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

A nsnermens home has just beer
dedicated at Sandshavn, Romsdal.
An Italian musician is composing an
opera to Bjornson's "Synnove Solbahs
ken"
A religious revival is making head.
way among the young people of the
Norwegian capital.
The new Svithun steamship line be,
tween Norway and England is q sue.
cess from the very start.
The voters Of Roros turned down a
proposition to furnish stationery free
Of charge to the schools.
The Norwegian freight steamer
Hector recently carried 5000 tons Of
wood pulp to Portland, Maine.
The Wilson steamship line has cut
down the rates to one-half In compel.
ing with the new Svithun line.
Gunhild Marie Birkenes, Greibstad.
Sogne parish, was born in 1914. and
yet she can read without glasses. =
The church department has ratified
the requests made by Anne Evenstad.
LOT Storelvedalen. amounting to almost
100000.
The Nordmore automobile company
has bought two new automobiles foK
traffic on the Svorkmo and Surendal-
soren route.
Kristiania has a population of about
$4,000, and out of that number no
less than $4,000 have a right to vote
at city elections.
Four companies keep about 10000
reindeer in the mountains around Jot-
unheimen. Five thousand head were
butchered last fall.
The city council of Kristiania, after
a lengthy debate, voted a certain
amount Of money for employing wo-
men on the police force.
The Norwegian saltpeter works
stock company has notified the govern
ment that the capital stock of $4,S6O,-
900 has been paid up in full.
Lars l.. Ritland, of Suidal, Te1e-
marker, died at the age Of 81 years.
Far and wide he was known as q
leading farmer and horticulturist
The Gjovik savings bank has bought
six acres of ground near the city for
$500. The ground will be set aside
In the interest of athletics and play.
The ski clubs Of Norway started a
national union about three years ago,
and about 40 clubs have joined it.
The total membership exceeds $4,000.
A cup-shaped club of soap stone
from the Early West Norway Stone
Age has been found at Eide, LANCE
vaag, Bommelo. The find is Of great
archaeological interest.
The savings banks Of the public
schools of Kr1stiania have completed
their second year. The number OF
classes represented is 73O, and the
whole number of depositors is about
$4,000. The deposits aggregate about
$4,000.
A land slide is feared in Vardalen.
The Malsaa river is apt to cut new
passage, and that means disaster. As
remedy it is proposed to change the
VOLTA falls. The great landslide OF
1893 in still fresh in the memory Of
the people. On that occasion no less
than one hundred and nineteen human
lives were lost.
Kristiania had a population Of Y4Od
178 the first of February last. There
were 107, 800 males and 132,S1s fe-
males. AS the children below the aga
of fifteen were about evenly divided
between the two sexes there are fully
Is, 900 more women than men in the
Norwegian capital. This is q good
pointer to girls who wish to get mar,
ried.
Bic Lorentzen, an engineer who has
been making experiments at Notor.
den, has succeeded in constructing a
furnace suitable for the production Of
pig iron from ore by means of cleo.
tricity. A stock company has been
organized for exploiting the invention.
Rev. DR.. Alfred Eriksen, the ablest
Socialist in Norway, was recently in
stalled as pastor of large parish in
the capital Of Norway. He preached
on the signs in the sun and the moon.
The first Christians expected Christ
to return very soon But time passed
and he did not return Ages will pass
away, generation after generation will
die in the same longing. Man must
become familiar with the idea that
Gods plans have aims that we do not
understand. We find it difficult t.
understand why every forward step
must be bought with so much suffer.
ing and sorrow. But we must COM
fort in Gods government. Everything
must serve his will. Everything is a
part OF his great plan. People grad
ually learn to think and feel different.
~. The great calling Of the church
is to understand that God is not OUT
side of and alien to the world. His
gospel should be preached in such 4
way as to conquer and animate tho
best thoughts of the day. The sermon
was listened to with the. closest at
tention.
Margrete Killingrodholmen was
born six weeks before Christmas" in
Lur parish, Sweden, but she has lived
in Enningdalen most of her life. A
short while ago she moved to. tho
home of daughter in Sweden. Tho
old lady has been the subject Of eight
different kings.
The snow is so deep in Hallingdal
that it will be difficult to haul the hav
down from the forests and mountain
districts. Many logs that were cut
early in the fall are simply lost in the
snow so that they cannot be found I'M.
til next spring, unless a very neayy
thaw sets in. ~
Jon Lie, the old author. has SUI,
fered q heavy loss The outhouses IN