Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-05-11
Willow River

Mrs. H. E. Johnson, county chair
man of the Women's Federated clubs,
announces that the annual county
meeting will be held this year at
Pine City on Saturday, May 20. After
the general meeting the program will
be given over largely to contests
among the various clubs in music and
one-act plays. Each club is expected
to present an original song to be
sung as part of the program, the win
ming one to be adopted as the Pine
County Song. All those who plan
to attend from the local club are
urged to attend practice at the school,
house Wednesday evening, May II, at
o'clock. Otherwise, they should re-
port to Ann Anderson not later than
Saturday of the present week.
DR.. Otto Radl, one of the speakers
at the mass meeting of local Czechs
at the Bohemian hall Sunday, in COM
pany with his wife, was entertained
for the afternoon at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. A. v. Prachar, short dis
lance north of the village. DR.. Radl
only recently returned from Europe,
having been assigned to the State
University through the Rockefeller
Foundation and at present connected
with the physical educational depart
ment. He was brought to the atten-
ton of the Foundation by his ex-
cellent work in producing films for
| visual education in grade and high
schools and colleges. He is member
of the P. E. NJ (Authors) club and
| also of the Association of Foreign
| Correspondents. In addition to his
work at the university, he will be
associated with DR.. Eduard Benes,
exiled president of Czechoslovakia, in
this country the Czech-American Ma
tional Alliance, having for its pur-
pose the restoration of Czechoslovakia
as an independent nation.
Ed Walsh, who has been busy all
winter adding new features to his
mechanical show, is about ready to
take to the road for the season. He
plays carnivals, street fairs and coun-
ty fairs and has an interesting and
popular attraction that takes well with
the public.
Archie Clough of Spokane, Wash,
dropped off for day with his father,
Ed Clough, last week while on his
way to the national capitol to at
tend a convention of railway broth
erhoods and representing the state
of Washington. Mrs. Clough, who
will be remembered as one of our
high school teachers here few years
back, accompanies Archie on the trip
East, but stopped off at Mankato to
visit her folks there. They will take
in the Worlds Fair at New York city
and plan to stop here for few days
on their return to the West.
Mrs. E. B. Linsley reports from
St. Paul the arrival of a 10-pound
grandson at the home of Mr. and Mrs
Harold Olson of that place. The
Olsons are the proud parents of four
handsome, husky Riddles, all of whom
appear to "favor" their grandad quite
markedly in good looks.
Jerry Robinson spent the weekend
with his folks at Verdi, stopping off
enroute to say hello to his brothers
in the Cities. He says that vegetation
farm work and the season generally
are at least two weeks ahead of what
we have here. With normal rainfall
he predicts bountiful crop in south
western Minnesota this season.
Carl Molis, James Anderson and
Elmer Dahlstrom will represent the
Willow River high school at the State
Dairy Judging contest to be held at
the University Farm May 18 and 49,
The above students received fifth
place in the district judging contest
at White Bear on April 10. Only
five high teams in each district con-
test are eligible to participate in the
state contest. There are seven dis