Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-07-02
NEWS. AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern.
ing People From the
North.

Oscar S. Ohlander, deputy
grand master of the Swedish
Vasa fraternal organization, has
been appointed postmaster in the
so-called Gold-or Streeterville-
district in Chicago. which will be
one of the largest substations of
the postal department in that
city. Mr. .Ohlander has been in
the postal service for % years.
Consolidation Discussed.
Capt. j. p. Hoist, Copenhagen,
who is managing director Of the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES line, was
interviewed two weeks ago rela-
tive to a plan which has been
proposed for the purpose of eff
fecting merger Of the trans
atlantic lines of Denmark, Nor
way and Sweden, insofar as the
passenger service is concerned.
Capt. Hoist said that the Danish
line was not adverse to the plan,
but that he did not feel assured
that the Swedish and the Norwe-
gian lines are favorable to it at
this time. However, his impress
sion was that the plan had not
been abandoned, but was lying
dormant in the offices at Oslo
and Stockholm.
Gets New Position.
Arne Kildal who for some years
has been press attache of the
Norwegian legation in the United
States, has now been elected gen.
eral secretary of the Nordmands-
forbundet, with headquarters in
the Norwegian capital. Mr.. Kill
dial will assume his new position
September l, and plans to leave
the United States some time in
August. No appointment of a
new press attache has been an
nounced.
Disappears Again.
Rev. Fritz Hamlin, pastor of
the Swedish Baptist congregation
in Sims street, St. Paul, has dis
appeared from his home. While
working as a minister in Chicago
in the spring of 1924 M. Hamlin
disappeared completely for sew
eral weeks; seven years prior to
that he had wandered away from
his home, and was found by the
authorities. Judging from all
the evidence gathered around his
unusual case, it seems that he is
subject to fits of complete self
forgetfulness to the exten. that
even his own identity fades away
from his consciousness and MEM
DRY.
Diamond Wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Nielsen OF
Salt Lake City, Utah, last week
celebrated their sixtieth we'd
ding anniversary. Both of them
were born in Denmark and came
to the United States in 1860,
marrying that year and settling
at Draper, Utah, where they had
their home for nearly fifty years.
The last ten years they have
lived in Salt Lake City. Mr..
Nielsen was born at Odense, Den
mark, in 1S45.
"Restaurationen.
While the Norse-American CEN
tennial now is a matter OF his
tory. it may be pertinent to re-
cali that Saturday of this week
marks the actual centenary OF the
beginning of Morse immigration
to the United States. For 1t was
on July a. 1925. that the sloop,
"Restaurationen", cleared the
mort of Stavanger for New YORK
with its 50 passengers, bound ior
the New World, aboard. The voy-
age required a little more than
tire months. The "Restaura-
tionen" passengers organized IN
New York state the first Norwe-
pian settlement in this country
The Bast Case.
American Methodists are fol-
lowing with exceptional interest
the preliminary hearings IN the
case which the state OF DehnlaI n
has instituted against Anton
Bast. bishop of the METHODIST
church in the Scandinavian soc i
tries. who is charged with deial-
cations and fraud. Latest reports
from Copenhagen are to the ell
feet that the bishop during .ns
neriod of l914-192i collected