Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-04-24
NORWAY.

The l. o. G.. T., of Norway, celebrat
ed it's thirty-five year jubilee at Pors'
grund, the First Norwegian No. IT,
being we'll represented There were
also delegates from other parts of the
country.
A stock company has been organ
lied for working the iron ore deposits
found at Mount Fagerud, near Narvik
The capital stock is 100000. The
ore is magnetic, containing % pei
cent of iron.
Prot. Harold Hoffding of the uni.
versity of Copenhagen, the most noted
and most popular philosopher in
Scandinavia, gave a series of lectures
at the university of Norway. Strange
as it may seem, there were many more
women than men in his audiences.
Mrs. Bramwell Booth, of London
has been permitted by the cabinet to
use the Bergen cathedral for a lecture
on the work of rescuing the poor and
downtrodden. Mrs. Booth is the inter.
national head of the slum and rescue
work, and her present aim is to arouse
public interest in this branch of the
work of the Salvation Army. She is
the first foreign woman ever permit.
ted to speak in church controlled by
the state church of Norway.
A great landslide has occurred in
Flaamsdal, near Bergen. A portion of
a mountain broke loose and rushed
down into the valley below with a
roar that struck the people Of Flaam
with terror. Rocks were thrown
across the river and up to the high
way on the opposite side. The noise
was heard for distance of fifteen
miles. No one was injured. Snow
and land slides are quite common in
this locality, and the people have to
use good judgment in selecting sites
for their houses.
Generous offers. The Telefank, a
great German manufacturing firm, has
offered to give to Road Amundsen the
necessary apparatus for a wireless
station on the Fran. The offered gift
is worth about $2,700. A. ]. With, a
wholesale merchant, has offered to
furnish, in San Francisco, all the
"Gold Medal wheat flour that the
expedition can use on it's trip to the
polar regions. What charming thing
success is, anyway! 1t is but few
years since Road Amundson, while
walking the streets of Kristiania, was
looked upon as mixture of dreamer
and tramp, ready to attempt to cross
the Atlantic in a wretched little craft
that the authorities might pounce upon
at any moment and declare to be I'M
seaworthy.; This craft was the Gjoa,
which won a worldwide fame by pass
ing from Labrador to Alaska.
The board of education of Kristian.
sund instructed all the teachers of the
public schools of the city to use the
common Norwegian-Danish book-lan'
guage exclusively while at work in
the class-rooms. One of the teachers
objected to this rule, maintaining that
he had right to use dialect Nor.
wegian in talking to the children, pro-
vided that he used Norwegian Danish
in actual instruction. The matter was
referred to the national government
Liljedahl, minister of public instruc'
ton, had to settle the controversy.
He has always been a consistent
champion of district Norwegian, and
many expected him to follow his per-
sonal inclinations. But he disappoint'
ed them by deciding that the teacher
in question must use only Norwegian
Danish in his classroom. This ruling
by Liljedahl is an interesting com
ment on mans liberty when he accu'
pies responsible position.
Magnus Granerud, of Kilde, Wang,
has passed the eightieth milestone
But he does not seem to mind that.
He is a cooper, and generally manages
to make .ten-gallon whisky key every
day for the Loiten distillery, Kris.
t;ania. The Hauge religious movement
made deep impression upon his mind
when he was young, and all who know
him agree that he is "a man in whom
there is no guile.' "
A fire that did damage for $4,000
at the Neptun herring oil factory at
Melbo is supposed to have, been start.
ed by sparks from a piece of iron that
dropped into the herring-meal grinder;
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