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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
State Fair Will
Feature II New
Fruits, Plants
Apples, Pears, Plums and
Vegetables to be New Hor-
ticultural Show Exhibits.

Twelve new varieties of plants and
vegetables including a new apple,
plum, Bantam pear and bush cucum-
Der, will be exhibited for the first
time in the horticultural display at the
Minnesota state fair, August "a to
September 2.
Perfected by University of Mime
sofa after years of painstaking cross
breeding and selection, the new va
rieties are developed for Minnesota
weather and soil conditions, accord
ing to Prof. w. H. Alderman, chief
of the division of horticulture, Univer-
sity of Minnesota.
Adapted for Short Season.
The new varieties indicate Min
nesota is well on its way as leading
fruit and vegetable area of the North
west. The 1910 exhibits will include
varieties that are especially adapted
for the short growing season of north
ern Minnesota.
Ready for distribution is the new
Bantam pear, a small, but luscious
green-fruited variety suitable for des-
sert or canning. For 25 years, this
fruit has been developed for growth
in the northwest and combines for the
first time high quality dessert fruit
that is highly resistant to severe cold
and fire blight disease.
Also ready is the newly named
Prairie Spie apple, variety of I'M
known parentage, as is the Bantam
pear. Records on these fruits were
confused during the war years of
1917-18 when inexperienced help was
necessary on the experimental farms.
The new apple is crisp, nutty in flavor
and an excellent keeper. 1t is suitable
for eating or cooking.
New Grape Varieties.
Three new grape varieties will be
shown. Two are dessert varieties
developed from native wild stock and
crossed with the large eastern red
grapes. The third, is a vintage or
jelly grape, developed from wild and
blue varieties. Two types of large
red plums, one a freestone variety,
will make their bow.
Praised by gardeners is the Iron
Range tomato, an early ripening
variety of high yield and excellent
quality. Another tomato, the Min
gold, yellow in color and rich in
Vitamin G is being introduced.
To provide three to four-pound
squash for small families, the Green
gold has been perfected. A new bush
cucumber, the Midget, can be grown
in limited space and is suitable for
picking or slicing. The Mincu is
another new picking variety, with
high yield. A new bean is the Duluth
Snap, similar to Brittlewax.
Competitive premiums for the hor-
ticulture department total $500, it
was announced by William A. Linde-
mann, superintendent.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
Aggies Will Meet
At Mile Laos Lake

A get-together of former students,
graduates and friends of the School
of Agriculture, in Benton, Morrison,
Crow Wing, Cass, Aitkin, Carlton,
Kanabec and Pine counties will be
held on Sunday, August 4, at the
Indian Trading Post on the west side
of Mile Laos lake, announces Super
intendent J. O. Christianson, Univer-
sity Farm, st. Paul.
Those who wish to bring their pic
mic dinners may do so and visit be-
fore the program begins at p. m.
All Aggies are urged to attend and
to bring their relatives and friends.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
Dedication Date Changed

The date of the dedication pro-
gram for the Mrs. Rigmor Petersen
memorial west of Askov, has been
changed from August 4 to Sunday,
September Is.
The committee in charge states that
conflicting dates made the change
necessary and that details of the pro-
gram will be given later.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
Depot Hearing
Held At Belden

A hearing was held in Belden Mon
day afternoon on petition of the 500
Line railway to have service at the
depot there discontinued because of
insufficient revenue to operate the
station. It had been under custodian
service with Mrs. E. T. Hogan in
charge.
James Smith and Hjalmar Petersen
of the Railroad and Warehouse Com
mission were in Belden to have charge
of the hearing. The case was taken
under Amusement.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
Last Rites Today
For VIM. Paddock

Death came Tuesday morning for
one of Kerrick's Oldest residents when
William Nesbit Paddock passed away
at the University hospital in Mime
apolis. He had gone to the cities two
days previously for checkup. Death
was attributed to heart failure.
He was born in Sussex County,
New Jersey, on Sept. %, 1864, and
was united in marriage to Miss Nettie
King on Oct. 81, 1888. They cele-
brated their golden wedding two years
ago. At the time of their marriage
they lived at Abel, Iowa, and in 1901
they moved west, living on a farm
near Washington Springs, S. D., Com
ing to Minnesota they lived for time
near Markville, returning to South
Dakota later. In 1880 they came to
Kerrick and have resided there since
Wife, Five Children Survive.
Six children were born to this I'M
ion. They are John of Kerrick,
Charles of White Lake, S. D., Mrs.
Clara Smith of Bruno, Mrs. Thelma
Neumeyer of Kerrick, Mrs. Grace
Randall of Seattle, and Mrs. Mary
Southerton, deceased. Mrs. Paddock
still survives and is residing at Ker-
rick with her son, John.
Funeral services will be held today
at the Presbyterian church in Ker-
rick with interment being made in the
Riverside cemetery. To his friends,
Mr.. Paddock was BILL" a fine and
honest man. He had dry humor
that was always there and a ready
wit, tempered with kindness. Those
who knew him best respected him
for his fine manly qualities and his
sterling honesty and feel they have
lost a valued friend.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
Missionary BociE
Give Talks Here

Rev. Anton Lundeen, former mis-
sionary in China, will speak in the
several churches of the Bruno Luth-
eran parish from Thursday evening
until Sunday evening. The visiting
missionary has made extensive visits
to Lutheran missions in India and
Africa.
On Thursday evening moving pic
lures of foreign mission work will
be shown in Duquette and on Satur-
day evening in Bruno. The public
is invited.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
Red Cross Attains
Coal OF $4,000, 200

Norman H. Davis, national chair
man of the American Red Cross, will
make a 15-minute address over the
Columbia Broadcasting system Fri
day, July 26, at p. m, central stand
ard time, reporting the attainment of
the $20,OOO,000 war relief fund goal.
In his report Mr.. Davis will tell of
the uses to which these funds have
been and will be put.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25

The regular schedule of the Twi-
light D-Ball League will end tonight
when Askov plays the Inmates at the
Correctional Institution. 1t will be
necessary to play few rained out
and postponed games before the
championship play-off contestants can
be determined.
Hinckley- Inmates Game Close.
In games Monday night Friesland
CONTINUED on Page 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
Outing To Be Held Later

A Sportsman Outing which was
to have been held Sunday, July %,
at Grindstone Lake, has been post
poned until some time in August.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
Twilight D-Ball
League Schedule
Winds Up Today
Play-Off Contestants to be
Selected Soon for Cham.
pionship Tits.

Schedule of Coming Games.
Thursday (tonight) Askov VS.. In
mates at Correctional Institution.
Standing of the Teams.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25

If you feel that you are being
wronged all the time-look within.
The trouble may be inside.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25
Unbeaten Teams
To Clash Sunday
Hinckley-Moose Lake to
Wage Fight on Formers
Diamond for First Place.
Schedule Sunday, July %.

Rutledge at Denham, Moose Lake
at Hinckley, Beroun at Willow River,
MahtoWa at Sandstone.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-07-25

A stimulant lets man down a lit
tie farther than it pulls him up.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
REVENUES In APRIL
FOR THE PHONE PEOPLE

Operating revenues in April for
The Chesapeake and Potamoc Tele-
phone Company of Baltimore City,
serving the State of Maryland, a.
mounted to $1,44O,599 as compared
with $1,333,673 for the same month
of 1889, according to the report of OPP
erations just filed with the Maryland
Public Service Commission.
Operating expenses, including tax
es, amounted to $1,1S5,6O7 which was
$125,477 more than for the same
month last year. Net income for the
month of April was $254,992, which
was $18,551 less than for the same
month last year.
Taxes for April amounted to $685.
436, or about Is per cent Of the Gus
toners telephone bills. Taxes for
April, 1910 were $7,56S more than
for April, 1889. For 4 months Of
1910 taxes amounted to $S14,433,
which is $42,498 or about 6 per cent,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07

Westminster, attending the commence
ment exercises of her cousin, Miss
Anna Lee Long.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cottman and
daughter, Betty and Mrs. Walter
Long spent Sunday afternoon with
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Evans of Will
liams neighborhood.
Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Willis visited
their son-in-law and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Baker at Georgetown,
Del, last week.
Mr.. Hugh Long and Mr.. Walter
Long attended the commencement ex-
ercises of the formers sister, Miss
Anna Lee Long at Western Maryland
College, Westminster, Md. They
were accompanied home by Mrs. E.
W. Long who spent the weekend
there and also by Miss Anna Lee.
Miss Ruth Beauchamp of Pocomoke
City, spent last Sunday at the home
Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. c.
Beauchamp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Covington
and family spent Sunday with Mrs.
Carrie Swiggett at Snow Hill, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
Simple Erosion Controls
Will Check Small Gullies

For small gullies-those less than
three feet deep-comparatively SIM
pie erosion controls are recommend
ed. Large gullies and those with
extensive drainage areas usually can
be stabilized only by using combi-
nation of protective measures.
The first step in gully control is to
keep as much runoff as possible out
Of the gully channel. For this pur-
pose, retarding water draining into
the gully is often enough, but in
some cases a diversion ditch just
above the head of the gully may be
necessary.
Once the retention or diversion
measures have been applied, control
of the gully becomes much simpler.
To protect the channel from further
securing, use adapted vegetation
grasses, vines, trees, and shrubs
wherever possible. Structural de-
vices are recommended only to help
establishment of vegetation or to pro-
vide permanent protection at points
that cannot be protected in any 9TH
er way.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
High-Quality Eggs
Bring Good Prices

Consumers who want high quality
graded eggs are willing to pay more
for them when they have assur-
ance that the eggs really are of high
quality, say egg-marketing special.
lists of the agricultural marketing
service.
While the relatively higher prices
charged for better eggs might be
expected to discourage consump-
ton, just the opposite has been true
in states where egg grading pro-
grams have been followed.
According to the egg-marketing
specialists, consumers of the better
grades of eggs appreciate two fea-
lures of a well-conducted grade
marketing system. They are as
sured of the superior quality of the
better grades, and of the quality
that comes with the purchase of a
product properly handled from the
time 1t was graded to the time it
reaches them.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
O'CONOR'S SAFETY
COMMITTEE NOW
SEEING ACTION
Is Fighting StrenuOusly To Re-
duce Number OF Accidents
On State Highways

With Maryland and the country as
whole showing a sharp upward
trend in fatal accidents over the past
three months, Governor Herbert r
O'Conor's Maryland Traffic Safety
Committee is preparing to swing into
high gear in it's fight to reduce the
number of accidents on Maryland's
streets and highways during the
heavy travel period just ahead.
Coincident with the announcement
of a. determined "selective enforce
ment" program against speeders and
other law violators, the Committee
has announced the coming installation,
through cooperation with the State
Roads Commission, Of a number of
speed actuated" traffic lights at
dangerous points and intersections.
On the Washington Boulevard, for
instance, where residents have COM
planned that local and out-o-state
motorists fail to heed the 30-mile-
liIllI SlSio1 tuC0c IlSW LTdlllC llSuCS
will be installed to assure compliance
with the law. The lights work from
a treadle and are so regulated that
a motorist passing over the treadle
at legal 80 mile an hour speed will
find the light green on his arrival
there. However, if the speed is
greater than 80 miles, the motorist
will find the red light showing, and
have to bring his machine to a halt.
Two points that Governor O'Conor's
Committee asks every resident of the
State to bear in mind are these: One,
that more than so per cent of the
fatalities during the past year were
among pedestrians. The moral of
this is the pedestrians should be more
careful in walking along roadsides,
and in crossing streets and roads,
particularly at night.
The second point stressed is the de-
STABILITY of dimming lights when ap-
preaching other machines, as records
show that bright headlights cause a
large portion of fatal accidents.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
JAP BEETLE TO
BE APPEARING
HERE VERY SOON
Large Numbers Have Been
Found Just Below The Sur
face Of The Ground

It is expected that the Japanese
beetles will soon be appearing in
larger number than last year. Counts
have been made Of the beetle grubs in
various sections of the county and
large numbers have been found just
below the surface of the ground, feed
ing on roots of plants. Young straw
berry plants set out this spring have
been badly injured by the grub of
the beetle.
Last year $4,000 beetles were trap
ped in Princess Anne, Marion and the
Kings Creek section, not counting a.
bout 2342 quarts, 5000 beetles to the
quart which were caught in the 1887
traps operated by $50 farmers.
Traps will again be operated in
Princess Anne, Marion, Paramount
and Crisfield and 5000 traps are a.
valuable for the farmers of the coun-
ty.
The method of distribution this
year will be on a lease basis. The
traps cannot be sold because it is
state property. However the traps
will be leased for a period of two
years for 15c each.
Farmers will take the traps home,
operate them and keep them for next
year, at which time new bait will be
furnished. The traps need not be re-
turned at the close of the season. It
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07

is important that the farmers will OPP
crate as many traps as is possible, in
order to retard the development of
the japanese beetles in this county.
Reservations for traps can be made
at the office of the county agent, and
the farmers will be advised when they
can obtain the traps.
The trapping of the beetles is only
one phase of the program. Parasites
have been released and an area of so
miles is being treated with the milky
white disease in order to reduce the
beetles.
Loading points at Princess Anne,
Kings Creek and Westover will again
be sprayed in order to reduce the
number of beetles during the shipping
season.
It is expected that all of the 5000
traps will be distributed and ready to
be operated on the farms by the last
of this month.
Don't delay reserving the traps that
you wish to operate this season.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
FARM
Tories
FARM PLANNING
PAYS DIVIDENDS
Definite Schedule Saves Soil
and Equipment.
By M. l.. MOSHER

Farm plans have the same i'm
portance to the farmer as an archi-
tect's plans and specifications to q
building contractor.
Because of the farmers knowl-
edge of his farm and its produc-
tivity, he is in a better position to
do his own planning than anyone
else. A farmer who makes his own
plan will understand it, appreciate
it and enjoy putting it into opera
ton.
Five distinct steps in farm plan
ming present themselves from the
standpoint of the farm management
specialist. First is the making Of
an inventory of the physical re-
sources of the farm; second, set
ting up longtime land-use plan
as a goal towards which to work;
third, fitting the live stock program
to the needs of the farm; fourth,
planning the marketing program
and estimating expenses, and fifth,
outlining the transition from the
present plan to the new plan.
Any plan is not likely to be per-
feet in all it's details, but if it pro-
vides for some improvement over
the present plan or over no plan,
it will be worth while. The revi-
sion of the plan may be necessary
from time to time because of new
solutions to old problems, chang
ing conditions and emergencies.
Twenty years experience in study
ing farm accounts in the depart
ment of agricultural economics at
the University of Illinois is the ba-
sis for this treatment of the farm
plan.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
Local and Rural News

last week LOT All eAVeHucu SIoy IL
Florida.
Rev. and Mrs. r. B. Stewart motor.
ed to Baltimore and Philadelphia last
week.
Mrs. William Hall Beach is spend
ing part of the week in Washington
d. c.
Mrs. M. S. Busick, of Baltimore,
is the guest of her mother, Mrs. j.
Harry Young.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Landlord and
son, Robert, were in Baltimore the
early part of the week.
DIR. and Mrs. Norman Sartorius,
Jr., spent a part of last week with
relatives in Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Benjamin T. Dryden enter
tanned very delightfully."- at a bridge
supper on Thursday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erland Etcheson spent
the weekend with friends and rela-
tives in Gaithersburg, Md.
Miss Jennie Moore, of New York,
has been the recent guest of Mrs. A.
]. Clay at the Manse.
Miss Marian Jeanne VESSELS is Wis
ting her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Vessels, near Parksley.
Mr.. Morris Landlord has returned
to Detroit, Mich, after visit with
relatives in Pocomoke and vicinity.
Mrs. Anna G. Mcclure has had as
her guest her nephew, Mr.. Jack Sum-
mers, of Woodward, Oklahoma.
Miss Jessie Lee Lambden is attend
ing June week at the Naval Academy
in Annapolis.
Mrs. Alonza Birmingham and son,
Elmer Birmingham, are spending the
week in Hagerstown, Nd.
Mrs. ]. R. Hedeman and young son,
of Baltimore, spent the first part of
the week with relatives here.
Mrs. Bowen Taylor, of Los Angeles,
Calf, is the guest of her mother,
Mrs. William S. Bowen.
A regular meeting of Crescent
Chapter No. A o. E. S. will be held
Monday night, June 10th at 1880
o'clock.
Mrs. S. T. Schicktanz and two sons
of Arlington, Va, are visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. Harlan Rob-
ertson.
Mrs. Ralph Lednum has returned
from Westminster where she attended
a reunion of her class at Western
Maryland College.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Gillispie, of
Portsmouth, Va, visited the formers
mother, Mrs. w. F. Gillespie this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand Meyer and
son, and Mrs. G. E. Schoolfield, of
Baltimore, spent part of the week in
Pocomoke.
Mrs. Edward F. Wilson, of Sails
bury, is spending the summer with
her daughter, Mrs Clarence Duncan
of Cedar Street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlton Evans, and
son, Barry, spent the weekend in
Snow Hill, with Mrs. Evans parents
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Richardson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Merrill, of
Wilmington, Del, have been recent
guests of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Merrill, of Clarke Ave.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Aver, of
New York City, spent the past week
end at their cottage at Public Land
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Boston, of Phil
adelphia, motored to Pocomoke Wed
nesday and spent Decoration Day
with his mother, Mrs. jamie Boston
Miss Beatrice Long has returned
home after spending last weekend
with her brother-in-law and sister
Rev. and Mrs. j. W. Mast, at Pungo-
league, Va.
A meeting of the Woman's Demo
cratic Club of Worcester County will
be held Monday, June 10th at 8 P. M.
at the home of Mrs. Crawford Bounds
in Berlin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Gladding, Of
this city and Mr.. and Mrs. William
o. Shockley, of Snow Hill, will spenc
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
Agricultural News

Soil conservationists, after repeat
ed tests, are continuing to find that
plain, old-fashioned grass sod is one
of the best anti-erosion measures.
An HOO pound cow, giving the
equivalent of 40 pounds of per
cent milk per day, can eat roughage
so that she'll need not over eight
to ten pounds of grain per day.
One Of the most talled-of prac-
tees in poultry management in re-
cent years is that Of out-of-season
Matching. Many poultrymen now
hatch chicks in fall, winter, and
spring.
Ten million young men and wom-
en- between the ages of 16 and "A
now live on farms or in small vii
lagos. Two million farm boys and
girls migrated to cities in the dec
ade 1920-29.
A COW will eat almost anything.
Out in California they are making
Gull oranges into silage and feeding
this to their cows. Out in Wash
ington they feed Gull apples to cat
tie, while in the East, some dairy.
men feed them fish meal and meat
scraps for protein.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
THIRD ANNUAL BOAT
PARADE AT OCEAN CITY
CONTINUED from Page u

an dbluefish and at the same time
seeking to sight and land the first
Marlin of the season and clinching
the honors that go with the initial
catch. Last year the first Marlin was
brought into port on June 10th and
it marked the beginning of season
that saw 1,343 of these gamesters sue
cessfully lured by the rod and reelers
and at the same time establishing a
new worlds record.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07
Cokesbury News

The Cokesbury Sunday School will
have their Children's Day services
Sunday night, June 9th at eight
o'clock. Everyone very cordially in
vited.
Miss Margaret Covington, of POGO
moke City, spent the weekend here
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
lace Covington.
Miss Pauline Long spent last week.
end at Western Maryland College,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1940-06-07

more than for the same period in
1889.
Maryland was served by 289, $3.50
telephones on April 80, 1910, which
was an increase of 1921 over the
number in operation on April 80,
1889.
Telephone users made more than
40,227,2 calls during the month,
which was an increase of 1874 per
cent over those made during April Of
1889.