Morris tribune., 1912-05-31
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAv|ANS
Recent Happenings in This
Country and Abroad.
CONFERENCE WELL ATTENDED

Seven Hundred Delegates at Swedish
Lutheran Gathering at st. Peter.
Misunderstanding Votes Funds for
Exposition at Christiania in 1914.
Extreme Simplicity Marks Ceremo-
MES in Connection With Arrival Of
Body Of King Fredrik at Copenhagen.
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Some 700 delegates attended the
Swedish Lutheran conference at st.
Peter, Mimi, on which occasion also
was celebrated the f1ftieth anniver-
sary of Gustavus Adolphus college,
the leading Swedish-American institu-
ton of the Northwest. The st. Paul
Dispatch, in an editorial regarding the
college anniversary, said: Fifty years
ago it was not IN the least suspected
that Minnesota or this Northwest
would become so closely settled with
men and women from the Northern
peninsula as to cause the territory to
be regarded as New Scandinavia. Yet,
even in those days, the brave North
men, who had come as adventurously
inland as ever Vikings made venture
in the old ages, laid the foundations
for an intelligent people, determined
that whatever the quota they might
contribute to the development of this
inland world it should be capable
through education of taking its fair
share in the great work. That the
people of the North have shared full
ly in the making of this new North
is most obvious. And that Gustavus
Adolphus college has had part, a
large part, in making the Northern
people worthy and capable people
was made evident at the great cele-
bration May Fl. The present govern
or of Minnesota is a graduate of the
college and the first college graduate
from Minnesota to serve as governor
of the state. The president of the
Minnesota State university was pres
ent to deliver an address, thereby ex-
hibiting the harmony which exists
between Gustavus Adolphus college
and the higher schools of the state"
The Stockholm street car company
estimates that during the summer
they will need an increase of at least
800 men to handle the thrOngs that
will gather to attend the Olympian
gam 5. AS it will be little difficult
to secure men at this time of the year
they are asking that they be allowed
to employ young men of eighteen or
over for this occasion. The age limit
for street car men is set by law at
twenty-one. The company believes if
the age limit is lowered they can Sc
cure bright, dependable young man
from the schools as vacation comes at
time to make it convenient to step
into another kind of job.
The leader of the Mormon churches
of Sweden, EiRar Johansson, and the
American Mormon preacher, c. A
Carlquist, and the latter's wife have
sued the publisher of the Svenska
Dagbladet, DR.. Helmer Key, charging
that their characters were DETAINED in
a recent article directed against the
operations of Mormon proselyters in
Sweden. It is the general opinion in
Stockholm that the Svenska Dag
bladet will easily win its case. There
is just now strong feeling against
the Mormon proselyters in Sweden
and even the government is taking 8
decided stand against them.
Perhaps no public man has been sc
universally grieved as Is the late Au
gust Strindberg, who was justly re
garded as one of the worlds greatest
writer's. Memorials will be many II
his honor and his funeral the othel
day in Stockholm was one of the lar
Sest ever held in honor of a public
parsonage, excepting possibly King
Oscar.
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