The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-04
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Judge Aschehoug died at the age of
SO years. t - -
Prof. H. Mohn has been connected
with the University of Norway for fifty
years. y t.1s7
The new post office building in Sta
vanger has been opened for public
traffic. -s, e
At Balestrand. Sogan, the tourist
traffic has raised the value of real
estate enormously. A piece of ground
adjoining Balholmen has been assess
ed at the rate of almost $1,000 an
acre.
The city of Dranimen has a trolley
line without tracks. Now the track
less" street car system has been
dragged into the courts. The owners
of the houses along the line have com
planned to the authorities and asked
fndemnities.
K~ristianssund seems to be a city
where clergymen are fond of staying.
During the past 80 years the city has
had only two parish pastors. Rev.
Screaming occupied the position for
80 years and Rev. Brinchmann has
been his successor for 80 years.
A boat carrying five women and n
man capsized in Ellingsjofjord, near
Aalesund. Four of the women and the
man were saved by a motor boat, but
two Of them died shortly afterwards,
from exposure. The names of the
dead were Olivia Ness, Ingeborg Bunes
and Andreas Ness.
The Arendal district has been noted
for its iron mines from time imme-
mortal. But this industry has not
prospered in that locality for some
time past. A. Evenbye, a hotel owner,
has made it an object to obtain con-
troll of them for a concern which is
going to make an effort to revive this
industry.
The city council of Moss, after a
discussion, lasting four hours, resolved
to grant no licenses to sell beer and
wine in inns and hotels. Beer of a
low percentage of alcohol may be sold
in the railway station. There is a
brewery which cannot be deprived Of
its right to sell beer. and some liquor
dealers hold licenses for life. The
resolution was passed by the COM
bined vote of the temperance people
and the socialists.
MAIDS Hansen Gundhres, of Lunder,
Ringerike, who was born Dec. 2. 1925,
died a few days ago. He lived all
alone in an old rookery. and he had
been sickly for some time. One after
noon he went down to the country
store to buy some goods, but he did
not return home alive. In the morn
ing he was found dead 600 yards be-
low his house. From the marks in
the snow it appeared that he had been
down several times and had tried to
crawl. : .. ...f
Boat carrying half a dozen people
was thrown against a skerry at Vaags-
nesset, near Bergen, and only one of
them knew how to swim. AS he start
ed for the shore two of the women
chung to his clothes and he barely
reached solid ground with his load.
Then he made two more trips to the
skerry and saved the others. All of
them had to walk a mile and a half
to the nearest house. which taxed the
strength of some of them to the ut
most.
In a valley in Hallingbal, lives a
man who has a remarkable dog. In
the fall he sends the dog up among
the mountains to look for white
grouse. If the dog finds many birds
he, comes home wagging his tail and
otherwise showing that he is very
happy. But if he does not strike any
birds. he comes home quietly without
making any fuss. One day the dog
acted in a peculiar manner He was
not quiet and careless. nor was he
lively and happy. But he was anxious
to have the man go with him and so
the man went up among the noun
tains. After a while they came to a
lamb which had been injured so that
1t could not get anywhere, and the
man took the lamb home, to the great
delight of the dog.
The Norwegian whale hunters along
the coasts of Africa have had q good
year. There were eight companies
employing % vessels and seven render
ing plants on separate vessels. There
were also four stations on land. The
finished product was 94,lO0 barrels of
oil and some fertilizer and bone. The
value of the goods is about $1.5OO. 900.
Fire broke out a little after mid
night in the large storehouse of the
Bjelland Canning Company, at Sand
vigen, Stavanger, and the huge build
ing was burnt to the ground. The
building and its contents were insur-
ed for 4 1900.