Morris tribune., 1911-07-07

Dakotas, Minnesota and the Western
states. There are especially a large
number of Dakotans and Minnesotans
there this season. Dakota especial
ly North Dakota, has the largest per-
centage of Norwegians of any state
in the Union and naturally a large
number of the home returning visitors
are from that state. A great many
of the visitors have been gone in
America for twenty and thirty years
or more and it Is natural that they
find great many changes even in and
around their homes in the country dis
tricts The home visits of Norwegian
Americans always results in score
! for America, for in nearly every in
stance a Norwegian-American seldom
visits his mother land without bring
ing some one with him when he re-
turns.
NorWegians need not fear that the
claims of the Danes that Gagner Rolf
was a Dane has any effect on the peo-
pie of France. The French will not
let agitation interfere with their one
thousand years celebration at Rouen
and they proceed on the old theory
that Gagner Rolf was a Norwegian,
born near Aalesund, Norway. A big
granite monument has been shipped
from Norway as token of friendship
and good feeling, to be erected in
Rouen and that city in turn has sent
a monument of Gagner Rolf, to be
erected at his birthplace in Aalesund.
The time originally fixed for the big
celebration was postponed on account
of the killing Of the French minister
of war in balloon wreck and at the
present time it is not known just ex
Rctly when the festivities at Rouen
will open.
The United Norwegian church has
just completed it's tWenty-second an
nual meeting in St. Paul, Mimi. The
following are the new Off GERS: Pres
ident, Rev. T. H. DAHL vice president,
Rev. N. J. Ellestad; secretary, Rev. J.
c. Roseland; treasurer, Erik Waldo
land. There were thirty-three new
congregations admitted. Most of these
are in Canada. Eighteen graduates
of the seminary at st. Anthony were
ordained. Within the space of one
year almost 100000 has been raised
towards the ministerial Annuity
Fund" This synod is very active in
it's mission work, having raised for
the home and mission fund during the
past year the sum of $142,733.17.
There is a good deal of opposition
in Norway to the public school sys-
tenn, that is the educational methods
that have been in vogue for many
years and which even obtain at the
many persons that so called book
knowledge units the children for prac-
tical life. So much interest is taken
in this question that a great many of
the Norwegian papers are printing eX-
tensive articles on the subject.
A labor union male chorus from
Stockholm visited Christiania about
two weeks ago and gave a concert in
the Meyer Street Mission House,
which was filed to it's utmost capac-
ity. This is the first time in many
years that Swedish male chorus has
visited the Norwegian capital The
chorus is unusually well received in
Norway and has been giving concerts
in Bergen, ,Trondhjem and other cities
of the country
Norway will benefit from the recent
reduction in tariffs on her exported
articles to Germany. There will be
a substantial reduction on lingon ber-
ries, window frames, doors, traps,
pulp, all kinds of stone and marble
works, horseshoe nails, etc.
A new treaty between Norway and
Japan has just been closed, making
trade relations between the two coun-
tries far more practical than they
have been hitherto.