Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-05-11
Watch for Mysterious Strangers.

In connection with the frequent
burglarizing of post offices in small
towns throughout Minnesota, the post
office inspector at st. Paul writes
to the Askov postmaster as follows:
Post offices, stores, elevators, lum-
Der yards, filling stations and other
business places are being burglar
lied nightly throughout the towns
in Minnesota, North and South Da-
kota. While your inspectors and all
other lave n o e m mt agents
throughout the Northwest are CO.
operating in a greater measure than
ever before to solve these burglaries,
the assistance and vigilance of you
and your townspeople is absolutely
necessary if we are to be successful
in our battle against this crime wave.
ut is the practice of these burglars
to visit the town in which they plan
depredationS some two or three days
prior to the actual date of the crime.
Frequently they enter the post office,
store or business place and make some
small purchase only for the purpose
of noting the location of safes, cash
registers, ETC., how doors and windows
are fastened, and to determine wheth-
er anyone sleeps in the building or in
buildings adjacent thereto, or whether
there is night-watchman service.
Having this in mind, am request
ing you, as postmaster, to contact
your local business men, particularly
those who may live over stores and
business places, and urge their whole
hearted cooperation in watching for
automobiles carrying strange persons
or suspicious characters, paying par
| ticular attention to the make of car
they are driving and the license plate
numbers. If your town employs a
night marshal, call his attention to
the Post Office Departments Reward
Circular, Form O512, and urge him
to be especially alert between the
hours of l a. m. and a. m, being
ever mindful that the burglars Car
may be parked some distance away
from the business district and that
the best results may be obtained by
his staying in some centrally located
darkened store or building, where he
can observe the movements of cars
and people.
please take this matter up with
your local business men promptly and
within three days from the receipt OF
this letter please advise me what you
have done in this regard. Arrange
for your townspeople to furnish to
you promptly any information on this
subject, no matter how slight, and
convey such information either to
your local officers or sheriff, or trans
NIT it to this office"
Mr.. and Mrs. Thorvald S. Jensen
and Henry Larsen were in Hector
Saturday and Sunday for a visit with
Mr.. and Mrs Otto Madsen.
The senior high school students
have distributed advertising posters
which request everyone to come and
see the Family Doctor" at the D
B. S. hall on Friday evening, May 49,
Miss Stella Saastad of Bruno, spent
Monday at the Clarey Jensen home
after which she left for the Tuscarora
Lodge, summer resort at Grand
Marais, where she will be employed
as cook.
The kittenball game between Fin
layson and Askov Monday evening
ended 7 to 5 in favor of Askov, this
in spite of the fact that Askov was
minus two of the regular players
or possibly that helped them win
no names mentioned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Hoiberg were
in Moose Lake yesterday to attend
the annual meeting of school execu-
tives of this district. A golf tourna-
ment was on the afternoon program
incidentally Mr.. Hoiberg has taken
top honors in this sport the past two
years.