The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-09-26
NORWAY.

NORWAY
Two Christiania families, the Gron.
nevolds and the Ostbys, went picnic.
Ing one day to little lake in Nittedal.
While the men were on the other side
| OF the lake they were Mortified to see
that the seven-year-old Solveig Ostby
was struggling for life in the water q
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 dzifted 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 a
short while. It 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 sthe
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 I spent
two years at the agricultural school
at Mala. Each Of us paid our teacher
81 q week for our board. We haG
mush once every Sunday, three times
every Friday, and two times all the
other days of the week. Thus I had
exactly 1,400 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 oat meal
1t is quite certain that it was not made
VI corn1neai' - =: al
The Bratsberg railway is the nam
given to the new railway line built
from Notodden to Skien. This line will
greatly facilitate the tremendous traf'
fic between the manufacturing center
at Notodden and Skien. The length
Of the line is about IS miles. The
distance by steamer is only five miles
longer, but there are so many locks in
the canal that it takes the steamers
about six hours to cover the distance
while the train will make it in about
one and a 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 Christianla newspaper, NJ
| (Now), was bound to raise it's rates
| like all other publications, the change
being from ESQ to kroner Zone krone,
is about ~ cents). But the publisher
wanted to prove that he is a very rea
sonable man, and in announcing thu
raise he added: "Those who can prove
by a certificate from their pastor thai
they are either very poor or vert
stingy may still have the paper at thu
rate of ESQ kroner year."
The women of Norway are publish
ing and supporting no less than fiv
newspapers of their own. It ,is vel
known that women in all countries ar,
less bellicose than men, and the evel
increasing influence of the women II
Norway may largely account for thu
fact that the plain, everyday Norwe
gian is wondering whether there isAa
| wiser and better way than war as
means Of settling difficulties between
| nations.
Three German spies have been con
victed at Bergen for supplying infor
nation to submarines regarding thu
sailing time of vessels which late,
were to be torpedoed. Captain LAYER
and Officer Schwartz, German citizens
and Thorsen, Norwegian, all received
terms in the penitentiary. Laven wal
sentenced to five years, Schwartz tt
four and Thorsen to ten years. impris
onment. ~.5
Steamships arriving at Copenhager
from Bergen report hundreds of drift
ing mines off the Norwegian coasts
It is believed that an extensive mine
field is adrift. Many mines also are
reported along the northern coast Of
Norway and in the Arctic ocean.
The Chrishania Social Demokrate1
asserts Norway has provisions for only
one month and that the import pros
poets are gloomy. The paper demands
the government seize all private stock
and take over the control Of Import
and food distibutiQn.