Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-09-19
NORWAY.

While the men were on the other side
of the lake they We're Mortified to see
that the seven-year-old Solveig 0stby
was struggling for life in the water
considerable distance from the shore.
The men Immediately made frantic ex-
ertions to reach the place. The next
moment they saw Mrs. Gronnevold
plunging into the water to save the
little girl. She soon lost her footing
in the steep bottom and drifted out
into deep water. AS she did not
know how TO swim she could not
keep herself on the surface of the
water When the men arrived, no
trace could be seen of their dear ones.
The lake was dragged. and the body
of Mrs. Gronnevold was found in
short while. II took two days to find
little Solveig. The attendance at the
funeral was very large.
Many Norwegians have to live on
very coarse food on account of the
war. But plain food was not unknown
In that country even before the war.
With regard TO this subject Stortings-
man Rinde recently said; when |
was about twenty years old / spent
two years at the agricultural school
at Mala. Each of us paid our teacher
81 a week for ouT board. We had
mush once every Sunday, three times
every Friday and two times all the
other days of the week. Thus / had
exactly l4o0 meals of mush in two
years" He does not mention what the
mush was made of. Most of it was
no doubt made of barley or cat meal.
/ Ii is quite certain that 1t was not made
Of cornmeal.
The Bratsberg railway is the name
given to the new railway line built
| from Notodden TO Skien. This line will
| greatly facilitate the tremendous traf-
| fe between the manufacturing center
at Notodden and Skien. The length
! of the line is about 81 miles. The
! distance by steamer is only five miles
| longer, but there are so many locks 10
the canal that il takes the steamers
| about six hours to cover the distance,
while the train will make 1t in about
one and half hours. The scenery
| along the river and the canal is sim
| ply wonderful, but business is bust
ness, and both passenger and freight
traffic will surely drift to the railroad.
! A small Christiania newspaper. M
! Now. was bound to raise it's rates,
| like ali other publications, the change
/ being from go TO 3 kroner Zone kroner
/ is about 81 cents). Bur the publisher
wanted TO prove that he is very rea-
| sonable man, and in announcing the
/ raise he added: Those who can prove
by certificate from their pastor that
! they are either very poor or very
stingy may still have the paper at the
rate Of go kroner year"
The women of Norway are publish
| ing and supporting no less than five
newspapers Of their own. 1t is well
| known that women in all countries are
| less bellicose than men, and the ever
increasing influence of the women in
! Norway may largely account for the
fact that the plain, everyday Norwe-
gan Is wondering "he.neF tilete Is d
wiser ana pet'ef way 'nah war as d
means OF set'iihs uiiieol'ies between
nations
Three German spies have been con-
Vlcted al bereeh i'F supplying ihioF-
nation 10 submarines regarding me
salIng tiIne Oh Nesseis when iater
were TO be torpeooe'' captain LaVeh
and oihcef schwartz German cltiHehs,
ana Ihofseh' a Nof"eelah' an received
sentenced 70 hFe years schwartz .
four ana IhoFSen 70 ten years InpFis-
onment.
steamships arriving az Copehhaeeh
from bergen report hundreds OF drlit-
ing mines on me norwegian coastS'