Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-08-22

Gustavus Adolphus college, st.
Peter, Mimi, begins its thirty-ninth
year of work Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Entrance examinations will be held
the day before.
| H. p. Peterson is heralding with
enthusiasm the preparations for the
entertainment of the Norwegian
Danish Press association in West
Superior, Wis, Sept 10, IA and is,
A hospital is to be built in Grand
Forks, under the direction of the
board of directors of Grand Forks
college, of which Rev. A. e. Lien Is
president, and Professor A. A. Kas-
berg manager. =
Count Malta Leonsjerna-Granat, q
Representatives of the Swedish govern
ment. is located Ia Kenosha, Wis.
He. is studying American farming,
American workmen and their
methods
Augustana synod of the Swedish
Lutheran church in America opens
Augustana college and theological
seminary, Rock Island, Ill.,, for it's
forty-seeond annual session, Sept 4.
The theological department opens
Sept. 25.
The Scandinavian Sailors home
in Brooklyn, NJ Y, was visited by 40
Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and 5
Firms during the month of July. One
! thousand eight hundred and ninety
nine dollars and fifty cents was sent
through that Office to Scandinavia
last month.
A. nj. Howe, treasurer of Augsburg
seminary, reports the following le-
ceipts since June 1, 1901: For the
building fund, $3,S61.09; to the salary
fund, $421,21. Professor Wilhelm Pee
tersen is at present laboring in Ash
land, Wis. Professor H. N. Hendrick-
son at West Superior and Duluth,
and Professor H. A. Urseth in north
ern Minnesota.
Adolph Bydal, the Norwegian jour
nalist in the district court at Brainerd,
has sued the Independent Scandina-
Wan Workmen of America He states
that Nov. 81, 1900, he was elected to
the Office of organizer; that lie
organized lodges at several pieces,
and that on May 10, 1901, he was
ousted from Office without cause. He
asks $4,000 damages.
Dir. Fridtjof hansen. who came
nearest the pole. is becoming involved
in litigation in Chicago. He was in
fair way to receive the fortune left
by Matthias Blessing, a wealthy
Scandinavian who died two years ago
the other heirs having waived their
claims. However, petition was filed
In the probate court by Mrs. Martha
G. Cunningham of Chattanooga,
Tenn, who says she is daughter of
the deceased She asks the court to
delay the distribution of the assets
until she has had hearing.
! Martin Ulvestads Norge America
has reached its seventh thousand. A
pocket edition in flexible covers is
issued. The following are a few of
the facts set forth in the book: The
Norwegians and their descendants In
the United States number 100000
in Canada $4,000. There are Ills
societies and 1921 churches, also
"a schools, 1T teachers, 1854 pupils
in America. There are lie Norwegian
publishers of American papers. Nor
wegians who have written books num-
Der 315. Politically 70 per cent. are
republicans, "a per cent. populists,
per cent. prohibitionists and / per
cent. democrats. 1t is the compiler's
estimate that the democrats have be-
come populist to large extent
Minnesota leads in population, Wis
consin, Illinois, North Dakota, Iowa
South Dakota follow in order. A
valuable map accompanies the book,
showing where the population actually
is. Business and professional men
seem to be most interested in this
work.