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Note: Alice and Mike "ran off" to be married. She said that is how most were married during the depression. They had waited thinking things would get better, but they didn't. She was teaching and finished out the year. They had an apartment in Elbon, Haakon County, near where the families farmed. In the 1916 business directory is is described as a post office 18 miles north of Philip on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. It was a banking and shipping point. The stage came daily from Philip; the fare was $1.50. H. M. Einan was the post master and ran a general store. They had an apartment above. A creek ran by the small town, and Mike would go there to shoot pheasant so they would have some meat for their meals. Census 1910 living near or with James. Info listed under his name. 1920 with parents and 3 siblings in Haakon SD. Listed as Jearl instead of Jens. 1930 born 1911 lodger in Cherry Haakon with Cecil Swisher, a laborer, herdsman crossed out, but others in area were ranchers, parents born Denmark which in incorrect, perhaps our Jens Michael. Photograph taken in 1920 of Knutsons, Danielsens, and Andersons: Knutson boys were wearing Newsboy Caps made by their mother who was an excellent seamstress. In a later picture Mike Danielsen is wearing one that she perhaps made for him. they are casual wear caps, an eight-paneled cap with a round full body with a button at the top. It was popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and was associated with newsboys and now with golfers. Car Accident: Crashed into the rear of a semi-trailer truck five miles south of Brookings on Highway 77. Truck had been in an earlier accident and was stalled on highway. Police were there when Danielsen came from the south and struck the rear end of the truck. Police said he must not have seen the flares. Family said he was blinded by lights of state motor patrol car parked in ditch. He was driving a new Frazier which he was delivering from Sioux Falls to the Mike & Rudy Body Shop which he operated with Rudy Knutson. They were both headed north. Article in the Brookings County Press. They had obtained the franchise on the Kaiser-Frazer dealership and the car was the first model they had received. Mike came to Brookings with Rudy in 1936 and they were employed at the Carlson Body Shop on the site where the new building is. For two years they operated a body shop for the Frie Motor company and in 1939 they leased their present location, and purchased it a year ago. Bill Fleissner, just out of the Navy and son of George P. Fleissner who ran the Texaco gas Station on Main and 6th, rode to Sioux Falls with him. Bill just died in 2011 in Madison. Jerry and Judy talke about visiting with him when they saw his birthday celebration listed in the newspaper, but he died soon after that. Buried Greenwood Cemetery Brookings Sd Block 8 Lot 104 Grave 01. Wife Alice's ashes are buried in his grave.
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