Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-04-13
20 Year Residents of AskOU
Reach 5Oth Welded Milestone
Friends and NeighbOrs Fete Mr..
and Mrs. E. A. E. Ldage at
Community Gathering.

appropriate nOnOr was pdlQ TO one
of Askov's older couples Wednesday
evening in the d. B. S. hall when a
large number of neighbors and
friends both from the home commun-
ity and away gathered to observe the
golden wedding anniversary of Mr..
and Mrs. E. A. E. Laage Elaborate
plans had been laid for the occasion
and the program was carried out in
fitting fashion to make the event
memorable in the lives of the hon
ored couple. Festivities were spon-
sored by the d. S. S. Lodge and a
committee from this lodge worked
together with similar one from the
ID. B. S. Lodge.
Pretty programs were printed for
the occasion with the front cover an
nouncing the event printed in gold
bronze and the inside pages contain
ing the program and five songs which
were sung during the evening.
Born and Married i'm Denmark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laage were both born
| in Denmark, Mr.. Laage being born
on a farm called Annerup on June
| %, 1859 and Mrs. Laage at Odder.
July 3, 1857.
Mr.. Laage received his education
in the rural schools until he was
IA years old and afterward attended
evening school for time His father,
who kept a creamery, died when he
was II years of age and his mother
continued with the creamery for two
years following the fathers death,
when they moved to her old home at
Viborg, where young Laage stayed
until he was 20 years of age. He then
entered the Royal Guard where it was
| his duty with about 500 of the guard
soldiers to guard the Royal family
of King Christian TX. Mr.. Laage was
discharged from the guard in the fall
of 1881 and became employed in a
shop near Randers, where he met his
wife to be, Miss Frederikke Behr-
mann, for the first time. Her parents
lived at Odder where her father con-
Quoted a dry goods store.
On April II, 1883 the couple were
married and came directly to LaSalle,
ILL.,, where Mrs. Laage had brother
employed as foreman in a glass fac
tory. Mr.. Laage, who was never
without means of livelihood, i'm
mediately became employed at the
carpenter trade at, as he expresses,
the princely sum of S1.75 per day.
And to make certain that he earned
this money, he walked three miles
to and from work taking his noon
day lunch. Telling of those times,
Mr.. Laage fondly stated that Mrs.
Laage was the conservative cashier
of "Laage and Behrmann'' and at the
end of each month showed a neat
balance after she had accepted for
keeping the wage of her husband.
Liked Pioneering.
At about this time the general talk
was for young men to go west and
grow with the country and always
feeling the urge and loving the pio-
neering spirit of cooperation and
helpfulness to one another, Mr.. Laage
went to AlgOna, Iowa, in the spring
of 1884 to investigate and look up a
location. He returned to LaSalle
soon and took Mrs. Laage to a new
home at AlgOna, where he again en-
gagged in the carpenter trade. In the
fall of the same year they purchased
a 100 acre farm for $4,000 and moved
onto same where they resided for
about a year and a half until forced
by sickness they had to make other
arrangements, and moved back to
Algona. Then in the winter of 1890,
they with their only two sons, An
thOny, born in 1885, and Oscar, born
in 1888, made trip to their native
land, Denmark, where they spent the
winter.
Upon returning to this country in
the spring of 1891, they purchased
a general store at Sexton, Iowa, which
they operated a short time until the
advent of the Illinois Central Rail-
road into Algona. With foresight Mr..
Laage saw that this situation would
spoil the business of the store at Sex
ton and therefore sold out and in
vested in land near Osakis, Mimi.
Take Up Minnesota Residence.
1t was in 1902 that they purchased
the 400 acres of Minnesota land and
this land still remains in the family
their two sons owning and farming it.
While a resident of Osakis, Mr.. Laage
was active in civic affairs, being for
several years mayor of the village
and serving some time on the school
board He was one of the founders
and a director for several years of
the First National Bank there. After
residing there for IL years Mr.. and
Mrs. Laage came to Askov in 1913,
where they built nice residence in
the east part of the village where
they have resided since.
Mr.. Laage is one of the directors
land an appraiser of the Pine County
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and is
hale and hearty, carrying his "a years
with youthful ease. Mrs. Laage. while