Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1912-06-13
INTEREST TO
SCANDINAWANS
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 christisnia In 1914
Extreme Simplicity Marks ceremo'
mics 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.
was celebrated the fiftieth anniver-
sary of Gustavus A~dolphus 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 a~dventurously
inland as ever Vikings made venture
in the old ages, laid the foundations
for an intelligent people, determined
that whatever the quota they might
inland world it should >be capable
through education of taking it's 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
A~dolphus college has had a part, a
large part, in making the Northern
people a worthy and capable people
was made evident at the great cele-
bration May 81. 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"
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The Stockholm street car company
estimates that during the summer
they will need an increase of at least
300 men to handle the throngs that
will gather to attend the Olympian
gan ). AS it will be a 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
for this occasion. The age limit
for street car men Is set by law at
twenty-one. The company believes II
the age limit is lowered they can Sc
crre bright, dependable young man
from the schools as vacation comes at
a time to make 1t convenient to step
into another kind of a job.
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The leader of the Mormon chr hes
Of Sweden, Einar Johansson, and the
American Mormon preacher, C. A.
.arlquist, and the latter's wife have
sued the publisher of the Svenska
DR.. Helmer Key, charging
that their characters were DETAINED in
! recent article directed against the
operations of Mormon proselyters in
Sweden. 1t is the general opinion in
that the Svenska Dag.
,ladet will easily win it's case. There
s just now a strong feeling against
he Mormon proselyters in Sweden
even the government is taking a
iecided stand against them.
Perhaps no public man has been so
Universally grieved as is the late Au-
,ust Strindberg, who was Justly re-
as one of the worlds greatest
Memorials will be many in
lis honor and his funeral the other
lay in Stockholm was one of the lar
yest ever held in honor of a public
parsonage, excepting possibly King
Oscar.
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Prince Wilhelm recently made an
lerial trip In Olivare's biplane In Nice
Ind was accompanied by Count Mont
After the prince had land.
ID he expressed himself as being we'll
with his experience and stated
hat he believes that 1t is only a mat
er of time until travelling in the air
viii become general.
A Titanic matinee was held in
April 3d.. The matinee
lad been arranged by the Daeens
syheter and netted a sum OF $500
rowns, which will be sem immediate.
y to the shipwrecked Swedish people
Tho are still at the Swedish emigrant
lome In New York.
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Among the eminent scientists who
Eill attend the congress OF hygiene in
d. c.. next month IL Pro
essor Alfred Peterson Of Stockholm.
OF the meteorological section Of
he state institute for medical re.
earch In that city.
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