Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-11-30
Willow River
Community Club Meets.


Community Club Meets.
The Community club held its reg
ular meeting last Thursday evening
and about 80 people attended. Mrs.
Wallace Ogilvie, president, presided
and disposed of the business at hand
and the December meeting was dis
cussed. This will be held Thursday,
Dec. 81, and will be very much the
same as before, in the form of a
Christmas party. Mrs. Ed Goring will
be program leader and the Misses
Hilda Thompson, Grayce Thornby
and Jessy Taylor will be on the lunch
committee.
Mrs. j. R. Stanton had charge of
the program of which the first num-
Der was piano solo by Miss Mime
sofa Bochek entitled Russian Ro-
NANCE" by Rubinstein. Miss Vir-
ginia Karlson, county public health
nurse, was then introduced and told
about her work in the county and
asked parents to take their children
to doctors and dentists and have de-
fects she finds corrected, especially
the eyes and teeth. DIR. M. w. Kemp
of the state hospital for mental pa
tients, located at Moose Lake, was
invited to tell something of the work
there but was unable to come SO
sent his able assistant, DR.. H. Hutch
inson, who has been there the past
year, and who gave very splendid
talk on heredity, giving the defini-
ton as the process of transmission of
the physical and phychical qualities
of parents of their offspring, the
biological law by which living beings
tend to repeat their characteristics
in their descendants. 1t is also an
inheritance of qualities of diseases
of parents admitted through the germ
cell from mother to child.
DR.. Hutchinson gave 9675 as the
number of mental cases in Min
nesota, housed in seven state hos
pitfalls similar to the one at Moose
Lake, and that one out of 20 will
spend part of his time in state insti-
tuition such as this. All chronic cases
are cared for in Anoka. Faribault
cares for the feeble-minded and the
institution at Cambridge takes care
of the epileptics. At the conclusion
of his lecture there was picture
Behind the Shadows" explaining
how tuberculosis was transmitted
from one to another and explained
how the Christmas Seal money was
used to stamp out this disease After
the program lunch was served by
the committee.
The F. F. A. Club boys, under the
direction of R. Stende, entertained
their fathers at banquet last Thurs
day evening at the schoolhouse
Speeches were given by Elmer Dahl
strom, club president; Gale Beccue
club secretary, and the guest speak
ers were Max McMillin, county agent
and DR.. w. c. Ehmke, president OF
the school board. The senior class
under the direction of Darwin Slo-
cum, with the assistance of Sylvia
Guessing, prepared the dinner.
R. Stende took some of his agri-
cultural class boys to Pine City
Friday to judge some farm produce
Mrs. Ed Halva and Mrs. Otto Reuer
drove to Duluth Monday on a bust
ness trip and to do some shopping
They returned in the evening.
The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid will
meet at the church parlors Thursday
Dec. IA. There will be a sale of fancy
work and lunch will be served.
Mrs. VIM. Nyrud and her little
daughter, Jackie, drove to Kerrick
Sunday to spend the day with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Hogan
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Addington had
as their guests Sunday Mr.. and Mrs
VIM. LaFroth and her mother, Mrs
Octavia Erickson. They returned to
their home in Superior the same eve
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Landmark and
son, Barry, returned early last week
from Minneapolis where they went to
visit his mother and sister, Dolores.
Miss Dolores had been i'll at hos
pital but is better and at present is
at home with her mother. Her friends
here wish her a speedy recovery to
her former health.
Frank Wurm, local creamery man,
has remodeled the creamery and put
in stock of groceries. He has his
daughter, Antonette, and son, Jo-
seph, helping him with the work
while he operates the creamery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Johnston re-
joice over the arrival of a boy born
to them at st. Barnabas hospital in
Minneapolis November II.
The committee in charge of the
Christmas Seal sale here, Mrs Fred
LaPlante, Mrs. Alvira Wickstrom,
Mrs. Ted Thompson, the Misses Bo-
chek and Guessing, has planned to
conduct rummage and food sale and
serve coffee and doughnuts at the
Amundson cafe December 8, to begin
at IL noon and serve all afternoon.
For any purchase you will receive
| that amount in seals.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Alberg of Den
ham, are the happy parents of fine
girl born to them November o.
Mother and baby are both doing very