Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-09-15
SWEDEN.

Minister Of Agriculture Beck-Friis
has made an announcement as to the
ability of Sweden to obtain enough
| breadstuffs in case the war lasts an
other year. The purchase of grain
in America has been very successful.
he says, but the facilities of trans
| portation are somewhat unsatisfac-
tory. So far no cargo Of grain has
| been lost, however. lans have been
drawn and estimates Of costs made
for the construction OF temporary
| granaries in order that the govern
ment may not be prevented from i'm
| porting grain on account of lack of
room fer storing it. Finally, the min
lister stated that by means Of the crops
that are expected 1ni the IMPORTS that
are going on, tn people ct Sweden
| will have all the grain needed for an-
other year.
A committee which held a meeting
at Christianstad applied to the govern
ment for loan of $135,000 without in
| terest for the construction Of factories
for making potato meal IN southern
| Sweden. The committee also wants
| the government to guarantee the sale
| of at least half Of the output for five
years, the price to correspond to that
of rye. But the minimum ana
maximum prices shall re $4.05 and
| $6.4S per quarter ton. The commit
tee conferred with the farmers of
southern Sweden before proposing this
plan.
Another protest has been made to
the German government by Sweden.
The complaint In this instance has to
do with the Smelling of the Swedish
| steamer GotIand. which subsequently
was taken into Cuxhaven by the Ger
mans. The Swedish government states
that the steamer carried no contra
| band.
| A large power station is to bo built
at Sagaon. Angeruanland. 1t will fur
| nish power for number of industrial
plants in that part Iof the country. In
| Guiding the glass factories at Sandc
and Klockestrand.
|
The Swedish steamer Sydic, from
Baltimore for Malrno. Sweden, has
been released and the Swedish steam
er Anglia from Baltimore for Kalnar.
Sweden, has been detained by the
British admiralty.
The Gotland society for the care of
blind has been permitted by the gov
eminent to take up a collection once
a year for it's work in all the churches
of the diocese Of visby until the year
1918.
Auditor A. Fahlen OF Solicited o.
mated 1880 to the Osterasen sana-
torium for consumptives on his fftieth
birthday.
The Swedish steamer Disa has been
sunk. Her crew was lcnded.
An interesting burial place has been
found at Halla, Gotland. The tomb
contained a skeleton from the seventh
century. Its skull had been trepaned,
and by its side was ring buckle
There were also two stone idols and
fragments of two Others.
A stock company has been organ
ICED for the purpose of buying pat
ent for locomotive boiler for the
use of peat and other low-grade fuel
The minimum and maximum limits of
the capital stock are put at $4,000
and S1S2.A5O.
The representatives of the crown In
Buckingham has granted loan of
almost $4,000 to Is communes to be
used as aid for quarrymen and stone
cutters who are out of work.
On account of the high prices Of
coal and wood the national food com
mission has asked the government 20
prohibit the expectation of wood.
Floods have done much damage IN
Hotagen parish, farmland. Three grist-
mills were undermined aai wrecked.
and several were dan aged.