Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-08-23
ASKOV

neapolis, were here Sunday for
visit with relatives and friends.
DIR. A. l.. Arends returned the frs!
of the week from his vacation and il
again ready to serve the community.
Ansgar Clausen went to Minneapolis
last Thursday for weeks visit at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Walter
Luoma.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Miller ant
children of Withee, Wis, came the
first of the week for a few days visi!
with relatives and friends here.
A rather severe frost swept ovel
this territory the first nights of the
week and caused considerable damage
to crops in low places, particularly
potatoes.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Latvala and
daughter, Nancy, left Friday on two
weeks vacation trip during which
time they will visit at Gibbon and
other points.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Christensen and
two children, Bobby and Ruth, and
Miss Mamma Strandskov, all from Chi
cago, visited from Saturday till Tues
day at the home of Miss Ingegerd
Strandskov.
A newly organized local orchestra
of young talent will furnish the music
for the D. B. S. social Saturday eve
ming. They have adopted the name
of Reds Cavaliers" Saturday eve
ming will be their first public appear
ance.
Elsewhere in this issue there is de-
tailed information relative to the pic
mic being sponsored by the local
Farmer Holiday unit. Read the ar
ticle and be sure to attend their pic
mic in the park in Askov village, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ludwickson of
Walthill, Nebr.. came here several
days ago for visit at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. And. ]. Larsen. From
Saturday till Monday Mr.. and Mrs.
Larsen and their guests visited at
Luck, Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. E. Grandprey of
Owatonna, came here Monday for a
weeks visit at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. Hjalmar Petersen. IT.
ma Lou Petersen of Minneapolis, is
also guest at the Petersen home,
visiting with her cousin, Evelyn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chr. Sandahl and chill
dren and j. c. Jensen visited from
Saturday till Tuesday with friends
and relatives at Waterloo, Iowa, and
other points enroute. The special &C.
casion at Waterloo was a dual silver
wedding anniversary celebration.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sigurd Stovring and
son, Mrs. Chris. Frederiksen, Chris
TOPPER Nielsen, and Fred Jorgensen
left Monday morning for Canistota, S
D., where several of them will seek
medical aid. A visit with relatives
at Tyler was also planned on the trip
They expect to be gone about a week
The crawling crew on the new
highway west of town, mentioned else
where in this issue, had their machin
cry ready for operation last night and
expected to start this morning with
five dump trucks. The present sched-
ule calls for 20 hours out of each "a
stopping only to change crews and
take care of the machinery.
The committee in charge of Kettle
River Park is DESTROYS of getting some
old cast iron stove tops to be used for
tops for open fireplaces in the park.
If anyone has something that can be
used please advise either Hans Mos
back or Svend Petersen. The object
is not to get something that is in use,
but rather something that has been
discarded and is now in the scrap
pile. They want to build about a
dozen such fireplaces.
Saturday evening gives promise of
being full of activity on Main street
in Askov. On that evening the Askov
Band will give a short concert in con-
nection with the sale sponsored by the
local w. c. T. U. This latter organi-
cation is giving away a quilt and
some rugs on which there is now be-
ing sold numbers at the Askov Mer-
camille store. That same evening
they will also sell refreshments in adj
dition to numbers on the above ar
ticles. And as final climax there
will be the d. B. S. social at which
Reds Cavaliers" will furnish the
music.
Peter Linn, Carl Madsen and Mr..
and Mrs. o. r. Keller and children
Except Christian) returned Tuesday
from few days visit in Tyler, where
they attended the silver wedding an
niversary of Mr.. and Mrs. Johannes
Johansen, which was a pleasant social
event at the Johansen home where
approximately 200 friends and rela-
tives helped the honored couple make
the day memorable. The Askovites
observed among other things that
even though it is dry here it can not
compare with conditions around Ty-
Ter. In speaking to various farmers
there they learned that one party had
cut 16 acres of corn and put it in his
silo and when the job was done it had
filled just four feet. Another man
with an ordinary sized silo planned to
put fifty acres of corn in it and was
doubtful that it would fill it. Many
OF the beautiful old groves around the
farm homes and around "Danebod
have died out for lack of moisture.