Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1909-04-29
NORWAY.

There is every indication that there
will be large delegation of Nor
wegian-Americans who will visit their
old home in Norway this summer.
Ocean travel nowadays is a pleasure
and the average Scandinavian in the
northwest is becoming independent
and wealthy, especially among the
farming classes, and thus we find that
a whole lot of them take advantage
of low steamship rates and take trip
TO good old Norway. There is charm
about this summer trip to Sweden and
Norway which does not fail to attract
the attention of the home loving
Swede or Norwegian, and there is
every year decided increase in the
number of travellers. "Home Sweet
Home" is the drawing card and that
explains much.
An item which appeared in a Nor
wegian paper recently and caused not
little amusement among the news
paper reading public in Norway and
elsewhere is the following: King
Haakon received In audience the 9th
er day gentleman who had presented
him with an exceedingly valuable
meerschaum pipe" The notice has
received a rather large amount of
good-natured comment at the hands of
the Christiania press.
The French officers who came to
participate in the Holmenkollen ski
events In March have not yet left the
country. They have been making an
extensive tour in the northern section
of the country and have traversed as
far north as Norwegian Lappmarken.
They have been enjoying their trip i'm
mensely and one of their number has
been writing series of interesting
articles for Paris sporting paper.
The number of post money orders
received from American were during
the last quarter 100000 crowns less
than last year during the same period.
There has been not little speculation
in Norway as to the cause of the
falling off of this source of revenue.
but it may be that the Norwegian
press has been going little too
strong against American interests
lately.
Great preparations are under way
for the sangaerfest which is to be
held in Stavanger this summer. Thee
will be male choruses coming from
all parts of the country and many of
the west coast cities will charter ex-
cursion steamers for the event Chris
tiania and Bergen will send the larg-
est choruses and even Aalesund will
send quite an aggregation.
Newspaper reports state that monu-
ment to the memory of Asbjorn Klos-
ter will be erected at Stavanger this
season. Gustav Laerum, the sculptor,
has promised that he will finish a
statue of the honored departed one
prior to Aug. 1, and the unwilling will
In all probability take place during the
convention of the total abstinence So
ciety Aug. IL, to 13 next.
One of the unique features at the
Bergen exposition in 1910 will be the
arrangement Of great ski tournament,
which will take place right on Mid
summers Day up in the adjoining
"fjoll,' where the snow lies several
feet thick the year around. The com
petitors in this race will be expert
enced ski runners from Christiania
and Bergen.
/ In Bergen there is an unusual build.
/ ing activity this season. There are
at present being erected not less than
thirty new villas, which will be occu.
pied by tourists during the coming
season. bergen is getting right to the
! front as a tourist center and the local
tourist there is receiving new applica-
tions every day.
All the Norwegian hotel and inn
keepers are now busying preparing to
receive tine summer visitors. There is
every indication. judging from the re-
ports from the tourist bureaus, that
there will be a large contingent of
tourists from all over Europe this
summer.