Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-11-26
ASKOV

Tuesday.
Miss Alfrida Christensen went to St
Paul last Thursday to seek employ
ment. She was accompanied there
by her father, Clemmen Christensen
who returned home the same day.
The local school will be closed today
Thursday and tomorrow to give the
instructors an opportunity to cele-
brate Thanksgiving at their respec-
tive homes.
Martin Sorensen had the misfortune
to fall from a telephone pole last
week with only apparent minor
bruises, however he does not seem to
get over it and yesterday had to seek
medical attention to discover possible
internal injuries.
L. w. Brown, superintendent of the
Hinckley school and Harry Olson,
principal, took occasion while in
Askov with their basketball team Fri
day afternoon, to make pleasant call
and inspection tour in the American
plant.
A recent membership drive was
made by the members of the Young
Peoples Society and according to an
agreement the losesrs were to enter
tain the winning team. Well, to make
long story short, the boys will be
at the D. B. S. hall Sunday evening
to do that very thing. Everyone is
invited as it is almost an assured
fact that the boys will be better en-
tertainers than they were contestants.
The entertainment will commence at
o'clock and coffee will be served
afterward.
Jens Thomson came home Saturday
evening from Charles City, Iowa, to
assist with packing their most neces-
sary household effects and Sunday
forenoon he and Mrs. Thomson and
their two youngest daughters, Elsie
and Esther, left for Charles City, where
they will make their home while the
Askov Construction Co. is busy erect
ing a building there, which will be
for four or five months. Miss Anna
is remaining at home living with Mr..
and Mrs. Uffe Strandskov and chill
dren who moved into the Thomson
home the same day.
The bazaar and entertainment given
Friday evening at the D. B. S. hall
under auspices of the local Danish
Sisterhood lodge turned out to be a
real success in all respects in spite Of
the exceptionally poor weather-the
roads were soft and slippery and it
rained all day and all night. The
evenings festivities commenced soon
after s o'clock when Svend Petersen,
ON behalf of the committee, bid the
audience welcome and announced what
was to follow, including a short eX-
+ PLANTATION relative to the one act play
''Paa Kastelsvolden." Mrs. EnevOld
Smidt was director of the play and
surely had the various participants
in A No. 1 condition. At the very
last moment it was decided to make
substitution whereby Mrs. Smidt
took Mrs. Chr. Hansen's part, the lat
ter acting as prompter. The capacity
audience illustrated their approval of
the different scenes by giving hearty
applause, and really laughed so much
that they felt good all the rest of the
evening. The six who presented the
play were Mrs. Enevold Smidt, Mrs.
Chr. Fredriksen, Mrs. Svend Peter
sen, Carl Larsen, Mogens Tuxen and
Louis Olsen. Their parts were quite
equally divided and all six of them
represented the respective characters
very well. In spite of the "hard
pond was cleaned out completely,
nearly all the numbers were sold and
the few items that were left sold rap
idly at the auction. The fernery was
won by Mrs. A. R. Pritchard, the
blanket by Jens Krabbe, the goose by
Joe Zoller, and the clock shelf by
Mogens Tuxen. Coffee and lunch was
served in the basement to aprroxi-
mately 200 and the committee de-
cided in the last minute to terminate
the evening with dancing which lasted
till one o'clock. The receipts for the
evening amounted to something over
one hundred dollars, and after the ex-
penses are deducted there will still be
nice profit.
The lecture given by Anton Kvist
of Chicago, at the D. B. S. hall Tues
day afternoon and evening and the
pictures he showed from pioneer life
amongst Danes in America and scenes
from Denmark were both interesting
and instructive. Mr.. Kvist who is a
we'll informed lecturer and writer
gave 60 lectures in Denmark during
the winter of 1880 and during his
stay in the mother country gathered
much information that he is now CIV
ing out to his countrymen in America
in a concise and interesting manner.
A writer of poetry, Mr.. Kvist also
interspersed with a few of his poems
fitting to some of the pictures cast on
the screen. The attendance at the
two lectures in Askov was the only
disappointing thing about the affair,
but should he decide to come here
again later, though he might show the
same pictures and give substantially
the same lecture he will very likolv