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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
Farm Leaders In
Safety Campaign

Minnesota farm leaders will meet
Friday of this week at University
Farm to take part in a statewide
conference sponsored by the Mime
sofa Safety Council T. A. Erickson,
arrangements chairman, announced
that the conference is part of an in
tensive safety program being con-
Quoted throughout the state in in
dustry, on the highway, on farms, and
in the home.
Fridays conference will center on
applying safety practices to rural
homes and communities. Morning
and afternoon sessions will feature
movies, exhibits, speakers and dem
onstrations on handling livestock, ma
chinery and electricity on the farm.
c. N. Ferguson, director of safety,
U. S. Department of Agriculture, and
Stanley Kershaw, of the National
Safety Council, are among the promi-
nent outside speakers to appear on
the program. DR.. Floyd Feldman,
district health officer for the Mime
sofa department of health, will re-
port on study of farm and home
accidents in a southeastern Mime
sofa county.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
AskOv Youth Weds
Iowa Girl Saturday

Wedding vows were exchanged by
Mr.. Victor Christensen, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Soren K. Christensen of east
of Askov, and Miss LaVoune Brown
of Clarion, Iowa, at a ceremony in
Albert Lea Saturday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. Mr.. and Mrs. Walbe
Morgan of Clarion, were the at
tendants. A reception was held at
the home of the brides parents aft
er the ceremony.
The groom was born and raised in
the Askov community, receiving his
education in the local schools. He
has worked as baker in Askov and
Aitkin and is now employed in a
bakery in Marshalltown, Iowa, where
he and his chosen mate will make
their home. The bride is a gradu-
ate of the Clarion high school. Their
friends will wish them a long life
of happiness together.
Mr.. and Mrs. Soren X. Christensen
and Mrs. Marie Elkjer of Askov, were
in Iowa Saturday to attend the we'd
ding. They returned home Sunday
evening.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
Waterfowl Season
Opens Wednesday

Minnesota duck hunters out yes
terday for the first day of the water
fowl season found plenty of brim-
ming lakes, sloughs and potholes as
a result of the heavy late summer
rains bringing the greatest water sup
ply in more than decade. Conserva-
ton department officials assert that
the increased surface water may
spread the flight of the ducks over
a larger area.
Shooting hours for the season are
sunrise to p. m. daily. Limits are
10 ducks per day, 20 in possession,
with the exception of readheads and
buffleheads (butterballs). Only three
of one or three combined of these
species maybe taken daily, and only
six of either or both may be pos
SeSsed
The season is closed on wood duck,
sandhill cranes, pelicans, Ross geese,
swan and Wilson's snipe or jacksnipe.
Waterfowl hunters must purchase,
in addition to the small game license,
ST Federal duck hunting stamp
The purchaser must sign his name
in ink across the face of it.
The season ends November 20.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
New Traffic Safety
Campaign Is Begun

The Minnesota Editorial Associa-
TONS "Save 100 Lives" committee
closed its Is months period Tuesday
of this week and while its goal was
not reached in full traffic fatalities
since August, 1910, were sharply re-
duced over the total of the previous
corresponding period. Preliminary
reports indicate that the death toll
would be from so to 80 less than for
the period ending August l, 1910.
This saving in human lives in Min
nesota was made at time when the
national toll of highway deaths was
increased by 20 per cent.
The committee has formulated
plans for an intensive campaign dur
ing the final three months this year,
the high traffic death months. Special
stress will be laid on the dangers of
driving while drinking.
John E. Casey of the Jordan indie
pendent, has been selected to sue
coed Basil L. Walters of the Mime
apolis Star Journal and Tribune,
head of the "Save 100 Lives" COM
mittee the first year.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
Traffic Laws In
Revised Edition

The State Highway department an
nounced this week that it has printed
a revised edition of 100000 copies
of the Minnesota traffic laws, for free
distribution in the cause of greater
traffic safety.
The booklets, pocket-size, will be
distributed to the schools through
the department of Education; to To-
cal safety groups by the Minnesota
Safety Council, and to local officials
and individual motorists, upon re-
quest, by the Department of High
ways.
There was little change in the uni
form traffic act by the last legis-
lature except in the provision which
made the revocation of drivers
license mandatory upon conviction
for drunken driving.
The new booklets, however, in ad-
dition to the state traffic regulations,
contain the provisions of present state
laws governing unauthorized use of
a motor vehicle, crimes against pub
lie health and safety, regulations gov
erning the scattering of refuse along
the highway, causing injury to or
obstructing or damaging a highway,
and the laws regulating the use or
sale of fireworks.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
Y0r,ks Take First
Series Game, 3 to 2

Behind the stellar pitching of
their veteran Highlander,
Red" Ruffing, the New York
Yankees squeezed out to 2
win over the National League
champions, the Brooklyn Dodg-
ers, in the opening contest of the
1941 World Series yesterday.
Rufing was assisted by the
fine defensive work of his team
mates when they reeled off a
double play in the ninth inning
to cut short a Brooklyn rally
when the Dodgers had two men
on and only one out. Curt Davis
was the losing pitcher.
The attendance record for
World Series games was broken
when 68, $40 paid admissions en-
tered the Yankee Stadium.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
Rites In Village
Dissatisfaction
APioneerS
Mrs. Emma S. Bisset Had
Resided There Since
1904; Funeral Saturday.

Mrs. Emma Sibson Bisset, a Sand
stone resident since 1904, passed
away last Thursday at the age of rs
years, nine months and one day.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon from the r. N. Sandwich
home in the village with Rev. H. T.
Owen of the Union Congregational
church officiating. Burial was made
in the Spring Hill cemetery with
Alex Kelly, Walfred Peterson, Charles
Edstrom, A. Martin, Aug. Hokenson
and James Tyre serving as pail bear
ers.
The deceased was born in Mt. Sor-
rel, Lestershire, England, on Deem
Der "a, 1865. At an early age she
went with her family to Dalbaettie,
Scotland, where they lived until 1888
when. they moved to the United States
and settled in Graniteville, Mo. They
later moved to Dell Rapids, S. D.
Married in 1884.
On February 81, 1884, she was
united in marriage to James H. Bis
set and to this union six children
were born, five daughters and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bisset came with their
family to Sandstone in August, 1904,
to make their future home. The hus-
band, the oldest daughter, Mary, and
son, Alex, preceded Mrs. Bisset
in death and were laid to rest in
Sandstone.
Surviving members of the family
are four daughters, Mrs. E. B. Percy,
Mrs. j. w. Mulholland and Mrs. c.
Bersch of Minneapolis, and Mrs. R.
NJ Sandwich of Sandstone; six sisters
of Mrs. Bisset, a brother and eight
grandchildren. They have the sim
cere sympathy of their friends in their
sad loss.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
.CCC Issues New
Call For Youths
Official of Rice Lake Camp
to Interview Applicants
Monday.

An official of the Rice Lake CCC
camp located at East Lake, Mimi,
will interview applicants for the
CCC at the Welfare office in Pine
City Monday, October 6, from a. m.
to p. M, it was announced this
week.
Young men who desire to enter the
CCC may now enroll at any time and
they can select the camp to which
they want to 60 according to the
new plan of enrolment which was
recently announced by the Director
of the CCC at Washington, D. c.
Requirements Remain Same.
The prevailing standard and eligi-
bility requirements for selection and
enrolment still remain in effect as
applicants must be unmarried; not
less than II years of age nor more
than 231s years of age on the day of
enrolment and they must be unem-
ployed or in need of employment.
Located upon the Rice Lake Migra-
tory Waterfowl Refuge, 10 miles south
of McGregor, the Rice Lake CCC
camp is engaged in wild-life con-
servation and refuge development.
Maintaining one of the best CCC
educational programs in Minnesota,
the camp has recently organized ma
tional defense training courses in
auto mechanics, metal working and
radio in which enrolees receive Is
hours of instruction per week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
New Procedure For
Employment Offices

Administration adjustments, af-
fecting the Pine City and Sandstone
part-time local offices of the State
Employment Security division and
designed to more speedily meet in
creasing demands of the national de-
Tense program, have been announced
by Victor Christgau, director of the
agency. These changes became eff
fective October 1.
Instead of administering the local
offices through a district director at
st. Cloud, as heretofore, the staff of
VIM. j. Stotts, local manager at Mora,
now will be under the immediate
supervision of the state office, with
F. w. Gogins as area supervisor.
Changes do not affect the personnel
or the service obtainable at the local
office
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
By GEORG STRANDvOLD

AS the situation in the southern
sector of the Russian front is be-
coming increasingly desperate for the
Soviets and dangerous in the north
while the central sector remains,
largely, unchanged, one hears more
and more talk about a British ex-
peditionary force being sent to Cau-
casus to help the Russians defend the
immense oil wells of that province
against German assaults. London de-
MES that such move is being con-
sidered, but it may be here again,
as it is so often with official de-
malls that the rumor which they re-
pudiate, after all, turns out to have
been based on a fact. All that can
be said just now, is that great deal
of talk is being heard along this
line, and that nobody knows any
think about it.
Nazis Going Ahead.
Perhaps it is Understandable that
the German high command exults
about the alleged triumphs which
the nazi legions have won in the
Kiev district in Ukraine, and there
seems to be no doubt that they real
ly have scored victories. But ex-
perience has taught observers the
necessity of taking with a dose of
salt lot of the news dished out
by Berlin. While it seems reasonable,
in the circumstances, to accept Ger
man victory claims, it is equally
reasonable to make allowance for a
good deal of exaggeration when the
Hitler headquarters refers to the
winning of the Kiev battle" as "the
greatest military triumph in the his
tory Of the world. The Germans
have always, in military matters,
too, liked to use the word, "kolos-
sal" ("colossal") even where use Of
it was not warranted by achievement.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
viii Make Home
In State Capital
Finlayson Girl Becomes
Bride of St. Paul Man i'm
Ceremony Saturday.

In single ring ceremony read Sat-
urday morning at o'clock by Father
John F. Strunck in the st. Joseph's
Catholic church in Finlayson, Miss
Laura Drummer, daughter of Mrs.
Margaret Drummer of Finlayson, be-
came the bride of Mr.. Edward Wal
Their, son of Mrs. H. Walther of ST..
Paul.
The matron of honor was the brides
sister, Mrs. Jake Danelski, of Willow
River, and the groom's sister, Mrs.
Frank Nelson of st. Paul, was her
other attendant. The groom was at
tended by Fritz Dummer of Sturgeon
Lake, brother of the bride, and AL
Dummer, another brother, of Chi
cago. Little Janice Dummer of Hast
ings, the brides niece, was flower
girl. The bride was given in mar
riage by her uncle, Carl Dumert, Of
st. Paul. A reception was held at
the home of the brides mother north
of the village, the color scheme Of
yellow and white being used. The
breakfast table was centered with
beautiful cake baked by Mrs. Wal
ter Dahlin.
Many Attend from Away.
Out-of-town guests in attendance
were the groom's mother, Mrs. H.
Walther, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Nelson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Dumert, Mrs.
Frank Elder and daughters, Helen and
Agnes, Mrs. D. Nelson and the Misses
Patricia Moriarity, Maria Mooney
and Irene Yukor, all of ST. Paul; AL
Dummer of Chicago, ILL.,, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frances Drummer and daugh-
ter Janice and Mrs. Anna Drummer of
Hastings; Norbert and Francis Bran
die, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Haber and R..
Roqueim of New Ulm, Mrs. Arnold
Swanson of Winthrop, and Miss YER
ma Caroline of Oregon, beside rela-
tives from Willow River and Stur-
geon Lake.
To Live in st. Paul
The bride has attended schools at
Finlayson and Willow River, gradu-
ating from the high school at Glib
bon, and later took teachers train
ing course at Hinckley. She taught
three years at New Ulm and one
year at her home school northwest of
town. Mr.. Walther is a welder. The
young couple, who will make their
home in st. Paul, have the best
wishes of their friends for a happy
life together.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
.DOWnturns Rule
In Hog Division
Top on Tuesday Slips Be.
low Sill; Cattle Market
Mostly Steady.

South st. Paul, Mimi, September
80, 1941: Downturns continued to
rule in the hog division. Barrows
and gifts were off 10c to Csc, weights
from 100 to $50 pounds showing the
most loss, while sows were 10c lower.
Tuesdays top was $1,000, according
to the Federal State Market News
Service, and was paid freely for good
and choice 100 to 23O pound barrows
and gifts, with the bulk $50 to 270
pound kinds ranging from 5000 to
$1,000. Scattered small lots of 270
to $50 pound offerings turned at
5000 to $10.75, while most 40 to
ITO pound averages were taken at
$10.35 to $10.75. Good sows of all
weights ranged from 1925 to $500,
the outside price usually paid for
weights below $50 pounds. Feeder
pigs were steady to weak, bulk of
the limited supply selling from $1,000
to mostly SLOTS.
Cattle Trade Steady.
No change of consequence devel-
oped in the slaughter cattle trade.
Buyers tried hard to lower costs on
Gamer and cutter cows, but without
success. Tuesdays trade even de-
veloped some activity on the lower
grades of the cow class. Medium to
choice slaughter steers and yearlings
bulked at $3.50 to $11.5O, with sew
eral loads light and mediumweight
steers at $11.75 to SIP. The extreme
top was $12.10 for a few head choice
1857 pound steers. Strictly choice
heavy bullocks reached $11.75. The
practical top on heifers was $11.75,
although an individual reached $12.
Gamer and cutter cows bulked at
$5.25 to $3.50, while good western
cows sold as high as $3.50. Medium
to good bulls brought So to SO. Veal
ers held steady, with a few strictly
choice reaching $14. Choice year.
ling feeder steers brought Sill, the
market on replacement cattle being
generally steady.
Lamb Prices Mostly Steady.
Prices paid for spring lambs and
sheep early in the week were most
ly steady. Native spring lambs cashed
from Sill to $11.35 with bulk of the
crop going at SLIPS. Several loads
of white-faced range ewes were Of
fered, these sorting approximately
SO per cent as breeders.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
Order Rush On
Highway Jobs To
Beat Fall Frosts
Abnormal Rainfall Hin
ders Construction p rO-
gram in State.

With highway construction and
maintenance operations in many sec
tons of the state seriously impeded
by continuous abnormal rainfall,
blanket orders have gone out from
the state highway department to
speed up the work and complete as
much of every important project as
possible before the impending fall
freeze-up.
M. j. Hoffman,, state highway
commissioner, it was disclosed, has
issued instructions to all district en-
gineers, project engineers and con-
tractors to take advantage of every
legitimate opportunity to expedite
progress" before low temperatures
suspend operations on certain types
of work.
Holiday Ban Lifted.
Commissioner Hoffmann's order
carries with it partial lifting of the
ban against Sunday and holiday work,
and empowers each district engineer,
for the balance of the fall construction
season, to issue special permits to
contractors to work on Sundays and
holidays wherever such course ap-
pears necessary to complete work
which has been held back by the I'M
usual amount of wet weather.
The special permission applies to
both maintenance and construction
contracts, and may be for specific
Sundays or extend for the balance
of the season.
Work Behind Schedule.
Commissioner Hoffman, cited as
specifically affected such projects as
sterilization of bases, bituminous sur
facing, concrete paving, bridge build
ing, and many other construction and
maintenance contracts which are be-
hind schedule because of weather
conditions and therefore in special
need of assistance if they are to be
finished this year.
81 wish particularly, Commission
er Hoffmann's order said, "to call
to your attention the necessity of
adequate service to pub
lie traffic when routed through con-
struction operations, and no permis-
sion for Sunday work should be given
which would create undue incon-
venience to Sunday travel. Oiling
operations and heavy windows of
surfacing material should be avoided
if at all possible"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
international News Review
No Separate Peace.

Early this week rumors were heard
to the effect that Germany, glorying
in partial victory, had offered Rus
STA peace on conditions similar to
those which France accepted fifteen
months ago.
Moscow is said to have turned
down the OvertureS definitely;
in the first place, there is be-
tween Great Britain and Russia
an agreement which precludes a
separate peace, and, in the Sec
Ond place, the terms reported to
have been offered, were too hui
initiating for Russia.
AS it now looks, the Russo-Ger-
man war will 60 on far into the WIN
ter, and, perhaps, beyond. And, in
the meantime, it is possible that Ger
man diplomacy will be able to sway
Bulgaria and Turkey sufficiently to
persuade them to join the nazis in the
war against Russia. That is some
thing not at all certain at this mo-
ment, but, on the other hand, not
improbable.
1t may also be that Great Britain
will swing into action around the
Black Sea and the Caspian Sea to
make sure that Hitler does not sue
coed in any attempt he may make to
penetrate the Middle East in the
hope of invading India.
Invasion Demanded.
While the east European front is
aflame, the western part of the con-
tlnent remains relatively quiet.
That fact has prompted num-
Der of London editors to demand
that the government take steps
to invade the German-occupied
parts of Europe now that Hitler
is demonstrating so evidently his
inability to fight on both the
Russian and the British front at
CONTINUED on Page ~
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-10-02
Pick Community
AndCountyl942
AAA Committees
Thirteen Precincts Vote on
Soil Conservation Pro.
gram Leaders.

Community committeeman for the
1912 AAA program and members of
the county committee were selected
at meetings held Monday and Tues
day of last week. The first were Sc
lected at meetings in Is precincts on
Monday evening, September %, and
the following afternoon delegates
from those localities met at the viii
lage hall in Sandstone to pick the
new county committee.
The 1912 county committee is as
follows: Cornelius Nieboer, Hinck-
ley, chairman; Everett L. Birkeland,
Pine City, vice chairman; Peter Du-
mas, Duxbury, third member; Her
bert N. Kendall, Pine City, first al
ternate; and John E. Norkoli, Finlay-
son, second alternate.
Community Committeeman.
Below is given the list of COM
munity committeeman and their home
address:
Rock Creek, Royalton-Emil Erick-
son, Pine City; Leon L. Cote, Grass
ton; Chas. H. Beavers, Rush City;
first alternate, Joe F. Wurm, Pine
City; second alternate, George Lind
strom, Rock Creek.
Pine City, Chengwatana-G n t
Chaplin, Pine City; Mike A. Volta,
Pine City; Albert Bjork, Pine City;
first alternate, Adolph Wanous, Pine
City.
Pokegama - Herbert N. Kendall,
Pine City; Hans H. Grandt, Pine City;
Jas. A. Kuzel, Hinckley; first alter
nate, Oscar Nelson, Pine City; second
alternate, Elmer w. Henderson, Ber-
oun.
Brook Park, Mission Creek, Munich
Fred Ausmus, Jr., Hinckley; AL
bert L. Flukey, Brook Park; Melvin
Davidson, Pine City; first alternate,
Edward j. Ouradnik, Hinckley; sec
ond alternate, George Cabak, Hinck-
ley.
Hinckley, Barry-John B. Won Rue
den, Hinckley; Oscar L. Nyberg,
Hinckley; Reginald M. Waller, Hinck-
ley; first alternate, Paul Van Hal
beck, Hinckley; second alternate,
Martin Anderson, Hinckley.
East Pine Members.
Arna, Keene, Dosey, Wilma, Bel
den-Earl F. Jones, Cloverton; Elmer
A. Anderson, Markville; Harold E.
Anderson, Markville; first alternate,
w. Edison Ables, Cloverton.
Arlone, Clover, Crosby, Ogema-
Lester B. Dalzell, Hinckley; Peter
Larsen, Hinckley; Charles c. Bald
win, Hinckley; first alternate, Harvey
A. Lyseth, Hinckley; second alternate,
Trueman Stevens, Hinckley.
Dell Grove, Sandstone, Danforth-
Elmer o. Nelson, Hinckley; liner N
Carlson, Sandstone; Alfred M. Price,
Hinckley; first alternate, Oscar Mel
son, Hinckley.
Finlayson, Pine Lake-John E. Nor
koli, Finlayson; Edward J. Hautala,
Finlayson; Edward E. Korpi, Finlay-
son; first alternate, Fred L. Martin,
Finlayson; second alternate, Victor j.
Peura, Finlayson.
Partridge, Fleming E. Eek
lund, Askov; Werner G.. Clausen
Askov; Hans M. Nielsen, Askov; first
alternate, Elmer Jensen, Askov; Sec
ond alternate, Emil A. Hansen, Askov
Bremen, Kettle River, Norman
Walter L. Price, Willow River; Ches-
ter j. Waletzko, Willow River; Ed. A.