Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-11-01

ANOTHER LETTER FROM L6llNi
Party Starts From Chrlstlanla To-
morrow For Their xilllmar
Home.

Bron;is, Sweden, Oct. 9, 1911.
Editor Willmar Tribune:
We are still at Bronas. Fall
weather has come and the leaves Of |
the trees are falling off, the farmers
are busy blowing, threshing, picking
potatoes and hauling fertilizer on the |
fields. The commercial fertilizer that
is used is kind of clay rich in lime
and phosphate substances. The
ground here seems to lack the lime
and this stuff makes it very pro-
ductive. The beds from which this
fertilizer is taken was the bottom Of
the sea in ages past. This has been
proven by the fact that old boats
have been found in the excavations.
The stuff is handled by lifting it on
wagons with derrick and it is
spread out on the fields. In the or
chards the apples and pears are now
ripe and are so plentiful that lot
Of them are being fed to the hogs.
Mr.. Anderson has produced about
600 pounds Of honey this summer.
Mr.. Anderson and his son, Carl, have
invented a new kind of pillow, which is
run by motor. It plows crossways
while the motor goes forward. It
runs like an apron on the platform
on self binder and the plows run
on chains up and down in the ground
and plows about 20 feet wide. It
has been on exhibition at the Fair
at Orebro this summer and has Gre
ated a lot Of interest as nothing like
it has been seen before.
i The nearest town here is Lidk0p-
ing which has about 1000 popula-
ton and is well situated on the bank
Of Lake Vanern. This is the largest
fresh water lake in Sweden. A river
runs thru the town, by the name Of
Lid0n. This is good shipping point
both by water and by railroad. Quite
few factories use electric power
which is led by cable by Gulsprang,
a water power station. Other towns
in this neighborhood get their power
from Trollhattan, which develops an
enormous water power. It is said
this water fall could be made to pull
all the railroad trains in Sweden,
and develop million horse power.
1T has been proposed to take power
from here to Copenhagen, Denmark.
for light and power, but this propo-
sition has not met with favor among
the Swedes as they think the power
should be used for developing home
industries and not be led to foreign
countries where it would be used to
run manufactures in competition
with their own.
There has been a lot of stir in pol
itics this fall as new members to the
Riksdag have been elected. A big
gain was shown for the Liberals and
Socialist parties. AS I listened to
the people talking politics it remind
ed me of the scraps we have in our
old home state of Minnesota.
Last Saturday Swan Anderson and
myself were in town and purchased
our tickets for our home trip. We
are going to cross the Atlantic in Os-
car II, the Scandinavian American
line, which will leave Christiania on
November End for. the Gland of the
free and the home Of the brave
Passage cost us 239 crowns for Sec
ond class. Mr.. Anderson is feeling
good and happy and seems as frisky
as kid. The time has passed very
:. quickly. We have now been here
four months, but we will never regret
the time we have spent here.
Hoping that Willmar is all there
> except that which has burned up dur
ing our absence, am,
Very truly yours,
C. W. L0NN.