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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27
NickersOn

Mrs. Gust Bohlin was a guest o.
Mrs. Casadont last Thursday after.
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Jacobson anc
family were guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Edw. ,Beaudry Tuesday evening of last
week.
Mrs. Alma Erickson and Johnnie
Beaudry visited Sunday with Mrs
Henry Nyquist.
Johnnie Beaudry and Mrs. Alma
Erickson were supper guests Sun
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Edw. Beaudry
Mrs. j. D. johnson is having her
dining room redecorated and other
improvements are being made.
Roger Virgins and Carl Nickersor
enjoyed a pleasant evening recently
at the Peter Mariana home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dayton Becker and
daughter spent Easter Sunday with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.
Becker.
Mrs. T. E. Getchel visited at the
Nickerson home Sunday, returning to
her home in Minneapolis Tuesday.
Mrs. Nickerson's father, who has
been ill, is reported somewhat better
at this writing.
Ernest Coon, who is doing some
ditching for the Great Northern Rail-
way with a tractor, made a visit al
his home in Superior Sunday.
Mrs. Katherine Maheu made a trip
to Bruno Wednesday of last week.
j. NJ Nickerson and son, Carl, Wis.,
tied George Nickerson in Deer River
Sunday.
Margie Virgins was a dinner guest
at the Nickerson home Sunday.
Mrs. Pete Virgins and family were
callers at the Hedberg home Sunday
Carl Nickerson made a business
trip to Duluth with his father Sat-
urday.
Mrs. Edw. Beaudry was a guest OF
Mrs. Nickerson Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Alma Erickson visited Monday
with Mrs. Edw. Beaudry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Jacobson and
family were visitors at the Ed Beau
dry home Monday evening.
Mrs. Winkler is not very well al
this writing. Her friends wish her
a speedy recovery.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27

Sewing machines have been in gen.
eral use only about IS years. About
1888 a French tailor invented a sew
ing machine which was successful
for a time. A few were made and
used for manufacturing soldiers uni
forms. The tailors feared their bust
ness of making mems clothing by
hand would be ruined if machines
came into use. A mob of workmen
attacked the factory, destroyed all the
machines and almost killed the poor
French inventor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27
Bread and Other Words

Amongst other things, bread is re-
sponsible for the words "lord" and
|lady." ''Lord" is derived from
Saxon words meaning "the owner
or winner Of the Loaf" while LADY,
comes from one meaning "the dis
tributor or giver Of the Loaf" says
London Answers Magazine. Bread
is now baked in all kinds Of flavors
from orange to cheese, and in all
kinds of different shapes. These
shapes, though presumably tradi-
tional, seem to have no practical
explanation. Why do they bake
their bread so rigidly square in
Wales, and round in some parts Of
northern England? No one knows!
It is just old custom.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27
LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTES
John O. Johanson, pastor.

Nordland Lutheran, Denham.
There will be services Sunday
April 80, at II a. m. in the Norwegian
language, and at o'clock in the eve
ming, English language.
The Ladies' Aid society will meet
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Edw
Hansen on Saturday afternoon, April
20, at o'clock.
The pastor would like to receive
the names of all prospective con-
firmands for 1939-40.
st. Olaf Lutheran, Little Moose.
The Ladies' Aid meeting will be
held at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Einar Lattu Thursday afternoon, April
81, at 2 o'clock. Community serving.
This meeting will take the place of
the one the aid was unable to hold
last week.
Zion Lutheran, Moose Lake.
There will be services Sunday, April
80, only in the Norwegian language.
The service will be at 2:30 p. m.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27
Wheels Known to Ancients

1t is not known exactly when and
by whom wheels were first used.
They were known to the very an
cient peoples. Monuments show that
the wheel as used by the ancient
Egyptians and Assyrians, usually
had six spokes, those of the Greeks
and Romans had only four. They
were generally constructed of wood
and sometimes had bronze or iron
tires.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27

Texas produces more cattle, goats,
sheep, wool, mohair and mules than
any other state. Among the states of
the Union, Texas ranks second only
to Iowa in total value of livestock.
It's rank is due to the fact that Iowa
raises eight times as many hogs as
Texas.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27
East of Bruno

Mr.. and Mrs. John Southerton are
rejoicing over the arrival of 10k-
pound boy Friday morning.
Mrs. John johnson was a dinner
guest at the Chas. Southerton home
Wednesday of last week.
Mrs. Earnie Newman and Grace
Hanson called on Mrs. Glen Jones
Sunday afternoon.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27
Early Reference to Cigarettes

The earliest reference to the Gig
arctic ('little cigar") occurs in lit
erature in 1912 and 1843, where it is
stated that cigarettes were smoked
in France and Italy. Laurence Oil
plant is generally credited with the
introduction of the cigarette to Eng
lish society. It did not become
popular, however, until 1870.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27

fetal re s III t i n g
from the Presi-
dents kilograms to
Hitler and Musso-
lini, wherein he
made an offer to
call a world peace
conference if they
w o VI d pl e d G e
themselves not to
attack 81 specified
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27
ZION LUTH. CHURCH, BRUNO

S. T. Palm, pastor.
Services Sunday, April 80, at
p. m. at the home of Andrew Storebo.
You are all invited and welcome to
worship God with us.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27
st. Paul's Ev. Luth. Church, Bruno
missouri Synod)

Sunday, April 80, divine service,
English, at 2:3O p. M; Sunday school
at $3.50 p. m.
Beginning with the first Sunday in
May, the regular hour of service will
be at 10:45 in the morning, and will
continue at that hour throughout the
summer.
E. c. HALLSTEIN, Pastor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27
Observations
BY CONG. HAROLD KNUTSoN
President Makes Gesture.

One would indeed have to be an
optimist to hope for anything bene-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-27

Liberia is country occupied only
by negroes, many of them in low
state of civilization.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
CAN WE KEEP OUT OF WAR

Strong is the hope of the Ameri-
can people that we will not again
become involved in European war.
Not SO strong, Judging by standard
public opinion polls, is the faith
that we will be able to keep neutral.
A very considerable segment OF the
population believes that we would
eventually go to the aid OF the
European democracies if they We're
forced to wage war against the die
tatorships-at least, if the war went
on for some length of time and the
relationships seemed to have the ad-
vantage.
And so the United States is pre-
pairing for war-and this prepared
ness does not only involve the larg-
est military expenditures in our
peace-time history. Also involved is
a plan for IN Day" (Mobilization
Day., prepared largely by military
officials, which, on the outbreak of
hostilities, would have an immediate
and drastic effect on every indivi-
dual and every business in the land.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
Cabinet Makers Work
From Cradle to Coffin

The scope covered by the work of
Chester county, Pa, cabinet makers
was literally from the cradle to the
coffin. The daybooks are filed with
orders for these two articles, which
with that other symbol of mans
redundancy, the bed, seems to have
been the most popular furniture Of
the day. In between, of course,
were the various articles which
man used and from which he drew
a large measure of comfort during
his earthly existence, writes David
Stockwell in American Collector"
There were chairs, tables for dining
and other purposes, chests of
drawers for storing his clothes,
desks for his accounts and letters,
tall clocks to measure the passing
Of time, and sundry items that filed
the home of the Eighteenth and
early Nineteenth centuries. ALI
these were made, and made well, by
the cabinet makers Of Chester coun-
ty.
According to the records, how
ever, it was late in the Eighteenth
century before any craftsman Of
this section actually styled himself
cabinet maker. The reason is not
far to seek if one remembers that
Chester county had no large GEN.
tiers of population at the time.
There was no courthouse in
Goshen and the town of West Ches-
ter was not only unincorporated, but
consisted of little group Of houses
at crossroads known as Turks
Head. Through the hills and hol-
lows of the county, every township,
hamlet or tiny cluster Of houses had
its own group Of artisans. These
were cobbler, tailor, potter, a
wheelwright, a joyner, whitesmith,
blacksmith, and possibly, if the
farmers were prosperous enough, q
silversmith and cabinet maker.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
Business Head Keeps at
His Job in 91st Year

CHARDON, OHIO. - Arthur L.
Johnson, 81, believed to be the old.
est active business man in this Sec
ton, still is going strong, working
at his office desk every day.
When johnson was &C., the age
many men decide to sit back and
watch the world, he opened an office
and warehouse for sale of fertilizer
and farm machinery.
He never has worn glasses. He
is hale and hearty, his face unwrin-
killed.. He looks only about 60.
"The old man with the scythe
hasn't seemed to be able to make
any inroads on me-" Johnson said.
"Perhaps it's because keep con-
tinually active"
The biggest laugh he has had in
years was occasioned when an in
surance agent tried to write him q
policy, believing he was about go.
Johnson, who was a farmer until
he opened his present business, is
looking forward to his regular ac-
tivity nine years hence-when he
starts his Tooth year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
French Boat Clubs

Enthusiasm for inland water tour
ing along the rivers and canals OF
France has developed so rapidly
that three of the large boating clubs
of France, the Kayak club, the Ca
noe club and the French Federation
for Canoes, have published guides in
three languages, giving full informa-
ton as to each river, and including
80 maps, given free upon request to
the French government tourist bu-
reau or through the Touring Club OF
France, Foreign membership In
these boating clubs are available at
q very reasonable fee. The most
practicable boat for water touring
Is a folding kayak with fore and aft
canvas decks under which are
roomy, water-tight compartments
for baggage. Open canoes are also
popular, which like the kayaks, are
often equipped with easy-de-masting
sail arrangements.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
The Shield Back Chair

The most graceful furniture pro-
duced in England in the late Eight
zenith century came from the shops
Of George Hepplewhite, master
craftsman. He improved and per-
fected the shield-back chair and
relied on graceful curved outlines
for much of the beauty he put into
his furniture. He used mahogany
wood and inlaid it with exquisite
and rare woods. Hepplewhite also
produced oval and heart-shaped
backs. Some of these chair backs
follow the shape of Grecian vase,
others the Tyre shape. Ears Of
wheat were cleverly carved to form
the decorative motif inside the oval
frame of chair backs. He used the
"Prince of Wales Feathers" as a
decorative motif, probably original
ing it for furniture made by him for
the then prince Of Wales, who later
became King George Nv.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
BACK TO SCHOOL

This week the public schools of
our county reopened, and the I'M
preston gained by the ordinary OBJ
server was that Shakespeare picture
of "the whining school-boy, with
his satchel and shining face, creep
ing like snail unwillingly to
school," might very readily be
revised. For, in the main, young
American seemed rather glad to get
back to the old school.
Vacation days have been long
enough; old companions are call
ing; there Is curiosity about the
new room, or the new teacher. Ger
tainly nothing speciality rebellious
or even reluctant is to be noted in
our young students demeanor as,
spic and span, he joins the throngs
that respond to the bell.
The story of the public school is a
veritable American epic. What
would the founders of the Nation
think of this colossal and splendid
development? George Washington's
first teacher was an old slave named
Hobby. The Father of his country
probably learned to read from one
of the old-fashioned hornbooks,
which consisted of scrap of parch-
ment nailed to block of wood and
covered with sheet of transparent
horn. Imagine the youthful George
looking in on modern schoolroom
SO marvellous in furnishings and
equipment.
More than hundred years ago,
and born in the same year, 1887,
Horace Mann and Henry Barnard
began the work that lifted the little
pioneer schools of the United States
from proverty and insignificance to
their present position of honor.
Surely men of this stamp should be
memorialized in painting and stRtu-
airy, at least equally with generals
on prancing horses, or soldiers car
rying guns.
Years ago, a United State Am
bassador, Joseph Choate, declared
before the professors Of a British
university, Education has been the
chief industry of the United States. F."
The exaggeration is pardonable
one, in view Of the facts. In that
essential industry" the public
school is and has been a major, Wit
al, indispensable factor.
As for Johnnie in his new suit,
on his way to see his new teacher
why, as he skips along the street,
we doff our hats, click our heels,
and salute him as the hope OF
democracy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
Streamlining Furnishes
Strength Without Weight

Everything is being "streamlined"
nowadays, and the automobile was
one of the leaders several years
ago, yet in the case Of the car
strengthened" would be the more
appropriate term.
The smooth lines Of the automo-
bile are nice to look at, and carry
an easy suggestion Of frictionless
motion, yet in actual fact, the chief
purpose of the gentle curves is to
furnish strength without weight.
The motive is exactly the same as
that behind the stupendous swoop-
ing lines Of the great steel bridges
from Brooklyn to San Francisco
bay.
Smoothing the exterior Of the auto
mobile has little perceptible effect
on air resistance until very high
speeds are attained, and several
changes would be made in today's
car designs if reduction Of wind re-
sistance were the primary engineer
ing objective.
On the other hand it would take
hundreds of pounds of added re-
Enforcement to make square-built
vehicle as strong and rattleproof as
the modern car. Keeping the weight
down makes the car more efficient
and economical at all speeds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
High Cost Cuts
Into Dope Use
Waning Trade Of Peddlers
Is Announced by u. S.
Special Agents.

WASHINGTON. - The peddler's
price for narcotics is up; and fed
eral agents see signs that their
Tightening grip is cutting off the traf-
fic in habit-forming drugs.
High prices for illicit drugs, said
Narcotics Commissioner Harry J..
Anslinger, indicate the effectiveness
of agents in stopping the supply.
Shortly after April raids in Kansas
City resulted in SO indictments, he
related, narcotics became so scarce
on the West coast that robberies of
drug stores and forgery of doctors
prescriptions increased. Anslinger
declared:
"Our prosecution in Kansas City
appears to have cut off an impor-
tant source of supply for the dis
tributors. The price of morphine in
San Francisco has more than dou-
bled. The dealers and their Gus
toners must be desperate If they
are resorting to robbery and forg-
cry"
Arrests East, Too.
Another sign of the tighter block
ade on narcotics, he asserted, was
the attempt of oriental producers to
slip narcotics into America on the
East coast. Thus they sought to
get around thousands of guards
watching the West coast.
An arrest in Norfolk, Va, dis
closed an attempt to ship opium in
barrels of vegetable oil via Seattle
to Norfolk. The treasury's narcot-
les informants, scattered around the
world, had tipped off the shipment.
When the barrels reached Norfolk,
they were put under a Horoscope.
Like an X-ray it showed the secret
containers inside.
About 10000 coast guardsmen and
$50 customs agents work with the
$50 narcotics agents in the treas
ury's fight against the evil.
Japs Use More Dope.
Meanwhile, worldwide survey
showed, Anslinger said, that while
the laws effectiveness against the
narcotics traffic had increased in
most nations, widespread drug
addiction was reported among jap
anese soldiers in conquered portions
of China.
This was the information An
Singer brought back from a meet
ing of the opium advisory commit
tee of the league of nations. For
diplomatic reasons, the federal men
will not give their own opinions of
Japan's part in the narcotics prob
lem. But the league group, which
Japan boycotted this year, has
charged the oriental nation with
promoting narcotics distribution
among the Chinese to weaken their
resistance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
Young Belgian Bachelors
Can Choose Wives Here

object: Matrimony." That Is the
sign which might well be hung over
the dinner table in Ecaussines, Bel
GUM, when the young ladies Of the
town give their annual banquet for
bachelors. It occurs every Whit
Monday, usually in May, and its
fame has spread far from the lit
tie village, which lies about rs miles
south Of Brussels. Manageable
gentlemen come from far and near
to enjoy the hospitality of the maid
ems, and during the course Of the fes-
tival are expected to study their
hostesses carefully with a view to
what kind Of wives they would
make.
II the food is to a mans liking,
and the young lady who cooked it
sufficiently affable and pretty, the
chances are that marriage will
follow shortly. OF course, she too
must be willing, but since all the
girls who take part in the fete are
anxious to settle down and raise
family, they are not inclined to be
over-finicky. They entertain their
guests in various ways with dane
ing, conversation, and general mer-
riment, but making the most of their
ability to keep the masculine palate
satisfied with good things to eat.
The food served at the dinner Is
prepared with all the skill Of the fin
est Belgian cookery. 1t has been
said of the culinary art In Belgium
that 1t Is ''like the best French cook
ing, only more Of it." Thackeray,
writing necrly century ago, tells
Of an ordinary Belgian hotel meal
which included: "Pea soup, melon,
boiled salmon, carp stewed in
mushrooms, roast turkey, buttered
caulifower, fllets Of venison, roast
veal, roast lamb, rice pudding,
Gryere cheese, and about "A kinds
Of cake" Menus are equally elabo-
rate today, with the addition of doz-
ems of ''hors d'oeuvres" to be sam
pied before the meal proper; and
whether or not the bachelors who 60
to Ecaussines all get wives, they are
all sure Of repast fit for royalty.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
WAGES OF WORKERS OVER 05
YEARS OF AGE

More than 2,756 men and women
| in Maryland who reached age So
during the 1887, 1898, and 1889,
after working for sometime In jobs
covered by old-age insurance provi-
sions, have received lump-sum pay
ments from the Social Security
Board. Despite the fact that they
have already received such lump
sum payments, some of them can
claim monthly benefits under the
amended Social Security Act. Others
not entitled to monthly benefits, by
continuing to work, may become
eligible later on. This statement
was made today by Luther Becker,
manager of the field Office of the
Social Security Board, who said that
every effort is being made to inform
workers 65 years of age or over
that they still have a chance to
qualify for monthly benefits. In no
case will such benefits amount to
less than $40 per month; and once
qualified, these older insured work.
ers may receive regular benefit pay
ments every month for the rest of
their lives.
Special consideration for older
men and women is manifested in the
provision which enables a worker
to extend his wage record beyond
his 65th birthday and thereby add
little each month to his retire
ment benefits.
"In other words" said Mr.. Beck
err "the clause in the original law
which excluded worker after age
| IS has been cancelled. Under the
revised act, worker may continue
adding to his wage record, year
after year, as long as he keeps his
| job with an industrial or COM
mercial concern. Now beginning
January 1, 1881 commercial and
industrial workers, even though
they are IS years old and have re-
ceived 1ump-sum payments, are per-
mitted to re-enter the system and
again avail themselves of the fin
ancial protection of Government old
age insurance.
In explaining changes in the act
regarding elderly workers, Mr.
Becker used this illustrations: An in
sured worker who reached age SIS
January /, 1888, filed claim for pay
ment of benefits; received his one
check from the Social Security
Board; kept his same job through
1898; and continues in such en-
ployment this year and next. His
wages during 1887, 1898 and 1910
will be credited to his social secur-
ity account, but his employment dur
ing 1898 (after he reached age 65)
will not count toward monthly ben
efits because at that time employ
ment after age 65 was not covered
by old-age insurance. A clause in the
new law makes it possible for him
to receive credit for wages paid to
him in covered employment after
January 1, 1899, whether he works
one month or twenty years after
his 65th birthday. And the longer he
works the greater his retirement
benefits will become.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-09-08
Canada's Status

Canada, like Australia, New Zea-
land and South Africa, Is a self
governing part Of the British en-
pire or Commonwealth of Nations.
She pays no taxes to the mother
country and is not bound to render
her military help in time of war.
Her governor-general Is appointed
by the king on the advice Of the
Canadian ministry, and has a theo-
retical veto power over legislation.
The supreme judicial authority Of
the British empire is the judicial
committee of the Privy council in
London, before which appeals may
be brought Tin the form Of a petit
ton to the CROWN from consular
courts and courts of vice-admiralty
and from the courts Of India and
every British dominion. India has
a limited amount of self-govern-
ment with two native legislative
chambers. Other portions of the
empire consist Of crown colonies
and nrofsctorates.