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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07
BANGS DISEASE
CONTROL is GAINING
HEADWAY IN COUNTY

The control of Bangs disease which
is commonly called contagious abor-
tion is making real Roadway in Pine
county, according to DIR. w. A. Bill
lings, state extension veterinarian, who
in company with w. F. Hammargren,
county agent visited eighteen cooper
ators last week
Every one of the co-operators visited
had had their herd tested during the
winter and will have the second test
in August at which time several will
become approved herds. What prob
ably is an unusual record is that of
A. P. Jensen of Kettle River town, he
had a herd of 65 head and did not
have even a suspect Others having
clean herds were, Oscar Peterson.
Birch Creek township; H. S. Coolidge,
Birch Creek township, Alfred Chris
Jensen, Birch Creek township; Nyberg
Bros, Windemere township; and
George Schafer of Brook Park town.
ship.
Edward Vacinek of Pine City town.
ship, has made the most Roadway in
the elimination of this disease in his
herd. Mr.. Vacinek was the first farm
err in the county to undertake this
work under the direction of the State
Livestock Sanitary board. His first
test revealed fifty per cent infection
but indications are that he will have
all approved herd within a year.
w. F. Hammargren, county agent.
states that for every cent that the
farmers are now losing from tuber-
culosis in cattle they are losing one
dollar from contagious abortion. He
further states that there are several
farmers in the county that have lost
their entire herds from the disease
1t is hoped that through the demon
STATIONS on the twenty farms in the
different sections of the county will
prove that it is possible to control this
disease and consequently save the
dairy farmers thousands of dollars an
nually.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07
HARLIS


Hartley Pennison has gone to his
home in Minneapolis, after a three
days stay at Harris with his parents.
Louis Pryor went to Holyoke Mon
day.
Mrs., Geo. Sorenson and son, Walter,
called at the H. Zinter and Am Gull
liton homes Friday.
Mr.. Casadont and Beaudry of Nick
erson were in Harris Friday looking
over where the fire of week ago had
been burning.
Mr.. Corneliuson is agent at Harris
again.
Mrs. Geo. Sorenson called on Mrs.
Geo. Pennison one day last week.
Harvey and Oliver Sorenson visited
at their uncle's home in Wisconsin
Sunday.
Chas. Sorenson visited his brother,
AL, Tuesday.
Ed Trester is in Harris again, liv-
ing on the L. d. Harper place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Sorenson visited
at the Geo. Lund home in Black River
Tuesday.
The VIM. Barber family have left
Harris and this community figures it
has lost good family.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07
WASHINGTON LETTER
Continued from Page u


is derived from taxes imposed on pri-
vate workers would be highly incOn-
sistent in view of unemployment and
depression elsewhere. Yet, the mas
terminus" of politics persist in trot-
ting out selected issues knowing full
we'll that changes must be made a
year hence.
In all the talk of depression there
can be no escape from figures COM
piled this week by the Bureau of Pub
lie roads revealing an increase of
three and one half per cent in the
consumption of gasoline in 1880. The
revenue from this source totaled 495
million dollars, an increase of nearly
fifteen per cent over 1929. Officials
attribute the gain in tax revenues as
due in part to increased use of COM
mercial vehicles and passenger We
hicles. Ohio with a four cent a gal
Ion tax topped the list of states with
tax receipts in excess of 81 million.
The consumption was higher in New
York and California, but the tax rate
was lower than i'm Ohio. Yet, reports
from various states indicate that
other sources of revenue are sought
to meet the mounting costs of state
and municipal government. Most of
the legislatures sidestepped the tax
problem with Intellectual schemes this
year. Opinion is current that the
situation is growing more serious and
that the taxpayer in self-defense must
take more intimate interest in gov
ernmental affairs.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
CONTINUED from Page II


sailors mission. last week arrived in
this country from Norway, primarily
for the purpose of attending the dedi-
cation of new sailors church in
Philadelphia. While i'm the United
States Mr.. Vilhelmsen will inspect
the seamen's missions in Norfolk, Va,
Baltimore, Md, and New Orleans, La.
He will make trip to Minneapolis to
confer with the Rev. j. A. Aasgaard,
president of the Norwegian Lutheran
Church of America, apd on May %
will return to his home in Norway.
Gets New Vessel.
Captain X. A. Ahlin, master of the
Dollar Steamship lines vessel, "Pres-
ident Taft" has been appointed COM
mander of the newest Dollar liner,
President Coolidge" which has just
been completed at cost Of $4,000, 900.
Captain Ahlin is a native of Sweden
and has sailed for many years be-
tween the American Pacific coast and
ports in China and Japan. His sue
cessor aboard the president Taft"
is Captain Fred A. Anderson, likewise
Swede by birth.
Harald BOhr in America.
Harald Bohr, professor of mathe-
MATES at the University of Copen-
hagen, Denmark, has arrived in this
country in response to invitations
from number of universities where
he will deliver a series of lectures.
Professor Bohr enjoys almost the same
great measure of fame as his brother,
DR.. Niels Bohr, Nobel-prize winner,
and before the two Bohrs attained in
ternational scientific fame they were
widely known throughout Scandinavia
as very eminent football players.
Died I'm Chile.
Thorolf Henderson, for many years
a resident of various cities in the
United States, died few days ago in
Santiago, Chile, where he had been
consulting engineer for a mining
company. Mr.. Henderson = whose
name originally was Helgeson-was
born at Svelvik, Norway, sailed be-
fore the mast for a number of years,
finally arriving in the United States
where he experienced many interest
ing adventures before completing his
training as civil engineer. A few
years ago he was offered a very re-
sponsible and lucrative position in
Santiago where he became prominent
in engineering circles and where he
now has died, quite suddenly, reports
say.
Plans to Retire.
Greta Carlo, world famous notion
picture actress, has definitely an
nounced that she will retire soon from
work in the Hollywood studios. She
is planning to return to Sweden, her
native country, where she intends to
remain, and she adds to her an
nouncement the comment that she has
had enough of fame, and soon will have
enough money to live on for the rest
of her days. Pictures bore me-" Miss
Carlo says, ''I'm through-that is,
pretty soon, and then l won't be back"
Skjoldborg 20.
Johan Skjoldborg, Danish novelist,
was a guest of honor at a banquet
given in Denmark on the occasion of
his SEVENTEEN birthday anniversary
on April 81. Mr.. Skjoldborg became
known to Danish-Americans when he
toured the United States in 1911 and
lectured in practically every Danish
settlement from the Atlantic to the
Pacific; his fame as writer rests
upon the works in which he has de-
scribed the life of the Danish free
holder (Husmand).
The American is but 81 80 a year
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07
Proceedings of
County Board

Auditors Office, Pine City. Minnesota.
The Board of County Commissioners OF
Pine County. Minnesota. met TINS day
present.
ing that he with his lands described as
Range 81, be set off from School Dis
trict No. 81 to School District No: 81
came on for final hearing. The petition
hi bis i 1aSds to to-Wit :Ss Nw of SET. Section
from District No. 81 to District No: 80
came on for hearing, also; The School
Directing to setting off the said petit
TONERS. After hearing arguments from
both the School Board and the petition
ers. the petitions were on motion unani-
mously carried. granted.
Bids for one elevating grader were re-
ceived as follows:
Power Take-off.
Stroud Wood Rollers ............ .S24S000
Stroud Steel Rollers ............. $4,000
Austin Wood Rollers .............. 266500
Austin Steel Rollers ............... $4,000
Caterpillar Steel Rollers ........... 2341 90
Hy-Way Steel Rollers ............. 2520.35
Adams Steel Rollers .............. 2752.20
Engine Driven
Stroud Wood Rollers 4 cyl. ....... SSO50.0O
Stroud Steel Rollers CYL ........ $1,000
Austin Wood Rollers cyl. 10000
AuSllu Sl6Sl fSOiiSIS U oOOO.OO
Hy-Way Steel Rollers CYL =. ... 1901. 81
Hy-Way Steel Rollers cyl 80. 3451. ct
Adams Steel Rollers cyl . 3137. 20
Adams Steel Rollers cyl. ........ 3377.20
Caterpillar Steel Roller cyl. 80. 3041 90
On motion all bids were laid over for
further consideration.
County Commissioners Olson and Scott.
also Engineer Nickerson from Carlton
gard to State Aid Road No. IA on the
County line. Mr.. Forbes from the High
way Department was also present. The
object of this delegation was to find out
what was going to be done on said road
as Pine County had received an extra al
lotment from the State for said road. En-
gineer Jorgensen was instructed to pre-
pare plans for grading approximately
IA, commencing at NWA of Section s.
45-1S running easterly to Northeast cor
ner of Section 3-45-1S. Also plans for
crawling approximately four miles of said
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07

A bargain-American Want Ads, 1c
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The American is but $1.50 a year.
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To the Honorab o
Gentlemen:
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olominor haraon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
.1OOCOMMON ISSUES
DROP 1O4 PER CENT.
Same Stocks Stronger Dur
ing March Than April as
Oils Proved Weakest.

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE market
value of 100 representative common
stocks declined $2,366,5l8, 900, or 1914
per cent, in the month of April to 500
336, 247, 900, according to Frazier Jelke
81 Co. The same stocks declined $2,-
97.112.000, or "a per cent, in March,
and advanced 50 sos, 522, 600. or 1l,2 per
cent, in February. On December IT.,
1880, the 700 issues were appraised at
$l9,3S6, $40 900, while on August 80,
1929. the approximate peak Of the bull
market, the appraisal was $42,447,-
945 900.
In April each one OF the 10 sub.
groups constituting the index, declined,
the largest loss in dollars being $780,
296, 900 in the oils. The utilities drop
ped 3Ss,643, 900, and the rails, $272,-
81, 900.
On a percentage basis, the drop Of
PAT per cent In the amusement group
was the largest loss for the month. The
railroad equipment declined 1873 per
cent; the steels, 1853 per cent; the
chemicals, 141 per cent; the mines,
1875 per cent; the electrical equipments,
11,6 per cent; the oils, 1913 per cent;
the utilities, 1915 per cent; the foods,
81 per cent; the rails, TO per cent; the
motors, 68 per cent; the stores, Al per
cent. and the miscellaneous industriak,
4.6 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
ORDERS FOR LUMBER
PASS MILL PRODUCTION

After a one week break in which or
derS fell below the cut, new business
received at lumber mills during the
week ending April Is were again above
production, though by approximately 2
per cent only, it is indicated in tele-
graphic reports from 675 leading hard
wood and Softwood mills to the Nation
al Lumber Manufacturers Association.
Shipments from these mills equalled
their production for the week, which
amounted to 222,565, 900 feet. A week
earlier orders reported by the 772 mills
were 8 per cent under a combined pro-
duction of 226, 803,00 feet. Compare
son by identical mill figures of reports
for the latest week with those for the
equivalent period year ago shows
for softwoods, 438 mills. production 33
per cent less. shipments, IS per cent
less and orders 20 per cent less than for
the week in 1880; for hardwoods, 1873
mills, production. As per cent less, ship
mentS 80 per cent less, and orders 81
percent under the volume foMthe week
year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
PEOPLES DRUG SALES SHOW
SHARP FIRST QUARTER GAINS
Local Firm Now Controls
118 Stores in Eight States
and District.
Started in 1905-EmpIoyes
Number 1850 Are Cover
ed by Group Insurance.
BY BYRON WHITE.

PEOPLES Drug Stores, Inc, in its state
ment for the three-month period ended
March 81, 1881, reports net profits OF
Sl21 1863, compared with $92,598 for the
same period in 1880, showing an IN
crease Of $28,771. After providing for
dividends on the 61a per cent preferred
stock outstanding there remained So, 3O6
as earnings on the companys common
stock, or sc cents per share. This Is
comparable with $51,973 earned on the
common stock during the first quarter
Of 1880, or Al cents per share on tne
shares then outstanding.
The growth Of Peoples Drug stores,
now one Of the largest drug store chains
in the United States. during the past
year, when so many retail establish
ments suffered financial reverSeS, IS
shown in a. recent letter from Presi-
dent M. G. Gibbs to the stockholders.
He says, in part:
Company Has 11S Stores.
"on December 81. 1880. the company
was operating 118 retail stores, as COM
pared with 112 at January /. 1880,
net gain for the year of stores. Sales
at retail for the year amounted to $l6,-
756, 665. "a, as compared with sales for
the year 1929 of $15,543, 208.07. an in
crease of $l,216,457.87, or 1888 per cent.
met profit for the year after all
charges amounted to $671, 702 and
after providing for dividends on 24,25o
shares of preferred stock outstanding at
December 81, $780, there remains the
amount of $514,077 as the earnings on
the common stock, which is equal to
$4.12 per share on the shares outstand-
ing at December 81, $780,"
Since January, /, 1881, four new stores
have been onened-OYle in WASHINGTON
at 2616 Connecticut avenue, and the
others in Baltimore, Newport News, Va,
and Akron, Ohio.
The business has grown from one
store, founded by Mr.. Gibbs and an as
sociate in 1905 with a capital of $4,000
to an organization having net worth
of SIS, 536,531, and controlling 122 stores.
Recent Growth Most Rapid.
The company has experienced its
most remarkable expansion within the
last five years. On January !, 1925, the
corporation controlled only ID stores,
all located in the District of Columbia.
Since then 1t has grown into an organ
ization of 122 stores in eight States and
the District. The company now has "a
stores in washington, the other SO be-
ing located in Virginia, Maryland, Della
ware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
New Jersey and Tennessee. Including
executives, warehouse officials and per-
sonnet, altogether $50 persons are now
employed By Peoples.
A large addition to the Washington
and Office building was COM
pleted in 1880 and has contributed ma
terially to the efficient operation of the
business. The present Office and ware
house is situated on p street, First street
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
SEASONAL GAINS
NOTED IN SOUTH
Retail Sales Lower Than a
Year Ago in AtIanta-BuiId-
ing Increases.
Special Dispatch to The star.

ATLANTA, May 1.-The Sixth Fed
eral Reserve District Review says:
Seasonal increases in March are in
dicated in most of the available series
of business statistics for the sixth dis
trict. Outstanding Reserve Bank cred
it has continued to decline, and loans
by weekly reporting member banks in
selected cities of the district reached
on April the lowest point since August,
1924.
March sales by Al reporting stores in
the district averaged 25.8 per cent
greater than in February and So per
cent less than in March last year. For
the first three months of 1881, depart
ment store sales have averaged 10.2
per cent less than in the first quarter
of 1880. Wholesale trade increased SO
per cent in March, over February, but
was PAS per cent less than in March
a year ago. First quarter sales aver
aged 27.3 per cent smaller than In that
period last year. Sales Of life insurance
increased % per cent in March over
February, and were 22.7 per cent less
than in March, 1880. The gain from
February to March was double that
shown at the same time last year.
Building permits at 20 reporting cities
increased 27.3 per cent in March over
February, but were IS per cent less than
in March, 1880, which had the largest
total reported for any month since
May, 1929. Contract awards in the dis
trict as whole, however, declined less
than / per cent from February TO
March, and were only "a per cent
smaller than for March last year. Out
put Of pig iron in Alabama increased
each month since December, and in
March was the largest since August
last year.
The March report of Intentions to
Plant" issued by the United States De-
partment OF Agriculture, indicates that
on March l farmers in the district t.S-
tended TO plant larger acreages to nearly
all OF the staple crops, the exceptions
being an indicated decrease in acreages
planted TO potatoes in Florida, tobacco
in Florida and Georgia, and rice in
Louisiana. Cotton is not included in this
Intentions to Plant" report because OF
national prohibitory legislation. Pro-
spective consumption of fertilizer, md1-
Gated in sales Of tax tags, increased sub
stantialy in March over February, but
for the eight months Of the season have
averaged 81 per cent less than during
that part OF the preceding season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03
FIGHT ON GIFT TAX
IN CONGRESS SEEN
Recent Court Decision Set
Aside TWo-Year Provision
as Arbitrary.
BY JOHN F. MILLER.

A gift tax, higher inheritance taxes
and rise in surtaXes on those having
large incomes. That sums up the pro-
posalS so far made to take care of the
tax increases which most authorities
agree will have to be made by the next
Congress.
Tax experts predict that of these pro-
poSals the return of the gift tax, abol-
ished several years ago, is the one that
will be fought most bitterly.
Under a recent court decision the
Government was prevented from COL
lecting an estate tax on gifts of more
than $36, 900 made by John Wanna
maker less than two years prior to his
death, and Chief Justice Hughes, in the
opinion. indicated quite clearly that I'M
less the Government can show such
transfers are made with the specific
motive Of defeating the law, they will
not be held taxable by the Supreme
Court.
Law Changed In 1926.
The gifts referred to were made be-
fore 1926. In that year the law was
changed to provide that all transfers
made less than two years prior to death
shall be taxable-in other words, such
gifts win be presumed to have been
made in contemplation of death regard
however, has Just been held arbitrary
and invalid by two district courts, and
according to tax attorneys, those deci-
sionS are likely to be affirmed by the
Supreme Court.
There is only one way to take care
of the situation, many members of
Congress believe, and that is to i'm
pose tax on all gifts, no matter
when made. Millions of dollars have
49, 1@zk 49, HN<xr
tend, because Of transfers contaminated
for the express purpose of avoiding
death taxes. John D. Rockefeller and
Henry Ford are said to have disposed
of large part of their vast holdings
through gifts.
Great Britain'S Tax.
Great Britain collects more than
100000 900 annually in death taxes,
and since Americas national wealth
is four times as great we should be
able to make such a tax yield more
than a billion dollars a year, 1t Is
claimed
On the other hand, say opponents
of the gift tax, we are now spending
one-seventh of the. national income to
support Federal, State and local gov
ernments, and the proposed levy is
simply another scheme to add to that
burden. If higher taxes are necessary,
many levies that are sounder economi-
cally than the gift tax are available,
they assert. pointing out that tax
does not usually stay where it is put,
and that the shifting process is just
as detrimental to business as If the
tax were direct burden. The situa-
ton in Great Britain and other Euro
pean countries, with taxes that prac-
tically conf1scate capital, Is just the
thing that we want to avoid, they say.
(Copyright, 1870
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-03

unduly from the extreme protectionist
policy which agricultural interests have
succeeded in forcing on the country.
Holland and Scandinavia, two excellent
customers, will, industrialists declare,
retaliate.
Paris Generally UnimprOved.
Paris.-Greater seasonal activity has
brought the first reduction in registered
unemployment since the beginning of
the year. General conditions, however,
are unimproved.
Several coal mines have suspended
activity, notwithstanding recent wage
cuts amounting, in most cases, to 6
per cent. Price imitation has increased.
The costs of foodstuffs, in particular,
gained / per cent on the week, further
aggravating the difnculty of defiation
of wages and operating costs. The
sales tax revenues, an immediate In
dex of business turnover, were down
IT per cent, compared with 1880.
France Is developing an acute wheat
shortage. Seaboard mills claim a
shutdown will be necessary unless ade-
quate foreign supplies are admitted
promptly, for domestic reserves are
SUFFICIENT to cover only the needs Of
inland local mills. It was only six
months ago that the ministry of agri-
culture was urging farmers to with
hold grain from a glutted market. This
week the policy was reversed; a proc
lamation was issued urging immediate
marketing. And for the third time
within month the percentage Of for
eign grain admissible for mixing in
domestic flour was raised another 5
per cent, until 1t now totals Is per cent.
Reliable estimates Of the probable i'm
port requirements for the balance Of
the crop year are not yet available.
Increasing foreign trade deficits, the
low Spring tourist volume, reinveStment
of French funds abroad, plus the trans
fer of Spanish capital to London and
New York by way Of Paris. has COM
bined to depress the franc to the gold
export point against dollar, sterling and
Reichsnnark. exchange. .----..---.----.