THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1943
When You And
I Were Young-er
Items taken from the Askov American
of 25 and 15 years ago.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
(April 4, 1918)
Yesterday was the 25th wedding
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. N. S.
Petersen of Askov and a large num
ber of friends gathered at their
home to commemorate the event.
Mr. and Mrs. Petersen were married
at Racine, Wis., and lived there until
nearly five years ago when they
moved to Askov. Their four children
"were all home yesterday with the ex
ception of Valdemar, who is with the
expeditionary forces in France.
John A. Dahlgren, who has spent
his entire life in the vicinity of Ker
rick, died at Camp Dodge, lowa, Sat
urday night. He contracted pneu
monia and died after four days ill
ness. The body will be laid to rest
Thursday in the Oak Lake cemetery.
Good Friday was the 40th wed
ding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Keller of Askov. Mr. and Mrs.
Keller were married in Denmark.
Their four children were born there,
three of whom are living, as fol
lows: Olav and Mrs. Carl Madsen
of Askov and Mrs. Johannes Johan
sen of Tyler. From Denmark they
came to Sheffield, 111., where they
resided until two years ago when
they came to Askov.
An boy arrived Mon
day at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Niels Serritslev of Askov.
Chas. Westlund has purchased 80
acres of land in section 28 and will
irom now on be a permanent farmer
of the Kerrick vicinity.
Chas. Long of Minneapolis, has
opened up the garage at Bruno where
Mr. Figg was last summer. Mr. Long
was manager for the Bessemer Truck
Company's garage for three years and
manager for four years for the Over
land Garage in Minneapolis.
Miss Effie Reinholdson died of heart
lailure at her home in Sandstone
Monday afternoon.
Louis Olsen of Askov, sold the
former Niels Bonde farm to J. N.
Petersen of Irene, S. D., yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. Petersen have arrived
here and expect to go right to farm
ing. They are at present visiting the
Chris Hyldahl family.
Bendt Jorgensen arrived in Askov
yesterday from St. Louis Park with
a carload of immigrant’s movables
and is moving onto his place three
miles north and one mile east of
Askov. Magnus Hansen, also from
St. Louis Park, is expected here
today and will move onto the Jens
Krag farm, which he purchased a
tew months ago.
Ove Krag of Askov, who enlisted
in the army about four months ago
and was with the engineer corps sta
tioned at Washington, D. C., returned
to Askov yesterday. He received an
honorable discharge.
Fifteen Years Ago.
(April 5, 1928)
Mrs. Katy Mikrot of Birch Creek,
79, fell dead at her home Wednesday
of last week, according to informa
tion received from Sturgeon Lake,
where the funeral took place Friday.
Surviving Mrs. Mikrot are four sons
and one daughter.
Enevold Smidt and family moved
irom the Mads Jorgensen place last
week to the Axel Brus farm south
west of Askov.
Claus W. La Frenz and family came
to Askov from Bruno last week and
nave located on the Eaton place s*&
miles northeast of town.
A boy was born to Mrs. Jorgen
sen of Bruno Friday. Both are doing
fine.
Mr. Dunning and family of Carl
ton, have moved onto the Billman
tarm at Bruno which was recently
purchased by A. M. Dougan.
Mr. and Mrs. Gilson of Foley, are
now living on the Burden place at
Cloverton.
Mrs. F. M. Carlson and Mrs. Gust
Soderquist of Sand Creek received
word Tuesday that their mother had
died. They left that evening for
Woodhull, 111., to be present at the
funeral. Their mother was 90 years
old.
The infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hal Sherrick of Willow River,
died Friday night and was buried
Saturday in the village cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Lewis of
Kettle River, disposed of their live
stock and left for Magnolia, 111.,
Tuesday.
H. W. McClellan of Brook Park,
recently purchased the residence for
merly occupied by Cecil Mittlestadt.
The Schultz family of Chicago, is
now living on the Westerman place
at Brook Park.
B. J. Kelsey of Brook Park, has
purchased the place recently vacated
by the Reimer Rypkema family and
expects to make this his home very
soon.
Hans Hansen came to Askov yes-
terday direct from Vejen, Denmark,
and started to work in the Ferndale
Nursery this morning.
Mrs. A. P. Jensen of Askov, sold
a 40-acre tract of land Friday to
Geo. C. Jensen.
Axel Brus and family of Askov,
have recently rented the Niels Hen
riksen farm residence and have
moved there instead of into the Mads
Jorgensen place which they also have
rented.
Jim Petersen has rented the Carl
F. Jorgensen 80-acre farm 4% miles
southeast of Askov. Mr. Jorgensen
will seek other work for a year and
may take a trip to Denmark next
•winter.
#Farm
WAR NEWS
By Mrs. Chas. Krantz
Pine County Farmer Fieldwoman.
The meat rationing program is up
set when meat is sold outside regu
lar channels of trade. Proper sani
tation often has been lacking in
slaughtering and handling carcasses.
This situation will be more serious
in warm weather. Waste has oc
curred because by-products have not
been used fully for leather, tankage,
fertilizers, glue, glycerine and other
needed products. Permits for sell
ing, buying, slaughtering or trans
ferring meat or livestock are issued
without charge by the county war
board. Farmers need not obtain a
permit if they slaughter only for
their own use. If they sell or trans
fer meat to others, permits are re
quired. Farmers that periodically
furnish meat to friends or relatives
must have a permit.
Climatically and topographically,
the coastal region of French North
Africa is similar to California. The
Axis exploited the region’s food re
sources. Food, clothing and other
commodities are so scarce that money
is worthless. But with a bolt of
cloth, you can buy anything. People
will no longer work for money which
they cannot use. But men and wom
en will work all hours for clothing,
wheat, meat, sugar or salt. Allied
occupation will provide quick restor
ation of North African agricultural
production which will help return the
region to a sound economic footing
and free cargo space in our ships
for guns and tanks. This program
has two parts.
The first includes food, clothing
and essential consumer goods. These
are needed not only by those who are
hungry and ragged; they are impera
tive as incentives to production. The
scond part involves sending North
Africa the means to get production
going again. Food and other non
military supplies already shipped
from England and America, will tide
the civilian population over until the
new crop is produced in North Afri
ca. The loss of phosphates from
North Africa will be a severe blow
to Nazi food production since French
North Africa was the only remaining
major source of phosphate rock for
Germany.
Kerrick
E. J. Nolan of Siren, Wis., is
spending a few days with his daugh
ter, Mrs. Ray P. Hogan. Mr. Nolan
is a retired passenger conductor
from the Great Northern Railroad.
Rudolph Olson, living south of
Bruno, has taken over one of the
milk routes formerly hauled by Irvin
E. Larson. Mr. Larson will have to
make daily trips on his north route
because of increased volume.
David Parker has taken over the
janitor work at the school. He is
replacing Sven Christensen who has
applied for entrance to the U. S. Air
force.
The Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid held
its annual meeting last week. They
voted to contribute $lO to the Red
Cross, thus helping the list over the
top in a big way.
Jos. Di Santo of the cheese factory,
spent most of two days in town re
cently looking things over. He has
been kept away for nearly a month
due to illness.
The large stock pile built up at
the Halverson pit last fall is all
shipped out, the last car leaving this
week. Prospects are for an increased
business this year.
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hogan spent
two days in Minneapolis with the
Kelly family recently. They passed
judgment on the new grandson.
While in the city W. P. called on
Louis Livers who now lives in St.
Paul.
J. H. Hogan attended a meeting
of the ninth district bankers Satur
day in Minneapolis. The meeting
was to prepare for the big bond sale
coming in April. Over thirteen bil
lion dollars is to be raised. The
quota for this district is $12,730 cash
value. That’s a big order.
The “Bambi” show at the Sand
stone theatre Friday and Saturday
drew a nice crowd from Kerrick. It
is reported as a good show.
Jimmie Murphy has been ill since
Friday with stomach flu.
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Jensen
and Mr. and Mrs. Lund and children
of Askov, spent Sunday afternoon
with Mrs. Murphy.
Walter Berg has been drafted for
farm work and is being sent to some
place near Minneapolis.
Hans Christensen has been hauling
wood from Henry Nyquist’s place
recently.
Ted Rudd was compelled to ship
all his laying hens recently because
of a sickness contracted from some
new birds shipped in from Texas.
He suffered a large loss but does not
give up the ship. He is starting
new with baby chicks and will have
them in production in about five
months or less. Ted has made a
careful study of the chicken business.
D. J. Curry spent a day in Du
luth last week.
Beaver trapping season opens soon.
Several local young folks are going
to trap this spring.
Observations
By CONG. HAROLD KNUTSON
First Things First
I have not received a single letter
from the Sixth District commenting
on the much pub
licized Ball-Bur
ton - Hill - Hatch
resolution on the
post-war world,
but some people
here in Washing
ton have asked me
my opinion. My
answer is very
simple.
With members of the Congress
confronted every hour by the great
problems of war, with the ordinary
American family worried about their
loved ones in the armed forces, and
at the same time harrassed by the
obnoxious upstarts in OPA; with ex
perts predicting food riots within a
It may be of interest to friends
of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wahlberg
to know that they have left Fergus
Falls and are now making their home
in Duluth. Mr. Wahlberg is em
ployed by the Standard Oil Com
pany in that city as assistant sales
manager of the wholesale depart
ment.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Wahlquist vis
ited at the Ralph Wahlquist home in
Askov Monday evening.
Oak Lake
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dammann and
son of Bruno, were Sunday dinner
guests at the James Fjosne home.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brandt and chil
dren of Superior, were Sunday dinner
guests at the Ole Fiske home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Neuman vis
ited at the Jim Fjosne home Satur
day evening.
Tom and Betty Smith called at the
Fjosne home Sunday afternoon.
Marion Switzer is visiting at the
Henry Hohlin home in Moose Lake
at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Orval Switzer vis
ited friends in Holyoke Sunday eve
ning.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Barnett visited
at the M. F. Brink home Sunday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Brink and
daughters went to Webster, Wis.,
Monday. Mr. Brink returned while
Mrs. Brink and the children will
stay for a while.
Myrtle E. Anderson had an ap
pendix operation in the Cities re
cently.
Mrs. Ed Armstrong spent the week
end at the St. Mary’s hospital in
Duluth with Mr. Armstrong.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lundgren and
daughter spent Wednesday evening
at the Nels Lundbeck home.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Ferguson mo
tored to Denham Monday afternoon
on business.
Miss Eylene Ellefson spent the
week-end in Duluth.
Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Anderson are
entertaining his mother from north
ern Minnesota at this writing.
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year because of the bungling of the
food problem by this administration;
with war production and industry
crippled by the mishandling of the
manpower question; with the Roose
velt administration seeking to double
tax collections this year, I answer
these Washington people by reciting
some of these great problems before
us and then saying:
“I never like to sit in the bleach
ers of the Washington baseball park,
when the Yankees are in town, and
see an outfielder wisecracking to
someone in the crowd, with the score
tied, the bases full and Joe DiMaggio
at bat.”
Is This A Partisan War?
Representative Forest Harness of
Indiana, deserves the gratitude of
the American people for having dug
up so many flagrant cases of draft
evasion among young government
workers. During the past week he
and his colleagues on the investigat
ing committee have had before them
Assistant Secretary of War Patter
son and Lewis Hershey, director of
the National Selective Service Sys
tem, These gentlemen expressed
amazement at the conditions that
Mr. Harness has uncovered. There
are thousands and thousands of young
able-bodied men who hadn’t even
bothered about registering.
This is a shocking condition that
will arouse the ire of the American
people to a greater degree than the
continued squandering of the tax
payers’ money on unnecessary do
mestic projects or even the bungling
of the Office of Price Administration.
Setting the Record Straight.
A friend has sent me a clipping
from a Minnesota daily containing a
letter from a correspondent which
stated that Congressman Andresen
and myself had opposed the releas
ing of 100 million bushels of gov
ernment held feed wheat. I think
the story originated in a government
office in St. Paul and I have a pretty
fair idea as to who the author is.
The fact of the matter is that Mr.
Andresen was very active in getting
the necessary legislation out of the
Committee on Agriculture, of which
he is a prominent and valued mem
ber, and when the measure came to
the floor he and I did everything
possible to promote its prompt pas
sage. One of these days we may
decide to smoke out this gentleman
in St. Paul and when we do he will
find himself hanging out on the end
of a limb. What made this incident
all the more irritating is the fact
that I had replied to many who had
written me that I would do every
thing within my power to get the
feed wheat bill through the House
without delay so I merely mention
this incident to set the record
straight.
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MOOSE LAKE, MINN.
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Office hours at Askov —From 8:30 a. m.
to 11 a. m. on Monday. Wednesday
and Saturday.
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Bureaucracy Throttled.
On Wednesday of last week, a tele
gram came to our office. At the
time of its receipt I was attending
the House-Senate conference on the
debt limit bill and did not get to
see the message until late in the
afternoon, whereupon I returned to
the House and secured the floor for a
few moments to comment on it. From
this point I quote from the Congres
sional Record:
“Mr. Knutson. Mr. chairman, I
am wondering whether OPA has gone
beserk. It would seem so. Let me
read you a telegram that came to
hand this afternoon:
March 24, 1943.
“St. Paul, Minnesota
“OPA informed 500 locker plant
representatives yesterday new order
requires beef and veal for farmers
own use must be Federal graded cost
ing $2.20 per hour from time grader
leaves South St. Paul to return. Pratt
of OPA and Dr. Booth representing
agriculture before meeting both said
they could not understand reason.
We think this most unreasonable of
all unfair orders and is apparently
designed to kill locker plants. Farm
ers present dumbfounded and spirit
is rebellious. Please contact OPA
CLEAN UP - PAINT UPI
That should be the slogan for the next few weeks. Let’s do it. What is there so
appealing to the stranger who hits your town as a CLEAN TOWN—one painted,
yards raked, rubbish burned, windows washed, walks clean, bushes trimmed and
things generally tidy. What do you like better?
Perhaps we can not all paint. We don’t have the money, but we can all rake our
yards, we can all clean up leaves and old grass, pick up dirt accumulations from
the winter and generally improve the looks of things. It takes such little effort.
Just a few evenings of one hour each and you will see what a change there is.
How about starting early? Make YOUR place a NICE place. You’ll feel better for it.
THE RED CROSS DRIVE:
It was a complete success. You made it so and my sincere thanks to all who con
tributed and to those who gave so willingly of their time and to the business houses
which acted as local collecting posts.
The ladies who made collections in their various districts were the Mesdames Ross
Barnett, Ole Fiske, Alvin Anderson, Charles Berger, L. Casadont, Edith Lund, Ed
Sexton and Charles Southerton. You did so well. There has been $260 raised.
Our quota was $220. There may be a little more coming in as a few have still not
been contacted. You have a right to be justly proud of what you have done. There
will be a lot of soldier boys thankful for what you have done.
Mrs. E. L. Keyport has a very good DeLaval No. 16 cream separator, with new gears.
Never used since gears were installed. It is for sale at $45.
We have a list of six horses belonging to A. E. Culliton at Holyoke. Do you need
a horse? - -
We have customers who can use good milch cows; have need for about 12 in all
right now.
Care For Your
Country? Then
Care For Your Car
Your car can be kept on the
road but you must take better
care of it than ever before.
Stop regularly for the best
greasing that money can buy.
MILT’S
SUPER SERVICE
On Highway No. 23.
Paint, Linseed Oil,
Varnish, Turpentine,
Miracle Wall Tone
Miracle wall tone is extra fast
in drying. Paint your rooms
in the morning and move your
furniture back in the afternoon.
Covers With One Coat
One coat covers and hides most
surfaces including wall paper.
It brushes on smoothly, easily,
quickly.
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HALVERSON
LUMBER COMPANY
Fire, lightning and extended coverage on cattle, horses hogs and sheep—
60c per hundred the first year and 45c per hundred the second, third, fourth and
fifth years.
$1.20 per hundred for a three-year term policy.
SI.BO per hundred for a five-year term policy.
and agriculture demanding removal
inspection requirement where meat
for farmers own use. Signed: Twin
City Milk Producers Association, W.
S. Moscrip, R. B. Goodhue, F. H.
Rohe, S. R. Houlton, A. T. Frank, H.
R. Leonard.
“They tell us there is a serious
shortage of manpower, yet here we
find a government agency embarking
on a new program of government
inspection that will require the full
time of hundreds of inspectors. The
order should not be charged to Pren
tiss Brown or any of his appointees.
Rather it must be charged to some
crackpot who is holding over from
Leon Henderson’s crackpot regime.
Mr. Brown probably does not know
anything about it, but he surely will
be fully advised tomorrow morning.
There will be great rejoicing in ‘pack
ingtown’ over the order, but it will
evoke righteous indignation in tens
of thousands of homes that use lock
ers to store their meat for summer
use. It is high time that Congress
step into the picture and put a stop
to this devilish and damnable fool
ishness.
“Mr. August H. Andresen. Mr.
Chairman, will the gentleman yield.?
“Mr. Knutson. I yield.
“Mr. August H. Andresen. I have
Home Cooking at Its
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at Becky’s
Keep fit as a fiddle by eating
meals you enjoy . . .
BECKY’S CAFE
On Highway No. 23 at Kerrick.
CONTRACTING
Any kind of work. I’ll
give you a price
on it.
Hans Christensen
FARM FOR RENT
We now have the
EMIL PETERSEN
farm for rent. One mile from
town.
Inquire—
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BANK
WILL TOMORROW BE TOO LATE?
INSURE YOUR CHATTELS —HERE ARE THE RATES:
CAN YOU AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT IT?
KERRICK STATE BANK
See Us For All Kinds of Insurance.
IRENE MURPHY, Chairman.
just had a session with the bureau
crats down in OPA in regard to the
matter to which the gentleman re
fers. The key policy makers down
there inform me that these two OPA
men who are out over the northwest
giving out this compulsory order
for inspection of meat a farmer
slaughters for his own use, did not
know the order had been rescinded.
These OPA men had not caught up
with the latest regulation which per
mits the farmer to slaughter his pork
and beef for his own use without
having to have it graded by a gov
ernment grader.
“Mr. Knutson. We should not
criticize the two gentlemen who are
way out there. None of us, much
less they, can keep up with what
is being done by bureaucrats in
Washington.
“Let me say to my colleague from
Minnesota that I am glad he has
contacted OPA. I would have gone
down there this afternoon, but was
in a conference on the debt limit
bill. I am glad the gentleman has
got it all fixed up, for I shall be able
to sleep better tonight.”
Shark fishing is a war industry,
for vitaikin-content oil, skin, fins and
flesh. -
Anyone can cut your hair,
Or scrape you with a razor.
But our Dietz gives that fin-
ished touch
To emphasize your glamour
DIETZ the BARBER
Every Friday at Kerrick
EVER HEAR OF
THIS FELLOW?
Once upon a time there was a
man who took excellent care of
his tires. They are in perfect
condition, but now he has no
car.
He forgot there are other parts
that have to be cared for on a
car. That a car with a worn
out engine is just as useless as
a car without tires.
Don’t let YOUR engine wear
out. Come in for a check-up
today.
KERRICK
MOTOR COMPANY
LOUIS V. SMITH
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