Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-06-29
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Rev. Anna Shaw, the well known
American woman preacher, had some
difficulty in securing the right to
preach a sermon in Christiania on
Whitsunday. She applied for this
privilege through the Women's Ma
tional Suffrage association of Norway
and requested the government church
department for permission to speak
In Islblic church. The request was
refused on the ground that the exist
ing law forbids women from speaking
in church. Matters went SO far as
to make the issue the subject of an
Interpolation in the storthing, when
the secretary of the church depart
ment informed Rev. Anna Shaw and
her followers that a resolution would
have TO be adopted by the king and
the whole cabinet. The womens as
ISOLATION then requested that such a
meeting be held and that request was
granted. Rev. Shaw's request to
preach, could not, however, be
granted.
There is an interesting feature In
regard to women's attitude towards
holding public Office, now that they
have been granted the right to vote.
Peculiarly enough they seem to be IL
no hurry in assuming Office, something
which Nlnacnc fhn
1t appears as though the good women
were, so to speak, looking over the
ground pretty thoroughly before they
care to run the risk of assuming the
duties Of Office. The women, however,
who are holding public office in the
country are all doing very well and
have earned the admiration and re-
spect Of the men.
During the past year the United
Norwegian Lutheran church of Ameri-
ca contributed $142,7SS.17 for its work
in the home and foreign fields. The
foreign missionary statistics recently
compiled show that the church body
has ten chief stations, FIVE of which
are on the island of Madagascar and
the remainder in China. At the Nor
wegian Lutheran hospital in China A.
600 polyclinical patients have been
treated. In 1910, 317 persons were
baptized and SAC received instructions
for baptism.
The storthing has decided to estab-
fish national money lottery for the
purpose Of securing funds for a sys-
tematic check of the spread of tuber
culosis throughout the country and
also for the preservation of the coun-
try's forests. Tickets in this lottery
will be sold for 10 crowns each and
such tickets or shares will be for sale
at the various postoffices of the coun-
try.
Bjorn Bjornson, son of the late
Bjornsterne Bjornson, recently ap-
peared as Napoleon, which is one of
the prominent characters in the play
known as Madame Sans Gene"
which mas been rendered with much
success for number of times recent
ly in Copenhagen. Copenhagen news
papers state that he does his part i'm
mensely well and that he will become
great actor some day.
The first turbin in one of the worlds
greatest water powers was set in mo-
ton in Telemarken recently. The
electric power station controls 140,-
900 horsepower, which is divided on
nine substations.
The storthing has accepted the
changes in the Norwegian-Franco pact
of 1909, regarding the tariff OIL
French WHISTLES, cognacs and wines