The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-04-18
NORWAY.

Hotel accommodations are very
scarce in Stavanger. Day after day
there is not cot to spare at the
Grand, and the books show the names
Of many who are waiting for chance.
An elderly gentleman told his expert
ences as follows: He wired some days
ahead in order to be sure of getting a
room; but when he arrived there was
no room. He went to two other hotels,
but all in vain. So he had to return to
the train and sleep in a car which was
really too cold for him. He spent
large part of the next day hunting for
hotel accommodations. He finally
landed in little boarding house near
the quays. The gentleman next went
to Sandnes, where there was no room
to spare in the hotel. This time he was
permitted to spend the night at the
Aalgaard factories.
A new building is going up at Hille-
vaag. It is to be used as factory for
turning out a new kind of fishhoOk.
From prehistoric times to this day the
barb, or beard, of the hook has been
placed on the inside of the point of the
hook. August Thoring came to think
that the barb would catch better if it
were on the side of the hook. He made
a number of hooks and had them test
ed, and the reports were to the effect
that fewer fish got loose from the
new hooks than from the old ones.
This settled the matter. The inventor
had his fshhook patented in a number
of countries and now company,
backed by ample capital, is to manu-
facture the Thoring fshhook on a large
scale.
King Olav Trygvesson was the
founder Of the city of Trondhjem,
which for centuries was known by the
name Of Nidaros (the mouth of the
Md river). Now it is proposed to erect
a monument to him at the public mar
ket place. Dyre false, a wholesale
merchant, has donated $13,50O to the
fund as starter. All Nor
wegian sculptors and artists have been
asked to prepare sketches for the
One thousand three hun
dred and fifty dollars will be given as
premiums for the best sketches, and
select few will be bought at the rate Of
almost $500 apiece.
Between 300 and 400 Swedes are en-
gagged in the building trades in Bergen.
Work is more plentiful in Norway than
in Sweden at the present time. It is
expected that many more Swedes will
come to Bergen by the time the work
of rebuilding the burned portion of the
city is started in dead earnest. The
people of Bergen are never in a hurry,
but when they finally make up their
minds to start they will be sure to do
things, and do them thoroughly.
Even the jailbirds testify to the cos
character of the Norwegian
capital, the number of nationalities
represented running from half a dozen
to dozen.
The net profit Of the Brager paper
mills for the year 1916 was about 100
per cent, and the stockholders received
a dividend of Is per cent.
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-Four persons who were walking
from Nois to Nordmjale, on the Ando
island, were overwhelmed by snow.
slide in valley at Mela. One of them
managed to get out without aid, and
he went ON his way to get help. He
returned with a number of men, who
began to dig for the three lost ones.
One of them was dead, but the other
two were alive, although they had been
imprisoned in the snow for five hours.
The krogstad cellulose factories dis
tributed a dividend Of Is per cent for
the year 1916.