Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-12-30
Review OF Pine
County Events
For Year 1897
Abridged Form of Incl
dents as Published Dur
ing Past Year.

governor of Minnesota; Harold Bar
ker elected speaker of House of Rep
resentatives; Hjalmar Petersen takes
oath of office as Railroad and Ware
house Commissioner.
Pine county board of county COM
miSsioners hold annual meeting; j. S.
Patrick elected chairman for coming
year.
Miss Marjorie Beccue, Sturgeon
Lake, becomes bride of Roger Wood,
LeSueur
Pine City village votes bond issue
to build new sewage disposal plant
Miss Beatrice Owens, Pine City,
and Walter Schultz, Wisconsin, and
Miss Deina Feibing and Herman
Baker, Pokegama township, are united
in double wedding.
Mrs. Joseph Coke, 81, passes away
in Sturgeon Lake home.
Mrs. John Monson, Finlayson resi-
dent since 1902, laid to rest.
Mrs. Ed Smith, Oregon, succumbs;
body taken to Bruno for burial
Jan. 14-Sixth District Farmer
Labor group holds convention in
Milaca.
Cooperative oil association formed
in Pine City; capitalized at $4,000.
Adolph Ruben Ziegler, formerly of
Brook Park, dies in a Minneapolis
hospital.
Miss Scheila Ball, Bruno, and Arne
Leskinen, Duluth, exchange vows
Willow River business men organ
ize commercial club; Herb Johnson
elected president; Matt Wach, vice
president; George Brisbin, secretary;
and Eugene w. Kinney, treasurer.
Martin Jensen, Rutledge, laid to
rest; was nearly 70 years of age.
Dorothy Coulard, Moose Lake, and
Ernest Price, Willow River, are united
in marriage.
Stanley Zojac, Floodwood, appre-
hended after burglarizing store in
Gordon, Wis; confesses to numerous
robberies in Pine county villages.
Willis Seifkas, Markville, suffers
serious injury to right eye while cut
ting wood.
Mary Rose and Carlton Stafford,
Bruno, become man and wife; to live
in home community where groom
operates garage.
Herman Berg, Rush City, former
director for District 2, Land O'Lakes
Creameries, passes away.
Tom Deebach, Pine City, takes over
management of Dempsey Chevrolet
Company, Hinckley.
Miss Alma Petersen, former Askov-
tie, becomes bride of Sigurd Johansen
in Perth Amboy, N. j.; to make home
in Las Cruces, N. M.
Jan. 21-Oscar Bork, Hinckley, sue
cumbs; had resided in Pine county
past 35 years.
Gust A. Johnson, Bruno, takes over
operation of Madison Inn in Sand
stone
Carlton Waddell, Mora, purchases
restaurant and cafe business of j. R.
Mitchell in Sandstone
N. K. Andersen, Sandstone, sells
meat market to Anton Suk, Denham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Saastad, Bruno
couple, are married Is years.
Jan. 28-Esther Gustafson, FinIay-
son high school girl, succumbs to scar
let fever.
Johannes Skat Dixen and Miss
Selma Andersen, Askov, are united
in marriage.
Second inaugural of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt held in Wash
ington, D. c.; rain hinders proceed
ings.
Red Cross appeals for flood relief
to aid thousands of people made
homeless by floods along Ohio river
and other streams.
Askov Cooperative Association
holds annual meeting.
Feb. 4-Rep. Harold L. Peterson,
youth leader, becomes secretary of
Farmer-Labor Association, replacing
I. G. Strout.
William j. Arth and Miss Josephine
M. Willie, former Pine county couple,
exchange vows in Lincoln, Nebr.
Pine Coop Oil Association and
Askov Creamery Association conduct
annual business meetings.
Robert Frank Martlnek, Is year
old Bruno lad, dies; was stricken with
scarlet fever.
Vincent Pospisil, Bremen resident,
laid to rest; was IS years of age.
Feb. 11-Mrs. Mary Doran, Pine
City, succumbs to pneumonia at age
of SO.
Max Rossman, Aitkin county farm
er, laid to rest.
Richard Tuenge farm home west
of Sandstone destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Barbara Smiglewski, Willow
River pioneer, dies; was 80 years old.
Charles Henry Clark, Brook Park.
laid to rest in that village.
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