con-
tinued use of alcohol produces fatty de-
generation Of the heart and other It's
sues. 1t produces arteriosclerosis of the
blood vessels and cirrhosis of the liver.
For many years alcohol was prescribed
in cases where individuals were suffering
from different forms of infection Mod
ern scientific medicine has shown that
alcohol does not assist the body in re-
sisting infections but that it makes the
individual much more susceptible TO in
fectionS. This IS particularly true in
pneumonia, where careful observation has
shown that the individual who drinks
even moderately becomes much easier the
victim Of pneumonia than the man who
does not drink at ALL
AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT
Alcohol has little place in modern
scientific medicine as therapeutic
agent. At the Presbyterian Hospital in
Chicago, where we take care Of more
than twelve thousand patients year, we
have not yet prescribed through the drug
room of the hospital single bottle of al
coholiC liquor since the passage Of the
prohibition amendment, and this is not
due to any regulation against the use of
alcohol. Any one Of the attending medi-
cal men has the privilege of using alcohol
if he sees fit in the handling of his cases.
It is due to the fact that there is little
or no logical scientific reason for the in
ternal administration of alcohol in the
modern treatment of disease. On the
other hand, the external use of alcohol
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01
Arthur DeanBevan NJ Dscreds Medicinal Value of Alcohol
Noted Physician and Surgeon Chicago Value Alcohol Medicines far 0wehe Its n"
EtrPu yeran F1nptaED NnyPe
PERCEPTIONS Dishonest Wants


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this address which he discussed the alcohol
Medical Association sometime that
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-01-01

100000 pintS. At $500 a pint, which
is the ordinary price obtained by phySi-
clans for these prescriptions, the total
amount of money received by the medical
profession Call of these prescriptions paid
for at that rate) would be about $39000,-
900. I desire to emphasize this point
showing the enormous possibility of graft
involved in this situation
GRAFT IN PRESCRIPTION WHISKY
I desire to submit two main facts:
First-That there is an enormous
amount of graft, probably in the neigh
borhood of $40,00O,000 in the writing Of
prescriptions by the medical profession
for whisky
The second point L desire to make is
that in the modern scientific practice Of
medicine there are very few cases in
which whisky can be properly and
scientifically employed as a medical
agent.
My experience in the practice of medi-
cine in Chicago covers the period from
1894 to date. have never had any fixed
opposition to the use of whisky in medi-
cal practice, but I have never employed
it, or seen it properly employed, except
in just such cases that I have cited. My
very considerable experience in the prac-
tice of medicine can not have been SO
very different from those of other men
in the medical profession.
DISHONEST PRESCRIPTIONS
Before the days of prohibition no
honest doctor ever prescribed 100 pints Of
whisky to his patient in few months; as
certainly no honest doctor ever prescribed
100 pints of whisky every three months
or to make it more emphatic, no honest
physician ever prescribed 400 pints of
whisky to his patients year. The Pro-
hibition Administrator in this district in
forms me that approximately 80 per cent
of the physicians who have been issued
prescription books regularly prescribe
their full allotment of 100 prescriptions
every three months. Almost all of these
prescriptions are bootlegger's prescrip-
tons. Very few of them are bona fide
scientific medical prescriptions
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DISGRACE TO MEDICAL
PROFESSION


situation. The man on the street knows
what that meaning is; the public, gener-
ally, know what this situation means It
can mean but one thing, that the men
who are prescribing and selling 100 pre-
scrptions every three months, their full
allotment, are disgrace to the medical
profession
1t is obvious that the existing state of
facts carries with it an enormous. abuse
of this whisky prescribing 1t is clearly
the duty of the organized medical profess
sion OF this country to do everything in
their power to secure such change in the
government regulations as will make it
impossible for the bootlegging members
OF the profession to continue their
present practices
In regard to the habitual use of al
cohol by healthy persons all authorities
agree that it is luxury, that it is UNI
necessary for the growth and maintenance
Of the body and that it neither promotes
greater healthfulness, nor in any way
retards the onset of disease.
BAD EFFECTS OF ABUSE OF
ALCOHOL
The bad effects of the abuse of alcohol
can be seen in hospitals, prisons and
asylums OF all counties, especially those
"Aa0i0 'llS populdIlou Is aQQlcJed 10
spirits. A large percentage Of crime is
admittedly done under the influence Of
alcohol. Alcohol is responsible for large
part of the poverty and misery of the
lower classes of the populations Many
of the admissions to lunatic asyluns are
due to alcohol. Tt would not be an eXag-
geration to say that drink has done more
injury to mankind than has been done
by such great plaques as cancer and
tuberculosis combined. It is responsible
for large portion of the venereal dis
eases that occur. The facts which I have
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Effect ON DIGESTION

The effects of alcohol On digestion has
boSn extensively studied: It's continued
use in considerable quantities produces
chronic irritation of the stomach, a gas
trio catarrh, with resulting nausea and
vomiting 1t has often been claimed that
alcohol is of value as a food 1t is true