Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-10-01
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Acting Danish Consul in Chica-
go. George Schepelern died last
week, aged % years old, after
having been suffering from ty-
phoid fever for some time. Mr..
Schepelern who had been in the
service Of the Foreign Office at
Copenhagen. at one time was sta
toned at Batavia, Java, and came
to Chicago a short time ago as
vice consul. During the absence
of Consul Baumann he was acting
consul for the Chicago district,
Among those present at the flu
neral was Consul George Bech of
New York as an official repre-
sentative of the Danish govern
ment.
Transfers.
Bjarne Bonnevie, vice consul
at the Norwegian consulate gen.
eral in New York, has been trans
ferred to his home in Oslo, and
will be succeeded by Jacob Gregg,
chief of one of the bureaus of
the Norwegian Foreign Office.
Mr.. Gregg who has been stationed
at the Foreign Office during the
greater part of his consular ca
reer, was for some time secretary,
and later consel to the Norwegi-
an legation in Berlin, Germany,
A Swedish ''Salome.'
Esther Solvig is the name of a
young Swedish actress who is
playing the title part in Oscar
Wilde's play, "Salome," now rum
ming at the Triangle theater in
the Greenwich Village section OF
New York. Miss Solvig is said to
be an exceptionally capable ex.
ponent of dramatic art of the pc.
culiar type called for in Wilde's
famous play, and the New York
critics presage a glorius future
for her.
without Government Aid.
John M. Larsen, former refrig.
orator manufacturer in Omaha
Neb., and airplane manufactures
in New York is at the present
time in Denmark. his native
country, where he has attempted
to interest the government in 9
plan which aims at revolutions
zing the export of Danish fish;
he expects a government loan to
the amount of one million kro-
ner. but has just been informed
that although the excellencies OF
his plans are duly recognized. il
is not possible for the govern
ment to become interested. Mr.
Larsen thereupon has announced
that he will carry out his plans
and finance it himself.
Another Viking Voyage.
On May II, 1926, Gerhard Fol
pers will start voyage across
the Atlantic-from Bergen te
Philadelphia-aboard a vessel AZ
feet long and IL feet vide. The
boat now being constructed
will participate in the Sesqui.
Centennial festivities which will
be held in the City of Brotherly
Love next summer aboard the
boat will be two other men, and
Mr.. Folgero says that after the
exposition is over, he plans te
sail the vessel to Boston, Chica
90 and possibly st. Paul.
A WeiI.wOrn Umbrella.
ERNEST Alderman in Plainfeld
N. J.. one of the prominent Swe
dish-Americans of his community
brides himself on the fact that
he still uses an umbrella which
he purchased in 1880. He has
never had any other, and it ha:
gone with him to more than az
countries; has been carried BY
him across the Atlantic 81 times
and was with him in Japan dur
ing the earthquake in 1923. The
repairs on the old umbrella have
amounted to S1.35. Mr.. Ackermar
says.
~Gh0sts."
Nine. Betty Nansen and hel
company of players from Den
mark are at the present time pre-
senting Henrik lbsen's The Wile
Duck" and Ghosts before
crowded houses in Stockholm
Sweden. As soon as her engage
ments in that city expire. Mime
Nansen will 60 to the Unitet
States to play Ghosts and latel