Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-04-10
ASKOV

MlHlledpOllS lOT a lew udsS WISH.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Miller and Miss
Ellen motored to Minneapolis yester-
day for two days visit
The AskOv Motor Co. delivered a
new Ford truck to the Ferndale Nur-
sery the first of this week.
Carl Larsen, northwest of town,
purchased two used Ford cars from
the local dealers last week. One is
Slightly used and the other used;
consideration for all of them was $40.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jens P. Hyen- and two
children from Geise, visited at the
]. r. Petersen home yesterday. They
are DESTROYS of moving here and
are looking for a farm.
Anders Mogensen has rented the
tract of land Immediately south of the
H. c. Hansen and Svend Petersen
residences and will have late ruta-
bagas in it this season.
Mrs. C.. p. Christensen has rented
the cultivated land of her farm to N.
X. Andersen for the coming season.
She will confine her farm activities
to caring for the stock, pasture and
hay land. this season.
Fred Hedberg and son, Edwin, of
Duquette, were in Askov Friday. Mr.
Hedberg had gotten some foreign
matter into his eye a few days pre-
viously which was causing consider
able pain. He got relief from DR.. H.
E. Levin.
Wayne E. Jacobsen and A. Henrik
sen have each purchased a lot i'm
mediately east of Carl Ekberg's place,
consideration S275 each. Mr.. Jacob
sen will likely put up a residence on
his lot this summer.
Moving pictures will again be
shown regularly every Friday night
here, commencing April IS, under
the same management as last year
johnson and Olesen; watch for their
announcements in the American.
The baseball diamond is beginning
to show signs of life again, the high
school boys play there regularly now,
and it will not be long till the regul-
ars will he there, the first practice
having been called for Sunday after
noon.
Miss Metha Kjersgaard arrived
here Sunday for a visit at the N. P.
Nedegaard home. She came here
direct from Denmark where she has
visited the past year and is leaving
Seattle. Washington.
Beauford w. johnson of Rock Creek
township, who travels for The Farmer
of st. Paul, taking subscriptions for
that publication and also selling their
insurance, was in AskOv last Thurs
d day and paid claim to Clarence E.
Jensen, north of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Conway and
Mavis motored to Bemidji Saturday
to visit over Sunday at the home of
her folks. 1t was a surprise to them
to find snow and mud in the vicinity
of their destination and it took them
two hours to make the last fifty miles.
Louis Olsen has just had new
roof put on his residence and also
added a room to the second floor out
to the east. A new roof is also be-
ing applied to the residence occupied
by the A. w. Conway family. Peter
Linn and o. r. Keller are doing the
work on both jobs.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. p. Larsen and
children of Waterloo, Iowa, were here
last week for visit at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Chr. Sandahl. Re-
turning home Sunday they were ac-
companied by ]. c. and l.. p. Jensen's
father. Hans Jensen. They left Askov
at o'clock Sunday morning. and
later word from them states that they
arrived at their home at o'clock
in the afternoon
John II. Sorensen was in Minneapo-
lis Saturday and made arrangements
with the ]. /. Case company to handle
their line of farm machinery here
this season at least. Their first ship
ment of supplies arrived here Tues
day and is now being set up back of
the Service Garage. and will possibly
later be displayed close to Main
street. This side-line is taken in by
the Service Garage on account of
the automobile industry being some
what slack.
"A very SOOu attendance turned out
for the stockholders meeting of the
Askov-Barr Corporation at the ID. B.
S. hall Friday evening. Matters that
had been discussed on the streets
were brought up and cleared out. The
sentiment was as strong as ever for
proceeding with the project in spite of
the fact that there is not quite suffici-
ent funds to carry it through on the
original plan. 1t was left with the
board of directors to make the neces-
sary financial arrangements and pro-
coed with the building accordingly
There was convincing evidence for
the immediate success of the under
taking. The matter of location for
the plant is just on the verge of being
decided. Relative to this matter T.
J. Mason, trainmaster. and Mr.. May
nard, engineer, from the Superior Of
fee of the G. n. Railway, were in
Askov yesterday to confer with Of
ficials of the Askov-Barr Corp. and
they will submit definite figures in
the course of a few days relative to
the cost of putting in side track at