Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-01-31
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
An establishment for refining whale
| oil is in process of construction in
Sandefjord.
The commune Of Aker appropriated
$5OO for taking care of the teeth of tllG
school children.
Small electric power plants are be.
| ing built in the country districts OF
Norway at rate which conservative
| business did not expect a few years
ago.
A destructive fire broke out in the
Nordiske textile factory in Kristiania,
and the buildings were destroyed.
The loss was about $4,000, and the
business will not be resumed for some
Tenth of time.
Matthias 3. FoSs, pinery man, ran
into an airhole with his skis on his
feet at Valskraa, Grong, where the
hansen river is tricky. He was
drowned, and when found his body
; still stuck to the skis.
The late Rev. Gunnar Dahler donat-
ed his farm, Lonnegraff, Vraadal Fele.
marker, to the Norwegian mission Sc
ciety. The building is to be used az a
place of rest for missionaries. There
| is room enough for three families.
The commune of North Aurdal has
bought the so-called "Greve'' forests
for $4,000. The land-about 1850
| acres, was bought by private party
| In the first place. But ii the nick
of time the commune stepped in and
made use of it's right to take the first
chance to buy the property.
the conditional opening of the pull
pits of the churches of Norway to
women at this time was largely due to
a request made last summer by Miss
Anna Shaw, an American lady. The
cabinet was almost evenly divided on
the subjec.. The rights of women to
speak in the churches are restricted
in many ways.
Drangedal is badly torn up on &C.
count of the language controversy. In
many school districts the voters are
about evenly divided between the No.-
wegian-Danish and dialect Norwegian,
and when they insist on taking a vote
on the matter, every few years, it is
easy to see how the excitement can
be kept up.
This is very bad winter for Nor
wegian shipping. In the course of
two months seven vessels were lost in
the North sea, and every man on
board persisted. The total loss of
human lives on these seven vessels
was about IS. Many other ships were
wrecked, but parts of their crews
we're saved. Ugly rumors are afloat
to the effect that the Norwegians are
using too many vessel that are not
seaworthy.
The boat of two young fishermen
capsiZed near Drobak. They managed
to turn the boat on its keel again.
B, one of them, Johan Christoffersen,
was so far gone that he died before
his comrade took the boat to the shore
Such cases are quite frequent in
Scandinavia in our day. Apparently
strong men are exposed in the water
sheer lack of vitality. Their ancestors
seem to have been more robust
Christmas in Spitzbergen. The
wireless messages from Spitzbergen
state that there was splendid Christ
mas weather, and northern lights
played on the dark-blue, starry vault
of heaven. There was a regular cele-
bration at Green Harbor. The wire
less telegraph has totally changed the
character of the life of those spending
the winter in Spitzbergen, and men
who have spent years there now de-
clare that they feel perfectly at home.
liver Paulsen Brustven, Brandbu,
Hadeland, has passed tho oLe hundred
year mark. His father died at the age
of IS years, and his two brothers are
about 80 years old. He had been do
ing farm work until the last few years.
He was never sick until about a year
ago, and since that time he has been
compelled to go to bed now and then.
He smokes his pipe Of tobacco only
in the morning. His hearing and see-
ing are failing, but his memory Is re-
markaESy retentive.
The executive committee of the In
ner mission society passed the follow.
ing resolution by unanimous vote:
"The executive committee of the Nor.
wegian-Lutheran inner mission takes
the liberty to request Q) the bishops
of the Norwegian church to ordain
for the ministry no candidate who
denies fundamental truths of the
Christian faith; (2) and to request the
church authorities to see that no one
is appointed a minister in our church
who cannot produce satisfactory testi.
mony as to Christian conduct as well
as to conformity with the creed OF
the church
The cabinet has resolved to propose
to the storthing that it vote an extra.
ordinary credit OF $4,125,00O for the
development of Norway's naval de.
tense. The plan is to add to the pres
ent navy two armored cruisers and
flotilla of torpedo boats, and includes
also the construction of Notifications
along the western coast. The general
| feeling throughout the country 10 in
favor of protecting Norwegian waters
which, it is believed, will be the battle
! place in the next naval war.
| The commune of Eidsvold is gcsni
| to issue bonds for $67 500 for bualStni
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