Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-06-30
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT HAP.
PENINes IN FAR Off
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HOME
ResuD -, sost important Events
IN sedei, way and Denmark
OF interest 1 ne SeandinavIans
In America.
SWEDEN.


quietly at work. namely, Johan Forde-
lin, foreman Of public Improvements
of the city Of Visby, who has been
studying the archaeology of that city
with never-hagging interest. In CON
Quoting the work of putting dowc wa
ter mains and electric eonduits, he lad
a splendid opportunity to learn the
topography of the ancient as well as
the medieval or Hanseatic Visby. The
result OF Fordelin's researches now ap-
pears in the form of charts and
sketches showing the minutest details
OF what may be of any interest among
what has been struck in the excava-
tons. The task which Mr.. Fordelin
has accomplished so quietly and I'M
ostentatiously has been recognized in
higher circles, and it has been proposed
that the city Of Visby procure some
of his drawings and charts and that
an appropriation be made for assisting
him in continuing his researches and
making the work more complete. The
careful drawings of Mr.. Fordelin, even
in their present condition, give good
FtCW Va eAAC 0hAAeAEE "a AAE SlOulA0
ing the Stone age and the Hanseatic
age, as well as of the extent of the i'm
provements in those ages.
One of the leading men Of the
Swedish-American Steamship company
has stated that the company so far has
not dared to order the necessary
steamers. A comparatively small
| amount of money remains to be sub
scribed, but the directors have decided
to make no vigorous effort to reach
the amount decided upon until it is
definitely settled whether the city of
Gothenburg is going to abide by its
subscription of something like $780,
600. Our national government was
called upon to interfere. but the mat
ter has not been settled yet AS soon
as the government has handed down a
| final decision, no matter what its char
aeter may be, the company will at
once proceed to raise the balance of
the capital stock among the Swedish
Americans. Another reason for NOV
ing slowly is that on account of the
war it is difficult to get suitable steam
ers built in England
! A treaty was ratified in Petrograd
between Sweden and Russia mutually
acknowledging the financial, CONNER
cial and industrial interests of the re-
! spectiye countries. Coming at this
time, the signing of a treaty between
Russia and Sweden would seem to be
more than ordinarily significant. If
tie new agreement indicates a re-
noval of many of the causes Of differ
ence between Sweden and Russia, it
means considerable victory for the
I diplomacy of the allies. for Sweden, at
the outbreak of the war, was almost
the only country in the world which
could be said to be pro-German. There
was considerable German sentiment in
Holland and Switzerland, and more in
Bulgaria, but Sweden was strongly
against the allies.
The second chamber of the rigsdag
appropriated 100000 as a subsidy
to the national bureau of information
of the temperance organization. This
is what may be called a startling item
of expense. But this year it was seri-
ously threatened. The chief argument
against the appropriation was the fact
that the temperance bureau had made
a bad break by stating that certain
minister was opposed to the temper
ance work while, as matter of fact,
he had been a temperance worker The
bureau afterwards apologized for its
break; but this did not prevent the
anti-temperance members OF the rigs
dag from making use of the incident
for all it was worth. The vote in the
second chamber was 11S to g.
During a dreary. uncomfortable
night a tramp decided to make a
visit to cellar at Haborshyttan, Nord-
mark parish, Varmland. The only
available entrance under the circum-
stances was the ventilator. The pas
sage was narrower at the sower end.
and the man got stuck, completely
stuck. and he had to stay for five
hours before being released. Not to
liberty. however, but only to be
taken to the office of the sheriff.
Two committees of the rfgsdag have
agreed by unanimous vote to propose
a revision Of the workingmeh's pension
laws in the interest of the beneficial.
ries.
Some very interesting statistics have
been collected with reference to the
physique of the Swedish soldiers.
Exact records of the measurements of
the recruits at the time of enlistment
since the year 1887 have been kept.
A compilation of the figures shows
that the height of the recruits has in
creased steadily from year 20 year,
and the total average increase during
the years lSS7-1915 was no less than
one and one-tenth inches. The proper
ton of recruits of maximum height TO
the whole number of recruits has also
increased from OF 10 .o3 per cent
The temporary post Office at Karnng1,
near the Russian boundary, has been
removed TO Haparanda, or. to be exs CT,
to a point almost mile from Hapa-
randa. on the new railway line which