Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-01-18
Plans Made For
Annual City
Winter Carnival
St. Paul Group Will Run
Special Snow Train to
County Seat.

Pine City's annual winter carnival
will be held on Sunday, January Fl.
Various local committees have been
working hard on preparations for
the day and have things about ready.
There is every indication the car
nival will be by far the largest win
ter festival ever held in this section
of the state The Midway CONNER
cial club, at meeting Monday eve
ming, officially designated the trip to
Pine City as the winter outing cele-
bration for members of the club. The
club, the largest commercial club in
the Twin Cities, is composed of 81
units, practically all the large manu-
featuring and business concerns in
the Midway district being members.
1t is not known at this time just how
many of their marching clubs will
come to Pine City, but ten or more
are expected.
The Midway club will run ''snow
train" to Pine City for the carnival
here, over the Northern Pacific. The
train will leave the Union depot in
st. Paul on the morning of the car
nival, Sunday, January 81, at 9 a. m,
arriving at Pine City at 11:30 o'clock.
The special will be met at the depot
by a reception committee and the
Pine City school band. Herb Imholt,
chairman of the st. Paul outing COM
mittee, and officials of the club will
be presented with large key to the
village and extended welcome by
Mayor James E. Sullivan. The train
will leave here for the return trip
to the city at $50 p. m.
Big Parade.
The parade will be a dandy. In
addition to marching clubs from the
Midway club, to be announced later,
there will be the Purity Baking Co.
drum and bugle corps, the Hilex Com
pany drum and bugle corps with 40
or more members, the Midway chap
ter of Isaak Walton League will have
a float and marching club, the St. Paul
Vocational school will send steam
calliope and maybe marching club
Pine City marching club, Battery E.
school band, Bazooka band and the
Askov, Hinckley and Rush City little
German bands have been invited.
Entertainment Features.
Some of the entertainment features
for the carnival, in addition to the
parade, will be a winter sports pro-
gram in the afternoon consisting of
skating races, dog race and other
ice sports, tobogganing, sleigh-rides,
etc.
The feature attraction will be the
ice follies revue in the evening. The
show will be furnished by the ST.
Paul Figure Skating club, with many
skating champions taking part There
will be figure and fancy skating, a
skating ballet, comedy numbers, etc
The ice show will be held on the
village rink starting at 7:3O o'clock.
A large rink will be cleared off on
Cross lake SO visitors will have plenty
of opportunity for skating, as the
village rink will be used for the pro-
gram and ice show The snow will
be cleared off and the ice flooded
Saturday so there will be a fine sheet
of ice.
Boy Scouts, under supervision OF
Scoutmaster George Saunders, will
collect all the Christmas trees and
these will be placed on the shore
near the rink on the lake, to provide
a big bonfire and place for skaters
and spectators to warm themselves
during the afternoon.
Another entertainment feature will
be sleigh-rides and toboggan rides
on the lake during the afternoon
Visitors will be given rides around
the lake free of charge.
A toboggan slide will be fixed up
at the end of the street, in front of
the Phil Hamlin home, running down
onto the lake. An approach will be
constructed on the street to give
plenty of speed for the slide, which
will continue on down the bank and
out onto the ice.
Ski Jump East of Town.
Bernard Odegard, John Gallik and
others living east of town, have con-
structed ski jump on the Odegard
place on the st. Croix road. The
Jump has a 40-foot tower and it is
possible to make a jump of 80 or
80 feet. Odegard and Gallik at
tended the meeting Tuesday evening
and invited the carnival committee
to make use of the jump in any way
possible for entertainment of carni-
val visitors. A ski tournament may
be held and visitors from the city
will be transported to the ski Jump