Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-11-28
Village Election Tuesday.


scheduled for Tuesday, December 3, at
the village hall. Under the recently
enacted law candidates for office
must file with the village clerk in
order to have their names on the bal
lot and the customary village caucus
is discarded.
1t is quite evident that the incum-
bent officers in AskOv are rendering
satisfactory service as there is abso-
lutely no opposition. Voters of course
have the privilege of writing in any
name they wish.
Tuesdays ballot will appear as fol-
lows: For trustee, three years, Will
ford Olesen; treasurer, two years,
Thorvald Andersen; clerk, two years,
George l. Glen; assessor, two years,
Rasmus Petersen; constable, two
years, Clarence Morgensen; justice Of
peace, two years, T. N. Thomson:
justice of peace, one year, Hans
MOsbaek.
The annual election in the local
Danish Brotherhood lodge takes place
Saturday evening, December 7.
Viggo Lunde came together with
the Axel Brus family from Cali
fornia for visit at the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Lunde.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rasmus Petersen and
Mr.. and Mrs. George I. Glenn and
Cleo spent Thanksgiving at the senior
r1pyo homo IL, Pnyou
Arnold Sorensen, who has been en-
ployed at Lake City, S. D., since the
latter part of August, returned Mon
day to the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Carl S. Sorensen.
Rev. and Mrs. j. P. Andreasen and
children from West Denmark, Wis.
spent the weekend with friends here
being guests at the Rev. M. Mikkel-
sen home.
Carl Johansen, who has been work
ing in the vicinity of South Haven
Mich, came to Askov yesterday and
expects to spend the winter here
Enroute he stopped for a weeks visit
at the N. c. Bendiks home near Chi
cago.
No less than seven members of the
school faculty left on the evening
flyer (Which stopped in Askov) We'd
nesday of last week to spend Thanks
giving and the weekend at their re-
spective homes. School naturally was
dismissed for the balance of the week
as is customary.
Conrad Christensen, manager of the
Danish Brotherhood hall, states tina,
the contemplated repair evening fol
the D. B. S. scheduled for Saturday
evening, November 80, has been can
celled. The hall has been rented out
for other purposes. D. B. S. members
please note.
w. Schoon and C. j. Scholten from
Steen, left the first of the week af-
ter doing several days of hunting
here. The American acknowledge:
a pleasant call. Mr.. Schoon was as
sistant sergeant at arms at the state
capitol when Hjalmar Petersen pre-
sided over the State Senate.
Visitors at the Ingerd StrandskoI
home for Thanksgiving were Mis-:
Ragnhild Strandskov of Chicago, Har.
old and Michael Miller, students al
the University in Minneapolis, Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Sevareid, Hermoe
and Folmer Strandskov and Mr.. anc
Mrs. VS.. Petersen and Elm anc
Valdemar, Jr., all of Minneapolis.
Mrs. Ellen Hojrup, supreme treas.
urer of the Danish Sisterhood, anC
her daughter, Esther, of Mime.
apolis, were among the many motor.
lists who were stranded in the recen
snowstorm. Being enroute to Min.
neapolis from Duluth they were ma.
rooned for ii hours in snowdrift
Esther had the misfortune t.
: freeze both her feet and has beer
under doctors care since.
Rudolph E. Petersen came Friday
from Minneapolis for visit at thu
home of his father, Rasmus Peder.
sen. Mr.. Petersen stated that they
had a very successful summer a
Camp White Earth, in the north.
western part of the state. He is O
course now back as physical educa'