Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-01-07
the population.

the population.
The work of putting up wireless
stations is greatly hampered by !
lack of materials and men. Some
of the stations cost considerable
sums of money. The Christian;
radio, which is located at Tryvant
Hill, is to, cost over 100000.
Private parties have raised $3.50,
900 for a new building for the his
torical and antiquarian museum o.
Bergen. The property known as
Hastings Minde has been donated by
the municipality as grounds for the
new university. The city council Of
Bergen has also voted $270,00O as a
donation to the university, and the
national government will be asked
for similar amount.
Norway has lost 5000 sailors dur
ing the war, Central News dispatch
reports. The sinking o., two more
steamships is noted in the dispatch.
Denmark.
King Christian received DR..
Maurice F. Egan. the American
minister recently. The audience ex-
tended over period of 60 minutes
and the inference was gathered that
it was highly important.
The price of kerosene has increased
from cents to Is centsiia quart since
the United States stopped the expor-
tation of that article to Denmark.
The oldest ship in service in the
world is said to be the galeas named
De Tvende Brodre. 1t was built in
1882. It's present captain is J. c. Boue.
Sweden.
n A union of the Scandinavian coup-
tries, including Sweden, Norway, Dem
mark and Iceland, to be called the
United States of. Scandinavia, is sug-
gested in. the Swedish periodical Stats
vetenskaplig Tidskrift. The common
affairs of the Scandinavian United
States questions of customs and de-
Tense should be handled by Scandi-
nayian government, constituted of a
cabinet, headed by one of the three
Scandinavian kings as president, the
periodical believes. The president
should be elected for five years by the
diets of the four countries, it says. The
Scandinavian cabinet would be form
ed by the foreign ministers of Sweden,
Norway and Denmark, to deal with ex-
ternal matters, and by the premier and
another minister from each of those
countries, to deal with internal mat
tiers, together with special, minister,
in Copenhagen, representing Iceland,
the editor says Each country would
have its own ambassadors and con-
suls in foreign countries as before.
Besides the different flags of the coun-
tries, the union would have common
flag. A sketch of this flag has already
been prepared by the Swedish artist,
Carl Miles.
! 1t is three years since the name OF
Gustaf Fredriksson, the actor, appear
ed on theater program. This was
taken to mean that the veteran from
the old Dramatiske Teatern of Stock
holm would never appear on the stage
again. This supposition was well
founded, for the man is eighty-five
years old. Last spring it was rumored
that the veteran would appear in 4
star performance. He denied it him
self. He had no pans to reappear on
the boards. But in spite of everything
1t turned out that Dame Rumor was
properly informed. Gustaf Fredriks-
son did show up at Intima Teatern in
"Fulda's Ungdomsyenner." Evening
after evening he played the main part
in this drama, and those who have
seen and heard him declare that he
never. appeared more youthful" and
vigorous than now. His performance
is still that of the master, and though
his role keeps him on the stage almost
half of the time during the evening
there is neither hitch nor flaw in his
work. At the same time the patriarch
among Swedish actors admits that he
has about forty other casts so well
in hand that he can play any one OF
them if he is permitted to spend a day