Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Nine. Eide Norena, known as "the
Norwegian Nightingale, is a color
atura singer of Oslo who has made
arrangements to tour the United
States this fall. Nine. Norena, who
has appeared in grand opera at the
famous Scala in Milan. Italy, under
the direction of Maestro Toscanini
himself, will give ,recitals in various
American cities, and also will sing
with the Chicago Civic Grand Opera
Company. She is characterized as
the greatest of all woman singers
of the Scandinavian countries today.
Visiting the Homeland.
To pay a long promised visit to
his mother whom he has not seen in
many years, Lieut.. Erik H. Nelson,
'round-the-world flyer, departed for
Sweden last Friday aboard the Swe-
dish-American liner, 'Gripsholm".
Aboard this vessel was also Anna
O. Nilsson, Swedish motion picture
star, who explained to reporters that
proved rather inquisitive that, in the
first place the 20" in her name stood
for "Qverentia", and, in the second
place, that she was perfectly able to
speak her native Swedish-which she
demonstrated recently when she gave
a speech of welcome to the crown
prince and the crown princess of
Sweden upon their arrival at Holly
wood, Cal.
John Larsen Gets Busy.
John M. Larsen, formerly of Omaha,
Neb., and New York, now Copenhagen,
at last has succeeded in carrying out
his plans which he has nourished
for several years: He has organized a
concern to ship fish and other perish
able cargoes in cold-air vessels, but
so prepared that the goods will not be
frozen; it will merely be kept at a
low temperature. The concern has
acquired a steamer which has been,
renamed "Cold-Air'', and which will
ply between Denmark and Iceland,
and between the latter country and
Spain carrying fish direct from the
north to the south.
Planning Big Celebration.
The National League of Norsemen
in Chicago is planning an unusually
impressive Left Ericsson celebra-
ton this year, and according to tent
alive arrangements, it will be held
September IL at the Grant Park Sta
dunn. Nothing definite has been an
nounced concerning the principal
speakers at the affair, but the COM
mittee hopes that it will be able to
secure Vice President Charles G.
Dawes and ex-governor Preus of Min
nesota, as we'll as others. A number
of floats will be included in the pro-
cession which is to pass through some
of the principal Chicago streets on
the way to the Grant Park Stadium.
The Last of the Church.
A plain granite monument has been
erected at Victoria, ILL.,, to mark the
site of the first Swedish Methodist
church built in that community. The
church was founded in 1886, and its
edifice completed eight years later;
last spring the building had become
so dilapidated that it had to be torn
down, and on it's site the monument
now has been erected. The building
itself has disappeared, and the old
Swedish congregation has vanished,
too, for it has merged with the Amer
lean Methodist church, and no more
Swedish is spoken among the Vic
toria Methodists.
Visiting Professor.
Last week Professor ]. N. Brond-
sted, Phi. D., of Copenhagen, Denmark,
arrived in this country to give lee
lures at various universities; his first
appearance will be at the Columbia
university, later Prof. Brondsted will
attend several conventions held by
American chemists, and during the
fall and early winter he will spend
four months as visiting professor
at Yale university. The Danish sa-
wants visit in the United States has
been arranged as a part OF the pro-
gram with which the New York Chem
ical Society is celebrating its fiftieth
anniversary.
H0lmbOm Dead.
Robert Oscar Holmbom, president
of the Sweden chorus of the Swedish
Chicago Nordstjernan singing society,
died at the Sofahemmet hospital near
Stockholm, two weeks ago. He was
touring his native country with the
chorus when suddenly he was at
tackled by illness; an operation fol-
lowed. but his condition from the
beginning was so serious that sur
geons held out no hope for his re-
covery. Mr.. Holmbom who was a
native of SundsvalL, was Sc years old;
he had come to the United States
while young man. and at the time
oil. his death was supervisor OF con-
struction with a Chicago contracting
firm.
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