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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-02-13
Old St. Augustine Still
Spanish in Character

The fact that st. Augustine was al
ready an old town before the Pilgrims
landed in New England, is rarely con-
sidered in comparing the respective
antiquity of these two events. Yet,
to be exact, St Augustine had been In
existence 55 years when the May
flower made its famous voyage to New
England's shores. Translated into
more modern terms, when Plymouth
was settled in 1920, st. Augustine was
already older than many Of our west
ern cities are today.
In 164s. almost a century after its
foundations, st. Augustine was report
ed to have 300 householders besides a
Franciscan monastery and garrison.
On Its one hundredth anniversary st.
Augustine was again visited by mis-
fortune in the person of Captain Davis,
a rowing English freebooter. While
the inhabitants fled to the fort for
safety, he sacked the town, but failed
to find much booty.
In 1884, st. Augustine again passed
under Spanish dominion and continued
undisturbed its dreamy existence, lit
tie affected by the events of the out
side world. Although In 1921 1t was
embraced in the territory of the United
States, it remained distinctly Spanish
in character, and even today retains
much of this foreign atmosphere.
Today St. Augustine is one Of the
most interesting historic cities Of the
United States, It's quaint narrow
streets and shaded place eloquent of
centuries of existence. One can not
visit this city without strangely feel
ing the romantic charm of this rich
historical background.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-02-13
alternating MOSQUITOES

In the higher reaches of the Rocky
mountains in the northern part OF
Montana lives species Of mosquito
that hibernates during the winter, I'M
der logs and in sheltered spots, and
may be seen flying on the first warm
day Of spring. These mosquitoes are
large, with spotted wings, and often
are referred to as snow mosquitoes.
According to Drs. N. Kadletz and L.
Kusmina, Russian scientists, these
mosquitoes store up fat in the sum-
mer, as do bears, and subsist on 1t
while doing through the winter.
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BY James Oliver CurwOOt
@ by Doubleday Doran Co., Inc.
wNU Service.

seemed a live thing that had barred
all sound from solemn hours of medi-
tation, and he soon began to feel its
influence. Slowly and irreslstibly 1t
brought the desire to close his eyes
and sleep, and he rose to his feet in a
struggle to keep awake. Odds teeth
clicked and his eyes cleaned with I'M
dimmed vigilance.
For hours they watched together
and marked every changing shadow.
They skirted the edges of the open,
advancing step at time and with
as little noise as the owl wings that
now and then floated about them.
They scanned Lussan's meadow, and
Jeems climbed tall tree to see if he
could discover a glow of fire. At in
tervals he returned to the house and
looked in at Toinette. 1t was after mid
night when he sat down again, and
soon the stars seemed to be laughing
at him and to be drawing nearer as
If they had beaten him in a game.
They closed his eyes, Odd rested his
heavy Jaws between his forepaws and
gave a deep sigh. Exhaustion-then
sleep.
With an effort, Jeems reused him
self. He saw Odd at his feet. Day
had come, and the sun was rising. He
sensed these things first, in a flash
of wakefulness, and then felt weight
against him and the softness of his
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-02-13

Impressive Scenes in Fijian National Dance

The meke, or national dance of the
Fijians, plays an important part in all
ceremonies on the Islands. AS many
as two hundred young natives, most
gorgeously dressed, will take part in
a meke, which may be described as
legend told in song and dance. Some
times it deals with famous tribal
battle of old.
The dancers carry either spears or
clubs, and go through many of the
movements of the battle-the stealthy
approach to the enemy's lines, the
hurly-bruly of the combat, and then
the triumphant return when the
warriors are greeted by their chiefs.
their sages, and their women. For en-
hour or more, without the least in
terval, a meke will continue its way,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-02-13
Burns the Musician

AS for Burns, his genius fed upon
daily and hourly, the floating High.
land airs that lived among the people
He was a musician born. Some wind
would blow him wandering line OF
verse, some ancient tag Of a ballad
and strain of an enhancing Celtic
melody. While he drove his pillow
he would whistle and chant
till he had woven them into some
thing that made all the world in love
with him fcrever.-Grace Rhys in "A
Celtic Anthology"
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mothers hair on his cheek. Only it
was Toinette and not his mother. She
must have come to him before the
dawn broke. Her head was resting
on his shoulder and his arms were
about her as they had been about his
mother. His movement had not awak-
ened her, but now slow tightening
of his arms brought tremor to her
lashes and a deep breath to her lips.
He kissed her pale face, and her eyes
opened. He kissed her again, and the
act did not seem to disturb her any
more than 1t amazed or shocked him.
There was a responsive greeting in her
eyes.
Then she sat up straight beside him
and faced the rising sun.
The air was so cold that she shiv-
cred. Every shrub and briar and
blade of grass in the clearing glistened
with frost. The coat she had brought
from the house slipped from her shoul-
ders, and Jeems drew it about her
again. They stood up. and strength
returned into the cramped limbs. For
a little while they did not speak.
That they belonged to each other
was a truth which pressed itself on
them without effort or confusion.
Toinette was not ashamed that she
had come to him nor that her act had
proclaimed what pride and false preju-
dice had so long hidden from him in
her heart. Her eyes glowed with a
light which shone softly out of fathom-
less depth of pain and grief. She
wanted him to know how completely
the folly of her pride was gone and
how glad she was that it was he who
stood beside her now. They might
have been years older, so calmly did
the sense of surrender and of possess
sion hold them. Except for the ten
derness in her eyes, Toinette was I'M
changed. But Jeems felt himself taller
at her side and something had en-
tered him which was like the spirit
Of a conquerer. 1t was another world
now. A vast mystery ahead of him.
Something to fight through, to win
from, to live for. Mysterious, it was
still very real. 1t set his heart throb-
bling with an unappalled and challeng-
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UNDERTAKES

Having equipped ourselves for the
business, we are now prepared to con-
duct funerals on the shortest notice
GEO. F. JONES & SON, La Plata. Md.
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CHAPTER VII

The spectacle of death marching
back over its trail brought no terror
to Jeems. He, had watched for 1t, had
half expected it, and in way it was
like the answer to an unvoiced prayer
which had followed his awakening
when he had found Toinette in his
arms. To fight for her now, to rush
forth from the house with a battle
cry on his lips, and to be cut to pieces
in her defense was not a prospect
which dismayed him, but which. in
stead, inspired in him a fearless ex-
altation. 1t was Toinette who saved
him from whatever folly was brewing
itself in his brain as he stood with
long hunting arrow fitted to his bow.
With breathless cry, she drew him
away from the broken door and there.
safe for moment from the savages
who were entering the clearing, she
flung her arms about his shoulders.
For in these tragic seconds look had
come into Jeems' face like that which
had frightened her in the tower room
of the mill, look HARD and vengeful
with the desire to kill.
"Jeems, dear, we must hide" she
pleaded. 1--WE must hidem
The futility of trying to conceal
themselves when their footprints were
clearly left upon the frosty ground did
not occur to him at once. 1t was her
voice and the name it claimed for him
that broke down the resolution which
soon would have betrayed them.
Il know of place." she was say
ing. 1--WE must hurry to itw
She ran ahead of him and he fol-
lowed her into another room where a
stair was falling into ruin. The red
killers had paused at the edge of the
open. They stood motionless, like
stone men, listening and watchful, the
upper parts of their bodies still I'M
clothed until colder days and glisten.
ing with grease and paint. Toinette
did not allow Jeems to pause, and the
steps made complaint as they trod
upon them. Jeems looked down from
the top and saw the marks of their
feet in the dust below. Their fate
was certain il the Mohawks came this
far, but with only the narrow stair
for their enemies to ascend he was
determined, in this event, that each
of his twenty arrows should find a
home.
Toinette preceded him into the room
above. She went directly to a panel
like board which held a wooden peg
and in a moment they were peering
into the musty gloom of huge black
hole under the roof, which the Lus-
sans had used as garnet.
Madame Lussan brought me to this
room after your fight with Paul." she
whispered. Il flung my spoiled clothes
far back in there!"
Even with the savages so near,
pathos and memory were in the trem-
BILE of her voice.
Jeems faced the narrow aperture
in the wall which Lussan had left as
a window and gun hole for defense.
He went to the window, and Toinette
came close to his side. No eyes could
see them as they looked through the
rectangular slit Swallowed under the
caves. The Mohawks had not moved,
and from the steadiness of their atti-
tude Jeems knew they had come upon
the open Unexpectedly. Not a hand
among the silent savages had moved
to Ratchet, bow, or gun.
This fact drew a hopeful whisper
from Jeems.
(TO BE CoNTINUED.)
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-02-13
Laid to Electricity

Two English physicists have formed
theory that a ring of electric cur
rent. surrounding the earth in much
the same manner as the more material
rings of Saturn surround that planet,
cause the magnetic storms that upset
cable and telegraphie communications
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-02-13

every action explaining itself. every
step most precisely executed.
The leaders Of the mekes are always
particularly fine men, and they wear
wonderful tappa robes with trains
four to five yards long, which they
manage with all the grace Of court
lady.-Montreal Herald.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-02-13
THE STORY


with his English wife. Gather
inc, and son, Jeems, Henry Bu-
lain, French settler in Canada In
1749, cultivates a farm adjacent
to the Tonteur seigneurie. AS the
story opens the Bulains are re-
turning from visit to the Ton
tours. GATHERINGS wandering
brother, Hepsibah, meets them
with presents for the family. To
Jeems he gives a pistol, bidding
him perfect himself in marksman-
ship. Jeems fights with Paul
Tache, cousin of Toinette Ton
teur. whom they both adore.
Next day Jeems calls at the Ton
teur home and apologies for
brawling in front of Toinette.
The Tonteurs go to Quebec. Four
years pass. War between Brit
ain and France flames. Jeems re-
turns from a hunt to find his
home burned and his father and
mother slain. He goes to the
seigneurie and finds the manor
destroyed and Tonteur and his
servants dead. Believeing him
an enemy, Toinette wounds
Jeems and denounces him as an
Englishman. Jeems returns to
his murdered parents and the
girl follows him. She becomes
convinced her suspicious of
Jeems were wrong.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1931-02-13
Ship Me Your
Live Poultry!
GET TOP MARKET PRICES
AND PROMPT RETURNS

My long experience enables me to OBJ
tain High Prices for Good Stock.
Send me your name and address
that l may post you on market condi
tons.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-07-09
OLD PEOPLES HOME
AT MINNEAPOLIS TO
ENTERTAIN SUNDAY

The Danish old peoples home, Dane
DO, at Minneapolis, will have a sum-
mer festival at the home, 5000 West
River Boulevard, on Sunday, July II,
to which all friends of the institution
are invited.
The program will commence at 2:30
in the afternoon when the president,
Martin Nelson, will bid welcome and
musical entertainment will be pro-
vided. Attorney A. K. Staining of St.
Paul, will be the principal speaker in
the afternoon. Dinner will be served
from to o'clock.
The evening program will COM
mence at o'clock at which time the
Rev. Chr. Justesen and the Rev. J. C.
Aaberg will speak. Violin and piano
music as we'll as singing will also
be on the evening program. Mrs.
Meta L. Lillienskiold, secretary of the
home, announces that the program
will be broadcast over WCCO.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-07-09
ABRIDGED NEWS
CLIPPINGS FROM
OTHER PAPERS

Hfnckley-The band here held an
open air concert Wednesday evening
of last week and was enjoyed by a
very large attendance. A similar con-
cert will be staged each week under
the sponsorship of various merchants.
. Pine City-The Pokegama ball team
defeated the team from Rush City at
the fair grounds here Sunday, June
81. The score was Is to 8. Rock
Lake defeated Henriette in a game on
the Buckley diamond on the same day
by score of 10 to 3. The two teams
played to tie two weeks before.
Pine City Staying at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Davis after hav-
ing come to Minnesota with a broth
er of Mr.. Davis from California, Roy
Sanderson ransacked the house and
took sos and other articles while the
family was in the city, and then hired
a neighbor to take him to Duluth
Tuesday of last week. He was soon
apprehended and returned to Pine
City where he will be tried.
Moose Lake-The local baseball
team lost to the House of David team
recently by score of 16 to s. Os-
good for the locals batted out three
base hit to provide the greatest thrill
furnished by the local team.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-07-09
ASKOV PEOPLE WILL
PICNIC AT JAY COOKE

The Young Peoples society is spon-
soring a picnic at Jay Cooke State
Park Sunday, July ~. Since there
is no church that day it is decided
to make day of it and in this event
the committee in charge of arrange
ments has decided that all with a
desire to go will meet at the church
at a. m. where the cars will form
line to leave at $50. 1t is requested
that any one having space for an
extra passenger or two or on the
other hand have no way of getting
there will please notify Hans Mos
back and the committee will try to
make arrangements so that all will
be able to go. The park is spacious
and will afford abundance of room
so that all those going can take along
the whole family, both young and old
1t has been suggested that the cars
to be used on the trip shall be dec
Grated with flags, buntings, or what
have you? Everyone should be pre-
pared for good time.
1Hc OcI uldH OAHU uoS pIOLulScu "
be on hand as will the boys quartet
and other entertainment features. II
others have any form of entertain
ment bring it along, says the COM
mittee.
Now for the eats. Here is the
menu - fried chicken, sandwiches
cake, cream for coffee, salad, pickles
and any other edibles you might wish
to bring. The plans are to gather all
the food at lunch time and serve it
cafeteria style. Coffee will be served
at the park. The committee suggests
that each family or group will bring
enough food along for themselves and
one or two more. If there is any
doubt as to what to bring then call
either Mrs. A. Henriksen or Miss Val
borg Justesen as it cannot be expected
that each family can bring a supply
of each kind of food. All are invited
not one should be left at home that
desires to make the trip and don't
wear the best clothes as the country
is rough. If any one desires any
further information or has any sug-
gestions to make, then get in touch
with either of the committee, A. Hen
riksen, Mrs. A. Henriksen, Valborg
Justesen or Hans Mosbak.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-07-09
USE BORAX TO DRIVE
AWAY SUMMER PESTS

A bulletin distributed by the United
States Department of Agriculture sug-
gests the effective use of borax to
Danish reaches, water bugs, ants and
other troublesome summer pests.
Warm weather and dampness have a
tendency to encourage many kinds of
insect pests and residents of Pine
county have had their share of bother
this spring and summer.
The simplest method is to wash the
cupboards, woodwork, and likely
haunts, with solution of warm water
and common borax (about two table
spoons of Borax to a quart of warm
water); then sprinkle the dry pow
dered borax in the back of pantry
shelves, behind baseboards and around
the kitchen sink. A few applications.
is all that is necessary to immediate
ly drive away the pests.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-07-09

Abel Thompson and M. LaPage of
Rochester, visited over the Fourth at
the Jens Arnbal home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Miller and Miss
Ellen visited in West Denmark, Wis.
over Saturday and Sunday.
Enrico Bjerre of Des Moines, Iowa.
was here over the weekend for a
visit at the A. Gravesen home.
The Rev. A. E. Frost and family
plan to leave today for Mile Laos
lake where they expect to remain a
week or more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Swanson OF
Davenport, Iowa, came to Askov yes
terday for a visit at the home of her
sister, Mrs. ]. C. Jensen.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Jensen and little
son of Minneapolis, visited with
friends and relatives here over the
Fourth.
Ralph, Harold and Miss Vera John
sen and Miss Erma Clegg motored to
Glenwood Wednesday of last week for
weeks visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Axel Birkholm and
children visited with relatives In
the West Denmark, Wis, neighbor-
hood over the Fourth.
Hedge B. Kilstofte bought new
Ford Victoria coupe from the Askov
Motor Co., Friday, trading in his
coach on the deal. The coach was
sold right away to o. r. Keller.
Chris T. Christensen and family OF
Chicago, are here for visit with
relatives and friends. Chris Thue'
as he is better known, was formerly
drayman in Askov.
DR.. Ejyind Fenger, Minneapolis.
visited at the home of his mother,
Mrs. P. N. Fenger, Saturday and Sun
day. Mrs. Fenger, Jr., who had come
here some days earlier, accompanied
her husband home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Lowe and
friend, ROLAND Stevenson, and Mr..
and Mrs. Eiler Fisher and Harold
Fisher, all of Minneapolis, came here
Friday and visited over the Fourth at
the Bertel Fisher home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-07-09
ROMANTIC APPEAL is THE
HIGHLIGHT OF GALL QUIET
ON THE WESTERN FRONT
advance Story

Cali Quiet on the Western Front"
the Universal perturbation of Erich
Maria Remarque's masterpiece, is
primarily the story of youth-the
youth of all nations-in war. Even
in the midst of war, youth does not
forget romance. So in the master
piece of Remarque, there is romance.
It is one of the great passages of the
book, and Universal has put the book
on the screen exactly as the author
wrote it. There is not scene in the
picture which is not in the book.
Readers of the book-and there
have been ten million of them-will
recall the canal-swimming incident,
when the schoolboy soldiers swim
across to the laughing girls on the
other side for a midnight rendezvous,
and Paul Banner, the hero, believes
himself actually in love.
This sequence in the picture has
been filmed by Universal with all the
care and effort which went into the
making of the other sequences in this
super production. the scenes were
made at Venice, Calf. A canal half a
mile in length, 40 feet wide and Is
feet in depth, crossed by a stone
bridge patrolled by sentries and sur
rounded with typical French cottages
and a village settlement, was built
This portion of the picture, which
shows the lighter side of war, is de-
clared to be one of the most delight
full romantic interludes ever seen on
the screen.
"All Quiet On The Western Front"
which comes to the New Theatre
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
numbers in its cast remarkable ar
ray of players. Louis Wolheim, Lewis
Ayres and John Wray head the fea-
tured players, among whom also are
Raymond Griffith, George "Slim" Sum-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-07-09
PARTRIDGE TOWN
BOARD PROCEEDINGS
July 3, 1881.


Regular town meeting in the town
hall at Askov on this day. All men,
bers present. There was very little
business except allowing and paying
bills, of which there were a number
The board also journeyed out to in
spect some road building that was be-
ing done. Bills paid numbering from
1916 to 110S inclusive read as follows:
Theo. c. Jensen, moving rock --$17.50
Carl Dixen, moving rock -- 2O.75
Nels P. Petersen, dragging --- HOO
L. A. Paulsen, road work ----- $50
Erling Nielsen, moving rock - S25
D. j. Adolphsen, dragging and
digging ditch ----------- AIS
Otto Jensen, moving rock $50 7.5O
Carl Miller, dynamite, caps, and
fuse ------------------------4 1928
]. ]. Martin. moving rock and
putting in culverts ------ 3175
Albert Petersen, moving rock,
scraping, putting in culvert- $500
Chris Hansen, overseeing road
work 1850
Helvig Serritslev, moving rock 1880
Henry Jensen, moving rock and
scraping 21.5O
Lawrence johnson, dragging 14.25
Peter Johansen, dragging. --- 400
Hans Nielsen, moving rock and
blasting $50
Bert Smith, moving rock ---- $50
Holger Dixen, moving rock and
scraping 2125
Mikael Petersen, dragging -- 9.25
Clarey Jensen, moving rock and
holding scraper ---- 1912
John S. Lundgren, moving rock 1925
Owe Hermansen, dragging --- 700
Arnold Jensen, moving rock and
digging ditch -------------2 1880
Western Steel Products Co., Gull
verts .16
American Publishing Co., ad = .25
Albert Thomson, road work 80 1926
N. c. Petersen town services 500
Chris. Frederiksen, town serv-
ICES 6.OO
Fred F. Hansen, town services 600
Anton Gravesen, insurance - 52.76
julius Slot, assessing ------132.S 80
Andrew Marudas, road grading 300. 90
G. Flint, town services S.O4
On motion carried, meeting ad-
journed.
C. FLINT, Clerk.
Want ads buy and sell.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-07-09

merville, William Blackwell, Walter
Browne Rogers, Russell Gleason, Scott
Kolk, Ben Alexander and Owen
Davis, Jr.
In the romantic canal swimming
scenes the French girls are portrayed
by Yola D'Avril, Renee Damonde, and
Poupee Androit.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-06-29
Retail Sales In Texas

Bascom N. Timmons is a very accurate Washington
correspondent. He keeps his eyes on Texas news for
Southwestern newspapers. His latest is that retail sales
in Texas reached the high total Of S2,O74, l64.544, dur
ing 1929 giving the Lone Star state the seventh rank
ing position in the country. According to Correspond
ent Tintmons this was approximately one twenty
fifth Of the entire retail business done in the AZ
states and District Of Columbia during that year
Figures are those issued by the department of COM
merce and the total for the United States was more
than s5O,OO0.O00,O 1000. States outranking Texas in the
order named were New York. Pennsylvania. nlionis
California, Ohio and Michigan. Michigan led al "a
states in average sales per store. Regardless of this
the figures show Texas TO be one Of the great retail
districts Of America.