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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-07-30
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
Charles J. Swanson. pastor.
Windemere M. E. Church.

Sunday, August 2-1O:30 a. M. United
Sunday school and morning service.
Denham M. E Church.
Sunday, August 2-2:30 p. m. Sunday
school; $3.50 p. M. afternoon service.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-07-30

Necessity is the argument of ty-
rants; it is the creed of slaves.-Wil-
liam Pitt.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-07-30
PROCEEDINGS OF
SCHOOL BOARD
Dist, No. 81.

School board meeting July 8, 1886.
All members were present except Mrs.
H. E. Johnson. The minutes of the
previous meeting were read and APP
proved as read.
On motion seconded and carried,
1t was decided to submit to the voters
at the annual meeting to be held
July Fl, 1886, the following proposal:
Shall the school board be authorized
to acquire additional ground west of
the present site.
The committee reported that Oscar
Peterson was elected at 500, Carl
Belling was hired at $100, and Rudy
Anderson was hired at $13O a month.
Moved and seconded that the COM
mittee's report be accepted. Motion
carried.
Moved, seconded and carried that
the salary of Earl Wilson be SIS per
month.
Moved, seconded and carried that
the salary of Chester WaletzkO be $50
per month. On motion carried, Ray
Nelson was elected bus driver for
three years at sos per month.
Moved, seconded and carried that
the lavatories be repaired and that
the superintendent and janitor make
the arrangements.
On motion carried Dr. w. C. Ehm-
Ike, Superintendent C. G. Aakhus and
M. L. Melberg were appointed as a
committee on teachers.
On motion carried, the board ad-
journed.
w. C. EHMKE, President.
H. NORTRUP, Clerk.
Board of audit meeting July II,
1896. ' 20
All members were present. The
minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved as read.
On motion seconded and carried,
the report of the auditing committee
that the clerks and treasurer's books
were found correct and balancing, was
accepted.
On motion seconded and carried
the board adjourned.
H. NORTRUP, Clerk.
The Washington times., 1936-01-09

to have kittens, always warm
the milk for her"
Aunt Nettie was nodding her
head, all three women were waV-
ing from the veranda.
"Take it easy" AdolphuS said.
''If I can get along without you I
guess the live stock'll have to
They'll be all right-Sure they
will"
CHAPTER TX
The car gathered speed.
They passed through the old
mining towns with crumbling
adobe and iron shutters, their an
cient grass and rose and poppy
overgrown burying grounds, their
aroma of dusty romance.
Now the rocky canyons were
passed, they were on the white
highway speeding past the low,
rounded hills, the color Of honey in
the afternoon sun. They passed
small speeding cars filled with slick
haired Filipino boys, moving from
one cannery to another, passed
pear orchards where unpicked fruit
lay rotting In golden waste on the
ground, passed little towns with
neat Stucco houses ana shady
lawns, passed hot dog stands, and
orange-juice stands, and now they
could smell the salt wind from the
bay.
There won't be much time for
dinner, Christie. Is there any place
you'd like to eat, speciality"
'No, II never cared much for
the city, dad"
"And I'm sending you to o big
ger city"
TT doesn't matter. III be all
right"
"sure you'll be all right. The
Palace?"
"That would be fun!" She tried
to be gay.
For few minutes she managed
it pretty well. The crowds, the
lights, the candles, the music.
Hmm. WhatTl you have? It
used to be crab and banana short
cake, but I S'pose you're too young
ladyfied for that now?"
''No, I'd love it"
'Now, would youP Well, then fix
it up nice, waiter, and make mine
baked hash an mashed 'taters and
stewed corn, and, waiter!-plain
white bread, no fancy rollS!"
"Well, haven't had anything
like this since-well, for a long
time," he said, pleased, when the
hash arrived.
He had started to say "since
Nettie came" They dropped their
eyes, each conscious that the other
understood.
I'm afraid you're goin' t. make
short work Of that cake II we
wanta be on hand when the train
goes"
I'm ready" she smiled.
She smiled at everything, at
everyone.
In the car again he said, IT hope
you won't be too lonely, Christie.
You'll meet some nice young ones
there. They tell me they're real
nice people there"
Nice people.
She saw Gene, his silver saddle
flashing in the sun .. Mrs. Platt's
parlor, with the history Of the
World War on its newspaper COW
cred walls She saw herself and
Gladys, arms entwined, going into
Fleury's General Store for ice
cream sticks and potato chips. q.
A sound, half giggle, half sob,
escaped her.
They were in the lighted sta
ton now, and all about them
people were saying good-by. Say
ing good-by, embracing, chatter
ing, laughing, crying, some Of
them.
LES see, you're car 80, lower
10, you'd best be getting on,
Christie. dang it! I mighta
gotten you a drawing room! I
clean forgot they had EN-"
"I don't care, Dad!"
''Well. If you should, you can
have the Pullman conductor fix
it up. Dang! I'd forget my head
If 'twasnt-"
'Truly I don't care."s
"Well, you got plenty Of
money!"
ooh yes, Dad"
'Well. take care O. yourself!"
(To Be Continued)
Copyright, 1885, BY King EeaturOS
RYndIc0tN ImOl
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
''LOve'S Litany''
Detrauded of Inheritance
Christine Fights Way
To Social Heights
WHAT HAS HAPPENED
Bu HAZEL LIVINGSTON

Christine Cooper II and Iovely is the daughter of the
rich and eccentric Adolphus Cooper Oo made has money
IN the Konde never speaks of the past and hates cities
While he dreams of the great things he @ do fof Christie
by and by she becomes secretly engaged to childhood
s0eethear Gene Dubois who promptly breaks her heart
to the city sOithout bidding Christie good-by.
Crushed at first by Genes seeming desertiOn Of her,
Christie feels better Vhen she receives letter and sent
mental poem from him. Aunt Nettie, AdoEphMs second ue
and Chrstes late mothers sister, returns from trip 0th
her daughters Isabelle and Adele Christie does not care
for Aunt Nette but tries to hide her feelings.
As to the gir she does not pretend to like them nor
they her, 1t said that Isabelle the de eVGs about 49,
but Christie could not believe that for lScoee 'sTt many
ueors older than Adele qOho blond and pretty and G0Gys
speaks of herself as GIRL
The Washington times., 1936-01-09
NOW READ ON

dad, never heard you talk like that|
"You never heard me talk that much Getn garruous IN
my old age Tanyrate, kept you here instead Away from
cities, sweet and safe"
She drew in her breath audibly
what say, Chrste?"
"Nothing-I didn't say did you change
vour rnindY"
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29
TOLERATION OF DISORDER

It is mystery how some people
can go on year after year living in
the midst of dirt and disorder. Some
of us would be extremely unhappy
in such scenes. Disorder conveys an
influence of encouragement. When
people clean up, remove disorder.
they look at life in a new and more
confident way.
If some people who maintain dis
orderly home grounds would have
grand clearing out of that stuff, and
make a firm resolve to keep it clear
ed out. their chances for success and
happiness would be improved. They
would feel more self respect as they
start out for the day. Their neigh
bors would view them with more re-
spect. The idea would spread that
they are energetic and achieving
folks. which always helps anybody
to make progress.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29
DECORATION DAY

The annual Memorial Day or Dec
oration Day, held to honor the sol
diers who served or died in all our
wars, is the modern expression of a
beautiful sentiment.
Flowers represent the crOwning
achievement of nature in her search
for beauty. She pours the most vi
tai nourishment of a plant into the
bright hue of the flower. So in the
act of self sacrifice in war, the SOL
dier pours out the most vital thing
in his body. his life blood. that he
may serve the country.
Stirring and pathetic scenes have
been witnessed in every locality
since this custom was established.
Once a year the surviving soldiers
would drop the labors and cares of
daily life. and assemble for this sac
red function. They presented
noble picture as they marched to the
burial grounds. AS they stepped
briskly off to a rhythmic march tune
you felt that nation that rested on
all that virile strength could not pos
sibly go down.
To the relatives and friends gath
cred for these ceremonies, the day
has been one of lofty pride and un-
utterable longing. They had reason
to feel that they had been elevated
by the pains of bereavement to a
place of high honor and dignity,
where they should always be the
subject of special affection. Yet the
human heart would go out in unap-
peased craving. and the wish that
this terrible separation might never
have come.
As the years have gone by. the
long line of stalwart men wearing
both the blue and the gray has thin
ned out. and only pathetic remnant
remains. We have new lines of Wig
orous young and middle aged men
who served in the Spanish and the
INVopld WsTss to- take their places. /
The country is still safe in the hands
of all this vigor and power. But it
must never forget or cease to love |
all who served and sacrificed in
these wars. who have died that we
might live.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29
aHOW SLEEP THE BRAvEqv

The above is the question which
the world has long asked about the
men who have died in its wars. We
may well ask it here today. as we
celebrate the nations Memorial Day
on May 80. Starting originally as
the memorial only for the men who
fell in the War between the States.
1t has become the time for remem-
bering all who have fallen in all our
wars.
How do they sleep. those loved
ones of our families and cities. who
have passed on after their heroic
labOrs? If in what we call the sleep
of death, they are conscious of what
proceeds in this life. they will in
quire very carefully how far we here
today are worthy of their tolls and
their great sacrifice.
Those men loved life as we'll as
we do. There was something to
them that was dearer than life, and
that was the patriotic cause to which
they gave themselves. They were
willing to take the awful chance of
death, to establish certain American
principles that seemed vital.
If to any extent we have forgotten
those principles. or if they no longer
are esteemed important by us, it
can't be that the brave sleep very
we'll. 1t may occur to them that their
sacrifice was not very profitable. if
those who came after do not appre-
ciate it, and are not willing to make
some sacrifices to preserve the
things for which they fought.
Even if our country has seemed to
wander for a time. to go astray from
its true principles. it has a way of
returning to those grand thoughts. |
to true Americanism. So we can pic
ture that the brave say to us from
their resting place, to have good |
cheer. and to toll and labor to pre-
serve the things for which they gave
their lives. They will have faith in |
us, if we do not have it in ourselves. |
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29
THE BONUS MONEY

The government is preparing to
pay out about s2,OOO,OOO,OOO in the
form of bonus to World War vet
Grams. Opinions have differed as to
whether that expenditure is wise or
called for. Whatever the final eff
feet will be. there is no doubt that
il will create for the time being
something of a boom here in Della
ware and everywhere else.
One of the most useful ways in
which large sums will be spent. will
be the payment of debts. Old debts
are a clog on the business system.
They take courage away from the
debtor, they tie mp the creditors
capital. so he can not lay in new
goods or improve his property. The
payment of big sum on debts will
be like removing from an automobile
motor the carbon that keeps that en-
gone from working freely.
The dollars thus poured out from
the government are not going to re-
main idle. Not many of them will
be salted away Such having would
be the best thing many families
could do. but the American people
are not very keen on saving now
They have denied themselves the
satisfaction of spending for nearly
seven years. Asking them to save
money now. is a good deal like tell
ing hungry man to go slow when
nice dinner is spread before him.
Is business ready to take full ad-
vantage of this new boom? Can it
provide all the things the bonus re-
cipients are prepared to buy? And
who is going to get the cream of this
new trade?
The hest of this trade will go to
the forms of business that reach out
for it most actively. The good ad-
vertisers will get a tremendous slice
of it. The prospective bonus recipi-
ents are reading the notices of
things they want to buy. Many of
them will know just what they want
to do with the money by the time
they get it.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29
BEAUTY AT HOME

People wander all over the world
in search of beauty. They spend
money on costly vacations. to see
famed beauty spots. This is all right
provided people do not spend more
money than they can afford.
Most of us are very limited in our
ability to spend money in these ways,
but we can always obtain beauty
without spending much. 1t can be
pproduced in our own home grounds,
our own back yards. When you
make fine garden of flowers. it has
all the elements of beauty. 1t can
give you as much satisfaction as if
you Travelled thousands of miles to
see some great wonder. 1t should
give you more satisfaction, since the
thing you produce yourself creates
the greatest thrills.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29

gested that the right to vote be taken
away from the people who fail to ex-
ercise that privilege.
AS this eminent lady says, the nom
voter is responsible for many of our
troubles. When the great causes of
progress or decline, of honor or cor
ruptiOn, are at stake, he remains en-
crossed in his private affairs, or for
gets there is an election. When the
trumpet call rings through the air,
for every good citizen to get out and
help save his country, the nOn-voter
was found asleep and didn't hear.
A good part of these folks are ex-
cellent citizens in other respects.
We need their wisdom. We need to
have them wake up and see the perils
that threaten the country. so they
shall rally to the flag and help us
stem the tide of evil. Cutting them
off the voting list might confirm
them in their desire not to be dis
tributed by these mighty issues.
What we need is a campaign to
convince these folks that it is their
duty to exercise the voting privilege.
We need organizations of citizens
going through their home towns.
with every non-voter. finding
put why he or she fails to vote, try
ing to rally such folks to the good
cause. We need lessons in every
school on the duty of voting, so the
1oung people should come out with
he idea that they should no more
'efuse to vote than they would re-
use to aid their country in time of
var.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29
HOUSTON

wedding bells rang out again on
Saturday morning, when Miss Hazel
Biggs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Biggs and William Davis.
son of Mrs. Laura Davis, were unit
ed in wedlOck by Rev. Stanley w.
Grant at Ocean View. The newly
weds will live at 800 West Ninth
street, Wilmington. Houston ex-
tends congratulations and a long
prosperous and happy life together.
John Benton Counselman cele-
brated his birthday anniversary on
Thursday. May 21.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Slaughter
and children were dinner guests on
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Ar
mOur.
Private Theodore ThistlewOOd of
the Marine Barracks at QuanticO,
Va, is home for a few days. On June
6 the Marines leave for the West
Coast to be gone two years.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. johnson
and Mrs. S. E. DickersOn who is
slowly cOnvalescing from a long i'll
ness, entertained Mrs. May H. Dick
e1son and Miss Elizabeth Rapalie of
Harrington on Thursday. May 21.
Miss Gladys ThistlewOod and
friends. John D. Kenney. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Wolf and son Junior Of
and Mr.. and Mrs. EN-
ory Webb were guests on Sunday of
Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill w. Thistle
wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Sharp. Sr.,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Sharp. Jr.,
we're the dinner guests on Sunday of
Mrs Amanda LOhand
Mrs. Josephine Capehart of Lin
coin was the guest of Mrs. Henry
Sapp on Tuesday.
Arthur Armour who suffered Sc
we're attack of pleurisy last week is
much improved at this writing.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29
NON.VnTERS

What can you do. here in Delaware
and elsewhere, with the great num-
ber Of people who could vote. but
refuse to do so, or who vote only
very rarely?
Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, past
president of the General Federation
Of Women's Clubs. said in a recent
address that the "non-voter is re-
sponsible for most Of the evils from
which the country suffers" She sug-
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29
MILFORD NECK

The Milford Neck Ladies Aid will
hold its monthly meeting in the
church on Friday evening, June 70
The program committee consists of
Mrs. Clarence Jester and Mrs. Frank
Deputy. The refreshment committee
consists of Mrs. Ira Sharp, Mrs.
Clayton Kirby, Mrs. Charles French,
Mrs. William Passwaters and Mrs.
Frisby Kirby. Come out. Everybody
welcome.
A Children's Day program is be-
ing prepared. It is to be held in the
Milford Neck NJ. e. Church grove on
Sunday, June IA. Come out and lelp
a good cause. Also enjoy a fine pro-
gram.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29

THE PERSON WHO can't say a
good word for his home town, may
some day want that home town to
say a good word for him.
Milford chronicle., 1936-05-29

YOUR HOME TOWN gives you
your living. Better help it live, by
spending your money at homer
The Fort Peck press., 1936-01-23

night hour knocked at dear old
Bro. Barrett's door whose latch
string is always out for weary and
travel worn soldiers of the cross.
The rest of the story is easy but
it wasn't so easy q job for Bro Bar
rett to drive that 35 or 40 miles &
work the rest of the mite till broad
day light with a tired preacher Who
had driven "a hours the day before
& now was going 48 hours without
a wink of Sleep.
They came past DIR printing Of
fee this morning at 7:30 a. m. on
the good hiway to Glasgow, the
stalled car under its own power.
From GLASGOW it is only a Is mile
drive and good roads to Nashua
and home. Nashua is the 3rd town
the triangle interested in their
pastors return, and while they were
all sound asleep and doing nothing
to help him out of the ditch type
Of a sleepy and disinterested wOrld)
yet it was for them, the unconceIn-
ed that the Lamb was slain from
the foundation of the world.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-01-23
Holiness Church Meetings

Arrangements are being made
for regular Sunday mite services OF
old. time religion ~(holiness) in the
vacant apartments in the rear Of
Fort Peck Press office, Wheeler,
our old printing office building,
Rev. Nels Nordby who holds reg
ular holiness Sunday school and
services at his Glad Tiding mission
in Wilson townsite has consented
to be with US whenever possible,
and we can also expect Rev. john
son of Nashua and Rev Hall of Bill
lines & other big Nazarene preach
ers with us occasionally.
Mrs C. O. Bradstreet of Wheeler
has donated an organ for the new
church & we already have a bldg.
(the empty apartments above) SO
all we need now is the hungry. sin
sick people to come & the presence
of Gods Holy Spirit.
Come, praying to that end, and
help fill the hall.
Our business is Gods business,
and Gods business is our business.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-01-23
Winters Final Slap January 20 Gives us 40 Below Zero

Thermometers differ, some here
abouts recording as low as ID de-
grees below zero while others only
reported SO below on Jan. 20, the
cold peak for the winter.
This storm lasted for two solid
weeks from the 5th when it was 80
below Con the 6th) to the 10Th but
there was absolutely no wind with
it except on the 5th, 1st day. Con-
sequently the heavy fall of snow
lies undisturbed on the prairies, a
depth Of 8 or 10 inches.
(See inside pages for storm details)
The Fort Peck press., 1936-01-23
Badness

The blond or fair-haired are most
susceptible to loss OF hair, as are those
Of nervous temperament and those en-
gagged in sedentary occupations. In
curry his never revealed a bald Amer.
lean Indian, while oddly enough the
fair-haired Scandlnavians respond most
quickly to treatment for falling hair
Badness also is caused by worry.
which would bear out the contention
that nervousness and shiny pates ars
In a relation Of cause snd eject
The Fort Peck press., 1936-01-23

The CHIEF unexplored regions Od
South America are central and north
ern Brazil. the far reaches Of the
Amazon, northwest Brazil and the
Selvas region; Venezuela and the
source of the Orinoco, northwest Bo-
Hvia, Elbefu, Chaco, and In southern
Argentina, Cubut and Santa Cruz re-
glons. Patagonia and the Caupes re-
gion Of Colombia. There are routes
and trails across some of these areas
The Fort Peck press., 1936-01-23
High Horseback Trail

A skyline horseback trail to the top
of Mt. Leconte, one of the lOftiest
peaks in the range. is ore of the fea-
lures In the Great Smoky Mountains
National park. The trail is 81 miles
long, and its elevation at the start Is
more than a mile above sea level.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-01-23

The Yellow Peril was a scare, orig
inally raised In Germany in the late
nineties of last century. that the vel
low races of China and Japan would
in a very Few years have increased In
population TO such an extent that In
cursions upon the territories occupied
by the white races-followed By a
secres and every conceivable horror
we're inevitable.
The Fort Peck press., 1936-01-23
Stuck in the Storm

Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Johnson
NaZarene preachers at Nashua
were stuck with their car in the
deep snow last mite Gan. ~ or
their return trip from having spen1
the holidays at their old home ir
Olivet, Illinois They were coming
across country from Jordan, via
Billings the Nazarene state head
quarters and were within II or ID
miles of the dam here in the valley
of the Big Dry creek when deep
snow stalled the car. causing them
t. break a chain. Other cars and
trucks we're also stuck in the same
drifts.
Our preacher friend and his wife
found it necessary to hitch hike
into Wh@eler after covering up the
canned fruit and other valuaDles
they had brot all the way from Ill.
with an expensive fur robe belong
ing to the Registers in Nashua.
They reached our printing Office
at 10 O'Clock by the kindness Of
passing truck drivers, having foun-
dered there in the snow since SUM-
down. But their troubles were
only just begun for the mite as they
were destined to spend the rest Of
the mite to retrieve their lost prop.
erty, refusing a good warm bed at
our place. The reason they must
90 back Immediately for their
stalled car was because of thieves,
they refusing to believe the wet"
fallacy that it was only under Pro
bibition that the gangsters operated
The rest of the story is interest
ing as it concerns 8 different towns
or cities hereabouts-that is each
place contributed its share in get
ting the reverend gentleman and
his wife out of the predicament
they were in, while they oteyed
the command of God: Go We into
all the world & preach the gospel
to every creature" Three project
towns were interested last mite like
the preacher tells us 3 worlds are
interested in each lost sinner that
is saved: heaven, earth and hell.
Well, the first town was Wheeler
where in our printing office after
kneeling and having prayers we de-
cided on tie following procedure:
The preacher and the editor walked
to Wilson, which was only l mile.
end told dear old Bro. Nordby our
troubles. Breaking off the end of
a rousing snore he promptly dressed
and piled the 3 OF us in his coupe.
He figured his car was too light to
drag the stalled car out of the snow
especially as he had no chains any
way, but he could be useful in sum
mOning other aid. So to GLASGOW
the 3 preachers drove including the
lady GO miles) & around the mid
The Fort Peck press., 1936-01-23
Flower SYMBOL

These are the flower symbols Of the
months: January, snowdrop; Febru-
airy, primrose; March. violet; April,
daisy: May, hawthorn; June, honey
suckle; July, water lily; August, pop
py; September. morning glory; Octo
Der, hops; November, chrysanthemum
and December. holly.