Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-09-14
Askov American Gives Up Much
Good Historic Information OF
Interest To Pine County Citizens

together and be good fellows"
On April 20, 1915, the Askov band
gave public concert under the direc-
ton of H. Petersen, and during the
year 1915 the Askov public school
was built at cost of S12,246. On
May 20, 1915, Saint Isadore's church
at Sturgeon Lake was burned to the
ground. Undaunted, however, the
people of Sturgeon Lake rallied to-
gether and soon had new church
building in which to worship.
County Goes Dry.
One of the most important events
of 1915 was the vote on county OPP
ton. In the issue of June 10, 1915,
the "Askov American" carried three
column ad for the dry forces, and on
June 81 occurred the election in
which Pine county went dry by
vote of 2,154 to 1923.
On July %, the Askov church
which had been under construction
for some time, was dedicated with
appropriate ceremonies.
All issues of the American in
1915 carried lengthy columns of war
news on the inside pages but the
home print pages carried news of
local interest. On September 2, 1915,
it was announced that the Elwell
road now running through Askov
was assured and that construction
soon would be commenced much to
the satisfaction of northern Pine
county people.
The year 1916 came with is pres
idential election and Woodrow Will
son was reelected with the slogan
He kept us out of war
During the three year period from
1914 to 1916 in Pine county, the
statistics show that 1,016 babies were
born and that Ais deaths had oc-
CURED. Exactly the same county
officials were elected in the fall of
1916 as in 1914 with the exception of
the county commissioner from the
Fourth district, which chose Joseph
E. Zimmerman.
The year 1917 brought us into the
World war. In Congress Ernest Lun-
deem and Harold Knutson worked to
keep America out, but on April 6,
1917, the United States entered and
Pine county responded in the next
Ii months by sending 1,085 men
either as volunteers or draftees. The
names of the Pine county men who
served were placed on bronze plaques
on the monument now standing on
the court house lawn in Pine City.
Stars are placed before the names
of men who gave their lives. The
names of star-men are as follows:
Alfred A. Anderson, Hilmer E. An
derson, George Anderson, Otto Beck,
Aldon T. Borg, Robert B. Becklund,
John Cronen, John A. Dahlgren,
Robert S. Eng, Kurth Fuhlbrugge,
John Feyma, Edward L. Garrett,
Martin Grothe, Theodore F. Holan-
beck, Leon Heath, Joseph L. Houde,
Rudolph Hietala, Jens H. Jensen, Orie
Johnson, Carl E. Jones, Harry E.
Johnson, August " Lindgren, Helmer
Lee, Albin Logstrum, William A.
Jack A. Maxwell, Wal
ter Maggs, Harry j. Madsen, Glenn
ence Menke, Leon j. Nys, Frank
Novak, Peter E. Nyquist, John j.
Neville, Gottleib Olson, Henry w.
Olson, Louis Ousley, Gust A. Peter
son, Henry B. Peterson, Hartley M.
Robey, Harry S. Running, Albert
Sturglaski, Frank Sharp, N. A. STEM
mark, John Strandberg, William H.
Webb, Frank P. Weimerskirch, Louis
o. Woodford.
The year 1918 in Pine county
found conditions turbulent and topsy-
turvy. There were liberty-loan
drives, Red Cross drives and Y. M.
c. A. drives. There was the draft
ing of additional men for the army.
Anxiety prevailed as to what was
happening to the boys in France,
but it seems that the war was not
enough to try mems souls. A cy-
clone in September ravaged the COM
munity of Tyler, Mimi, killing 81
persons and injuring 100. Pine coun-
ty citizens generously contributed
toward relief. Then in October, fol-
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