Morris tribune., 1914-09-25

and the employers have difficulty In
paying their help.
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Three coal steamers, loaded to full
capacity, arrived at Gothenburg the
other day. About a month ago their
arrival would have occasioned no
comment, but since the war began
coal is about the hardest thing to OBJ
tain in Sweden, as the entire coal sup
ply, with the exception of a very low
grade coal obtained from coal mines
in Sweden, has to be imported chief
ly from England
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One-kroner bills will shortly be cir
culated in Sweden, if the application
of Riksbanken is acted upon favor
ably. Since 1875 the smallest de-
nomination Of any Swedish bills has
been crowns, but before that time
there had been issued bills of even
smaller denomination than / crown
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it appears that some people are al
ways unduly hasty and so during the
first few days of the "war scare" in
Sweden many people laid in food sup
plies to last for months, only to find
that the articles can now be had at
even lower prices than what they
paid for their large stores.
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An appropriation of $4,000 crowns
is sought for the establishment of a
direct steamship line between Sweden
and Germany.
The Bible Society of the Visby do
cese, Sweden, is celebrating its Tooth
anniversary this summer.
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That the mother country is look
ing to her sons and daughters Of
America for aid during these siren
uous war times is evident from the
following item: Last week a cable
gram signed Committee" was sent
from Christiania to the publishers of
DEBORAH Posten, calling upon the sons
of Norway in America to be ready
10 help the mother country in the
present crisis and promising to send
further information as to what was
wanted by mail. 1t develops that the
cablegram in question was the result
of a great mass meeting of Norwe-
gian-Americans, addressed by such
men as DR.. H. G. Stub, Dr. T. H.
Dahl, Rev. N. B. Tvedth and others.
A resolution was adopted calling up
on wegian-Americans to be ready
with aid for Norway in case of
economic distress help of mill
tary nature not being contemplated.
In view of the shutting down of fac
tories, which has thrown thousands
out of employment, and on account
of the high prices of foodstuffs it is
altogether likely that Norwegian
Americans will have to extend aid to
their brothers in Norway if distress
and famine are to be prevented.
A. Norwegian woman, Multa Marie
Kjos, was recently arrested in Swe-
den as a spy. 1t has been learned
that her home is in st. Petersburg
At the time of her arrest she had in
her possession 200 charts or maps OF
Notifications, mostly of those in Nor
way. She had sojourned for some
time in Christiania and was taking
lessons in the Norwegian language
and literature. She also took a very
active part in Norwegian sports, such
as skiing and riding. In the latter
sport she took lessons from Lieuten
ant Kildahl. Miss Kjos had been quite
intimate with the young cadets ant
had taken a great interest in all theil
I military drills.
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Those who are interested in the ex
port of fish and fish products wer'
asked by the government whether i
be advisable to prohibit the exporta
/ ton of such goods in view of the war
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to surprise the whole world. OF drie,
fish there is enough to supply tn
! markets of Spain and Italy for
whole year, or to be more exact, abou
/, 160,000,000 pounds. The government
has no more dry fish questions to ask
says a Norwegian writer in Chris
tiania.
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