Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-04-02


this young prince colnsid err. 4 that he
should so to the United States to
learn agricult ure It 10 also apparent
that the America uthorities are, are
convinced that Danish agricultural
Institutions have much to commend
them, for only last week 4 special
government commissio arrived IN
Copenhagen from Washing ton and
has already started to study the rural
schools, agricultural schools and CO.
operative 81 agricultural societies Of
Denmark The members Of the com
mission are Fl. w. Foght, bureau Of
education, department Of interior e.
i Friend, state supervisor Of high
schools Of West Virginia, and w. III.
Smith, rural school inspector Of Mis-
;stssippf. The com sion will remain
for three months In Denmark, and on
.its return make report on. the facil-
=ities for agricultural education IN q
country where the science has been
developed more extensively than in
any country In the world. Just at
present the American visitors are In
=vestigating the highly successful
small landholders At Ringsted.
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No nation in Europe is taking more
interest in the opening Of the Panama
canal than Denmark. The East ASH
attic company is making arrangements
to run q direct line Of steamships
from Copenhagen to the Golden Gate
via the canal and Denmark expects
that the new waterman will place the
fruits and wines Of the Pacific coast
within reach Of her purse, as well as
provide q market for her products.
The visit to Copenhagen Of the com
missioners Of the Panama. Pacific In
ternational exposition aroused great
local interest, and Denmark is deter.
mined to be adequately represented
at the San Francisco fair. This feel
ing OF neighborliness with the United
States was increased by the recent
gift Of Rebild park to Denmark by q
large group of Danish-Americaps.
Many Danish merchants have re-
turned recently from tours OF the
United States, where they went to
set into touch with the latest bust
ness slnethods, and the closeness with
which American political and finan-
cial conditions are studied is tndicat-
by number of new Danish laws
modelled on those Of the United States.
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The yacht Constance, said to be the
oldest ship In the world in active
service, has been sold to a fisherman.
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81 In the death OF Charles F. Erickson
Of Chicago, publisher OF the Svenska
Tribunen Nyheter, the Swedish-Amer,
lean press in this country has lost
one Of It's foremost and progressive
publishers. Under Mr.. Erickson's
management the paper grew to be
the largest Swedish newspaper in the
United States, having circulation Of
some $4,000. Erickson was born in
Vestergotland and came to America
at the age of twenty-one. For a num-
Der OF years he was an advertising
agent in Chicago for Swedish as we'll
as English newspapers and in 1906
he purchased the Svenska Tribunen,
which afterwards consolidated with
the Svenska Nyheter, prior to the
death Of Gust Broberg, the once well
known and popular steamship agent.
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The city Of Stockholm has not an
oversupply of churches and ministers.
It belongs to one Of the largest bish-
oprics of the country and there is
always dearth Of ministers. The
matter has often been discussed, but
lately an effort has been made to Gre
ate new btshopric with Stockholm
as its center. Stockholm itself is said
to be too small for. a bishopric OF it's
own and now it's is proposed to unite
Cortland with it and thus give it the
required amount Of territory. The
Stockholm Pastoral association has
the matter In hand. All over Sweden,
it appears, there IL a lack of min
listers. =. . .:.. . e = :*
While Sweden comes good ways
from being classed as a temperance
country there are nevertheless about
500,000 organized temperance work
ers. These belong to various orders.
There are said to be 235, 900 who be-
long to the Good Templar order and
the 20 called Blue Band order has
about the same number of members.
The Templar order, the National
Good Templars and the Verdandis are
some Of the other orders which are
interested in the temperance move
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The Swedish Hotel association has
passed resolutions to the, effect that
al persons who skip their board and
room bill are blacklisted. In this way
the hotels throughout the entire coun.
Try can keep track Of good patrons
and the bad ones, Of course, are sim
ply blacklisted:
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The Swedish Telegraph association
proposes the erection Of new tele.
graph line between Tarna and the so
called "Umbugt ton. s "A new line. from
Moiranen, Norway, furnishing direct
stelegraphic communication with 8 I'm.
bugten, will also be built IN the near
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