Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-05-28

prairie near Beloit. From this time on, in ever
increasing numbers, these early Norwegian set
tiers crossed the sea, tramped out through the
strange country and founded their settlem ents on
Rock prairie and Koshkonong in Wisconsin, in
Wnneshiek county in Iowa, and later in southern
Minnesota and the two Dakotas
Kleng Peerson and his sturdy cOuntry1nen wiz
live again at the centennial celebration Col
Hans G. Heg, commander of the Fifteenth Wis
consin Regiment of Volunteers, Civil war reg1
ment made up almost entirely of Norwegans viii
once more carry into battle the flag that bore Oh
one side the Red, White and Blue of America and
on the other the Red White and Blue of Norway
For on tNorse American Day. the closing day
Of the gathering, the beloved heroes and herones
of Norwegian pioneer days will take part in a
great historical pageant in which the Norwegian
love of the dramatic and the picturesque will EN-
besh the story of frontier days.
DR.. Knut Gjerset of Luther college heads the
exhibits committee and has planned to divide the
exhibit into twenty-five departments as follows:
Pioneer life, church, schools, farming, press lit
erature, men in public service, art, charity and
mutual aid womens department, societies and or
CARNATIONS, music engineering and architecture
trade and commerce. Norwegian ski sport in
America men in the medical profession, labor
sons of Norway daughters of Norway, industries
builders and benefactors and Norse-C Canadian ex
hibits
In recognition of the nationwide observance OF
the centenary, the IeQofdl government Has dulLOI
lied the issue of special stamps, to be printed In
two colors, 2-cent stamp beasing the picture of
the sloop Restaurationen and 5-cent stamp dec
Grated with a Viking ship. A Norse-American CEN
tennial medal, the first commemorative medal to
be issued in the history of the mint has also been
authorized by the government
The Americans, because their large prop
erty holdings and common interests gave them the
incentive for group action, have elected public
officials of their choice in national well as in
state and local offices. OF the large number of
public servants-state legislators judges, COVER
nors representatives, and senators-Without ques
ton the best known is the late Knute Nelson of
Minnesota that rugged, sincere determined, faith
full figure whom everyone grew to love and adj
mire in his many years Of honest service in the
house and in the senate He was born in Norway.
Henrik Shipstead, the Farmer-Labor senator from
Minnesota is a native son. having been born il
1881 in Kandiyohi county. He was elected in
1922, receiving 325,372 votes against 241,833 fol-
Frank B. Kellogg, Republican, now secretary OF
state Magnus Johnson, the Farmer-Labor senator
from Minnesota, who was often in the lime
light during bis short term of office, was born in
Varmland, Sweden. He was elected in 1923 to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Knute
Nelson defeating Gov ]. A O. Preus Theodore
Christanson succeeds Preus as governor
ST am not willing to concede even the sugges-
ton of a superior brand of Americanism to him
who may trace his ancestry to the Europeans who
first drove the Indians back from the Atlantic
seaboard" said Representative Kvale. "At best,
1t is merely question of few generations. And
true Americanism is no more a matter of years
and centuries, of language and customs, than
is true Christianity matter of latitude and longi-
tude Both state of the heart and of the
inmost soul / claim, without the slightest fear
of successful contradiction, that of all the peoples
that have contributed their quota to the making
of this nation, more law-abding men and WON
en- have set foot on American soil than those who
during the past century embarked for these shores
from the roc1-bound coast of the northwest PENN
sula of Europe"