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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-22
Finlayson School Notes

This week our success in the Eng
lish Essentials contest and the forth
coming stunt night are the big news
items.
Returns received Monday show that
our upper classmen took second in
their test and the freshmen also took
second on their test. This is the first
of a series of three tests. Schools
throughout the Northwest are interest
ed in this contest.
Stunt night with it's program, pop
corn, guessing contests, skill stands,
ETC., will furnish local talent enter
tainment for our community Friday.
This is an affair of long standing in
Finlayson. Going to it is a good
habit. 1t is one of those things that
you want to say you attended.
Workmen are putting our basketball
hall into playing condition. Coach
Skamser says practice will be hard
work for his green team.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-22
GRONiNGEN

Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Nystrom and
family motored to Minneapolis Tues
day.
Harland Haglin and A. Adolphson
of Duluth, came here Saturday morn
ing to do some hunting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Anderson and
family spent few days in Mime
apolis last week.
Mr.. lombard and Arnold left We'd
nesday of last week for a hunting
camp near Pine City.
A. C.. Haglin and Ben Nelson drove
here Saturday afternoon from Duluth.
They returned Tuesday afternoon.
Helen Peterson returned Monday
morning, after a few days visit at her
home at Meadow Lawn.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nelson of Rut-
ledge, visited at the Ben Nelson home
last Thursday. They left Saturday
for International Falls, and will visit
at Motley on the return trip.
Mrs. Charles Schwartz and Mrs.
Walter Schwartz visited at the John
Bloom home Wednesday afternoon Of
last week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-22
POKEGAMA

Miss Ella Bergwick visited at the
ernoOn.
Rev. and Mrs. John Parish from
Pine City, called at the Hedln and
Gardner homes Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Baker and
SON called at the Hedin home Satur-
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Hedin and son,
Robert, visited at the Herman Opsahl
home Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Reed and son,
Donald, visited the Zimbrick home in
Hinckley Sunday.
Joe Pitka is the owner of a 1928
Model A Ford.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-22
OGEMA

Carl Frenn from Red Wing. and
three of his neighbors, were staying
at the Ted Benson home while hunt
ing here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rude Stievner from
Wisconsin were visiting at the Ted
Benson home Sunday.
Miss Virginia Benson and friend
from Sturgeon Lake, called at her
home Sunday afternoon.
Bud Ryan went to Webster to the
dance Saturday night.
Tom Lynch and four of his friends
from Belle PLANE, and John Ryan,
Clyde Bush, Harold Brittion and Clar-
ence Weber from GAINESVILLE, visited
at T. J. Ryan's while hunting. They
returned to their homes Saturday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-22
WEST ROCK

Mr.. and Mrs. Hamlet Johnson and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Axel Johnson
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie Pc
terson and family, and Anna and
Helen Johnson helped Mrs. Emil An
derson celebrate her birthday Sat-
urday evening.
Mrs. Isaac Mattson visited with
Mrs. Fred Freeman Monday.
Mrs. c. E. Carlson and daughters
called on Mrs. Isaac Mattson Monday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. v. Holmberg visited
at Fritz Swanson's Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Gotfrey Anderson and Robert
were Friday evening visitors at Theo-
dore Thompson's.
Matz Peterson is still very i'll at
his home here.
Rev. BlomquiSt was a dinner guest
at Ellis Carlson's at Clint Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Mattson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Lisk and Lenard
helped Mrs. Milton Olson celebrate
her birthday Tuesday evening of last
week.
Rev. and Mrs. Swanson and Char
lene spent from Tuesday until Friday
in the Cities.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Carlson, Leona,
Harvey and Mylo, were Tuesday eve
ming visitors at Eric Holmberg's.
Mrs. Walter Berg, accompanied Rev
and Mrs. Swanson and Charlene Fri
day to Denham. where she spoke at
a Young Peoples meeting in the eve
ming.
Miss Blanche Rogers of Finlayson
and Mrs. Algot Mattson and baby of
Pine City, were Tuesday afternoon
visitors at C. E. Carlson's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Lyden and
children motored here from Mime
apolis Tuesday evening and visited at
the Eric Holmberg home. They re-
turned home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Peterson and
Doris of Chisago City, were Sunday
dinner guests at the Theodore Thomp-
son home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Streed, Mrs. John
Streed and Miss Julia Streed, all of
Mora, spent Friday at Isaac Mattson's
Mrs. Conrad Lyden and children,
and Mrs. Eric Holmberg and children
were Wednesday afternoon visitors
last week at the C. E. Carlson home.
A party was held for Mrs. Conrad
Lyden at the Eric Holmberg home
Friday afternoon.
The Grasston male chorus will give
a concert at the West Rock M. E.
churh Friday evening, Nov. %. Free
will offering and refreshments will
be served following the program.
Rev. and Mrs. Swanson and Char
lene and Rev. Blomquist were Satur-
day evening visitors at Theodore
Thompson's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eric Holmberg, Roger
and Carol, Mr.. and MRS. Conrad Lyden
and children and Mr.. and Mrs. Lud-
wig Johnson, Richard and Virgil, we're
Saturday evening visitors at c. 4.
Carlsons.
Mrs. Godfrey Anderson spent Mon
day with Miss Hilma Carlson.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-22
Teaching Tidiness.

Mayor never saw the park lit
tered so with paper as it is this morn
ing. How do you account for it?
superintendent park commits
sioner had leaflets distributed yester-
day asking people not to throw paper
about.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-22
(From Another Correspondent

Church services will be held Sun
day, Nov. 25, in the morning at $50.
You are all welcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Schwartz called 1T
the S. Haglin home Sunday.
Mildred Swanson spent the week.
end with her mother at Bass Lake.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-22
(FrOm Another Correspondent

The Farmer-Labor club of Clover
Ogema will hold its regular monthly
meeting at Ogema hall Saturday eve
ming, Nov. "a. After the business
meeting cards will be played and
lunch served as usual. Everybody is
welcome.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Stulen and
Adolph Nyman spent several days Of
last week visiting in Brainerd.
E. o. Knutson, in company with
two of his brothers-in-law, all Of Min
neapolis, were guests at the f. II.
Irons home several days during hunt
ing season. Mr.. Knutson is an uncle
of Mrs. Irons.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-11-22

Motorists Friend: 81 say, what was
that place we just whizzed through"
MotOrist: winchester"
Friend: WAS it? Good! l always
wanted to see Winchester"
Evening star., 1934-10-07
Bankers Puzzled by Idle Funds,
Long-Term Loans, u. S. Bonds

They still look at all Of our 120-day
paper as long-term loans"
when will merchants borrow for
two years or more?" asked another
banker. The average manufacturer
and merchant is not thinking in
terms of years. One, a good credit
risk, told me today, 'nobody's guess
Is good enough to tell me what can
happen over the next six months, SO
why should anybody tell me what tc
do over the next two years?'
Il remember when tanners used to
buy hides several years ahead. None
of our customers today are buying
hides more than six months in ad-
vance of prospective use. Naturally,
they are seeking only short-term
loans, though our knowledge Of them
would make us willing to extend them
credit for year or longer.
"Just try to tell the average bank
examiner that purchase of a years
supplies is not speculation. Try to
make the bank examiner see that
raw materials are needed for long
term manufacturing plans"
(Copyright. 19341
Evening star., 1934-10-07
RET00LING INCREASES
TOLEDO SCALE ACCURACY
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TOLEDO, October 6.-Accuracy to a
degree far higher than anything pre-
viouSly recorded in human history has
been obtained in mass production by
American industrial workers. Retool-
ing by the Toledo Scale Co. has been
responsible for precision to half
millionth of an inch.
This accuracy means that while the
scale platform travels, in the act of
weighing, a two-thousandth of an
inch, or two-thirds the thickness of a
human hair. the indicator hand moves
feet, or 10000 times as far.
This makes possible precision far
finer than Government tolerances and
a new high mark in quantity produc-
tion.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
Wheat Fluctuations Bring
M0ue for Canadian Probe

operations instead of a tremendous
loss, as was expected year or two
ago.
Meantime, contrasts have been
drawn between the restrictions under
which the Chicago Board of Trade
operates and the free and open market
at Winnipeg. On Monday, however,
Mr. Mcfarland threw a bombshell.
He wanted to know where the heavy
selling Of wheat futures was coming
from and intimated that an investiga-
ton of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange
would be in order. From his state
ment it was concluded that the Ca
madam government would not be out
of the market as soon as expected
and that restrictions might be placed
on the Winnipeg market, bringing it
more III line with Chicago conditions.
Mr.. McFarland's contention was
that, while the Canadian government
was stabiliZing wheat prices for the
benefit of the Western farmers, trad
ers in alien countries were engaged
in a heavy selling movement. Cabinet
sessions and meetings of the Winnipeg
Grain Exchange followed the McFar-
land statement. and the Winnipeg pit
reflected the turmoil.
(Copyright 1884 by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc.)
Evening star., 1934-10-07
Brokers Await
Clearer Idea of
Market Rulings
Special Dispatch to The Star.

NEW YORK, October 6-Leader-
ship In the stock market is expected
at an early date, but this probably
will not appear until the large inter-
ests heretofore active in stocks prior
to Government supervision get a
clearer idea of the official regulations
on market operations from the Fed
eral ruling body.
The market has been lacking lead
ership since last Spring. One large
interest, heretofore active, sees no rea-
son at present to risk large sums in
the market. He points out that even
we're he lucky, the Government would
take large part of his profit away
from him in taxes. However, should
business exhibit a decided recovery
there is little doubt that the big fell
lows would buy stocks on a large scale.
The decrease of SIS 100000 in brok-
ers' loans for the week ended October
3 marks the eleventh decline in the
past II weeks. The loan total is now
down to the lowest since the week of
December 6, 1888, and reflects the abb
sence Of the public from speculation.
(Copyright 1884 by the North American
NewSpape Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1934-10-07
PRICES HOLD FIRM
ON D. C. EXCHANGE
Potomac Power Issue at 1884
High Mark as Saturday Ses-
sions Are Resumed,

Prices were strong on the Wash
ington Stock Exchange yesterday
when Saturday sessions were resumed
after the usual Summer suspension.
Potomac Electric Power SIG per cent
preferred stock sold at ia, the high
price for the present year, which was
reached recently.
Washington Railway g. Electric
preferred was also strong. two To-
share lots moving at 1oO14, which is
within a quarter point of the highest
mark al which this stock has sold in
1884. Mergenthaler Linotype moved
at 2124.
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat
Co stock came out at n, same as
other recent sales. The only bank
stock appearing during the session
was Liberty National, which sold at
rs, the same quotation as recorded
earlier in the week.
Washington Gas IS, series B, fig
ured in a baby bond sale at 103,
same as other recent transfers. Bid
and asked quotations on other leading
issues were unchanged.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
FOREIGN EXCHANGES
NARROW AND DULL
Dollar Unchanged at London
Pound Eases IA of Cent at
New York Later.

BY the Associated Press.
Foreign exchanges were quiet and
showed no important change in terms
of the dollar yesterday.
In London the dollar held un-
changed throughout the brief session
and closed at 1924 to the pound
sterling. In New York the British
unit yielded "a of a cent in later trad
ing at $4.921a.
In Paris the dollar closed at an
equivalent of $685. cents to the franc
and in New York the French unit was
.0OA of q cent lower at 6.63A cents.
Bar gold declined 1 penny to 142
shillings pence in the London mar
ket (S35.0D a fine ounce, at which
price approximately $6o5,467 was
purchased.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
BY r. p. WEBER,
Financial Editor, Toronto Telegra


TORONTO, Ontario, October g.
Canadian speculative interest
switched to wheat this week
l. when John I. Mcfarland, gen.
eral manager of the Canadian
Wheat Pools central selling agency,
reported to Premier Bennett that there
was something unusual going on in
the Winnipeg wheat market.
So far as wheat is concerned, Mr..
Mcfarland is the Canadian govern
ment, as he was the man chosen to
save the situation when the wheat pool
experiment collapsed. The figures
have never been made public, but it is
estimated that Mr.. Mcfarland bought
over 150, 1000, 900 bushels for the gov
ernment to save prices from demoral-
ization. In the last year or two this
amount has been added to or light
ened, as the market permitted, but it
was the Canadian government that
was providing the hedging facilities
and price stabilization.
Then came this years better price
structure and, with it, predictions that
the government would be out Of the
market by the end of the year and
realize substantial profit on its wheat
Evening star., 1934-10-07


Lawson. Washington Loan & Trust
Co.; Paul J. Seltzer, American Secur-
ity & Trust Co., and Alice Whitton,
First National Bank, Alexandria.
Mr.. Schreiner has been very active
in the public speaking and debate
work of Washington Chapter for a
number of years and was the first
representative of the chapter to par
ticipate in the finals of the A. P.
Giannini Public Speaking Contest,
which is held each year at the annual
convention of the institute. He is
also graduate of the chapter and has
successfully completed most of the ad-
vanced courses. In addition, he has
served on the Board of Governors
for several terms and has been chair
man and a member of the various
committees.
Considerable interest is being shown
in this particular class in the first
semester and it is confidently expected
that this years class will be one of
the best held in recent years, from a
standpoint OF numbers and enthu-
siaSm.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
2YEAR PEAK IS SET.
BY YBU|LD|NGL
AUGUST Total Shows Gain of
43 Per Cent Over Last
Years Level.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 6.-Volume OF
building and loan association loans
during August was the best for, that
month in three years, reports to the
United States Building g. Loan
League showed today.
In comparison with last year, the
local institutions reports showed a
43 per cent increase in August loans
to home owners. Last years figures
represented an 18 per cent decline
from 1882 in the lending operations of
the same associations.
Morton Bodflsh, executive vice
president of the league, said this loan
showing indicates better grounds for
optimism than has prevailed at any
time since the Spring months. The
August, 1884, lending figures reverse
the verdict of July, 1884, when the
building and loan associations lend
ing was about even with their July,
1888, operations, he said.
Based on survey of prospects Tor
better real estate sentiment conducted
by the league, Bodfish predicted in
vestmentS in real estate will be from
10 to 20 per cent greater during the
coming year than in the last II
months.
The noteworthy pickup in August
credit this year points not only to
the greater volume of money available
in the associations to lend, but also
to a hopeful increase in the loan de-
mand which alone can give utility to
such available money" Bodflsh said.
'It has been true for the last three
years that August figures in lending
were somewhat higher than those for
July, but this year there seems to
nave been an upsweep in home owner
loans between Midsummer and late
Summer which has not been seen be-
fore"
Evening star., 1934-10-07
CREDIT MEN SEE
INITIATION TREND
GAINING HEADWAY
Thirty Per Cent of Firms
Increasing inventories,
Survey Reveals.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK October 6.-The pos
sibilities of initiation are growing. That
is the belief of 80 per cent of the mem
bership of the National Association Of
Credit Men which comprises 10000 in
dustrial, wholesaling, and banking
concerns throughout the country. This
expression of opinion is part Of sur
vey Just completed and released yes
terday by Henry H. Heimann, execu-
tive manager of the National Associa-
ton of Credit Men.
The survey was in charge of the
Board of Directors of the association,
who number % and represent various
sections of the United States. In
order to make the survey representa-
tives of a cross section of American
business, each director contacted the
membership in his territory.
Divided Geographically.
In connection with the opinion on
the possibilities of imitation, it was
significant that the entire Far West
and the South were unanimous in be-
lieving that initiation possibilities are
growing. The negative side, repre-
senting the 10 per cent, were from
business executives in the East and
Central sections.
Replying to the question as to what
the various business enterprises were
doing to hedge" against possible in
hation, so per cent indicated that they
were making no move whatsoever to
hedge" against imitation. Approx
mately so per cent admitted that they
were building up larger inventories.
Three per cent indicated that foreign
balances, when they arose out of
foreign transactions, were left abroad
and were not drawn down in American
funds
The significant feature of this Sec
ton of the QUESTIONABLE was the reali-
zation that at least 80 per cent of the
industries we're stocking up inventories.
The retention of foreign balances
abroad was likewise indicative of what
is a growing practice on the part of
those who have foreign business" MIR.
Heimann declared.
The larger inventories were more
Continued on Second Page)
Evening star., 1934-10-07
CLEARING HOUSE ISSUES
REPORT AT new YORK

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 6.-The week
ly statement of the New York Clearing
House shows:
Total surplus and undivided profits,
$155, 900 (decrease).
Total net demand deposits (average)
$12, 2,025, 900 Cncrease).
Time deposits (average), $3,176, 900
(increase).
Clearings week ending today, $2,-
906 $50 ,642.
Clearings week ending September 20,
$2,5e9, ,795,s21.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
MANHATTAN BUILDING
PERMITS DROP SHARPLY

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, october 6.-Building
permits filed in the Borough of Man
haitian, City of New York, in Septem-
Der were sharply lower than in the
preceding month, although the total
for the year so far remained more
than double of that in the compara-
tive period in 1888 During Septem-
Der permits were filed for buildings
involving $1,728,325, compared with
So. .881, 100 in August. For the year
to date the total expenditure involved
in new building amounts to S17,140,-
$50, compared with s8,309, $50 In the
first nine months last year,
Evening star., 1934-10-07

the First Nation
al Bank of Alex
andria, according
to an announce
ment made by
Walton L. San
derson, president
Of the local chap
ter vest er d ay.
Other members
of this commit
tee are:
j. Earl Nc
Geary, w. B.
HibbS g. Co.;
Frank u. Rodger,
Riggs N att OHal
Pov,ly. Harharf w
Evening star., 1934-10-07
SCHRE|NER HEADS
A. |. B. SPEAKING
Other Members of Debate
Committee Named for
Chapter Here.

The Public Speaking and Debate
Committee of Washington Chapter.
American Institute of Banking, will
pe headed by E. Wallace Schreiner. OF
Evening star., 1934-10-07
PIG IRON NEEDS MOUNT.

NEW YORK, October 6 P.-A
good back log of pig-iron buying is
believed to have been created as a re-
suit of restricted takings of the last
few months, coupled with a heavy
shrinkage of stocks in meters hands.
Evening star., 1934-10-07
7 YEW YORK, October g.
whats worrying you?" In
answering this question, sew
eral executives Of local bank

whats worrying your" In
answering this question, sew
i eral executives Of local bank
and trust companies usually
parried with three questions: How
can we make money on our idle
money? When can we make long
term commercial loans? What should
we do with our Government bond ac-
count?
Three banks which made profits
during the third quarter by increas-
ing their income, rather than reduc-
ing their outgo, did so through the
sale of their Government bonds, and
the use of such proceeds to American
business men. These banks admitted
that at the moment surplus idle
money was not one of their worries,
but they saw no prospects of making
longtime commercial loans.
President Roosevelt ought to seek
cooperation from banking exam
iners," suggested one banker. Bank
examiners, despite all the pleas for
freer credit, are stricter today than
they were at the start Of the year.
Evening star., 1934-10-07

Continued on Second Page.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-02
FRIDAY, MARCH ?, 1884
Commissioner Frederic M. Williams

Somehow or other the title of commits sioner still sticks to Frederic M. Williams, whose death Wednesday night ended career that has had few equals in this state. His death had been expected for some time Announcement of his resig nation few weeks back was an indica- tion that the man who had done so much to Gberalize the compensation laws of Connecticut was shortly to come before his Maker The esteem he was held in was amply attested to by the spontane- ous outpouring of sympathy and regret and the preparations made by the Bar of the city and state, not to mention state departments, to honor him in death.
 Ever since the compensation law was passed in Connecticut Commissioner Will Hams has been administering it in Water bury. He lived to see the original law amended and modernized so that it ranked with the best of compensation statutes. His rulings were always characterized by complete acquaintance with the subject at hand. It was seldom, if ever, that a Williams finding was overturned by Connecticut court. We don't suppose that many people realize that, were it not for his efforts, the police and firemen of the state today would not enjoy compensation benefits. He had this apparent injustice shown to him and proceeded to have it rectified.
 He was distinctly Connecticut prod uct, being born and brought up in New Preston and educated in Yale University. His entire life was spent in either Litch- field or New Haven counties. He came to Waterbury in 1914 after being named the first compensation commissioner in the state by the then governor, Simeon E. Baldwin, democrat. It is quite coin- cidence that his resignation, two weeks ago, was also rendered to a democratic governor. MT Williams himself was a republican in politics, although of recent years he did not engage actively in elec- tioneering. He will long be remembered by Waterbury, his adopted city.