Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-09-09
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Ole Windingstad who for a number
of years has been the leader of the
Norwegian singing societies of Great
er New York, and who also directed
the concerts given by group of mem
bers of these organizations on tour
of Norway this summer, has been in
vited to direct the Philharmonic or
chestra of Oslo at concerts to be given
stad has formerly been mentioned as
a probable orchestra director in the
capital of Norway, but his New York
friends doubt that he will accept any
offers from abroad.
After IS Years.
Jenny Lind, 1.-The Swedish Night
ingale'', in 1851 donated to a small
Swedish Lutheran congregation in
Chicago $1,000 to be used in connec-
tion with the building of a. new
church edifice. In the meantime, diff
ficulties appeared, and the congre-
cation was dissolved, the members
forming an entirely new organization,
and it is the children of the pioneer
members of this congregation who
now are about to make use of the
$1,000 for the erection of building.
Undoubtedly the original amount has
multiplied so effectively that the
donors wishes can be satisfactorily
carried OUTS years after.
Capt. Borg i'm U. s.
Captain T. H. Borg, a former officer
of the Danish navy, now the director
of the Free Port of Copenhagen, last
week was in Washington to partici-
pate in a conference on oil pollution
of navigable waters. The zones in
which oil pollution will be prohibited
will extend, generally speaking, fifty
miles, Capt. Borg said. On his re-
turn to New York from Washington
he told reporters that he had been
deeply impressed by the wonderful
and practical docking facilities OF the
New York harbor. He is spending
several days looking over the piers
and the bridges in the harbor.
Will Suggest Canada.
Arne Kildal, former Norwegian
press attache in this country, now
secretary general of the Nordmands-
forbundet, with offices in Oslo, is
returning to Norway from a visit to
Canada and parts of the United
States. He reports that he will re-
commend an increased emigration of
farm workers from Norway to Canada
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he is especially convinced that AL
berta and Saskatchewan offer his
countrymen excellent opportunities.
During his visit to the British Do
minion Mr.. Kildal took special care
to study agricultural conditions in
the northwestern provinces.
Novel Excursion.
Plans, formerly mentioned in these
columns, for the arrangement of an
excursion of Swedish tourists to the
United States in the summer of 1927,
have met with such enthusiastic ap-
probation throughout Sweden that
more than 1000 persons have ap-
piled for passage. 1t will be the aim
of the sponsors to have every county
in the old homeland represented, and
among the tourists will be groups OF
lecturers, entertainers, musicians, etc,
who will bring direct greetings from
the old country to Swedes in Amer
lea. What the number of tourists
actually going will be, has not yet
been determined.
Under the Stars and Stripes.
King Christian of Denmark, left
his castle, Sorgenfri, last week for
the special purpose of coming to
Copenhagen to visit the United States
cruiser, Memphis, visiting there. AS
he boarded the vessel, he received
the royal salute Of twenty-one guns
from the American ship. The king
was especially interested in the oil
turbines of the Memphis, and also in
the hydraulic catapult which for his
benefit hurled seaplanes from the
deck into the air. Following the visit
u. S. Minister Dodge, Rear Admiral
Roger Welles, and other prominent
Americans were the kings guests at
a dinner at the Sorgenfri castle.
Wants to Investigate.
Sigurd Saxlund of Oslo has arrived
in this country for the purpose OF
studying American chiropractic me-
thods. He maintains that chiroprac-
tice, as demonstrated in Norway, has
made an unfayorable impression on
the people, and just to make certain
what it. is, and what is behind it, he
is making the long journey from Oslo
to Davenport Iowa, where he will
study the American methods at a
school located in that city. Mr.. Sax
lund says that he comes here with
an open mind, and is entirely unpre-
JUDGED eor or against chiropractice.
He is accompanied by his wife.
Studying Immigration.
DIR. John Lindberg, who teaches po-
Itical economy at the Gothenburg,
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