The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-10-06
IN FAR N0RTHLAND
important Events In Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
Interesting Items From the Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North, Sc
lscted for ScandlnavIans and
Their Descendants.
BY MARTIN W. oDLAND.
Sweden.

Sweden.
A company known as the Swedish
Aeronautical society Is going ahead
with plans for established mail routes
by the means of airplanes. The idea
originated I'm Germany. The Swedish
plans, says correspondent, fall into
two categories. The first scheme Is
for q great triangular inland aerial
mail service between Stockholm. NAL
alton soon after the conclusion of the
war. The soclety's surveyors are
starting this week Oh preliminary
fights with a view to finding suitable
landing sites at Nykoping, Malmsatt.
NassjO. Alfvesto. Hesselholm, Varberg,
Goteborg, Falkoping, Halsberg, Knit
rineholm and Stockholm. Then they
will negotiate for the acquisition Of
the sites after which hangers and re-
pair shops will be erected. In the Sec
ond category fall the plans for Swed-
ems foreign communications by the air
route. Captain Dahlbeck already has
planned north European air line
which would pick up Norwegian mails
brought to Stockholm probably by
Morse airmen and convey them with
the Swedish mails for Finland and
Russia. Connections also will be made
for carrying mails back and forth from
northwestern Germany, Holland. Bel
GUM and France. From Stockholm
the mails for Finland and Russia will
be taken In an hours flight to the
Aland islands from where Russian air
men will fly east with them. The Rus
sian government has approved the
scheme and even has offered to find
the gasoline and lubricating oil II
Sweden will Initiate the service during
the war while oils are scarce In Scan
dinavia.
Bassett Digby, the correspondent,
gives an account of the central kitch-
en- which now feeds the poorer people
of Stockholm. This kitchen was re-
Gently established at the Nurnberg
brewery. 1t supplies good cheap meals
to the poor and has a capacity of 80
600 portions of hot food day. The
queen has visited 1t and expressed her
satisfaction with the food and arrange
ments. The meals are sent from the
central kitchen to centers In the poor
er parts Of the city, where they are
bought and carried away. A useful
depot has been opened mt Vartan,
where owing to the shortage Of pro-
Go hax hnh
to waste much time in travelling be-
tween home and the city in quest of
edibles. 1t Is Miss Gertrude Bergs-
from. Inspector of school kitchens,
whose idea and hard work led to the
establishment of this useful aid for
graphing with the high cost Of living,
or, as the Swedes say. dear times"
The only complaint from the clientele
Of the kitchen Is the color of the pea
meal soup.
The court at Ystad had up for con-
sideratiOn recently case which at
tracted considerable attention. The
defendant was Axelsson-J Johnson, first
secretary Of the department for for
eign affairs of Sweden. The charge
against him was that at the Hotel
Continental he had refused to divulge
his own age and that Of his wife.
When the clerk desired this informa-
ton. in accordance with custom, the
secretary refused to give him the In
formation, but referred him to the
state calendar, which gave whatever
information about him and his wife
necessary.
A mason was recently arrested at
Sundbyberg for obtaining sugar on
counterfeit tickets or cards. AS Is
well known. no sugar can now be OBJ
tanned in Sweden for love or money
without a government card or ticket,
but the Sundbyberg mason hit upon
the idea Of manufacturing counterfeit
cards. on which he succeeded In obtain
Ing considerable sugar. This he sold
ut a handsome profit to others who
had a sweet tooth. Now the thrifty
counterfeiter is In Jail.
The Swedish minister Of agriculture
confirms the reports already published
that owing to the scarcity Of feed II
will be impossible for the farmers OF
certain parts Of Sweden to carry theiI
stock over the winter, and the prob
lem now confronting the nation Is how
to supply enough refrigerators ir
which to preserve the meat Of the
stock after 1t Is slaughtered. The
inability Of the farmers to carry theiI
stock through the winter will mean O
heavy loss In the future.
The building committee OF Stock.
holm proposes the erection OF new
buildings for $2,O00,O00. the national
government to advance almost one.
fourth Of the amount. The population
increases much faster than the num-
Der Of q buildings for housing the peo'
pie.