Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-06-03
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

IL, dilu p1OlCoSOi al GiiC 1OaiiOuo
University of Uppsala, Sweden,
has been invited to attend an in
ternational botanical congress
which will be held at Cornell Uni
versity, Ithaca, N. Y, in the latter
part of August. DIR. Svedelius
who will come to this country as
the official representative of
Swedish botanists, is one of the
most widely known men within
his field, his works having been
published in various languages.
Commercial Calender.
]. Rennow, a representative of
the publishers of the CONNER
cial Calender of Denmark, has ar
rived in the United States
charged with the task of COM
piling material for a Danish
American appendix to the Danish
work. Mr.. Rennow plans to vi
sit leading cities throughout the
country, and expects to gather
enough information for his sup
plement some time before Sep
TENDER.
Writing New Novel.
Martha 0stense. Norwegian
American author whose first no
vel, Wild Geese, won a S13,5O0
prize Offered by a New York
publishing house last year, has
now written her second novel,
The Dark Dawn, which runs
serially in a well known month
ly American magazine Upon
completion of the serial publ
cation the book will be issued
between covers.
Strongest of ALL
At a meeting of the Society
of Foreign Consuls in New York
held last week the problem of
maintaining various national
chambers of commerce In the
American metropolis was tho
roughly discussed, and it devel-
oped that nearly all such cham
bers either had come to grief or
were successes in a very modest
way. The only organization of
this kind which was pronounced
strong and based upon a sound
foundation, was the Swedish
American Chamber of Commerce
of the United States.
Back Home.
Professor Oscar Mathiesen, Da-
nish painter, who has spent sew
eral months In the United States
to execute a group of portraits
among them one of Rev. Ras-
mus Andersen has returned to
his home in Denmark where he
plans to spend the summer. La
ter in the year Professor Mathie-
sen intends to come back to
America to finish several works
now awaiting completion, and
there is a possibility that he will
make this country his future
home.
Carrying Gifts.
A. N. Rygg, editor of the Nor
wegian New York newspaper,
'Nordisk Tidende", has left for
Norway where one of his mis-
sions will be to present to the ma
tional committee for the restor-
alton of the Stavanger cathedral
the amount of fifty thousand kro-
ner, subscribed among Norwe-
gians throughout the United
States. Mr.. Rygg left Friday of
last week together with the New
York singers of Norwegian de-
scent who are to tour Norway
during the following few weeks.
To Practise i'm u. S.
DIR. Jens Bech of Lemvig, Den
mark, who for some time has
been working In Chicago hospi-
tails, especially at the Fresh Air
Hospital, announces that he will
make his home In that city as a
regularly practising phys;c an.
He graduated from the medical
department Of the University of
Copenhagen five years ago.
Campaigned for Lincoln.
; Rev. Adolph F. Gustafson,
Swedish Methodist minister, who
at one time delivered campaign
speeches in favor of Abraham
Lincoln, died last week at Quin-
CIV, Mass, aged 81 years. Mr.
Gustafson was native of Sweden
and came to the United States
while still in his teens. He had