Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-03-20
ASKOV

Carl Paulsen who is now staying at
the Martin Miller home, has rented
Fritz Holm's residence and plans to
move into same about April 1st.
A baby girl was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. John Swanson Thursday of last
week. Mrs. Swanson and daughter
are doing fine at the hospital in Sand
stone
Fred j. Polivka, a farmer in Bre-
men township, was business caller
in ASkov last Thursday. Though ne
has lived in Pine county many years
this was his first visit to the Askov
community and he was much pleased
with the surroundings here. Mr..
Polivka also made a pleasant call at
the American office and saw the print
ing plant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Andersen have
rented the second floor of the resi-
dence occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Georg
Schroll and will move to their new
location Sunday. The Andersens have
rented their new home in the village,
Just opposite the creamery, to the new
buttermaker, Alfred Nielsen, who with
his family will move over here the
first Of next week.
The DIR. James Slaven family autoed
up here Sunday from Pine City to call
on friends. On Tuesday the doctor
was here and did dental work at the
]. C. Jensen home, many of his for
mer patients calling on him. For the
past few years DIR. Slaven has been
located at Pine City but previous to
that was located at Sandstone for
many years where he learned to know
most of the people in the AskOv COM
munity. He will be here again next
Tuesday.
The married folks dance Monday
evening at the Assembly hall drew
only a small crowd but what was
lacking in quantity was more than
made up in quality as far as enjoy
ment was concerned Everybody just
got started laughing and having a
good time and it continued through
out the evening. Decorations, etc.,
were in honor of St. Patrick's Day and
the participants came dressed in cali
co and overalls. The retiring COM
mittee named the following to con-
stitute the committee for the next
dance: Mrs. A. w. Conaway, Mrs.
Arnold Sorensen and Arthur Olesen.
The board of directors of the Askov-
Barr Corporations met Saturday eve
ming to go over business matters and
more particularly to open bids for the
construction of the proposed build
ings here. All the directors were
present as was also Donald Barr OF
St. Cloud Opening of the bids re-
vealed the following figures: Palmer
Bros, st. Cloud, $4,000; Edw. w.
VAIL, st. Cloud, $4,000; Chris Nor
gensen, Askov, $4,000; Askov Con-
struction Co.. Askov, $1S.273. After
some deliberation the bids were laid
on the table for further consideration.
Some changes were proposed in the
construction to reduce the cost and
these are being considered now. 1t is
quite possible, however, that stock
holders meeting will be called be-
fore the bid is finally let. The direc-
tors also made an agreement with j..
e. Barr for him to furnish approx
mately $4,000 worth of peeling and
dicing machinery as part payment on
his shares of stock which will be
all the machinery of that nature that
is necessary for the local plant. Be-
sides this and a former purchase
there is considerable belts, pulleys,
shafting, ETC.. to be procured, but the
bulk of the machinery has been pur-
chased now. 1t will be interesting to
note the following quotation taken
from the national advertising of the j.
e. Barr Packing Corporation: due to
phenomenal sales and distribution OF
Barr's Boiled Vegetable Dinner, it has
been found necessary to build an
other factory for the canning of this
product at Askov, Minn..-in the heart
of the finest vegetable growing belt
in the entire northwest"