Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-03-10
ASKOV

baby boy arrived at the nome OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Petersen (wesD
early Friday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig Madsen visited
with relatives and friends in Superior
Saturday and Sunday.
Anker NJ. Simonsen, Manford Mel
son, Thorvald Andersen and Bennett
Larsen were callers in the Twin Cities
last Thursday.
Fritz Kelley, near Danbury, expert
enced a small fire loss in his home
Feb. &c, and was fortunate in being
able to eXtinguish it before it gained
any Roadway.
Sarah T. O'Meara, instructor in the
teacher training department in the
Sandstone schools, was Sunday aft
ernOon visitor at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herluf Rasmussen.
Enevold Smidt and family are busy
moving onto the farm just vacated by
the Karl X. Johansen family, which
they have rented. Niels Serritslev
and family are moving onto the Carl
Paulsen farm vacated by the Smidt
family.
Several members of the Askov
school board were in Sandstone Tues
day to meet with school board officials
from other parts of the county for the
purpose of comparing wages and sal
aries as we'll as other school board
matters, and discussing possible re-
auctions.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Clausen, Mrs. L.
P. Jacobsen, and Helvig Jacobsen
went to Minneapolis Wednesday to
visit there the balance of the week.
Mr.. Clausen will attend the annual
meeting of the Land O'Lakes Cream
cries as a delegate from the local
creamery.
Niels and Ollie Olesen had a small
fire loss in their farm home some
days ago. The fire originated in a
bed room and considerable clothing
was burned and slight damage done
to the building. There was no one
in the house at the time, but it was
discovered before it gained much
Roadway and fortunately extinguished.
The regular meeting and program
of the PIT. A. will be held in the
assembly room of the school house
Friday evening, March IS, at o'clock.
A program of singing, music and other
features has been arranged for enter
tainment, after which the usual lunch
will be served. How about a good
'big" crowd of those interested in p
T. A. work at this meeting?
Wagner Jensen, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Adolf Jensen, has recently moved
from Nysted, Nebr., to Tyler, Mimi,
where he has secured employment on
the same farm that he had worked
before. In a recent letter home Wag-
ner wrote that he was offered farm
work in Nebraska at S13 per month
for three months. Wagner took the
winter course at Nysted folk high
school, being there from Dec. 1 to
March 1 and relative to that states
that it was one of the best winters
he has ever experienced, being par
ticularly enthusiastic about the gym
nasium and the lectures by the Rev.
c. p. Hojberg.
The Wednesday noon train from the
cities was nearly three hours late on
account of having engine trouble, be-
ing laid up at Braham. The new gas
electric outfit has been a little behind
schedule almost every day and yester-
days delay was a fitting climax to the
first week of service on this line. The
old reliable steam engine had to he
brought back to the rescue and pulled
the disabled train on to Duluth. The
evening flyer from the cities was
also three hours behind schedule, but
that was caused by derailed freight
train. As consequence the evening
train did not throw off any mail at
AskOv. The bulk of the evening daily
papers arrive on that train and as
they did not come in before on the
forenoon train Thursday Goday) the
rural carriers were detained at the
post office until after the arrival of
that mail, and thus also get the Askov
American along.
Emery Nedegaard has been busy
recently fixing up the farm house just
across the road from Mrs. Jeppe So
rensen; has had the interior repaired
and painted and had also moved sew
eral pieces of furniture there and
some stoves, and in general getting
ready for occupancy. Yesterday fore
noon when Anker Simonsen came by
there on the mail route he noticed
smoke coming from a window He
drove in to get Albert Sorensen and
together they hustled over there and
extinguished a fire that was burning
in a partition around the stove pipe.
They felt confident they had done a
good job and were ready to leave, but
on getting outside they discovered that
the south side of the roof was a mass
of flames and beyond control, so they
hauled out what furniture there was
in the house. SimOnsgaards also no
ticed the flames and came to assist
with the salvage work. The house
was completely destroyed.
Mrs. John L. Madsen had an ex-
tremely fortunate escape from a gas
oline explosion in her home, just east