Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-12-29
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Hundreds Of Norwegian-Americans
have arrived to celebrate the holidays
with the good folks at home. Many
OF the home returning visitors are
coming for the first time since they
left for America and one might imas.
Inc how many happy family reunions
there will be all i've the country.
Some of the sons and daughters who
left for the land in the Far West
many years ago will, however, find
upon their return that many of their
friends and relatives are dead and
many is the son and daughter who
will arrive just in time to see a dying
mother or father. These annual
Christmas visits on the part Of Nor.
wegian-Americans have their joyf
sides as well as their sad ones. The
Observation-Disclosures Is a more wei.
come guest at home than he was a
number of years ago, for the popular
mind in Norway is not SO p%rejudiced
against him as it was.
The Norwegian traffic director has
returned from England. where he at
tended a conference in London be.
tween representatives of the English
telegraph companies and the repre-
%sentatives Of the Northern Telegraph
company. AS a result of this confer.
enc Norway and England will have
full and independent control Of the
cable between Egersund and Peter.
head. Through this arrangement Nor.
way will have her own direct cable
communication with England. The
tax per word from Jan. l will be IL
ore.
Severe snow storms and cold
weather have caused a great deal OF
delay to all railway traffic along the
Bergen and T~rondhjem railways and
several of the through trains were
stuck in the snow and were complete
ly at the mercy of the storm for a
couple of days. A large number of
coast steamers have been unable to
reach harbor and 1t Is feared that
many lives may have been lost. Tele-
graph and telephone wires are down
and all communications were com.
pletely crippled for several days.
The Eds Forest association has
purchased the large forests which
have for the past few years been in
the possession of the Swedish jesse
fors and Ch~arlottenberg Lumber com
panies. The price paid was 100000
nr0uynS Tho n acCOnfatinn hos
also purchased the Koppom paper
mills holdings for ISL, 900 crowns.
The acquired forest tract is regarded
as exceptionally valuable and undoubt.
edly millions Of crowns will be real
lied from it by the association.
Nearly all the hunting expeditions
which started out for Spitzbergen
early last fall have returned. The ex-
petitions have been very successful
and the total value of their trophies
will amount to at least 500, 900 crowns.
The expeditions have brought back
to Tromsoe, from whence they start
ed, 46,S00 sealskins, 800 bears, of
which twenty-one are alive, 230 foxes
and 24S reindeer.
Valstad, the well known artist, has
blossomed out as an author, having
recently published a very richly illus
trated children's holiday story, which
critics pronounce to be splendid. The
book has proven exceedingly popular
and thousands of copies have been
disposed Of at popular prices.
The Christiania Students Male cho-
rus, which visited America in 1905, is
planning to celebrate it's sixty-fifth an
niversary some time during the holt
days. They will give a grand concert,
which will be attended by the elite of
Christiania society and the king and
queen.
The National Anti-Tuberculosis So
ciety has received a donation of b.
600 crowns from Hans Mustad and
wife of C~hristiania. The society has
received over 100, 900 crowns in dona-
tions during the past year.
A new banking institution has been
established at Egersund. which will
be known as "Egersund and Dalenes
Privatbank." It starts out with a
capt. al of 100000 crowns.
There are in all 1900 architects and
civil engineers in Norway at present.
Nearly every one of these has COM
pleted their education abroad.
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