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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-12
CHAPTER TX

She rose and went CoWaru tIle door. As she brushed past the low coffee table, Joan picked up her glass, lest it be knocked over by the swish of Sybips skirt. A moment later, she heard Sybil greet the late arrivals: Hello, Barbara. And Dorothy. I'm so glad you could get here. We've just been talking about you
 A moment later, she brought them in to meet Joan.
 May I present Barbara Downs? This is Joan Barrett, Bobs fiancee. And Barbaras cousin, Dorothy Starke, from Seattle
 The cocktail glass dropped from Joan's suddenly lifeless hand, shattered into bits on the glass topped table. She raised horror stricken eyes to meet the same Dorothy Starke, from Seattle, whom she had last seen seven years before, at sweet sixteen party
 Back once more in the lonely con- fines of her room at the hotel, Joan faced the end of her dreams. Hope less and defeated, she sat on the narrow bed, and looked out across the dreary roof-topS. She could not cry; she could not even rage against fate. Neither would have helped. Probably before she was born, it was written in the stars that she would be condemned to a life like this barren of hope and happiness, deSolate of peace. There was nothing she could do about it.; there was no way to escape eX- ceot by this continual disappear arce from one city to another.
 This time, however, it was more than a disappearance from New York. It meant a last goodby to Bob the sacrifice of his love and protection. the end of happiness. She wondered, duly, why she kept on living at all. No matter how many years she existed, no matter how far away she travelled the nightmare would follow, to pOTJuTG dIlu llSAJ SS SNAA~~J anyone who might love her.
 In her ears, Sybil's voice. hon. eyed and soothing still, rang, and Joan could sense the studied sym pathy it would hold as she re- peated the story to Bob. But Sy- bips eyes would remain cold through the telling of it, and in her heart there would be no com passion for the girl who loved him.
 Joan did not blame Sybil. Long age she had ceased to blame people for drawing away from her; 1t was not their fault that they could not understand. Neither did she feel any anger toward Dorothy Starke. Dor othy,s only sin had been her genu- inc pleasure in seeing an old friend. She could not have known what misery her presence brought to light.
 If, as she had noticed loans confusion, the thought did occur to her, she had responded splen- didly. It was Dorothy who cov- cred up the matter of the broken cocktail glass, insisting that she herself had knocked it from loans hand. It was Dorothy, too, who had kept the conversation gay and meaningless, until the time Joan found courage to tear herSel1 away.
 Sybil had been delighted } learn that Dorothy had known Joan Tn the past. There was no end to the questions she asked. They had lived in Seattle? Strange, we thought Joan came from Chicago In school? How very, very interesting
 To think you had to find each other right here in New York, a1ter t,Arf nnpnV
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-12
CAST OF CHARACTERS
bv MARION WHITE

JOAN BARRETT, heroine, sec retary to John Hendry.
 JOHN HENDRY, mining invest ment head.
 BOB ANDREWS, Hendry's ju- 1iiOr partner and JOan's fiance. SYBIL HENDRY, sOcialite, John Hendry's niece and Joan'S rival in love.
 PHILIP HENDRY, SybiIs bro- ther.
 DOROTHY STARKE, JOan'S girlhOOd friend.
 CHARLES NORTON, CalifOr- mia. mining promoter.
 Yesterday: Joan attends SybiPs tea and is horror stricken to meet the same Dorothy Starke whom she had last seen in Seattle seven years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-12

Sybil had been delighted } learn that Dorothy had known Joan in the past. There was no end to the questions she asked. They had lived in Seattle? Strange, we thought Joan came from Chicago In school? How very, very interesting
 To think you had to find each other right here in New York, after so many years now niaiS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-12

The Netherland Indies has re- duced taxes on wages.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
Youth Assembly
Sponsors A Meet
Good Program Entertains
Approximately $50 Peo-
pie in Hinckley Hall.

At a meeting held in the Hinckley
American Legion hall Tuesday night
approximately $50 gathered to hear
a talk and various entertainment
numbers. The meeting was spon-
sored by the Pine county unit of the
Minnesota Youth Assembly and a
discussion of youth problems took
place.
The following fine program was
given:
Musical number, Hazel Lindholm
and Linda Lich; recitation, ''The Dead
DOLL" Sylvia Brown, Hinckley; song
and guitar, Wallace Rypkema, Sand
stone; tap dance, Doris Barton, &C
companied by Wanda Swendsen; talk,
Ray Smith, administration secretary,
Minnesota Youth Assembly.
Song, Hilma and Eva Rasmus-
sen, Hinckley; reading, "My Suffer-
ing Sisters" Evelyn Hokenson, Will
low River; trombone solo, Robert
Dickson, Pine City; songs, Askov trio,
Ruth Hansen, Ruth Sorensen and
Ruby Petersen, directed and accom-
panied by Mrs. Paul N. Froker; skit
with clarinet, Rodger Gottry and
Robert Dickson of Pine City; song,
"You Can't Play in My Yard" Betty
Jean Dickson of Pine City.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
Eastern Pine Folks
Talk Forest Problem

A meeting was held in the Dux-
bury town hall Saturday to discuss
and if possible act on the question of
getting tracts of land in eastern Pine
county approved by the Conservation
Department as suitable for agricul-
ture Folks from the towns of Clover,
Ogema, Danforth, Wilma, Fleming,
Keene, Belden, Dosey and Arna were
present, about 60 in all.
Representative Mann was elected
chairman of the meeting and Emory
Huntley of Ogema, was elected clerk.
After great deal of discussion re-
garding the matter before the meet
ing it was decided to ask each town.
ship to hold meeting to decide on
what tracts each wished to be APP
proved, and to elect representative
to a committee to work on the pro-
posal. 1t was also suggested that
there be organized permanent group
to study the needs of this section
of the country and cooperate in the
solution of the problems.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
Kerrick Buyers
Offered Savings
Community is Staging A
Dollar Day in Own Ener-
getic and Original Way.

That Saturday, April 9, will be a
big day in one of the biggest little
communities in the state is a fore
gone conclusion. Kerrick is sponsor
ing a Dollar Day for the benefit of its
trade territory and surrounding buy
ers who desire to take advantage of it.
AS always in their own energetic and
original style the progressive mer-
chants of that community are going to
make it real day.
Among the things they announce
will be the novelty of sending every
one home with new money instead
of the old which he brought. Some
thing different you will say; sure,
says one of the merchants of that
enterprising little village, for in most
cases buyers are lucky to 60 home
with any money, but that's where the
saving comes in.
1t is promised that every cent of
old money will be collected in town
Saturday morning and every cent you
take home will be brand new, shiny
money; that is unless you are Scotch
and keep your old coins hidden away
in your pockets. However, the new
money will be there for you and it
will be good old U. S. tender.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
County Grows In
Population Say
Birth Reports
Three Hundred Eighty-two
Babies Born in 1887 as
Compared to loo Deaths.

Pine county's population is on the
increase if the birth and death record
is any indication, for during the year
1887 there were 1872 babies in the
county and total of 166 deaths.
These figures are according to the
report returned to Clerk of Court
William Mista, by the Minnesota De-
partment of Health and Vital Sta
tistics as gathered by cards received
from the registrars in the towns and
villages.
The figures do not include births
or deaths occurring in hospitals out
side the county, as such are reported
as being in the county where same
actually occurred.
Pine City village leads in number
of births, there being 40 reported
Hinckley is second with % births
and Sandstone village third with TO-
The detailed report for the various
towns and villages is as follows:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
Temperance Talk
Is Set For Bruno

Miss Norma G. Brown who comes
to Bruno for an address in the Pres
byterian church on Wednesday, April
ID, at 7:30 p. m, is the special lee
turer of the Minnesota Temperance
Movement. Though still a young
woman she has to her credit more
than Is years Of national experience
in this cause. Before she was %
years of age she had been heard in
every capital city and every important
center of the United States.
In the continental campaign of the
Allied Forces five years ago she was
the one woman speaker on the regular
staff. In that capacity she was heard
in company with such men as Col.
Raymond Robbins, DR.. Daniel A. Pol
ing, the Hon. Oliver w. Stewart and
others.
Miss Brown came out Of pastorate
into this work. While her early
training and experience were that
of a minister and while her SYM
pathies remain unchanged, it is often
remarked that, measured by her grasp
of governmental and legal problems
and the logic and power of analysis
which characterize her addresses, she
talks like a lawyer.
Everywhere her hearers contrast
her with the type some have grown to
expect in reform work. They call
her delightfully."- different"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
Boy Thief Ring
Broken AS Five
Are Arrested.
Sheriff and Deputy Make
Life Uncomfortable for
Young Cangland.

Two Askov and four Sandstone
thievery jobs are crossed off the Pine
county Sheriff'S record books as a
result of the apprehension of several
youngsters who seemed to be making
a real start in crime AS a result
of the good work done by Sheriff
Hannes Rypkema and his deputy,
Lenard H. Lund of Askov, three boys
will be sentenced by Judge Alfred
p. Stolberg of the district court on
April 10 and two others, ii and Is
years old, have been placed on pro-
baton. All but one of the boys were
Sandstone residents and the three
who will be sentenced are Frances
Lund, Roy Vaughn and Leo Woods.
Lund and Woods are 10 and ID re-
spectively and Vaughn, hailing from
Texas, is Is. Lund and Vaughn are
lodged in the Washington county Jail
at Saltwater awaiting sentence and
Woods is still in high school at Sand
stone.
1t was on Wednesday night of last
week that the two Askov places,
c. R. Pedersen's store and the Askov
Bakery were entered, and the gum
machine outside of the entrance to
the Red & White Store was broken
into, but the Sandstone robberies
have been taking place at intervals
during the past six weeks. Those
jobs have all been cleared up with
the apprehension of the boys men
toned, but there are other boys being
watched for little crooked deeds such
as taking gasoline from cars. Those
boys, lay the officials, will have to
60 straight or they will get punish
ment similar to that melted out to
the others.
The sheriff's office has received
good cooperation from local police
officials in the work of breaking up
this ring.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
WPA Funds Are
AvailableFor
School Addition
Willow River Officials
Have Been Notified of
3Ox5O Project Approval.

Willow River school officials have
just been informed of the approval
by the WPA office at Washington of
the project proposing school build
ing addition to the Willow River
school. This project will be a two
story addition, 30x50 feet, on the
north end of the present building.
1t will provide two class rooms, a
science laboratory, and a home eco
nomics room. This addition, with
some alterations in the interior of
the present plant, will make a school
building that will conform more
closely to the educational needs of
the community, and will relieve the
crowded condition of the present set
up. 1t will permit different classi-
fication of the school by the State
Department of Education to the adj
vantage of the district. 1t is of espe-
cial interest and import to the tax
payers of the district that these edu-
cational improvements will be af-
forded the community without any
local costs. The funds for the pro-
ject have been allocated to the dis
trict by the WPA of the Federal gov
eminent and the Executive Council of
the state government The states
ALLEGATION came as a result of a re-
cent legislative act permitting the
state to assist WPA projects of this
kind by contributing the costs of ma
terials where the local unit is I'M
able to do so. The total cost of the
project will be $23,675. While no
definite word has been received, it
is expected that work will COM
mence as soon as local matters and
details have been cleared and work.
ing plans prepared.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
AskOv FL. Hears
About Convention

At the regular meeting of the
Askov Farmer-Labor club held Tues
day night, H. r. Buck gave a report
on the recent state convention which
was held in the Armory in Duluth.
MIR. Buck was spectator and re-
ceived good birds eye view" Of
the affair from the balcony. A w.
Conway told of the peculiarities Of
attending the convention via the press
table.
Among the other items of business
transacted was the change in meet
ing date. In the future, meetings
will be held on the first Tuesday after
the first Friday. The club also passed
a resolution supporting the Governor
in calling the conference of governors
to discuss the tri-state forest region.
This would embrace Minnesota, Wis
consin and Michigan.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
3-Inch Silver
In Mans Hand

You have seen and probably
had slivers. But, how would you
like to have a silver measuring
nearly three inches in length and
a quarter of an inch thick COM
pletely buried in the flesh of your
arm? That is exactly what hap
pened to John Denstad, Fountain
carpenter. While planning piece
of oak at the lumber yard there, a
silver of the above mentioned
dimensions became buried in
Johns right arm, just above the
wrist. Fellow workers tried to
pull out the splinter, but it was
wedged in so tightly they could
not bulge it. Denstad drove to
Preston where physician, after no
little labor, dislodged the timber"
No doubt, the average person
would get quite excited under such
circumstances but to John, who
didn't even so much as wry his
face during the entire ordeal, it was
just lone of those things"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
neCounty Will
Get $92,S9l In
Gas Allotment
Special AllOtments Given
Several Counties; Pine
Gets $4,000 Additional.

The total amount of money to be
received by Pine county this year in
the gas tax, one mill levy and spe-
cial allotment is the large sum of
$92,891 and that amount includes
$76,840 from the gas tax, $12,O51
from the one mill levy and $4,000
from special levy. Carlton, Kama
bee and Chisago counties will each
receive $4,000 from the gas tax and
$12,051 from the one mill levy, while
Aitkin will get $67,913 from the gas
tax and $12,051 from the one mill
levy.
The total awarded to the 81 Min
nesota counties this week is $780,
600 for local highway improvements,
the largest sum ever allocated by the
State Board of Allotment
The allotments to counties, made
from state one mill road and bridge
tax funds and the counties one-third
share of state-collected gasoline taxes,
was $687 $50 larger than last years
record-breaking total, despite the fact
that revenues available from the road
and bridge tax were $12,750 lower.
This increase in the total of county
aid was due to returns from the ad-
ditional one-cent gasoline tax, which
provided the counties with 100000
more than they received for highways
in 1887
The increased county allotments
this year are expected to be used in
part by more than so percent of the
counties to match $580,0O0 Federal
aid for secondary roads that, for the
second year is available to the coun-
ties on dollar for dollar matching
basis.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
Good Fed Steers
.Cashin g Freely
Fed Cattle Under Pressure;
Top Hogs $3.50; Lambs
are Strong.

South ST. Paul, Mimi, April S,
1888: Fed cattle comprised large
share of local deliveries and sales
men found difficulty in holding prices
steady while buyers favored around
Csc declines. Most other killing
classes held about steady, and stock
ers were little changed, according to
the Federal-State Market News Serv-
ice.
Good fed steers and yearlings
cashed freely at $3.50 to $3.50, occa-
sional choice lots up to 5000. Plain
to medium grade steers earned $500
to $7.25. Granted heifers realized
81. 90 to $500, beef cows $500 to $500,
heavy heifer type cows up to $6.75.
Low cutter and cutter cows earned
So. so to $475 mainly. Bulls developed
strength as good heavy fat bulls
turned at $500 to $6.25, the bulk Of
sausage bulls at $525 to $5.75. Veal
ers were little changed. Good to
choice vealers sold mainly at $500 to
$3.50, few up to $500. Stocker
yearlings and calves brought $500
to $500 but choice stockers were
lacking. Dairy cows sold weak to
$500 lower, good springer cows max
ing $4,000 to $500, a few up to
$4,000.
Tuesdays hog market was steady
to 10c lower but active at the de-
cline A top of $3.50 was paid freely
and most good and choice 40 to
$50 pound hogs sold at $3.50 to $3.50
and $50 to 800 pound weights at $500
to $3.50, heavier butchers down to
SITS. Good packing sows realized
$40 to $3.50 and good stays $500
to $3.50. Pigs were very scarce.
Slaughter lambs were steady to 15c
higher, compared with Mondays
trade. Good and choice wooded lambs
turned at $500 to 1925 mainly, a
choice deck at $8.40, plain and me-
dunn grade lambs at $500 to SIPS.
Choice clipped lambs scored $500.
Good to choice slaughter ewes made
$500 to $4.75, Gull to medium ewes
$500 to $3.50. Native feeding lambs
were noted at $3.50 to $500.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
Prison Farm Well
Is Now Completed

The water which will supply the
new Federal prison at Sandstone will
come from depth of 430 feet and
will be of excellent quality, say Of
fcials of the project. With the COM
pletion of the well it is found that
a supply 80 feet in depth rises from
the bottom of the shaft and after
pumping at full capacity for several
hours it was lowered but IL feet.
The water is of excellent quality.
Plasterers began work Monday and
it is planned to complete the project
within two or three months.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
Good Fishing Is
II, Prospect Here

Prospects for the best "early-sea-
son" fishing in many years looms
bright in northern Minnesota as the
result of an unusually mild winter
and spring.
Streams and lakes which generally
are ice-bound at this season of the
year, are open water.
"Our resort members advise us, "
said S. Valentine Saxby, executive
secretary of the Minnesota Arrow
head Association, "that the early
spring breakup of ice will mean ex-
cellent fishing both in streams and
lakes"
Fishing for lake trout and land
locked salmon opens April Is; for
brook trout, May l.
The usual heavy influx of out
of-state residents is anticipated for the
lake trout season in April.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
B. B. League Fate
Will Be Decided

According to the secretary of the
Pine County Baseball League, Ken
meth Gay, of Sturgeon Lake, meet
ing of the League will be held at
Willow River Wednesday night of
next week at which time it will be
decided as to whether or not the
League will operate the coming sum-
mer. All of the directors will be in
vited to the meeting and others who
are interested are also asked to come
Supporters of the League will not
anticipate seeing it "out of the pic
ture" the coming season, but most
of the teams have found it difficult
to pay expenses during the past few
seasons. However, the directors of
the various teams will have the final
word.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-07
International
News Review
BY GEORG sTRANDvOLD

What is probably the outstanding
news item in the international field
the last few days is the announce
ment that the Spanish city of Lerida
has been captured by General Fran
cisco Frances rebel armies, for that
is no doubt the beginning of the final
chapter of the civil war which has
been in progress ever since July,
1896. BY taking Lerida, General
Franco cut off one of the most i'm
portant approaches to the province
of Catalonia as we'll as to the city of
Barcelona which is now the tenn
porary capital of the legitimist Span
ish government. And while he raised
his banner over the doomed city,
other sections of his army were clear
ing the way to the Mediterranean at
Tarragona and Tortosa; the access to
the coast gained, the fall of BARGE
Iona is likely to be but a matter
of very short time.
The situation reduces itself to the
plain fact that the Spanish govern
ment is just about isolated from the
rest of the country-and to impress
that deeper upon the minds of the
loyalists, the rebels were also bonn
harding Madrid at the time they took
Lerida and when they were just about
to enter Tortosa and Tarragona.
Rebel victory appears inevitable,
and so it must be when Franco openly
receives very substantial aid from
Italy and Germany while the loyal
lists are, practically and relatively
speaking, without any outside sup
port; so it must be when Italy's die
tator, Mussolini, appears before his
socalled senate in Rome and pro-
claims that if France aids the BARGE
Iona government, it spells war. The
fact that Italy helps the other side
why, that's perfectly all right! But
France supporting the loyalists why,
that's preposterous-says Benito Mus
solini!
Sundays Plebiscite.
Next Sunday the people of Ger
many and of the country that once
was Austria will 60 to the polls to
ratify Adolf Hitler's annexation of
Austria; the vote-and that is a fore
gone conclusion-will be overwhelm-
ingly, if not almost unanimously, in
favor of the union of the two coun-
tries. Although this is known in adj
vance, the leaders of the German
government-Hitler, Goering, Goeb-
bells and others-go up and down the
two countries insisting that the vote
must be favorable; one shouldn't,
under the circumstances, think it
would be necessary to carry on any
campaign, at all, but it's done, just
the same.
Amusement came over the world
on March q when all the Catholic
bishops of erstwhile Austria urged
their congregations to vote in favor
of union. A few days later, a radio
speech, in German, was broadcast
from the Vatican station to the effect