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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
Oak Lake NeighbOrhOOd

Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Koecher were
visitors at the Hans Christensen
home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs John NJ. Anderson and
family spent Sunday afternoon at
Oscar CarlsOns.
The Misses Jennie and We!lma An
derson of Duluth, and Noreen Barnett
of Moose Lake, are spending the
Easter vacation at their respective
homes
Miss Myrtle Overland spent the
weekend at her home in Windemere
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Swenson and
son visited at the o. J. Fiske home
Sunday afternoon.
There will be Swedish services at
the Oak Lake church Friday after
noon at 200 o'clock. Easter Sunday
services at 200 o'clock in the English
language.
The Luther League will meet Thurs
day evening, April II, at John NJ. An
derson's. The Ladies' Aid will hold
its next meeting, Friday afternoon
April 25th, at the John SwensOn home
The G.. f. Anderson family were
dinner guests at Ole Fiske's Sunday
Miss Jennie Anderson visited at the
-Sunnyhill" school Tuesday afternoon
Raymond Johnson, who is attending
the Moose Lake high~sehool, is spend
ing a weeks vacation with his par
ents.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
DUXBURY

The Child Welfare Project club
held a party in the hall Friday night.
A good time was had by those who at
tended.
Mrs. Lillian Anderson entertained
the Ladies' Aid of Keene, Wednesday
of last week.
Anna Glienke came here from Sand
stone. and is spending her Easter va
cation at home
Mr. and Mrs. McCullem of Mime
apolis, have moved into the c. Nash
place, which they recently purchased.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Calvin left
for Waterloo. Iowa, Saturday on Il
business trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Calvin moved to
Finlayson last week
Lillian Anderson and Donald were
callers ut the c. Bjork home in Arna
last Thursday
Mrs. r. Shute and Claire were call
ers at the Ed Hotter home i'm Keene
Saturday.
Mrs. Max Lampson returned last
week from Minneapolis, where she
had been the past two weeks.
Arnold Shute spent Sunday with
Robert Rash in Markville.
Several of the folks attended the
taxpayers league in Keene Saturday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 50
Northwest of Hinckley)

Northwest of Hinckley)
Mrs. Otto Kath left last Thursday
for Tintah, to attend the funeral OF
her grandmother, Mrs. Robbins.
A baby girl arrived recently at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wessal.
Mrs. John Gerdes has been assisting
at the Wessal home.
Mr. and Mrs. Claus Toering and
sons. Stanley and Clifton, spent Sun
day at Askov. visiting at the Mrs. A.
Madsen home.
Our local declamatory contest was
held at the school house last Thurs
day afternoon. Our able judges were,
Miss Sarah T. O'Meara and Mrs. S. G.
Skaaland of Sandstone, and Mrs. An
ker Simonsen of AskOv. Of the twelve
pupils taking part, liver johnson won
first honOrs, Florence Stumpf second
and Stanley Toering third. liver John
son will go to Hinckley Tuesday, April
22nd to take part in the district con-
test.
John Behrenbrinker of Sandstone
was a visitor at school one day last
week
School closed Friday for weeks
Easter vacation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
wOMEN'S COOP GUILD MEETS

The Women's Cooperative Guild of
Moose Lake, met at the Seward Skel-
ton home Tuesday afternoon, April 8
Mrs. A. w. Johnson and Mrs. liver
Johnson assisted Mrs. Shelton.
An interesting program was given
including reports from two co-opera-
tive oil associations, Askov and Ket-
tie River, and from the cooperative
shipping association of Moose Lake
Arrangements were made to send
delegates to the Women's Co-opera.
tive conference of this district, which
will be held in Superior, April 21st.
The subject of Cooperation will be
continued at the May meeting, par
ticular attention being given to the
various brands" of goods used. The
Guild will meet at the Dan Skog home
Tuesday afternoon, May 18th. All who
are interested will be cordially wei
coined.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
DANFORTH TOWNSHIP

Helen Peters was guest at the
Warren Shute home Saturday after
noon.
Miss Kalk is on her Easter vacation
SO there is no school this week.
George Rydberg of Minneapolis, mo-
tored here Sunday to visit his parents
and brothers. returning in the evening
accompanied by Miss Kalk.
Louis Larson of Minneapolis, spent
the weekend with his family.
Ranger p w. Swedberg was here
Monday looking at the territory
burnt over Sunday.
Miss Gerda Wheeler and pupils Of
the Greenly school, are having their
Easter vacation this week.
Norman MattsOn of DuXbury, has
been on duty few days in the look,
out tower.
Guy Hendricks made a business
trip to Chisago City Tuesday.
Leonard White left for Minneapolis
Friday, after spending three-weeks
vacation with his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Nj. |. White.
Mrs. G. E. Hendricks spent the
weekend at Hinckley with her son
the Rev. Paul Hendricks and family
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Nelson of Sand
stone, called at Mrs. August Ander.
sons home Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Swanson OF
Sandstone, were here Sunday after
noon taking in the sights of fire and
smoke.
Axel Frisendahl and family from
Moose Lake, motored here Sunday tc
spend the day with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. j. H. Frisendahl.
This is the first spring that many
can remember when the roads have
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
DUOUETTE

The clerk of the local camp of the
Modern WoOdmen received a check
for $1,000 last week, in behalf of Mrs.
Chas. w. King. now at Arena, N. d.
Mr. King died at that place the latter
part of February and carried at the
time of his death a policy in the
Woodmen for $1,000. This is good
help for the bereaved wife.
John Melancon was saving wood
for the Anderson brothers near OAK
Lake Saturday.
Gunnar Hedberg left for Long Sid
ng Saturday and will work as q
creamery helper with his brother
n-law, r. NJ Lillebo.
Miss Melvie Nelson went to Super
Tor Saturday. returning Sunday morn.
ing.
VIM. Edin motored to Duluth Tues
day.
Erick Edin and sons. Edwin am
Einar, with Bonnie Peterson as driv
er, motored to Duluth Tuesday.
A number of cars, filled with trout
fishermen, went past here Tuesca!
morning bound for the trout creeks
near Nickerson and Holyoke.
Miss Dorothy Erickson, high schoo
student at Duluth, came hcme Sun
lay for her Easter vacation.
j. w. Harvey motored to Moose
Lake Tuesday
Peder Erickson went to superior
Tuesday to consult an occulist.
The people of this community were
greatly saddened Tuesday by the It'd
ings that John Tanquist of Kerrick
had passed away Mr.. Tanquist was
beloved and greatly esteemed b!
everybody and his passing away is
great loss to the community at large
as well as to his immediate family.
A number of men from this vicinity
started work for the Great Northern
railway company Tuesday, with al
eXta gang, with l.. Casadont of Nick
erson as foreman.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
She Had Some Program.

Rastus Cat dance): "Mirandy, is
yo' program full?"
Mirandy: 'Lawdy, no, 1t takes
mo- dan two sandwiches and cup
Of coffee to fill nah program"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
HINCKLEY

Mrs. Harvey Reid entertained at a
dish towel shower i'm honor of two
of the Hinckley high school faculty
members Tuesday evening. April Z.
There were Miss Oreke and Miss
Rosenwald, who are brides of the
near future. A delicious lunch was
served by the hostess.
Since there has not been any rain
this spring and everything is so dry
there have been some dangerous fires
stated which fortunately have been
controlled before any damage was
done. The fire Sunday on East Dew
ey avenue, which burned brush and
grass, was started by lighted cigar
cite thrown from car passing by.
The Hinckley school has been
closed this week for the Easter recess
The teachers are spending the vacat-
ion at their homes. Supt. and Mrs.
L. W. Brown left Saturday to spend
a few days visiting at Madison, leav-
ing Monday to attend superinten-
dents meeting at the New Nicollet
Hotel, Minneapolis.
Invitations are out for a bridal show
err in honor of Helen Role, May 10.
Mrs. Harvey Reid, Mrs. H. NJ. Demp-
sey and Mrs. Joe Dehler being host
esses. Miss Role will be June
bride.
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid will
meet at the church parlors Thursday
afternoon, April II. Grace Toerins
| will be hostess.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
STURGEON LAKE

A grass fire that was set Sunday
morning by little Ernie Cunningham
crept up and destroyed the barn on
the so-called Ahnstrom place, where
Walter Cunningham resides. The fire
equipment was called out but they
could not do much as there was
strong wind blowing and the barn
was dry. furnishing volatile ma
terial for the fire.
AXel Gustafson and family, people
from Duluth. have purchased Mrs.
Louis Olson's property in School Dis
trict No. 81, and moved on to the place
this week The farm was previously
rented by Henry Blasjo.
The public school closed on Friday
for a weeks vacation. The teachers
Eleanor and Edna Schaefer went to
Hinckley to spend the vacation.
Postmaster Charles Olson went tc
Pine City on Tuesday to appear fol
John Zydek, on his petition for natur-
ilization.
The first baseball practice was held
Sunday. Manager Anderson had re-
cruited a crew and took advantage OF
the pleasant weather Sunday to give
them a strenuous workout.
Stanley Mohelski has contracted t.
saw about three hundred thousand
feet of lumber near Black HOof. He
will move his tractor there soon ano
he purchased a mill from the H. A
Muffley lumber company at SOloGs
Springs, Wis, which he will use on
this job.
A number of local anglers went out
to the various trout streams at the
opening of the season Tuesday and
tried their luck and skill at catching
the speckled fish.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
MCPHERSON
(FrOm Another Correspondent

Mr.. Peterson, wife and daughter of
Minneapolis, spent Wednesday and
Thursday of last week, with his broth
er, III. E. Peterson and family.
Mrs Axel Peterson is back from Du-
luth.
Miss Staxrud. Mrs Bohlin and
FThora. visited with Mrs. futile Tues
day evening of last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Axel Peterson visited
with Mrs. Ed Beaudry Sunday taking
Edith home. after her boarding there
for a month.
Lawrence Casadont and Esther were
in Willow River Sunday.
There will be services at the hall
Good Friday at 1890. This will be
instead of Easter services.
Mrs. John Bean is sick in Duluth.
Mr. Beaudry went to see her Sunday.
Lawrence Casadont and crew of
ten men left here to work on an extra
gang for the summer
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
WINDEMERE TOWNSHIP
Miss Marian Sanderson left Friday
spend her Easter vacation in Huron,

Miss Marian Sanderson left Friday
to spend her Easter vacation in Huron,
S. D.
The declamatory contest which was
held at &C. school was we'll attended
Those taking part in the contest were
Evelyn Burkhardt. Mayme McLevis,
Patricia Doboszenskf of CD; -Eiffel
Mossberg, Alice Larson of "B"; Mil
dred Hammerquist of &C" and Edith
Larson and Victor Nelson of "a. The
judges were Mrs. |. M. Sanvik. the
Misses Lillian Moline and E. Craw-
ford. Mildred Hammerquist took first
place, Patricia Doboszenski, second
Mayme McLevis, third, and Edith
Larson fourth. These girls will rep
resent District No. II in the contest
at Willow River, Monday. April 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Norlander ano
daughter spent Sunday at the Anna
Mossberg home.
Don't forget the egg social and pro-
gram at the Windemere M. E. church
Saturday evening, April 10. There
will be services in the Windemere Nj
E. church Easter Sunday in the eve
ming Everyone is invited to attend
both evenings.
There will be an Easter program II
the Blomskog Lutheran church Fri
day evening, April IS. Everyone i:
cordially invited to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Street drove II
Minneapolis Saturday evening to visi
friends and relatives over the week
end.
The Windemere NJ E. Ladies'~Af(
will meet at the Overland home We'd
nesday, April %.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
CARD OF THANKS

I take this means to express my
appreciation and thanks to all who
helped fight the forest fire which
burned my barn and threatened my
entire property Sunday. Such help
surely will long be remembered.
Teddy Rydberg
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17
Comfort First.

"Hear the latest about Newrich?"
'eNo. What now"
"He bought a Louis XIV bed, but
it was too small for him, so he sent
it back and asked for Louis XVI"
Boston Transcript.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-17

The American is but S150 a year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
Mexican Capitalism Is Not
Consolidated

While Ortiz Rubio the choice of American
imperialism for president of Mexico is taking
office amid great festivities and banquets of
the Mexican bourgeoisie, the misery of the
Mexican masses increases daily.
Due to the world crisis affecting the price
of silver, and the preciptate fall of the Mex
lean silver Peso, the silver mines of Mexico
are closing. The other day there were 400
miners thrown out of work from the closing of
the silver mines at Pachuca, capital of the State
of Hidalgo, adding to the reported enormous
army of 100000 jobless in the Mexican colony
of Wall Street
The Mexican capitalist regime, affected like
all the world besides, by the sudden onset of
depression in the United tSates, is not CONSOLE
dated, and every symptom shows that instead
Of consolidation the economy of the country is
being shattered to pieces.
Naturally, because of this very lack of con-
solidation, the bourgeosie is in fear Of increas-
ing mass unrest and is attempting to CONSOLE
date it's forces of repression, to fascisize the
state and tighten its machinery of control thru
the yellow unions, but the sem-colonial capt.
talist regime is weakening basically with every
passing day.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
Notice of Central Control Com
mittee Decision on the Expul-
ton of John Owens
February 8, 1880.

ISUiudIy q, LOW
By action of the Central Control Committee
of the Communist Party, John Owens, of Los
Angeles, Calf, has been expelled from the
Communist Party of the U.S.A., because of
vicious ant-Party attitude and un-Communist,
petty-bourgeois conceptions regarding Party
work and policies.
This he has plainly shown in two letters
addressed to Comrade Otto Hall, Of the Negro
Department of the Central Committee of the
Party, which contain repeated attacks and
charges against the Party against the Negro
work and against its leadership, attacks and
charges so vicious and absurd as can be made
only by bitter enemy of the Party.
The petty-bourgeois conceptions of Owens,
which previously expressed themselves in sent-
mental praise of brotherly love and individual
efforts show themselves more plainly now in
his statement that the Party is only an aggre-
gate of the individuals who make it up and who
occupy leading positions in it, as we'll in
general ranting against multiplying hatreds,"
while he himself gives vent to hatred against
the Party. answering loyalty to the working
class struggles, undying hatred against the ex-
ploiters and oppressors of the working masses,
and the submergence of the individual to the
class interests and purposes of the Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
By HARRY CANNES.

U. S. imperialism is entering the seventh
month of the present severe crisis. What are
its prospects? What is the present extent of
the crisis?
In spite of the current reports of some rise
in steel production over the extremely low
point of SO per cent of capacity in the last
week of December and the first week of jan
uary, there is no sign of fundamental upturn
in this basic industry of American capitalism.
The steel bosses during this period purposely
curtailed production and shut down some of
their plants, in order to begin with greater
momentum later in January, hoping that this
would take them out of the black slough of
sharp decline. This was foreshadowed in the
statement of Iron Age, organ of the steel
bosses, when they said, "The very severity of
the 4th quarter decline in production is re-
garded as the best promise of early recovery"
Steel production is reported to be now at
rs per cent of capacity, as compared with IS
to 80 per cent in January of 1929.
The Future of Steel Production.
But there are certain fundamental facts that
indicate that the steel industry cannot push
up its production by pulling at its own boot
straps. Steel is not produced for purely orna-
mental purposes but forms the raw material
for such basic industries as automobile, build
ing construction, railroad equipment farm ma
chinery, etc.
The automobile industry absorbs 20 per cent
of the entire steel output, and the building con-
struction industry at least Is per cent. In the
first place, reports of the improvement lin
the steel Industry have been exaggerated"
Journal of Commerce, Jan. 81, 1930.) Sec
ondly, the current orders for steel in the most
important industrial centers show there is no
basis for continuation of the increase in
steel-in fact, everything points to further
sharp decline. Says the Journal of Commerce,
(Jan. 20, 1930)
''The volume of business being received by
the steel jobbers in the New York metropo-
Titan district is nothing to become boastful
about. The aggregate of sales is poorer than
was December (Which forced the cut to 3S
per cent of capacity, and is probably lighter
than January of last year."
What is the state of the crisis in the auto
mobile and construction industries? Referring
to these two industries, the Annalist (Jan. 81,
1930), states:
"Of the two industries which are admit
teddy the main supports of prosperity, build
ing and automobiles, the former presents this
week retrogressive record
Building Work Down.
The total of building contracts awarded the
first twenty business days of January, 1880,
was 1853 per cent below the value of contracts
awarded in the first twenty business days of
January, 1929, and 219 per cent less than the
total for the same number Of days in 1928
And this sharp drop comes as the Annalist
puts it, in spite of the fact "that full two
months after President Hoover's business con-
ferences for the resusctation of business, par
ticularly in the construction field, no upturn
is visible OIL the fact of the returns"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06

to be separated from the present revolution by
some years of stagnation and reaction never
theless everybody who is familiar with the in
ner political development of the Russian pro-
letariat up to the present level of its class
consciousness and revolutionary energy will
recognize that the history of the present per-
iod of mass struggles begins with that general
strike in ST. Petersburg.
They are important for the problem of the
mass strike because they contain in embryo all
the chief features of the subsequent mass
strikes.
The phantastic and vague reports of the
general strike in Baku had not yet reached
all parts of the Tsarst empire when, in Jam
uary, 1905, there broke out the mass strike in
st Petersburg.
Here also the immediate cause of the strike
was trifling Two workers in the Putilov works
were discharged on account of belonging to the
legal Subatov Union. This victimization call
ed forth a solidarity strike on January 18th,
of the whole of the 10000 workers employed
in this undertaking.
The social democrats used the occasion of the
strike in order to begin a lively agitation for
the extension of the demands and put forward
the demand for the eght-hour day, right of
combination, freedom of speech and press, ETC.
The ferment of the Putilov workers quickly
spread to the rest of the proletariat, and in
a few days 100000 workers were on strike.
Joint consultations and stormy discussions led
to the working out of that proletarian charter
of civil liberties, headed by the eight-hour day,
with which on January %, 100000 workers,
led by Father Gapon, marched to the Tsar's
palace. The dispute over the two victimized
workers had become in few weeks the pro-
logue to the most powerful revolution of the
new time.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-06
Six Months of Crisis and It's
Perspective
By Fred Ellis

The building industry does not promise any
basis for rise in steel Plainly it indicates
sharp reductions
Automobile Overproduction
The drop in automobile production was the
sharpest experienced by any industry in the
present crisis. In September, 1929, output de-
clined II per cent; in November, it dropped
another A per cent, and in December still an
other 45 per cent-a total drop for the eight
months since April of 81 per cent
At the present time, even with the sharp
decline of 81 per cent over period of eight
months there is admittedly huge overproduction
in the automobile industry
Explaining that there has been overproduc-
ton in automobiles, and that to attempt to
increase output would be the "height of folly"
the Commercial and Financial Chronicle writes
(Jan 25 1890:
Evidently there had been overproduction.
1t hence would have been the height of folly
to add further to the surplus stock of cars
(autos), and the case serves to illustrate how
difficult it is to comply with blanket re-
quest that industrial activity be maintained
the old scale"
The most optimistic automobile capitalists
predict decline of 20 per cent in automobile
output in 1880. This is based on a furious
struggle for world markets and an increase of
u. >.
Of automobiles. Against this there is the or
ganization of the European automobile bosses,
with their help of their imperialist govern
ments, to fight any increase whatsoever of
exports of cars from the United States. With
the severe crisis in the European countries,
the American automobile bosses will do Won
ders if they maintain last years exports. Hence
a conservative estimate would show that there
Will be decline of at least between 25 and
80 per cent in automobile output in 1880.
Automobile production is still at an extreme
ly low point. As late as January %, 1880, the
Journal of Commerce reported that in Youngs-
town, one of the centers for steel products for
the automobile trade, "auto body sheets con-
tinue to be the exception Ito the general slight
rise) with orders still light"
Railroads Reflect Crisis.
With freight car loadings steeply below the
1929 figures, the railroads on December 81
(Annalist, Jan. II, 1930) reported they had
447,141 freight cars in good condition lying
idle in their yards. Certainly with the facts
clearing forecasting less freight traffic for the
coming year, the railroad capitalists will not
build many new freight cars locomotives or
track to remain idle.
The Commercial and Financial Chronicle
(Jan. II, 1930) points out that railroad steel
buying, which forms good percentage of the
slight increases, offers no optimistic outlook.
They say
"Not too much qualification can be taken
in the improvements and engagements in
railroads and certain manufacturers. for
these we're all planned before the slump"
Agrarian Crisis Severe.
Because of the deep-going and sharpening
farm crisis, with the drop in wheat corn, cot
ton and other prices, the outlook for the pro-