Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-10

| MI. ullu ASy VII oAoSh WV
callers in Duluth the first of this
week. -; ...-...-...
Mrs. Peter Lund of Hampton, Iowa
| came up for a visit at the home o.
her sister, Mrs. Sigurd Stovring, ant
to attend the church festival.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Nielsen and Mr.
and Mrs. A. w. Conway motored t.
Duluth last Thurdsay afternoon on &
trip combined with business an(
pleasure.
Axel R. Buck writes during the
past week that they are enjoying
plenty of sunshine in their Dixie home
and that the farmers are preparing
their land and seeding crops with
optimism for better returns for their
labors next year. Mr.. Buck states
that they, in the southland, find
plenty of work to keep them from mis-
chief.
Jens and Henry Hyldahl, A. w. Con-
away, Hans Koed and John H. Soren-
sen motored to Duluth Monday night
to attend the boxing show featuring
Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight
boxing champion of the world. The
gentlemen report that it was certainly
interesting to listen to the applause
of over 5000 people when Mr.. Demp-
sey appeared. They marveled at the
popularity of the man who attracts
thousands to see him wherever he
goes.
Tho Daropt Toacbarc Accoc;afion
meeting and entertainment will be
held in the school house tomorrow
friday evening beginning at
o'clock. Mrs. w. ]. Hoffman, chair
man of the Hinckley PIT. A. will
give a short talk in a program inter-
spersed with quartet and duet singing,
after which a committee will take
charge and conduct round of games
in the high school gymnasium for
both old and young. Lunch will then
be served.
The local cooperative creamery
will this month repay to its 200 pa
irons somewhat over $1,000 which
amount was loaned to Land OLakes
Creameries, Inc. during the first nine
months of 1929 by deducting one-half
cent for every pound of butter shipped
to them during that period. 1t speaks
we'll for the efficiency of that great
cooperative enterprise, to be able to
pay back to patrons of creameries an
average of $3.50 per member, besides
always paying the highest possible
price for butter.
The Askov high school negative de-
bate team consisting of Edith Hansen,
Otto Jensen and Anna Thomson will
debate Hinckley here in the D. B. S.
hall Wednesday night, Dec. 16, be-
ginning promptly at O'Clock. The
question for debate will be Resolved:
That the several states should enact
Legislation providing for compulsory
unemployment insurance" The af.
frmative team consisting of Dagmar
Gravesen, Verna Ecklund and Mar
garet Hansen will go to Sandstone in
the afternoon Of the same day to de-
bate the same question.
| "Julegranen," the Danish Christmas
magazine, is out again this year and
| greets its many readers from coast tC
| coast and in Denmark as we'll as in
other countries, this being the 35th
edition. 1t is neatly arranged typo
graphically and we'll illustrated. In
it is an interesting story about hunt
| ing and gold digging in Alaska by
Filler Hansen, a former Tyler boy
known to many in Askov and who has
resided in Alaska for many years; A.
E. Frost, Askov's pastor, writes Of
Editor M. Hoist of Cedar Falls, Iowa
S. d. Rodholm writes in memory Of
the late Kr. Ostergaard; and j. Chr
Bay, Enok Mortensen, c. B. Christen-
sen, Jens Thorgaard, Helene Strange
Anton Kvist, and others have con.
| tributed to make good wholesome
| reading for the yuletide and during
| the winter. The magazine can be
| secured from P. ]. Falkenberg, pub
Usher, at Cedar Falls, Iowa, for soc
or locally from the Askov Variety
Store.