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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-07-21
Kingsdale

Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Videen and
son, Mrs. Henderson of Minneapolis,
and Mrs. Arthur Videen visited at the
G. Videen home Wednesday evening
of last week.
Mrs. Bob Sheppard and sons of
Omaha, Nebr., arrived Saturday to
spend several weeks with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Lund.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Frederick and
Mrs. v. B. Frederick spent Sunday
with relatives in st Paul.
Barty Haines of st. Paul, spent the
weekend here. Mrs. Haines and
Mrs. LaClair returned to st. Paul with
him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Makela and
daughter, Alice, visited at the Alfred
Feigum home Sunday evening.
Albert Lund and Olaf Eggesbo of
Kenyon, are visiting at the c. A. Lund
home at this writing.
Rev. and Mrs. Paul J. r. Peterson
visited at the Robert Feigum home
Friday afternoon.
Mrs. c. A. Lund and Herbert and
Mrs. Arvid Anderson and children
were dinner guests at the Paul Pahos
home in Markville last Thursday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-07-21

her uncle, Albert Miller, rturned home
Sunday with her parents and Galen
Miller accompanied them for weeks
visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Wrasper of Min
neapolis, who had been touring Can
ada for two weeks, arrived at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Wrasper Wednesday of last
week to stay until Friday. On Thurs
day evening the two couples went to
Pine City to call on Mr.. and Mrs.
Woodrow johnson and to inspect
their new house, which is being
erected this summer.
Curtis Alderman of Duluth, called
on Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wrasper Mon
day.
The members of the Thimble club
and their children had a very en-
joyable picnic at Harty's place Mon
day. Miss Evelyn Nygaard of Little
Falls, who is secretary, was here,
being the guest of DR.. and Mrs. w.
T. Pearson. Other guests were Mr..
and Mrs. Payette and children of
Minneapolis, and Mrs. Arthur Mel
son of Minot, N. D.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-07-21
MOOSE LAKE PARISH

Bethlehem Luth. Church, Moose Lake.
Sunday school at 9 a. M; English
services at p. m.
Luther League meeting Tuesday,
evening, July 26, at p. m. at the
church.
Luther League rally at Blomskog
Friday night at 8 p. m.
BlomskOg Lutheran Church.
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Bible study Tuesday evenings at 8
p. m. An interesting study is con-
Quoted in the Epistles of st. John.
The Blomskog Luther League will
be the host for the parish rally Fri
day evening, July %, at p. m. An
interesting program has been pre-
pared. Miss Anna Wendell will speak
emphasizing our Bible camp at Hang
ing Horn lake near Barnum. Re-
freshments will be served and social
hour will be held.
Oak Hill Lutheran.
Sunday school at II a. m; English
services at GAS a. m.
The Ladies' Aid will meet July %,
at 2 p. m. at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Allen Irene in Denham.
Swede Park Lutheran.
Sunday school and Bible class at
10 a. m. on Sundays.
English services on Sunday at 11:15
a. m.
The Luther League will meet
Thursday evening, July %, at 8 p. m.
in the church.
The Ladies' Aid will meet at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Guenther
Saturday afternoon, July %.
We hope to see a large representa-
ton from Oak Hill and Swede Park
at the Luther League rally at Blom-
skog. Come for inspiration, edifica-
ton and Christian fellowship.
ARNE ANDERSON, Student.
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Norman Township

Mrs. j. L. futile and Mrs. Walter
Berg spent Wednesday afternoon OF
last week with Mrs. Elmer Berg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Bonnin spent
Wednesday evening of last week with
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. futile.
Elmer Berg and nephew, Harold
Berg, motored here from Minneapolis
Friday evening to spend two weeks
with Mrs. Elmer Berg and Frank
Purull and other relatives.
Mrs. Julius Waletzko and son, Don
aid, spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs
Purull and Loretta and Phillis.
Henry Christopherson left for Min
neapolis Sunday morning to visit his
mother and sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Berg and baby,
Frank Purull and Harold Berg spent
Saturday and Monday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Steve Purull and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Brown and
sons of Chicago, and Albert Berg and
his father, Chas. Berg, of Minneapolis,
came Saturday to visit relatives.
Leo and Lester Kowitz and Bar
ney Cooper spent Saturday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Johnny Waletzko
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Berg and Mr.
and Mrs. Steve Purull and daugh-
tiers spent Saturday evening at the
Walter Berg home.
MIR. and Mrs. Miller of Duluth
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Julius Waletzko.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Berg and baby
and Frank Purull spent Monday eve
ming with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Berg
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-07-21

Price, Mrs. Ed Clough, ST., and Mrs
Louis Patrin.
VIM. Laufenberg and niece of Wyo-
ming, Mimi, came Monday to visit his
brother, Frank Laufenberg. They re-
turned home the following day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tap Gilliver and
children of ST. Cloud, came Saturday
to spend the weekend with Mrs
Gilliver's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Laufenberg. On Sunday the two
families went to the North Shore for
picnic. Mr.. and Mrs. Gilliver re-
turned to st. Cloud Sunday night
but the two children remained to visit
their grandparents a week.
Weekend guests at the Goring
home were Lawrence and Eileen Cor
ing and Jane Seeman of Minneapolis,
and Harland Goring and Earl Clyne
of Pine City. Mr.. and Mrs. John Cor
ing and Mr.. and Mrs. Smith and son,
Hollis, of Minneapolis, came Sunday
to spend the day. Ruth Goring went
back to Minneapolis with them to
spend weeks vacation.
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Sturgeon Beach

Harold and Fritz Void and Carl
jacobson are leaving this week for
North Dakota to work in the harvest
fields.
Ellis Whiting was in Moose Lake
Sunday to have the cast removed from
his leg. The fracture has mended in
good shape.
Monday, July 10, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ellis Whiting became the proud par
ents of a boy. Mother and son are
doing nicely.
Harold Void has been putting up
hay on the Earnest Nyberg farm re-
Gently.
John Forsberg and family moved to
the Earlinger farm recently. Mrs.
Earlinger is building small house
in which to live.
June Olson left Sunday for her
home in Grafton, N. D. She had been
visiting a few weeks at the Whiting
home
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-07-21

institute at Hanging Horn Sunday
Bring your picnic dinner and attend
Little Clarence Mattson of Sand
stone, is visiting at the Ben Street
home at this writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Grambart of
Minneapolis, spent Saturday and Sum-
day at the Tracy Street home. Mr..
and Mrs. Habeck and family of Ker-
rick, were also callers there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Norlander
and Verona of Minneapolis, visited at
the Anna Mossberg home Wednesday
of last week.
Mrs. Harry Johnson and Gloria left
for their home in st. Paul Monday
after visiting relatives here two
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Forsberg and
girls called at the Carlson home Sun
day.
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hours.
Mrs. Minnie Ogilvie just returned
from an extended visit in Blue Earth,
Fairmont and Winnebago. While
there she attended the second Scotch
Old Settlers picnic at Pilot Grove
This picnic is held every five years.
On Friday of this week the Ladies'
Aid of the Presbyterian church will
have an ice cream social in the church
parlors. Homemade ice cream and
cake will be served at nominal
charge. Everybody is cordially in
vited to attend. The ladies will serve
from 3 o'clock in the afternoon until
10 o'clock in the evening.
Mrs. Anna Cofer, who until last
year ran the hotel in this village,
is visiting this week at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Johnson. She
now resides at Onamia.
MIR. and Mrs. M. Myszkowski and
children of Strandquist, and Mr.. and
Mrs. O. w. Yngve of Minneapolis,
were weekend guests at the Aakhus
home.
Bobby Wilson, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl Wilson, is visiting relatives in
Minneapolis this week.
Mrs. Anna Anderson and daughters
and Mrs. Ellen johnson drove to
Wyoming, Mimi, Saturday to spend
the weekend with the Klatt family.
MIR. and Mrs. VIM. Kenny and son
came from Minneapolis Saturday to
spend the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. A. Lundgren. Other guests
at the Lundgren home were Miss
Dolores Hanson of Minneapolis, and
Kermit Lundgren of St. Paul.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Novack, Mr..
and Mrs. J. R. Stanton, Mrs. Anna
Cofer and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. john
son were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle
Hage last Sunday on trip to Drum
mond, Wis. On their way there they
saw the famous Brule river and the
surrounding territory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ranny Johnson of Du-
luth, came Saturday to spend few
days at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto Reuer They left Tuesday.
MIR and Mrs Ole Nyrud and Gloria
and Ivor and Mrs Nina Nyrud drove
to Two Harbors Sunday to visit rel
atives.
Frank Stepan has just completed
two new cabins on his property near
the proposed new dam. These cabins
will be on the lake shore after the
dam is completed.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mazourek of
St. Paul, and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Faust of Minneapolis, were Sunday
guests at the Earl Wilson home
Mr.. and Mrs. Graydon Bachmann
and family came Saturday to spend
the weekend with his mother, Mrs.
Ida Bachmann.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grin Weekly of Min
neapolis, came Saturday to visit at
the Joe Stepan, ST., home and to re-
new old acquaintance with friends
in Willow River.
The Birthday club met at the home
of Mrs. J. D. Burns Wednesday eve
ming of last week. After an evening
of cards, delicious lunch was served.
Prizes were won by Mrs. Stanley
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Denhann
(From Another Correspondent)

Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Leatherman
spent Sunday evening in Minneapolis
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Schai and son
Theodore, of Minneapolis, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Scott of Osseo, and Sto-
FAME O'Leink of Cleveland, Ohio
were Saturday callers at the Leather
man home. Mrs. Schai, Theodore
and Stofanie O'Leink returned to
Minneapolis the same evening. Mr.
and Mrs. Scott remained over the
weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Erickson and
Jorden are spending few days at
the Leatherman home before going
on to Canada where they plan to
spend few days.
Lorraine Scott of Osseo, spent Mon
day at the Leatherman home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-07-21
Sturgeon Lake

Roderick ProteXter of Little Rock
Iowa, visited at the M. NJ Barnes
home few days, returning home
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Axel w. Carlson and
sons, Curtis and "Chickie," of San
Bernadino, Calf, arrived here last
Thursday to spend few weeks with
friends and relatives.
Mrs j. F. Kolosky and Mrs. Jenny
Kolosky attended the funeral of j. A.
Lubansky in Duluth last Thursday
Mr.. Lubansky is a cousin of J. F.
Kolosky.
Monroe Cunningham has been laid
up with influenza few days, but is
back at the store again. Ray Dunaski
has been ill for few days too, but
at this writing is back on the job also
Phil R. Anderson and Sewal S
Wallin, local mail carriers, attended
the Rural Carriers convention at Fari-
bault Friday and Saturday. During
their absence, Irving Smith and Lyn-
ford Anderson, substitutes, made
their routes.
Mrs. j. H. Cunningham and Leroy
returned from Hinsdale, ILL.,, Mon
day after a visit there.
The annual school meeting was held
Tuesday evening at the schoolhouse
James Zalesky was again reelected
as treasurer for term of two years.
that office being the only one up for
reelection.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Wilson and
children of st. Paul, son-in-law and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Phares
are spending week here at a cabin
by the lake.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-07-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Nystrom are
visiting relatives here at this writing
Rev. j. A. Dahlstrand was a sup
per guest Wednesday of last week
at the Tracy Street home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Street and son
and Tracy Street were Mora callers
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Storm spent Fri
day in Duluth.
Mrs. Theo. Scheldahl's sister from
Iowa, is visiting her at this writing
There will be services at the M. E
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BRUNO LUTHERAN PARISH
Elmer J. johnson, pastor.

Holy Communion services in Oak
Lake at $50 a. m. Services in Nick
erson, Ills a. m, and in Bruno,
p. m.
Meetings will be held also in the
Park Center schoolhouse at 2:30 p.
m. and in Danforth at p. m.
The Oak Lake Ladies' Aid will
meet in G. E. Anderson'S home Fri
day, July 20, at p. m.
Remember the Bible camp at Little
Hanging Horn east of Barnum next
week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-07-21
PEACE ENGLISH LUTH. CHURCH
H. Sporleder, pastor.

H. Sporleder, pastor.
English service, 1920 a. M; Sunday
school and Bible class, 10 a. m.
The congregation will observe its
annual mission Sunday. Rev. VIM
Schneider of Waconia, will preach the
sermon. The choir of the church will
sing: Onward, Christian Soldiers y
arranged by Alice Larry Woodcock
A special mission offering will be
lifted at this service.
Choir practice Wednesday at 8 p. m
Adult confirmation instruction ev-
cry Monday and Thursday evening
at the church.
All are welcome to our services
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(From Another Correspondent

The North District All Achieve
ment day was held at Willow River
Tuesday. The winners were as fol-
lows: Clothing l, first prize, Irene
Magdziarz, Sturgeon Lake. Clothing
III, first prize, Inger Christensen,
Kerrick. Thrift 1, first prize, Shirley
Ann Putnam, Bruno. Thrift II, first
prize, Peggy Billman, Bruno. Win
ners in the style revue were Peggy
Billman, Irene Magdziarz and Ilene
Lound. Winners in demonstrations
were as follows: Cake, Lorraine
Krieger; bread, Peggy Billman; can
ming, Nola Cluett, Kerrick The All
Clubs are appreciative to Mr.. Stende
for his help and the Willow River
merchants for contributing the nee
esSary supplies.
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Willow River
Health Conferences Held.

Health conferences for children
about to enter school and for those
under school age will be held at the
Willow River school building Mon
day, July rs, from until o'clock.
The children will be inspected for
eye, ear, skin, postural and nutri-
tional defects. If any difficulty should
be present it will be possible to have
it corrected before school begins.
The Pine county nurse will be in
the schoolhouse every Monday aft
ernoon from until o'clock and
those who have health problems are
urged to visit the nurse during these
hours.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-13
How Not to Get an Island

Japan, like Great Britain, or even the United States, can always use another island. Especially one with good harbor, located on trade route or conveniently near an island she already possesses. Still, times change and conditions vary.
 And there are ways and ways of ac- quiring islands. When we wanted the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, for strategic reasons, we bought them from weaker power. Somehow it never oc- cured to Uncle Sam to send fleet and flock of bombing planes and blow up St. Thomas and burn a lot of buildings and massacre lot of civilians, the women and children with the rest.
 Maybe we are just backward about such things, with old-fashioned notions about ethics, even in warfare. Or maybe we're just better business men than the Japs Spaniards and other progressive war makers. Maybe little of both. Anyway we don't think it pays, either morally or in the practical business of national life to do what Japan has just done on the Chinese island of Annoy, lying between her big, rich island of Formosa and the Chinese mainland. If she needed base for more military operations against South China, she could better afford to buy it.
 Her procedure is typical of the new terrorstic militarism loose in the world And it seems foolish aside from ethical considerations It only further horrifies mankind, stiffens the resistance of the Chinese and makes more likely the eventual failure and collapse of Japan as world power. Civilization simply can not tolerate that sort of thing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-13
Census in 194O

Following hard on the 1888 state and congressional elections will come maneu- vering, no doubt, for strategic positions in the process of taking the decennlal census, due in 1940 In 1880 the Bureau of Census ostensbly directed the task, as it has regularly every ten years since It was created. But political patronage plays an important part in the proceed ings. inasmuch as the office force in Washington is increased from 700 to 5000. In addition there are about 9O,OOO field workers or enumerators named.
 Waterbury in the 1880 census was credited with less than 100 900 population much to general consternation. To be sure it was only scant 98 under the 100 900 figure, but somehow or other the local census bureau just couldn't find those additional 98 people to swell Wa terbury's total to 100000. The 1920 fig ure was about 5000 less than the 193O, so figuring a similar increase for 194O we should be just about where the State Board of Health puts us now-106,5OO
 It's funny thing, but various state departments long ago credited this city with more than a 100000 population. The only department that looked at it the other way was the Department of Edu cation which once put us down below New Britain. It was never established whether or not this was clerical error Of spite over the dispute in which Water bury and the department was precipi- tated. At any rate the figure was wrong as latter statistics definitely proved That we are in the 100000 class now seems pretty exclusively Only major catas- trophe between now and 194O can change this outlook
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-13
PressCOmment|
VOODOO GOLD
Christian Science Monitor)

A story written by the early Mark Twain told of the theft of banks gold from midwestern township. The thieves filled the vaults with feathers. They did the job un- detected, took the loot to the hills, and there waited for the expected hullabaloo. To their amazement, nothing happened. The substitution was never found out, and the eco- homie life of the community went on undisturbed.
 One is reminded of the story by the report that party of bankers has been allowed to take a peep at the immense stock of the nations gold out at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Suppose they had found feathers instead of gold Would 1t have made any difference to the nations economic life, presuming the guards had pledged them to secrecy, Tor else"? Not at all. No longer is gold Humpty Dumpty, sitting on its pedestal in solitary glory. Man agement sits beside it. That is to say, the nations money is regulated, not by the amount of gold, but by the needs of the people as deter mined by the monetary authorities in Washington.
 Mark Twain would have chuckled to read of the bankers visit to Fort Knox. His story was an economic parable showing that money is credit. If, as Tom Paine once said, credit Is Suspicion asleep" then there is all the more reason to preserve confidence in 1t, now that its golden prop has been removed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-13
Party Names

Political parties and royalties are grow ing very confused. It is traditional 10 regard Thomas Jefferson as the patron saint and fountain-head of the Democra- tic party. Yet John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says: Republicans of today better exemplify the principles and philosophy of Jefferson than do those who call them selves New Dealers. Whenever the Re- publican Party has departed from Jeffer- sonian principles it has not been true to itself. Today it stands as the only organ ized champion of the Jeffersonian phil osophy."
 This claim is disputed by Chairman Farley, who insists that Jefferson's phil osophy is triumphing under the present government. The question seems still more confused when you go far enough back in American political history, and consider names. Thomas Jefferson called himself not Democrat but Republican, and was twice elected to the presidency as head of the Republican Party of that time. Washington and Adams were known as Federalists
 The followers of Jefferson, however, soon began to call themselves Democratic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-13
A Book a Day
Deterding Dipped History in Oil

An extraordinary personality is Sir Henri Deterding, who began in a bank at a dollar week and rose to rule petroleum empires around the globe. It is said that the whole British kingdom and the Nether- lands, too, rest easier for his vast influence. He has, in sense, super seded even Rockefeller as the mogul of the gasoline era.
 So Glyn Roberts has chosen to write the life story of Sir Henri, whom he calls "The Most Powerful Man in the World" (Covici- -Friede $3). And a decidedly interesting biography 1t turns out to be.
 It could, in fact, hardly be less, dealing with this man whose oil ships play the seven seas, who as early as 1903 had cornered the Eu- ropean petroleum business, who pioneered in black gold from Rus sia to Venezuela to Mexico, whose sweeping interests in Royal-Dutch Shell have changed the course of world diplomacy. Here is unques- tionably dynamic influence.
 So dynamic that MT. Roberts asks, Can we afford to leave our world in such hands any longer?" And here, 1t seems, Is where MT. Roberts loses, his objectivity as a biographer.
 It is bit far-fetched in the first place to label any man Most pow erful in the world" But Sir Henris story is nonetheless fascinating, even when MT. Roberts castigates Deterding for his very affluence.- P. c. F.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-13

According to State Personnel Director Harry w. Marsh there'll be room for somebody else at the Democratic State Convention this fall besides state em- ployes Of late years the biennial con- ventions down at Eastern Point have more or less resembled reunion week for all the employees on Capitol Hill. That may be exaggerating it bit, but, nevertheless, there were quite few who went down to New London as delegates or merely as on- lockers. That's ok if it doesn't conflict with your work, but we do think that the Personnel Directors reference to the law barring certain types of state employees from active participation in politics is timely. It will save cities and towns the embarrassment, perhaps, of having some of their delegates unseated at the conven- tion. There are plenty of good Democrats around the state who would be glad to get to the state convention if for nothing more than the ride and change of scenery.