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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
EAST OF BRUNO

Mr.. and Mrs. Gault of Bruno, and
daughter, Mrs. Leo Forsyth, and son,
Grant, of Duluth, called at the Ed
Rupp home Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Osterkamp and
son, Harry, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Da-
Wis and Keith and Elaine were sup
per guests at the E. Rupp home re-
Gently. Mr.. and Mrs. Osterkamp and
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis celebrated their
fifth wedding anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. B. Plaisted were
visitors at the w. Schrader home Sun
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orie Plaisted and Mrs.
Sommers and Ralph and Mr.. and Mrs.
c. Sprague were Saturday evening cal
lers at the M. B. Plaisted home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Billman and family
spent Friday night at the Plaisted
home. Mrs. Johnson and daughters,
Gladys and Vivian, also visited at the
Plaisted home in the afternoon.
The ice cream social at the Berg
lund home was very we'll attended and
most pleasant time was had by ev-
eryone present. A short sacred pro-
gram was given, consisting of two Sc
lections by the choir, scripture and
prayer by the Rev. Johnson, vocal
duet by Vivian Wahlquist and Dorothy
Berglund, piano duet by Gladys and
Vivian Johnson, and instrumental mu-
sic by the Berglunds. Seventeen dol
lars and thirty-five cents was realized
for the Ladies' Aid. =
Mr.. and Mrs. John Meyers and
daughter, Clara, are visiting at the
parental home at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Pearson and
son, Mrs. Bert Churchill and Donna
Jean, Mrs. Laying and Joe spent We'd
nesday evening at the Billman home.
Mrs. B. Churchill and Donna Jean
were dinner guests at the Otto DOM
ming home Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Sprague and Mr..
and Mrs. Englund called on the M.
B. Plaisted home Monday evening.
Phyllis Plaisted is spending the
week with her grandmother, Mrs. c..
Sprague.
Henry Starch made several calls in
the neighborhood Friday forenoon.
Mrs. Churchill and Mrs. Laying
spent Sunday evening with Mrs. j.
Babe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Rupp and family
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
MEASLE EPIDEMIC
IS ANTICIPATED

st. Paul, Minn.-An epidemic of
measles is reported in two sections
of the United States this week says
a recent bulletin from the Minnesota
State Medical association.
The two sections cited by the Unit
ed States Public Health Service are
the Atlantic coast, particularly the
southern part, and the Great Lakes
region.
Minnesota is as yet untouched"
says the bulletin, "but it is close
enough to the Great Lakes region for
everybody to be on the alert and as
well informed as possible on all the
known defensive measures against
this serious childhood disease"
The comfortable impression that
measles is just one of the little an
moving but inevitable Affections of
childhood is not justified by the high
death rates from the disease in young
children and the large number of
serious complications that are likely
to follow it, these doctors warn.
eff you can keep your children from
exposure to measles by any means at
your disposal by all means do So" the
bulletin says. Measles is not at all
an inevitable affliction. When we
have learned to protect our children
properly from other communicable
diseases, and particularly from each
others coughs and colds, we shall
have gone a long way toward elimi-
mating this serious disease also from
the childhood calendar.
In the meantime, in the absence of
any immunizing agent such as toxoid
or toxin anti-toxin for diphtheria,
there is another sort of advisable pro-
lection that can and ought to be given
if child, particularly young child,
known to have been exposed.
''This is the administration of a
small measured quantity of the par
ents blood as a protection, the parent
having in most cases become immune
to measles. The child thus treated
is not prevented entirely from CATCH
ing measles. But the attack is usu-
ally so moderated that it is of very
little consequence and as result the
child attains his own immunity which
generally lasts for life
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
SANDSTONE


their weekend guests, Miss Williams,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Barnick, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Barnick, Erwin and AL
bert Pofahl of ST. Cloud, and John
Trapp of Chicago, were a few of a
large number of old friends who at
tended the wedding dance given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Nelson of Gron-
ingen at Groningen hall Saturday eve
ming. The hall was nicely decorated
and everyone was we'll entertained.
VIM. Barnick was master of cere-
monies and Peter klar furnished the
music. The bride and groom were
the recipients of many beautiful and
useful presents.
Miss Hildur Waldorf of Minneapo-
lis, has been visiting for the past
week at the Carl Fuhr residence.
Miss Mile Jean Perkins of Pine
City, is guest at the John Lynds
residence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Robertson of
International Falls, were guests Of
Mrs. Anna Mcmillan from Tuesday
afternoon until Wednesday forenoon,
when they left for Aberdeen, S. D.
Jimmy Bisset of Minneapolis, is
visiting at the home of his aunt, Mrs.
Roy Sandwich, for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert johnson of Min
neapolis, and Mr.. and Mrs. Eric Eos
and Carl Fuhr of Denver, Colo, have
been visiting at the Carl Fuhr resi-
dence for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Percy and son of
Minneapolis, and Mrs. E. Bisset of
Sandstone, motored to Red Granite
Falls, Wis, Friday and returned Tues
day. Mr.. and Mrs. Percy will visit
Sandstone relatives the remainder OF
the week.
VIM. H. Barnick, the local Hudson
Essex dealer, sold two new Hudson
automobiles to parties from Denham
Friday. He went to Minneapolis and
drove them back. Saturday for de-
livery.
Arnold Larson was a city visitor
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian Forstrom of
Superior, spent Sunday at the M. Bull
lis residence. Miss Madeline Bulls
of Minneapolis, who has been their
guest for the past week, accompanied
them here and will remain for a few
days visit with her parents.
Leonard Strand who has been work
ing in Minneapolis, arrived home Sum
day for a few days visit.
Miss Ey1Oronoo Richards loft Loot
week to take up training in St. Mary's
hospital in Minneapolis.
R. w. Barstow was a city caller
Tuesday.
Ruth Helen Deming left Wednesday
to spend the remainder of the summer
vacation with her grandparents on
the farm east of Pine City
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Greenwald,
Mrs. Anna Mcmillan, and Chas. Green
wald motored through Jay Cooke
Park and to Duluth Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Richards and
daughter called at the H. D. Stokes
residence Monday. They were OF
their way from Duluth to their home
at Eota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Bridgman and
two sons of Marshaltown, Iowa, who
arrived Wednesday for few days
visit with the Walter Wheeler and
Yanke families, returned home Fri
day.
Mrs. Emma Olson accompanied
Leonard Strand from Minneapolis
Sunday for few days visit with her
sister, Mrs. Lena Strand.
Miss Florence Thalin of Minneapo-
lis, spent from Saturday until Sunday
at the l. K. Antonson residence.
H. E. Cragun and son, James, mo-
tored Horace Cragun, Jr., to Mime
apolis Friday, where he left by bus
for Niagara Falls. VIM. Carlson ac-
companied them to the city.
l. K. Antonson has a new DeSoto
sedan.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
st. Pauls Ev. Lutheran Church.
Missouri SynOd)

Sunday, August 8, no services at
Bruno. We are invited on this day to
attend the dedication of the new
church of our congregation at Wright
MINI. Two services will be held. In
the morning at 1000 the Rev. A. F.
Gerbhardt of Superior, will preach
and in the afternoon, the Rev. E.
Kirsch of Duluth. The ladies of the
Wright church will serve free lunch
at noon.
Sunday, August 16. Services in the
English language at 2:3O. Our La
dies Aid society meets, Wednesday
August IL, at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. Noeldner.
E. c. HALLSTEIN, Pastor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06

While travelling man waited i'm
patiently in a restaurant the waiter
was taking the orders of a bunch of
flappers lined up along the counter
calling for ice cream sundaes. Final
ly the waiter noticing the man sitting
at the table asked: Have you been
waited on, sir?" NO." replied the
travelling man, I'm waiting for the
sundae school to end
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
called at the Plaisted home Sunday

called at the Plaisted home Sunday
evening.
Miss Hazel Hamre of Kerrick, is
spending the week with Pearl and
Ruby Rupp.
Hazel Hamre and Pearl and Ruby
Rupp visited at the Billman home
Monday evening.
Mr.. Eggimans, son and wife OF Min
neapolis, visited ct R. Eggiman's over
the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Billman and family
were among the guests at the Nettie
Laying hcme Sunday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
DENHAM CHURCH NEWS

The Methodist church will have a
union service at Swanson's Point on
Sturgeon lake next Sunday morning.
Aug. 9, at IL o'clock. Everyone is cor
daily invited to attend. The Rev.
Andrew Anderson of St. Paul. will
speak.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
Bruno Presbyterian Church Notes

Christian Endeavor, Aug. 9, 8 p. m.
Leader, Eva Berglund Topic: Good
and bad features in amusements.
Following the regular lesson dis
cussion a quiz will be given, consist
ing of Bible questions to aid in ac-
curing a better knowledge of the
Scriptures.
Please bring your Bible and a pen
Gil. .E
All are gladly invited to come and
worship with us at these meetings.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Brook Park Circuit.
Brook Park.
Sunday school at 1000 a. M; wor-
ship, HOO a. m; Epworth League,
500 p. m.
P0kegama.
Sunday school, 300 p. m; worship,
300 p. M; Epworth League, 500 p. m.
Young Peoples study circle, Tuesday
at 500 p. m.
VIM. c. Achterkirch, Pastor.
David B. Achterkirch, asst
and Director, Y. P. meetings.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06
EV. LUTH. CHURCH NOTES
Emanuel, Bruno.


Choir practice Thursday evening at
s p. m. Confirmation class meets
Saturday at 9:3O a. m. Sunday school
next Sunday at 1890 a. m.
VilStad.
Choir practice Thursday evenings
at p. m. Confirmation class meets
Saturday at 2 p. m. Sunday school
next Sunday at 1890 a. m.
Oak Lake.
Swedish services next Sunday at
1920 a. m.
Emmanuel, NickersOn.
The Luther League will. have a
weiner and marshmallow roast at Net
lake Friday evening, Aug. Z, at 8 p. m.
Sunday school and confirmation class
next Sunday<at 2 p. M, and services
in the evening at 8 p. m.
Park Center.
Confirmation class meets Saturday
at 10 a. m.
CHARLES S. RYDELL, Pastor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06

Believe me, when 1 marry I'll lay
down the law to my wife," declared
young member of the poker party.
Maybe, but you'll accept all of her
amendments" replied an older mar
ried member.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06

The st. Pauls Ev. Lutheran Ladies'
Aid will meet at the home of Mrs. H.
A. Noeldner, Wednesday, Aug. II. Ev-
erybody is invited
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06

Have you ever done anything on
time in your life?" asked local bust
ness man of an employe that has a
habit of showing up late on the job.
"Yes," was the reply, Il bought a
car on time once"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06

Want ads in the American are
widely read.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-02
Z. S. Imperialism IN
Porto Rico

forced to import at high prices the
very foods they once produced in
abundance, such as rice, beans, po-
tatoes and corn
And what prices the Porto Ricans
are forced to pay for their food I'M
ported from the United Statesl A
detailed investigation comparing the
retail prices Of food in New York
City and in Porto Rico has been
made by this investigator. After
pricing l 8articles Of food, compris-
ing Is per cent of the food used by
the Porto Rican workers, it was found
that the average cost to the Porto
Rican was actually about IA per
cent higher than in New York. When
this taken in conjunction with the
fact of low wages, he concludes, "No
great imagination is necessary to
conceive the enormous difference be-
tween the standard of eating, not to
say the standard Of living, of the
American citizen Of Porto Rico and
Of the United States" This, Of
course, does not mean the 100000
who are unemployed in the United
States or those who are employed
here at starvation wages.
Wages in the sWeatshops Of Porto
Rico range from 81 to 81 week,
most of them receiving less than SO
a week. Yes, the professor tells us
there was once law setting mini
mum wage Of 81 a day. But like
the child labor law in the United
States it was declared "unconstitu-
tional." 1t interfered with the prof.
its Of the sugar, tobacco, fruit and
needle trades capitalists.
Wages Of workers in sugar cane
centraIs and fields average about
$135 to $168 year. This is for the
worker who has employment. About
so per cent of the workers in Porto
Rico are jobless. The wages in Porto
Rico are roughly about one-half
that of other tropical countries pro-
ducing the same products" Some 70
per cent of the women in the tobacco
fields receive less than so cents a
day when they have work. And the
yearly income of the average tobacco
factory worker as well as that of the
coffee worker-who has works.
about $180.
OF the 100000 of Hoover's "fel-
low citizens" in the island at least
100000 have the hook worm disease,
100000 have malaria and 10000 have
tuberculosis, while the death rate is
two and a third times higher than
in the United States.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-02
CUTTING WAGES IN
". READING, PA.
Textile Workers Seq
Need to Organize
by a Worker Correspondent,

Wy VFoihCE SOHhCopUuVcObl
READING, Pa. - You may not feel
so good when I tell you how they
are cutting wages here
Now, I want TO write few lines
on the Narrow Fabric Silk Mill, OF
West Reading. The bosses have an
noumced 10 percent cut In wages,
to take place on April 3. This re-
duction will affect not only the piece
workers and the laborers, but even
the white-collar slaves, THE once
workers in that firm.
What's more: They are now plan
ming to slash the working week down
to three days.
Conditions as they are bad enough,
and it's hard for textile worker to
make ends meet. Now harder times
are ahead.
Let this serve as a warning to the
workers. The only way to resist wage
cutting, and combat successfully in
human conditions is by organizing in
to our revolutionary trade unions I'M
der the leadership Of the Trade Uni
on Unity League.
X. Y. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-02
VETS CALL FOR
ORGANIZATION
Letters from All Over
Country Want WESL

T h Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League, in its national campaign to
organize the worker eX-servicemen
throughout the country, is meeting
with greater success than the or
ganization committee expected.
Letters from eX-servicemen are
being received from every part of the
country with suggestions and pledges
for financial help when they receive
part Of their tombstone bonus. The
worker ex-serviceman is beginning to
recognize that the Workers Elk
Servicemen's League is the only vet
Grams organization which represents
the worker veteran in the struggle
for full cash bonus. 1t is the only
veterans organization that supports
the Negroes in their struggle against
race discrimination and against
lynching. Tt also endorses the I'M
employment insurance program of
the National Unemployed Council.
A letter received from an ex-ser-
yiceman, F. D., from Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. suggests that a leaflet be
distributed from house to house to
expose the rotten war game Of the
parasites that cause it and profit by
it, The organization committee OF
the w. E. S. l.. wishes to inform
through these columns all ex-ser-
vicemen who have communicated
with us that all their suggestions are
being carefully considered by the
committee and requests that all COM
munications be properly signed and
addresses correctly given so that an
organization of workers ex-service-
men may be quickly formed in your
locality.
Address mail to Organization Com
mittee, Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League, 70 E. Tenth ST., N. Y. c.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-02
$4,000 Gain in Pa.
Convict Labor Jail
Answer This One, Mr..
Fish!
(By a Worker Correspondent

PITTSBURGH, Ps.-Business L
booming at the free" labor ir1stitu-
ton of the Allegheny County Work
house, located at Blanwox, Pa
Nearly $4,000 is actually admitted
to be the profits Of the broom fac
tory, laundry and upholsterinS at the
workhouse.
It is becoming well known that
at the workhouse furniture is made
by convict labor, and labels Of we'll
known furniture companies are
pasted on the articles which are then
sold as "free labor's products"
Despite these admissions, the
bosses have the crust to carry on
their fake agitation against forced
labor in the Soviet Union, which
means the force used to make work
ers eat, sleep, live and work under
decent and human conditions.
The only consolation for the con-
vict workers Of Blawnox is that they
work and get at least their slop-
prisoners call it bread and bread,
since all dishes taste almost alike
while workers are working in this
district, in coal mines and mills, and
don't even get that.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-02
Districts Receive Sub Lists for
1000 By May u Campaign;
Reading, Pa. Reports Work

Subscription lists for a "whirlwind
campaign" to greet tia Daily Worker
with 1000 new yearly ,eibs or renew
ais before May have already been
sent to all districts. Only one month
Is left in which to get these filled,
but the following incentive will prove
stimulating toward getting these sub
scriptions:
BY renewing now, subscribers who
are in arrears in their accounts can
open new accounts, and every sub
scriber's name unless requested not
toy will be printed in the May Day
edition sent to the Soviet Union.
In addition, the Daily Worker
wants to be greeted by workers lat
the cost of rs cents) and workers
organizations which will also be in
cluded in the May Day issue. The
Party and the Young Communist
League is to put all its energies
Into reaching this 1000 by May l
goal, and workers and sympathizers
are joining in the drive to put the
Daily Worker on a firmer financial
foundation than it has been in the
past,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-02
KASSAY MEETINGS
CALLED in @ HIO
Workers Must Smash
Frame-Up

CLEVELAND, April 1.-The exec
utive Committee of the International
Labor Defense of the Ohio District
held special meeting last night to
develop the campaign for the smash
ing of the frame-up against Paul
Kassay. The following special con-
ferences are being called:
Cleveland, O., Sunday, 2 p. m,
April at 1926 w. Third ST.; April
II, Akron, o.
A mass meeting to expose the
frame-up of Paul Kassay is being
called by the Cleveland LID. for
Friday evening, April 10, to be held
in the Engineers Building.
Speakers will include Paul Kassay
Horwith, Jennie Cooper and Herbert
Benjamin, district organizer of the
Communist Party.
All workers are invited to this mass
meeting to learn the facts about the
frame-up of this worker and the
attempt to depert thousands of work
ers, because of their nlilitancy il
the labor movement.
All workers organizations are urgec
to send delegates to the above con-
ference to be held Sunday, April 5.
Cleveland District LID. is also
carrying on a vigorous campaign fol
the repeal of the vicious crirnina
syndicalist law and for amnesty FOL
all class war prisoners.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-02
TWO THIRDS OF
OLNEY J0BLESS
'Model'Town Becoming
Pauperized Fast

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. - Olney is
a part of Philadelphia, where reside
100 percent native born Americans,
who "own" their homes--with a big
mortgage in some bankers hands.
A typical neighborhood of the "City
OF Homes. as the local realtors style
this huge dismal village Of 100000.
The people Of Olney did not know
it a year or two ago, but they we're
workers. Then, in the years Of 1928,
1929, they thought they were sitting
on the top of the world, that they,
too, were Owners. Didn't the
Ledger" say so? But to-day, in 1881
how fares it in Olney? Not so good.
In fact, worse than mot so good.
Conservative estimates are that two
thirds of the people of Olney are out
OF work. And what's worse, altho
it's already spring, jobs cannot be
gotten.
Prospects are for an indefinite per-
iod OF this kind. Many people in OIL
ney have been compelled to give up
their homes to the mortgage hold
ers. and move into q few rooms.
Pauperization of a model Amer
lean community is proceeding rapid
W. g. RABIN,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-02
PLENTY MISERY"
IN CHESTER, PA.
Charity Humiliates the
Jobless Workers
tBy a Worker Correspondent

CHESTER, Pa. There's plenty
Of misery in store for you, even if
you're "only" unemployed. But
when you're out Of a job, and sick
ness sets in at that, then you find
yourself in hopeless situation.
Only lately this has happened to
me. I became very sick, and was
forced to apply to welfare society
for help. The agent Of that society
fatty refused to give me a note to
city doctor, on the ground that I
was not married, and therefore could
roam around the hospitals, where
you "enjoy" dog-like treatment, hav-
ing to wait hours for this privilege.
My plea with the welfare agent that
L was too weak and needed imnle-
diate aid failed to move this solemn
and imam loving" person.
Don't you think for minute that
the married unemployed worker
would get better treatment. The
bosses charity takers have all kinds
Of excuses for them too.
What I am telling you here has
proven to me once more that the
unem ployed cannot depend on char
ity institutions. They were created
by the very same bosses, who are re-
Sponsible for our sufferingS, with the
nlIrnose of milling the wool over our
eyes, and prevent us from fighting
for our rights.
No, it's not charity that we want.
We must unite our forces, all work.
ers, black and white single and mar
ried, old and young, and fight under
the leadership of the unemployed
councils for unemployment insurance
and real relief.
Unemployed Worker
from Chester.