Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-05-29
ASKOV


visitors in Minneapolis yesterday, thu
latter going down for medical atten
tion.
A. Henriksen is having a 22-foo
modern Fairbanks Morse 10 ton scale
installed by his feed store. Johar
Sorensen is doing the work.
Thorvald Sorensen and V. S. Peter
sen were business callers in Minhea
polls Tuesday and Also drove up {
new Ford for the local dealer.
N. S. Petersen completed the foot.
ing yesterday for the P. N. Fengel
monument which will be erected in
the local park in the near future.
The ladies in the community east
of town called on Mrs. Christopher
Nielsen May 18th to help her cele.
brate her birthday. Among other
things a fine lunch was enjoyed.
John H. Sorensen was caller in
Brainerd, Monday. Returning home
he was accompanied by Mrs. Evelyn
Peters and two children who will visit
at the Sorensen home here for few
days
VIM. NJ. Stuck, Norman Ward and
Claude Daniels of Pine City, the lat
ter a candidate for the office of sher-
iff, were callers in Askov and other
northern Pine county communities
Tuesday.
Friends and neighbors spent a
social evening Tuesday at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Keller, the occasion
being a double birthday celebration.
Mrs. Keller's is on the Goth and Mr..
Keller's on the 9th.
Mrs C. P. Christensen sold the
eighty acres of land just east of her
farm, yesterday, to Henry H. John
sen. Mr.. johnson will continue to
work in the Service Garage for the
time being, but later on plans to
start up farming again.
The population of AskOv village as
shown by a preliminary count of the
returns of the Fifteenth Census, taken
as of April 1, 1880, is 297, as COM
pared with 242 on January 1, 1920.
There were Is farms enumerated
within the village limits.
den, Nebr., came here Saturday for a
weeks visit at the Olesen and E. j.
Fogt homes, being guests at the lat
ter place. They were here six years
ago and remark that there has been
a very marked improvement in the
appearance of the country in those
few years.
Following the parade to the ceme-
terry, picnic dinner and speaking in
the park on Decoration day baseball
game will be played between Pine City
and Askov at 2 p. m. This game will
decide the winner of the first sched-
uled league game which was to have
been played at AskOv but was raineu
out in the third inning A profess
siOnal umpire will call the decisions
of the game.
Miss Marguerite Andersen who has
been visiting in Chicago and other
points for several months, came to
AskOv Friday for visit at the home
of her aunt, Mrs. j. Justesen. Miss
Andersen is in the states as a tourist
here a few weeks she will go to the
west coast via the air route and thence
across the Pacific and eventually circle
the globe before returning to her ma
tive country.
A deal was closed Tuesday between
whereby the former is to erect a
modern residence on the three acre
lot just east of his own residence for
Mr.. Dietz. The structure will be of
the bungalow type including five
rooms and bath besides porches. both
to be stucco finish. The preliminary
work will start right away and is to
be finished just as soon as possible.
During this week there has been
and will be several changes of loca-
ton: Lawrence Jensen and family
have moved into the rooms over the
{. Erickson Co. store; Conrad Christ
ensen and family will move into the
residence vacated by Mr.. Jensen. AXel
r. Buck and family will move over TO
family will occupy the residence va
cated by Mr. Buck The front of the
Askov Bakery will be remodeled so
as to have two entrances and DR..
Levin will have the north half of the
front part for his office.
A few days ago Manford Nelson put
an extra keen edge on the butcher
knife and went out to cut the tall
grass around the trees on their lawn.
1t went good for the first few in
nings" but then he lost control and
missed both the grass and the tree
and instead cut big hole in his
trousers and a deep wound in his leg
just above the knee cap. A few days
later it began to bother him and
Tuesday he had TO remain in bed and
will probably be there for a few days,
during which time Martin Andersen
is serving the patrons on rural mail
route No. ,
There was good attendance at
the Askov-Barr Corporation meeting
in the ID. B. S. hall Monday evening.
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