Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-05-06
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENINGs IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
Resume Of the Most Important Events
In Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest to the seandlnavlans
In America.
NORWAY.

advantageous to their trade that, in
need of more vessels, they are turning
to obsolete craft. They are taking old
whalers and other vessels that had
been marked for the grave, fitting
them with gasoline engines and crews,
and pressing them into service. The
local shipyards were never so busy as
now. In tonnage per capita, Norway's
mercantile marine Is the largest In the
world. 1t has 527 tons for each thou
sand inhabitants as against 242 in
Great Britain. The wrecks Of Nor
wegian ships during the past year do
not greatly exceed normal, although a
third of them were caused by mines
and 'torpedoes.
The society for the prevention Of
emigration has just bought 750 acres
Of land in Lister and Mandal amt.
There are extensive meadows on the
land, but there is also tillable land and
some timber. Flekkefjord Is the near
est station. A public highway runs
through the locality. Any amount OF
electric energy may be had from the
power station at Kvina falls, which Is
owned by the government. Profitable
mining is carried on In the district.
The plan is to sell parcels of land
at cost to men who are willing to
start farming on. II.
A regular old-fashioned wedding
took place at Hawk, olive, mot long
ago. About 100 people took part in
the festivities and accompanied the
bridal couple to church. where they
were welded. Arne Bjornstad was
the fiddler, and Patrolman Sundvor
headed the company beating his drum.
The bride wore crown, and there
was whisky and beer in silver goblets,
and lefse and cake on gayly decorated
wooden dishes, and cream pudding and
stew and everything else that goes to
make up real farmers wedding fes-
tival in Norway. The festivities lasted
several days.
The freight carried by the Norweg-
ian-American steamship line In 1914
was 143,205 tons, namely, 41.452 tons
of exports and 101, 452 tons of imports.
The number of passengers carried was
22.609, of whom 1862 we're going out
and 9,007 coming In. The net surplus
was almost exactly 100000. The
stockholders received a dividend of 8
per cent. The receipts being much
larger than expected, 100000 was re.
funded to the government as part pay
rnent of the subsidy.
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A great manufacturing establish
ment is to be built at Matre, Sons
hordland The so-called Blaa falls are
to furnish the necessary water power,
their capacity being 100000 horsepow-
er. Matre is an isolated place at the
head of a long ford, and this Is looked
upon as good feature from an econ
omical as wen as moral standpoint.
The farmers who owned the land have
sold II to the company which Is start
ing the business, keeping only few
lots for their own use at the outskirts
Of the proposed town.
A religious meeting was broken up
In an unusual manner at the Sande
schoolhouse, Randeberg. near Stav-
anger. Kristen Kristensen Visited sud-
denly collapsed and died as he was
leading the assembly in prayer. Heart
failure was the cause Of his death. He
made living as a farmer, but was
greatly interested in religious work
and liberal supporter Of the inner
mission. He was sixty-nine years old.
The valre of American and English
money, as compared with the Nor
wegian krone. Is the highest ever
known. while the German mark Is. oon-
siderably below par.
The national and local governments
OF Norway have accumulated about
10000 tons Of grain and -four. and 3d..
900 tons more will be added at an ear
ly date
Danish horse dealers have been
securing the country between Bergen
and Mode, and have bought 400
horses at very high prices.
The national government has bought
three thousand tons of wheat In Rus
STA. The grain Is to be transported By
way of the Russian seaport of Arch
angel
| The Norwegians count sawiogs by
the dozen, not by the foot. as the
Americans. During the year 1914 over
100000 dozen logs passed through the
booms at Mas. In the Glommen river
But the record OF the Drammen river
beat this, for the latter carried 5SS.60(
dozen of logs down to the sawmiils.
Tin plate to the value of $500. 000
was recently imported from England
to Stavanger This is easily explained
by the fact that Stavanger is the
greatest canning center Of Europe and
one OF the greatest In the world.
At lower Eden. Romsdalseidet, a bi
centennial jubilee was celebrated De
cember' 80, 1914. For on Decembe
90, TIA, Trond Petersen sold the farm
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