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Askov American., 1941-10-23
Oak Lake

Rev. J. F. Anderson was a supper guest
at the Ole Fjosne home Saturday evening.
Rev. J. F. Anderson and Carl R. Ander-
son went to Benson Sunday evening to do
some hunting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Lueck and chill
dren Of Duluth, Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin
Swenson and children of CloQuet. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Ames and family were
Sunday dinner guests at the parental
John SWenSon home.
Clifford and Eddie Gray Of Braham,
spent Sunday at the Jim Fjosne home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Anderson and family
were Sunday callers at the Ross Barnett
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Katchmark and
family and Mrs George Zimmer Of Min
neapolis. spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Jim Fjosne.
spent Sunday at the o. ]. Fiske home.
Phillip Berset was Sunday dinner
guest at the Ole Fiske home.
Hurley and Elfie Anderson called at
the Ed Armstrong home Monday morning.
Doris and Elfie Anderson returned to
Minneapolis Tuesday after spending the
weekend at the c. E. Anderson home.
Miss Jennie Anderson Of Markville, spent
a week with her mother. Mrs. Anna An
derson, recently.
The Sunday School teachers had a meet
ing in Cloquet Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Anderson and chill
dren visited at the Louie Hanson home
in CloQuet Sunday.
Askov American., 1941-10-23
Sturgeon Beach

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Burmayer
and Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Burmay-
er and family spent the weekend in
ST. Paul visiting friends and relatives
and also spent part of the time hunt
ing pheasants in southern Minnesota
They returned Monday evening.
Mrs. Lillian Close Of Minneapolis
visited over the weekend at the M
j. Close home.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. ]. Close visited al
the Docksteder home Monday.
Mrs. Ellis Whiting and daughter
Evelyn attended a shower for Mrs
Ray jacobson at her home Tuesday
Of last week.
Mrs. M. j. Close and Mrs. Lillian
Close were supper guests at the Oslie
home in Moose Lake Saturday eve
ming.
Askov American., 1941-10-23

dinner guests at their parental Ed
Rupp home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Sydow and Mari
on called at the Ed Rupp home Sum
day afternoon.
Mrs. Ed Rupp is getting along as
well as can be expected after her re-
cent operation at st. Luke's hospital
in Duluth.
Mrs. Olive Peterson, Charlotte and
Frances Beckman and George Peter
son, all of Minneapolis, came last
Thursday to have dinner with Mrs.
O. F. Peterson. They returned in
the afternoon.
Mrs. Anil Allan of Hector, visited
her sister, Mrs. o. F. Peterson, from
last Thursday until Saturday.
Ed Wallner went to the University
hospital Monday for treatment.
Elmer Breiland took his daughter
to the University hospital Monday.
Friends hope that Dolores will soon
recover and be back in school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Peterson
from Aurora, ILL.,, spent Tuesday at
the home of Mrs. o. F. Peterson.
Askov American., 1941-10-23

membership in. It will save the
ladies trip and some expense. Thank
you, they say.
Mrs. Victor johnson spent the
weekend with her parents at Duluth,
returning Tuesday.
Mrs. Mike Fox is visiting at Sand
stone with Mrs. Wood at this writ
ing.
What is that reddish colored pick
up doing in front of Becky's so often?
That car should be on the highway
going right by, stopping, Of course,
for lunch and a short chat but no
more, fellow, no more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Palon of Will
low River, visited at the Close home
last Thursday evening.
Miss Josephine Allen is enough i'm
Askov American., 1941-10-23
Kerrick
(From Another Correspondent

(FrOm Another COrfcSpOn0cut)
It's been hard going for the boys
on No. % and there is no assurance
it will be finished this fall. How
ever, there will be good coat OF
gravel on the unfinished part and
the work will be finished up next
year. The past two months have
been terrible for their work, but they
have certainly used every minute
suitable for getting the work done.
Louis Hogan claims he ran into a
very dense fog Sunday night on the
hills near Duluth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arnold Berset arrived
Wednesday of last week for short
visit with the w. P. Hogan family.
Mr.. Berset is a brother of Mrs. Ho-
gan. They went from here to Clo-
quet to visit and returned Saturday
to Milwaukee where he is with a
railroad company in the baggage de-
partment.
Word has been received here that
F. w. Hogan and doctor of Foley,
have purchased drug store in that
town and will operate it. F. w.
Hogan has been employed in Foley
for two years now and likes the town.
Mrs. S. A. Halverson was week.
end guest of friends at Kerrick.
Mrs. Babcock and her baby daugh-
ter are expected, from. st. Mary's hos
pital in Superior, today.
Frank Surgis, who was rather bad
ly hurt in an automobile accident two
weeks ago, is in the Community hos
pital at Moose Lake and doing quite
nicely.
Miss Cecilia Ciba spent the week.
end at her home in Waite Park near
st. Cloud. She went down with Mr..
Halloran of the Hector Construction
company and returned by train to
Sandstone Monday evening.
Ed Sexton is 'basketballing" again.
He picked up a team and took on the
boys of the highway. The score was
bit topheavy; likewise the legs of
the players seemed to be heavy the
following morning.
DAD WedLHoT has SlOWeO up Tile
work in the sand pits. A number of
orders are on hand but the sand is
too wet to load.
Mrs. Norman Dahl left Monday
morning for her home in Montevideo.
There will be keno party at the
schoolhouse Saturday night. This is
given by the men of the Catholic
parish. The proceeds will 60 toward
the debt on the parish house.
Many have been successfully hunt
ing partridges this year. The num-
ber has increased to large extent.
Victor Johnson was in party hunt
ing pheasants near Benson Satur-
day and Sunday. They returned
Monday night. Driving back they
encountered a heavy fog nearly all
the way. 1t took eight hours to make
the 200-mile trip.
The solicitors are out (or soon will
be) for the Red Cross memberships.
Help, if you can, by mailing your
Askov American., 1941-10-23
When You And
l We're Younger
Twenty five Years Ago.
October 26, 1916)
Items taken from the Askov American
of Is and IS years ago.

The Anderson-Erickson Co. of Du-
quette, unloaded an 11,000-pound
planer Saturday and under the super
vision of John Pilrain, is having it
installed at their mill. The company
will now be in position to manu-
facture rough lumber into suitable
building material in a first class
manner.
James Frokjer and S. Chr. Dixen of
Askov, were in Duluth Monday to
see an architect in regard to plans
for the schoolhouse.
The Kerrick Realty Company sold
200 acres in Section 4-45-18 recently
to George and William Plaisted. They
intend to get out the timber on the
tract this winter.
A. c. Ravnholt of Askov, sold his
residence and lot yesterday to Chr.
Christensen for 81 ,525.
Andrew Petersen, who is doing
ditch work near Lewisville, Waton-
wan county, was in Askov the first
of the week. He purchased the lot
adjoining the park at the Ravnholt
sale. 1t brought record price for
residence lot here, the price being
S4O5. Mr.. Petersen left again for
Lewisville Tuesday night. He intends
to spend the winter on the Pacific
coast.
]. H. Lingren of Bruno, was in Pine
City Monday in the interest of the
Elwell road through Carlton county.
The Mesdames Gault, Laying, Otto,
Gray, Walsh, Johnson, Murphy and
Marihart and the Misses Anna Otto
and Elsie Bates, all of Bruno, at
tended the Royal Neighbor school of
instruction at Hinckley Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Jorgensen of
Askov, went to Window Saturday to
visit at the home of the latter's sis
ter, who is ill. They returned home
Tuesday.
Chas. F. Johnson, who has been
working on the three-mile stretch of
Elwen road through ASkov the past
three months, broke camp yesterday
and returned to his home near Sand
stone. The disagreeable weather the
past week has made it impossible to
do any road work.
Sigvart Thomson of Askov, is build
ing a house on his farm two miles
northwest of town. Emil Andersen
is doing the carpenter work.
Laurits Godballe, who came to
Askov from Des Moines, Iowa, last
week, has purchased the Peter Linn
eighty northeast of town. Mr.. God
bale is already at work clearing on
same.
At a meeting held recently in the
town hall at Clover the land owners
of that region in town Al east of
Kettle river completed the organiza-
tion of a game preserve which will
include everything east of the river
in the towns of Clover, Crosby, Ar
lone and Ogema. With the exception
of the Superior preserve north of
Duluth, it will be the largest in the
state.
Harry Mortensen of Askov, re-
turned home yesterday from Ray, N.
D., where he has been employed this
summer.
Askov American., 1941-10-23

proved to be walking around but
there is still limp. That ailment
hangs on rather tenaciously. It is
plenty painful too.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Whiting and
family called at the Joe McLevis
home in Sturgeon Lake Saturday.
Mrs. Leo Waletzko has been ill the
past week with throat infection.
Leo Waletzko sawed wood for Ing.
Wold last week.
Askov American., 1941-10-23

Telephone Co., disposed Of his entire
interest in that concern Friday to
Jens Nielsen. Mr.. DeYoung has not
as yet decided on what to do, but
will likely locate some other place;
for the time being he will take care
of his radio business here. Lawrence
Jensen has been engaged by the tele-
phone company as lineman and will
commence on his new duties Mon
day.
Askov American., 1941-10-23
Duquette

Miss Jesse West of Frost, spent the week.
end with Mary johnson. They visited SUM-
day with friends in Duluth.
r. B. Anderson of Mankato, spent the
weekend at his home here.
The Cheerio Circle met at the home of
Mrs. Charles Berger Wednesday after
noon of last week.
Askov American., 1941-10-23
Arthyde

Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Standish and June
and Annette spent the weekend with
their son-in-laW and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jim Roy at Elk River.
Arnold and Keith Coolidge. Mrs. E. l..
Coolidge and Carol and Mrs. D. M. Olson
and LaVonne spent the weekend at Lake
Lillian with relatives and brought home
their limit of pheasants.
Roger and Dale Ruud Of Elk River.
visited their grandmother, Mrs. A. Thom-
son, Saturday afternoon while their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Ruud, attended
the Homecoming at McGrath.
Mrs. Leonard Youngberg and children
visited at the home Of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Clyde Hutchins, Sunday:
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Holm of Park Rap
ids, visited at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. August Nortrup. Sunday,
Sergeant Myles Coolidge arrived Sunday
E. L. Coolidge. and other relatives. He
has just completed a special course at
Chanute Field. ILL.,. and will return to
Spokane, Wash.
Rev. E. L. Nelson held services at the
school Sunday afternoon and will be here
again November at 4:30 o'clock.
Askov American., 1941-10-23

home Wednesday Of last week.
Erwin johnson visited his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. ALI. Johnson. from Friday until
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Larson visited at
the Alfred johnson home Monday.
Mrs. ALI Johnson and Erwin and Doug
las Brown visited at the Asa Fenstermaker
home Saturday.
Clarence Youngberg called on Alfred
Johnson Saturday.
Askov American., 1941-10-23
Fifteen Years Ago.
October %, 1926)

John D. Barstow, who was resi-
dent of the village of Sandstone a
few years, coming to that place with
his son, R. w. Barstow, and family,
from Barnum, passed away there
Monday of this week at the age of
nearly IA. Services were held from
the Congregational church at Sand
stone with Rev. o. Suver officiating.
Burial was made in the family lot at
Barnum.
News comes to the American from
the Headquarters Seventh Corps Area
that Harlow A. Matson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Nels Matson at Duxbury,
enlisted in the regular army at Oma-
ha, Nebr., for the Sd Infantry. He
will be stationed with the Sd Infan-
try at Fort Smelling, MINI.
Carl Lemke of Hopkins, came here
to spend Sunday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Nels Lundahl in the Vilstad
neighborhood. He left Monday to-
gether with Miss Elvira Lundahl.
They stopped off at Pine City and
were united in marriage at that place,
continuing on to Hopkins where they
will make their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Paulsen from
Kenosha county, Wisconsin, came to
Askov Friday afternoon via auto for
a visit at the Hans Mikkelsen and
John Krantz homes and also with the
intention of locating here if they can
find suitable farm.
Funeral services were held at
Askov Tuesday for Hans Nielsen
who died at his home in Alden last
Friday. Rev. o. H. Dyreborg offici-
ated at the rites. Mrs. Nielsen, who
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thue
Christensen of this place, will dis
pose of her personal property and
move to Askov to make her home
with her parents.
The R. j. Kapphahn Construction
Company completed its work on No.
l Thursday making a continuous
stretch of pavement between Carlton
and Beroun.
The Charles Johnson construction
crew is busily engaged in cutting
down the hill known as the Jamrock
hill, on county road No. near Stur-
geon lake. This hill has been hard
one for both team or car, and after
that has been improved one of the
bad spots on that road viii have been
improved.
A. M. DeYoung, who has been man
;ager and principal owner of the Askov
Askov American., 1941-10-23
(From Another Correspondent

(FrOm An0ther C0rreSpondentJ
Mr.. and Mrs Clifford Asleson and family
visited at the A. E. Pince home one eve
ming last week.
Clarence and Raymond Johnson of St.
Paul, were supper guests at the A. Pince
home last Thursday.
Sunday visitors at the Art Pince home
were Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bell and MIR. and
Mrs. Albert Pince, Jr, Of West Duluth
and Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. L. Pince and Mari
lyn.
Clarence Youngberg Is pulling rutabagas
writing
Asa Fenstermaker has purchased truck
and plans on doing some hauling this
winter.
John Swanson called at the Art Pince
Askov American., 1941-10-23
One Mans Job

One man with wheelbarrouO and path can
furnish transportation for the job at hand it
may be the best and cheapest method.
But for moving crops and livestock, and other
heavy, bulky commodities which require long dis
tance transportation, the wheelbarrow gives way to
cars and locomotives, while the path becomes SUBJ
stantal roadbeds, steel tracks, bridges and tunnels
And the operation of these more complex facilities
requires depots. shops, machinery, Offices and equip
ment, materials and supplies, and working capital.
Behind every person employed by the Great
Northern in 1910 Oas Average Investment,
in round figures, of $4,000 per employe.
The traffic handled with this $4,000 worth of
facilities and equipment per employe was equivalent
to transporting more than one-half million tons of
freight and nearly $4,000 passengers distance Of
one mile
The average charge to the of the railroad for
moving each ton of freight per mile was less than
one cent. For hauling each passenger per mile, the
average charge was one and two-thirds cents.
Each employe plus 900 North Of facilities
and equipment, earned on an average, little
more than 5000 for the railroad
About 90 percent of this $1,000 had to be paid
OUT IOr various expenses wages (neary 3Z,UUU per
employe), taxes (nore than 5000 per employee
replacements, materials supplies, and interest on
borrowed capital.
Approximately $500 per employe was left for
improvements, reduction of Indebtedness, osetting
deficits incurred during depression years, and for
dividends to stockholders.
Of the upwards of $4,000 earned for the Company
by each employe and the $4,000 investment in his
job, only s63 l0as paid out in diuidends to the
stockholders (the oDners) of the railroad.
Patrons of the railroad it will be observed, were
furnished essential transportation services at
cost of what they paid the railroad for these serv
ices, its employees received about 40 per cent? the
tax collectors took IL per cent while the investor
who under our American way, makes possible
the transportation services, the jobs and the
taxes, can only hope that the abnormaIy heavy
traffic for which national emergency is responsible,
will afford him something like fair return on his
investment this year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-06-27
CHUTE:
British Style

A dramatic story of how the Brit
ish were using parachutists in oc-
cupied France was told.
The little party of chutists landed
near to the German-held airport,
made contact with British agents on
the ground, also with French people
sympathetic to Britain, gathered to-
gether and made a surprise night
time assault on the airport.
They seized the control room, also
the field itself, and barrack room
in which were German pilots await
ing the command to take to the air.
Other squads went out to the land
ing field and destroyed 30 planes on
the ground, also the buildings were
set afire and burned.
The chutists then sped for the
coast, where motor torpedo boats
were waiting for prearranged sig
nal to take them back to England.
The maneuver was said to have
been carried out so swiftly that the
German headquarters did not know
anything had happened until it was
all over the chutists were safe
ly on their way back across the
channel.
The move was predicated by the
sympathy of the French people, and
this was borne out in repeated dis
patches and stories by returned ref
ugees, one of which told of British
skywriters almost daily writing
Courage" (spelled the same in
French and English) in the air over
French territory.
AFRICA:
A full-scale attempt by the British
to break over the Egyptian border
back into Cyrenaica again, result
ing in the capture of Fort Capuzzo,
brought into the attack, according
to Italian sources, large numbers of
the newest American tanks.
This did not check, however, with
American production figures, which
showed that the only tanks sent in
the lease-lend program had been
those we could spare from the army,
all of them of old design and manu-
facture.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-06-27
JAPAN:
Admits Failure

The upshot Of the Japanese-Dutch
East Indies affair appeared to be
a total defeat for the Japanese,
though it was by no means clear
whether Nippon was willing to let it
60 at that.
The long-awaited text of the final
Japanese statement, once the Dutch
had stood firm and refused all the
Jap requests and ultimatums, was,
briefly, this:
$50 sorry, but everything will be
as it always has,"
The Japanese admitted they had
accomplished nothing, but that nor
NAL relations with the Dutch would
continue.
Yet back of all these was the
growing conviction that Nazi Ger
many would not be satisfied with
bland admission of defeat on the
part of Japan, but might demand
action, thus either losing an ally or
perhaps hurting the specter of war
into the southern Pacific.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-06-27
NETS:
A Tightening

Following up the sinking of the
Robin Moor, the government tight
ened still further its nets about fifth
columnists, first by freezing all Axis
assets in this country, and, second,
by ordering all German consulates
closed down, also news agencies
and travel bureaus.
Another order, that barring the
leaving Of the United States of any
German nationals until further no
tice, plus the word that was sent out
that there would be a tightening Of
immigration permits, was held to
be contingent on Germany's attitude
to the American protest on the
Robin Moor.
The fact that the remaining IS
Americans aboard the ship were
eventually saved, the state depart
ment said, did not change the diplo-
matte situation regarding the vessel.
America, President Roosevelt in
dictated, was going to be firm from
now on with regard to fifth column
activities and sabotage, and was 60
ing to see to it that it was known
who was coming into the country UNI
der the guise of refugee"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-06-27

What distance reconnaissance
ship Of the Na uftwafe
maneuverab pursuit plane and has strong offensive
machine Of the latest
the ship which powered by two powerful
unobsrud sides through the
enclosed cockpit.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-06-27
AIR:
Special Arm?

The question of whether the Unit
ed States shall have a separate air
force or whether the army and navy
should each have it's own was be-
ing debated.
The senate had a bill for a sep
arate air arm, under new cabi-
net officer, just as the army and
navy each has its own secretary.
There were many taking stands on
each side Of the question, but the
general feeling was that the bill,
if it reached debate, would pass.
However, some pointed to the ex-
perience of the British eastern Med
iterranean feet, abandoned by
planes when the Raj decided not
to defend Crete. The ships found
themselves practically at the mercy
of the German bombers, and losses
were heavy indeed.
The others pointed to the stories
about the Illustrious, a British plane
carrier, presumably as we'll
equipped as any fleet could be to
cope with enemy planes-yet almost
destroyed twice in recent weeks by
the fire power of enemy bombers.
The first school maintains that the
reason the fleet was in severe trou-
BILE off Crete was that it was de-
serted by the Raj over which it
had no control, the Raj being a
separate arm.
The navy should have had its own
planes, and depended on them, it
was maintained. The other school,
in pointing to the Inustrious, showed
how the navy cannot expect to man.
age even its own planes efficiently,
as the two services are so foreign
to each other.
They also pointed to the disastrous
habit of army and navy aviation
competing with each other, in de-
signing planes and purchasing and
equipping them, thus each develop
ing its own source of supply-a bad
economic procedure of production
when mass methods are considered.
Yet, it was pointed out, even if
the senate bill creating a separate
force is successfully carried, it
would be long time before it would
actually get into being, for the army
and navy are too busily engaged
in supplying themselves and train
ing pilots right now to allow any of
their energies to be spared to build
up new separate air arm.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-06-27
WAR:
OF Nerves

In spite Of considerable activity
in the Near East and the North At
rican fronts, the war settled down to
a 'war of nerves" again, with the
nervous tension reaching far and
wide as Germany massed men and
machines on the Russian border.
The troops were not placed geo.
graphically close to the border, but
were so disposed that they were
within an exceedingly short distance
in time from what many believed
was ''bluff'' objective.
The announcement that Turkish
Russian-Nazi pact had been drawn
up did little to relieve the nervous
tension, as it was not Immediately
confirmed, nor was it clear whether
this would solve the situation.
For few thought that any such
agreement, made under the threat
of an army force variously estimat-
ed at from a million and half to
two million men, would be long adj
hered to if the men were withdrawn.
Senator George, head of the for
eign affairs committee, frankly ex-
pressed the belief that Germany, by
the move against Russia and the
concentrations in the upper and low
er Balkans, was ''trying to make
sure of her eastern front" before at
tempting the long expected inva-
sion of Great Britain herself.
However, even Senator George
saw in the move the conviction by
the Germans that it would be a long
war, and an effort to obtain salts
factory supplies of wheat and oil.
Still others believed that a Rus
sian Turkish pact, supplemented by
troops Of sufficient numbers to con-
tinue to enforce respect and strict
adherence, might permit Germany
to move southwark through Russia
and Turkey into the Near-East and
the Middle East, and thus to close
the pincers on the entire Eastern
Mediterranean country.
This was the stage setting that
caused the spread of the war Of
nerves into Britain itself, for day
after day went by with only the
most desultory German bombing eff
forts against England.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-06-27

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