Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-02-02
TlD|NCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
Interesting News From Sweden,
Norway and Denmark
pRAISEFOR SWEDISH ATHLETES

c%ountrymen to Watch out 'o'
swedes in Stockholm olympian
oames-Economic Conditions N
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watch out for Sweden in the Olyn'
plan games at Stockholm next year,
said Everett C. Brown, president OF
the Amateur Athletic Union OF Amer
ca, a few days ago, previous to his
starting for New York TO attend a
meeting OF some of the United States
representatives to the Olympiad. The
native sons have gone out for the
worlds championship with 'bloou n
their eye, and with the training they
will have, added to the natural ability
they displayed in London in 1908, they
are going TO cut considerable hgufe IN
stockholm. | do not want to be ac.
cussed of lack of patriotism, OF
ANYTHING like that, because of my
statement, but my aim is to warn the
athletes OF this country that they VIII
have TO be up and doing every mlnUte
of the time if they want to figure al
the top in the final count, for sweden
is going 20 leave nothing undone 70
turn the trick. AS a starter, the gov
eminent is back Of the movement by
which Ernie Hjertberg, formerly coach
of the New York ITish-American Attn
letic club. has been secured to train
the Swedish athletes and he has been
given free rein in the work. At pres
ent he is engaged in securing the en-
tire country for athletes from all
a of life and every time he lands
a man who looks like a conner he
puts that individual to work with a
promise Of a place on the Olympic
team if he shows enough class. Hjert,
berg has nothing to do but attend to
this work, and, as it was his team, the
Irish-Americans. which piled up the
greatest total points at London, X Is
only reasonable to suppose that IL
can make a good showing next year.
considering the material he will have
at his disposal"
Count Albert Ehrensvard, the new
minister of Sweden to the United
States, arrived in Washington recent,
ly. Count Ehrensvard succeeds Her
man Lagerkrantz, who resigned last
summer. The new minister comes tc
Washington from the courts at Brus
sells and The Hague, where he has rep
resented his government as minister
during the last two years. Prior K
his diplomatic service in Belgium AND
The Netherlands Count EhrensyarC
was an official of the supreme cour'
at Stockholm. He is a brother of the
present secretary of the navy o.
Sweden.
Baron Cederstrom, the aeronaut, i:
working hard to start an a%eronauti(
company N Stockholm. His intention
is to purchase an aeroplane or two ant
open a flying school in the vicinity o.
Stockholm. Thus far it has been al
most impossible for the baron to in
terest any of the wealthy Stockholm
ians in the venture, which they seen
to regard as something of a rather
hazardous and uncertain nature. Baror
Cederstrom is determined, however
and says that If he cannot raise the
necessary capital in his own country
that he can secure it in Germany.
The Swedish a~rchaeologist, Birgel
Lundell. recently came into possession
of a memorandum book used by Eric
XIV. of Sweden. The book was mo-
supposed 10 have much value and wa!
purchased for a trifle along with some
other rubbish. 1t contains notes AMI
memoranda made in King Eric's owl
handwriting. Eric XIV. was a son o
Gustaf vasa and an uncle of Gustavu,
Adolphus, the hero of the Thirt,
Years war. He was king OF Swedel
from 1860 to 1868 and was deposed.
With the increase in the number O
automobiles the number of accident!
have also increased. Last year there
were not less than 1873 automobile &C
cidents, OF which sever terminated ia
tally. In spite of the fact that the
laws regulating the speed of the au
tos in Stockholm is exceedingly strict
the number of accidents have in
creased instead of diminished.
Although the spiritual condition oil
the state church of Sweden is not
what 1t should be, according to Luth.
eran Church Review, the foreign mis-
sionary board has recently appropriate
ed 5000 rubees for the erection of a
school building at Pudakota, in South
ern India. AS long as the mission
spirit lives, adds the paper, the church
has lots of life to itself.
1t is a noteworthy fact that some
industries are moving away from
Stockholm. The last to move was the
Swedish Metal Works company, which
has erected a new plant at Westerns.
According to recent advices from
Shanghai the Chinese government hal
appointed A. w. H. Heidenstam al
engineer-in-chief fof the government
dam at Hoangho.
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