Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-07-03
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visiting at the Russian court
A group of Danish school boys have
visited Stockholm and Dalarne.
Many medals were awarded to
Swedes at a tourist exposition in Lon
don.
Two prominent Hungarian educators
are studying the school system Of
Stockholm.
The field maneuvers Of this year
will take place thru the country north
of Goteborg.
starting g. new peoples high school,
at Engelholm, SHANE
The national government is to con-
tribute $4,000 to the construction of
a dry dock in Malmo.
The Catholics of Stockholm celebrat-
ed the golden wedding of the king and
queen by special service.
The crops were in very poor con-
dition in the first part of June, es-
pecially in Southern Sweden.
The temperance people of Karls-
krona are going to start a temperance
restaurant at an expense of $4,000.
900 pictures Of the king and queen at
the time of their golden wedding
Twenty-Five German importers of
lumber have just spent two weeks
travelling in the numbering districts of
Sweden.
The surplus of the postoffice Depart
ment for the past year, amounting to
$622,9S5.5S, has just been turned into
the National treasury.
c. Feron, a Stockholm jeweler, has
donated two chandeliers of pure silver
to the national museum as sample
of Swedish jewelry of our day.
It now looks as if the empress of
Japan is going to be an aggressive
competitor for the literary Nobel prize
which is to be awarded Dec. 10, 1907.
The pressure in the city water mains
in Lund is so low that no water is car
ried to the upper stories of the build
ings located in the elevated portions
of the city.
The chronological society of Lund has
issued an appeal to all those who work
in peat boys to save whatever relics
they may find from past ages, be they
remains of plants, animals or men.
August Karling has resigned as
music teacher at the Ystad high school
after a service of A. years. A sum of
money was presented to him by his
scholars on the occasion of his resig-
nation.
The city council of Malmo voted
home for poor, abandoned mothers. It
is to be known by the name of King
Oscar and Queen Sophia's Golden
Wedding Memorial 1nstitute.'
Hans Won Horn, manager of the
Fallnas estate, Sorunda parish, Soder-
mainland, has commenced to put up
cottages for the servants families, en-
abling them to establish independent
homes of their own. A piece of ground
Is allotted for each house. The man
ager has given a flag and Flagstaff to
each house.
The late J. Balkenhausen donated
$4,000 to his town, Solvesborg, but
the money must not be used for the
advancement of the cause of Socialism
Or Temperance.
Prince Bernadotte and family are
spending the warm season on the
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short time ago.
A Swedish squadron is going to visit
England in the early part Of August
and it will be reviewed by King I'D
ward at Cowes.
Gustaf of Geijerstam, the author. is
spending some time on the Hottest
mountains Of Norway, on account o.
poor health.
The balance in the treasury Of the
state railway pension fund is $780,
900, and that Of the widows and
pupils fund Is $3,500,000. The state
makes large contributions to these
funds, but the employees must also
make regular contributions in order
to be entitled to aid from them.
Forest fires have done much damage
at Farila, Helsingland, and near the
Dockmyra railway station. 49,, az.
The Household Supply Society OF
sSkaraborg Ian celebrated its one-
.hundredth@ anniversary at Swara, June
&. Part OF the program vas horse
ard cattle show. which was attended
by 900 people.