Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-01-07

Free ride to the graveyard: A
company selling cemetery lots has
hit on a new scheme to increase
sales. Women's organizations are
approached and Embarrassing plan
laid before them. If they will OBJ
tain So women willing to travel to
the property in bus, the company
will pay into the organization
treasury, the sum Of IS cents a
head AS further inducement for
a large turnout, refreshments are
served at the cemetery. Thus the
organization is ahead $l2.70 and
free meals for members who at
tend. AS for the company, the high
pressure statesmen who make their
appearance after the luncheon, look
after its interests. The scheme must
be profitable since it has been in
operation for some time.
Seeing sights: At that large dress
establishment in Union Square
where customers wait on them
selves, the mirrors in the room for
the try-ons are slanted and girls
sitting on high stools are thus able
to watch everything that takes
place. Thus it is extremely diff
cult for a dishonest female to make
a successful getaway with any of
the stores property. Store detec-
tiveS are also on constant patrol
throughout the place. incidentally.
suburban housewives never visit
the establishment on Thursdays.
If they did they would meet their
maids because Thursday is the serv-
ants day out. For that reason,
also, most of the Westchester clubs,
with family memberships, have
their big meal on Thursday instead
of Sunday night.
Hard-hearted New York: For sew
eral years, a young man has been
selling apples and oranges at Eighth
avenue and Forty-third street. Not
only is he deaf and dumb but also
so nearly blind that he can see
only a short distance That's why
regular customers always press
their nickels into the palm of his
hand. His stand is one box atop
another. Well, the other morning,
the stand upset and the stock rolled
into the street. Instead of laugh
ing at the occurrence, passersby
stopped and gathered the fruit
They didn't walk away with it but
arranged it neatly on the stand.
The distressed merchant thanked
them with his hands.
This and that department.: Phil
Regain, singer on the stage and the
radio, where he is heard with Ken
Murray, is a former Brooklyn cop
. Before leaving for Hollywood,
James Melton took a course in
makeup for the movies Rich
ard Gordon, who plays the part of
Sherlock Holmes on the air, gets
as many as ten letters a week ask
ing him to solve local mysteries
. and that reminds me that Sig
mund Romberg, conductor-com-
poser, is still listed as one of the
greatest spy catchers in the intel
igence service, of which he was a
member during the war.
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Singer turns fire fighter: Carmela
Ponselle was walking along West
End avenue thinking of mezzo-so-
prano arias when she saw smoke
and flame coming from the base
ment of four-story house. Screams
might have been expected under
such circumstances and screams
from a grand opera singer surely
would have been heard. Instead
of screaming Miss Ponselle quietly
assembled a group of men, who
broke in the door and put out the
fire. The family living in the house
knew nothing of the blaze until the
volunteer smoke eaters crashed
the gate.
City Life: Three little girls play
ing Jacks in the marble veStibule
of an old brownstone house 4.
The woman manager, who used to
own the house but who lost it in
the depression, taking the history
of the Signer OF lease and going
carefully into details since she Sc
lects her tenants with care and
upstairs in the apartment which is
to be rented, an aged man fighting
hard for life.
Whenever New Workers laugh
about rubes and hicks, l chuckle
The other day, hundreds of women
and men, young and old, lined up
awaiting entrance to one of the
big midtown movie houses, the
queue extending more than half
long block For an hour or more
the line remained motionless and
when it did move, did so slowly
And all the while heavy rain was
falling!
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