Morris tribune., 1912-10-25
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAV|ANS
Recent Happenings in This
Country and Abroad.
PROMISES A STRONG TEAM

Ernie Hjertherg to Train Swedish Ath
Eetes for the German oIympaid
Professor AxeI Hoist of Christiania
Lecturer at Recent international
Congress of Hygiene-Proposal i.
Denmark to Abolish Plural Voting.
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Charles K. JOhansen, publisher OIL
the Swedish North Star of New York
has received letter from Ernie
Hjertberg in which the latter states
that the Swedish Olympic committee
has signed him up as trainer for the
German Olympiad, giving him a four.
year contract. In the letter Mr.. Hjert
berg says: Sweden is going to have
the strongest team it ever boasted of
The boys are picking up the fine
points of the game fast. They saw
the Americans in action and learned
lots from what they accomplished. ]
have number of cracking sprinters
who, after they have tried out, viii.
give the worlds best good fight for
titular honors. l expect to take my
next team to Berlin months before
the big meet comes off. The govern
ment has planned to get necessary ex.
penses for training and other purposes
But l am sticking for the subscription
business, for then the people of Sweden
can acclaim our next victory all thei1
own" Hjertberg, by the way, has
reason to feel proud of his recen
work. He did more than was expect,
ed of him and showed up several
"cracking performers" in the track
events, and likewise three or fou1
good marathon runners. The team, as
a whole, adore Hjertberg and they ap'
preciate the fact that he knows the
game from A to z, and must obey him
In order to become competent athletes.
At a recent meeting of a number OF
| prominent Swedes in Minneapolis
steps for forming the Gunnar Wanner-
berg Monument association were TAX.
en-. A picture of Wennerberg, six BY
nine feet, painted by Axel Lindahl.
/ was displayed. The meeting was
called by the festival officers of the
American Union of, Swedish Singers
! Hjalmar Nilsson was appointed chair
man and DR.. Victor Nilsson, secretary
pro tenn. Many of the most active
men in the singing fraternity, church
and temperance circles among the
Swedish-Americans of Minneapolis
were present and evinced great inter
est in the projected monument to the
Swedish patriotic and religious poet
and composer. During the recent
strong nationalistic movement, says
the Minneapolis Journal in regard TO
this matter, subscriptions for the erec
ton of Gunnar Wennerberg statues
were started in Upsala and Gothen
burg. The statue was recently un
yelled in Upsala and the Gothenburg
statue is to be unveiled in the near fu-
ture. One of the incentives for the
Swedish-Americans of Minneapolis to
start this movement is the annual
| celebration in New York and Chicago
of John Ericcsson's birthday and the
SWedes of Chicago have in Lincoln
| park an impressive monument of Carl
| Won Linnaeus, the botanist; the Nor
wegians have a Left Ericsson statue
and the Danes have one of Hans
| Christian Anderson and the Norwe
giaDs Of Minneapolis have one of Ole
Bull.
More than a year ago the Cathedral
chapter at Karlstad called Rev. Har-
old Hallen to account for deviating
from the regular church ordinances in
conducting public worship. One of
the accusations was that in the gen.
eral prayer he omitted the petition for
the army and navy. Now, after
years time, Rev Hallen has appealed
his case to the supreme court
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The net traffic receipts of the Swed-
ish railways reached their climax dur.
ing the month of July last, when &.
| 797, 600 crowns were received from thi
source, the largest amount ever col
lected during the period of one month
in the history of Swedish state rail.
ways.
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Strand hotel, where the fashionable
"guldkrogen" is located, has encoun
tered financial difficulties and at last
reports the management was practical
ly ready to make an assignment. The
debts exceed the income by at least