Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-09-21
OF INTEREST TO
SCAND|NAVIANS
Recent Happenings in This
Country and Abroad.
LESS MARRIAGES IN SWEDEN

Proportion OF Single persons Con.
tinues Increasing YearIy-Great Ia.
Dor Conflict In Norway Brought to
an End After Long strussIe-Re.
ported Visit of Danish Crown Prince
to United States Denied.
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+ SWEDEN. +
The Swedish bureau of statistics has
Just issued an exceedingly interesting
report from which we CLEAN the fol-
lowing: There are great many
grown unmarried persons In Sweden,
292,195 out of every 100000 inhabi-
tants, and as far as is known this
proportion has never been reached in
Sweden previously. 1t seems that
there have been so many young men
that have emigrated and those who
are staying at home have not for finan-
cial reasons been able to marry and
establish families. Using the aver
age figures for long series of years
up to 1900, the report states that tn,
number Of persons between twenty
and fifty years old is 121,S01 below
the normal. OF this deficit 41,260
persons are men aid S0,54l are wo-
men. The birth rate in Sweden con-
tinues to be alarmingly low. This is
due, of course, to the fact that so few
people marry now Marriages are
most numerous during the Christmas
month, which continues to hold the
wedlock record.
What for Northern Europe has
ing events of the yachting season
was the one recently held in Gothen-
burg, when eight motor boats of diff.
ferent nationalities were competing
for the one-tonner cup. Sweden, Den
mark. Germany, England. France,
Holland, Finland and Norway were
the countries represented and up to
date there have been three races, of
which the English boat won two and
the German boat the third. The Nor
wegian boat has been No. in all the
races and as no one is declared the
final winner before having won five
times in all it is as yet any mans
race. The summer has been an I'M
usually favorable one for yacht races
and they have been very frequent dur
ing the past few months.
The International Council of Wo-
TIC In, n,
Sept. 6, Lady Aberdeen and Mrs.
Grey representing England; DR.. Ger
trude Beaumer, Germany; Nine. st.
Croix, France, and DR.. Anna Won
Schabanof, Russia. The subjects to
be discussed include education,
finance, women's legal position, the
right to vote, civil laws and moral
equality. The following day the lady
delegates were entertained at a gar.
den party at the royal palace given by
King Gustaf and Queen Victoria
The celebrated Swedish landscape
painter, Johan Tiren, died at his
home in Stockholm few days ago. A
couple of days prior to his death he
returned from an extensive journey in
Lappland, where he procured some
wonderfully fine motifs which he con-
templated painting on his return to
Stockholm. On his way home from
the Far North he contracted very Sc
we're cold, which suddenly developed
into pneumonia, from which he died.
The mission board of the Church of
Sweden has appointed Chaplain H.
Nordblom to spend from six to eight
weeks as missionary among the Swed-
fish fishermen in Christiansand, Nor
way, this coming fall. The board has
also decided to send Swedish minis
ter to Christiania and has called Rev.
Oscar Krooh, assistant pastor of the
Johannes church in Stockholm. The
object will be to start a Swedish
church in the Norwegian capital
At the Eighth International Jewish
Missionary conference Injecting is
held every fifth year, at Stockholm
last month the discussions were con.
Quoted in English as well as German.
Bishop Scheele lied the business of
the conference with great adroitness
and was ably assisted by Professor II.
l.. Strack of Berlin university, who is
strictly logical German professor,
but as kind and impartial as the bish-
op," says an exchange writer.
The Swedish government railways
are, according to latest reports, doing
very excellent business. During the
first six months of the present year
the receipts amounted to S10229, 900,
which is 1867 900 In excess of the re.
ceipts last year for the same period.
The C. A. Clase estate has been
settled and it leaves about S250,0O0 to
charitable institutions in Gothenburg.
Mr.. Clase made his fortune in the
Western states, but returned to
Sweden a number Of years ago, max.
Ing his home in Gothenburg.
From the Socia, Democratic stats
tical bureau II Is learned that there
are at present 1881, 900 laboring men
in Sweden. Nearly all of them belong
to some labor union.