Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-07-14
SUMMARY or IMPORTANT HAP
PENlNGS IN FAR OFF
NORTHWEST.
ITEMS FROM THE OLD HONS
Resume Of the Most important Events
In Sweden, Norway and Denmark
OF Interest TO the SeandInsvians
In America.
NORWAY.

/ pat VI AlG equipment VI al army ~
the field. Automobiles have been used
onl! occasionally at military maneu-
vers in Norway, and the government
has rented them at the rate of SIG a
day. In case OF war all automobiles
would. OF course, be requisitioned for
the use of the army; but automobiles
will be of little use unless the officers
acquire experience in handling them
beforehand The plan is to pay the
volunteer Automobiles seven dollars
day for the use OF the machine, the
understanding being that the owner
and his chauffeur are TO. ride in it.
The owner is to furnish new tires
when needed. but the government will
furnish the oil.
Jaderen, the rugged lowlands in the
southwestern part Of Norway, used to
be famous for the great number of its
singing birds in the warm season.
During the past few years the birds
have been more and more rare. and
now it is claimed that Jaderen has
fewer singing birds than any other
section of the country. The reason is
said to be that they are hunted more
relentlessly than before In southern
Europe, where they stay during the
cold season.
A man at Jelo had about SITS in the
bank. But the war made him so
nervous that he thought he would feel
safer If he kept his money at some,
so he took the shining coins and put
them into a drawer in his commode
at home. A few weeks ago he came
to the sheriff and told him that the
money was gone. The sheriff kept an
eye on all suspicious looking people
in sight, and he finally thought he had
struck the guilty party. He postponed
the arrest, however, until the next
day, and he had reason to be glad be-
cause he had made haste so slowly,
for Just in the nick Of time the man
who claimed that his money had been
stolen appeared before the sheriff
with an expression of cheapness in
his face and told him that he had
found the money-the package had
dropped behind the comnode.
That il is dangerous to change the
name of a ship in war time is the
moral drawn by the Norwegian Ship
ping Gazette from the attack upon the
steamship Davanger by a German sub
marine. The Davanger formerly was
the Ceylon and the latter name APP
peared on the ships papers. The cap
tain OF the submarine stopped the
Davanger and demanded the vessels
name and nationality. He also asked
for the ships papers. When he OBJ
served the conflict in names he de-
clared the Davanger not only was sail
ing under a false name but false
flag. He gave the crew 10 minutes
to leave and then fred upon the
steamer.
Kr. Petersen, an employee at the
Sarpsborg electric power station, and
a merchant named Said, after a series
of experiments covering long period
of time, have at last succeeded in con-
structing an electric stove which ex-
perts have declared to be a great i'm
provement upon former electric
stoves. BY means of a weak current
large quantity OF heat can be pro-
duced up to 400 degrees centigrade.
The invention has been patented in
Norway and the inventors will soon
have it patented in the leading indus
trial countries of the world.
Some statistics have just been pub
hshed with regard to the enlistment
of young recruits for the army in
1918. The district of Fosen was at
the head of the list of fresh recruits
with 1876 per cent Of the young men
of military age Stjordalen was at the
foot with only a little over 80 per
cent.
/ The Norwegian mail steamer Venus
has arrived here minus the larger part
of its cargo, which was thrown over
board, the captain asserted under a
threat of a German submarine COM
mander that otherwise the Venus
WOulO De sunk. HAb 10 the uT5l llin6
that a German submarine boat is re-
ported to have permitted vessel to
escape under such terms.
The city of Skien has 1888 taxpay-
ers. The assessed valuation of the
property is about s5,500,000 and the
total incomes almost 100000.
Messrs. Storm and Monsen. revival
lists from Stavanger, have returned
from a trip TO Sweden. The result
was satisfactory One OF them said:
an Stockholm over five hundred per-
sons announced that they were saved.
Several sick people were cured" Mon
sen used to be a cripple. and he claims
that he was cured by means of
prayer.
In a railway cut at Lyngjem, Grytsn.