Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-12-24
ASKOV

R. P. Rasmussen and Otto Madsen
were callers in Minneapolis Tuesday.
Miss Gertrude Clausen returned to
Chicago Sunday after spending few
days at the home of her folks.
Miss Carrie Feldtmose came from
Minneapolis yesterday to spend Christ
mas at the home of her parents.
The regular monthly D. B. S. social
will be held in the hall Saturday eve
ming, Dec. 26. Please bring cake or
cream.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon E. Anderson
left the first of this week for Wadena
to spend Christmas at the home Of
relatives.
Miss Gertrude Kilstofte, instructor
in the school at Wheaton, is spend
ing the Christmas vacation at her
home here.
Miss Gudron Kilstofte. instructor
in the school at Howard Lake, is
home to spend the Christmas vaca-
ton with her folks.
Miss Regime lessen who has been
working in Minneapolis, came up last
week for an indefinite visit at the
home of her parents.
With the continuous mild weather
the frost has been going out of the
roads around here. placing many of
them in poor condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Nielsen, daugh-
ter, Amy, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Coma
way and daughter. Mavis, motored to
Duluth Saturday afternoon.
Miss Edith Gravesen, instructor at
Grand View College, Des Moines,
Iowa, came Saturday to spend Christ
mas at the home of her parents.
Don't forget the D. S. S. annual
masquerade at the D. B. S. hall Mon
day evening, Dec. %. Come out and
have a good time at this big annual
event.
The Misses Marie and Ingeborg Kill
stofte, students at the university, Min
neapolis, came up Saturday to spend
the Christmas vacation at the home
of their parents.
The community Christmas tree will
be at the D. B. S. hall Sunday, Dec.
81, in the afternoon for children and
their parents and in the evening for
the young folks. Everybody is well
come. Please bring cake or cream.
There will be appropriate entertain
ment both afternoon and evening.
During the first of this week Soren
Christensen and family have moved
from the J. P. Miller farm, 1 mile
north of town, onto the Niels X. An
dersen farm, northwest of town, which
they have rented; and Niels X. Ander-
sen and family have moved onto the
Miller farm.
Don't forget the Young Peoples
Society dance at the D. B. S. hall
Wednesday evening, Dec. 80. Thorne's
orchestra from Sandstone will fur
nish the music. Old and young alike
are urged to attend this annual event.
The committee plans on making it a
program dance of about 10 numbers
with few extras and possibly
grand march before the luncheon.
Now and then new talent is dis
covered and during this pref Christmas
season folks purchasing greeting
cards found out that Askov has a
young lady who is very handy with
the paint brush. Cards that were
painted by Miss Olga Petersen, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jorgen R. Peter
sen, were sold at the Askov Variety
store. They looked very pretty and
showed plainly that Miss Olga is
gifted along that line.
The annual Christmas rush at the
local post office reached its climax
Monday. On that day about forty
sacks of mail were sent out and the
stamp sales amounted to something
over SIS. The incoming mail this
Christmas was quite evenly divided
during the past ten days when the
receipts have been about 80 sacks
a day. The total sales at the post
office for 1881 will be only about 2
per cent less than last year.
Word has recently been received by
friends here to the effect that Mrs.
Marie Laursen, formerly of Askov and
Hibbing. has been married to a Mr..
Nielsen at Superior, Wyoming. Mrs.
Laursen moved to the Wyoming city
some time ago to off1ciate as house.
keeper for Mr., Nielsen. Marie Laur-
sen formerly lived here on what Is
now the Chr. Sandahl place. Askov
friends will join the American in ex-
tending to Mr.. and Mrs. Nielsen con-
CALCULATIONS and best wishes.
M. Tuxen had the misfortune to
lose the youngest Of his team of work
horses last night. The team had
gotten out into the ditch along the
highway which runs past his place.
Holger Mortensen and Jack Lund
were driving to Sandstone in coupe
borrowed from Harry Sorensen. Just
when they were going past the Tuxen
farm the animals jumped out of the
ditch and onto the road, with the re-
suit that the automobile crashed
squarely into the youngest one. Car
and horse suffered alike. All four