Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-23
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

Yachtsmen in Norway are preparing
for representation next season in the
races for the Seawanhaka-Co rinthian
cup which will be held in the United
States (Long Island Sound. After
a series of elimination matches in
Oslofjord, the best boat will be Sc
lected as the challenger. The crown
prince of Norway has promised to en-
ter his boat in the elimination races,
and if it wins, it will be sent to
America. But the crown prince him.
self will not make the trip. The
American regatta is considered the
principal event in the yachting plans
for the coming summer in Norway,
dispatches say.
To See Across Ocean.
DR.. e. F. W. Alexanderson of Sche-
nectady-he was born in Upsala
Sweden, in 1878, and received his ed
ucation at Swedish colleges-last
week before the American Institute OF
Electrical Engineers, meeting in St
Louis, demonstrated television ap-
paratus which he has constructed, and
which makes it possible for human
eyes to see clear across the Atlantic
ocean, however thick the fog OF
black the night. The apparatus is
called the radio telephote, and Mr.
Alexanderson's demonstration of what
it could do aroused the greatest en-
thusiasm among his normally skepti-
cal auditors He himself is con-
sidered a man of conservative tongue
who is not given to report upon ex-
periments until they have been abso-
lutely verified.
Victor Olsen Dead.
Victor Olsen, Danish vice consul for
the State of Michigan, died last week
at his home in Detroit. He was born
in Copenhagen in 1872, came to the
United States in 1889, and founded the
National Tea & Coffee Co. of Detroit
from the management of which he
retired in 1910. Mr.. Olsen was
married to a sister of the late Rev
p. Eriksen of Chicago, and he sur,
wives him.
I02 Years Old.
On December Is, Mrs. Gunhil6
jackson in Waseca. Mimi, attained
her 102nd year. She was born al
Vinje, Telemark, Norway, and came
to the United States in 1862; with
her husband she took active part in
the life of the early Norwegian pion-
GERS in Fillmore county, Mimi She
has been widow since 1896, and
two of her six children are still liv-
ing. Mrs. Jackson is said to be spry,
always busy knitting and spinning
Latterly, however, she has had to
abandon these tasks. Her memory
is reported to be unusually good, and
she recalls wildly details of exper-
fences of long, long ago.
Gets Carnegie Awards.
American money has once more
reached Sweden, this time in the form
of a number of awards distributed by
the Carnegie Hero Foundation in New
York. The Swedish recipients and
their ages are: Harald Karlsson
Gravarne, Is; Burger Nilsson, Hilmel
Svensson, Gustaf Hasselberg and Ru.
dolf Person, Karlskrona, all between
Is and 20 years old; Lars Olov 10.
hansen, Saefsjo, II; Maj Nygren al
Skaftet, IL; Gustav Vikstrom, Bo-
lines, IA; and also a group of men
and boys who took part in the res
cuing of several persons about to
drown at Tito, near Stockholm, in
August of this year.
Styri is Studying.
e. Styri, instructor in architectural
work at the farm school at Aas, Nor
way, has arrived in this country on a
study trip. He is particularly in
terested in irrigation problems and
also in the stanchions used in Amer
lean cattle barns. Mr.. Styri plans
to visit a number of agricultural
schools in the United States. and will
wind up his trip with a visit to the
California university farm at Berke-
ley. His brother, DR.. Haakon Styri,
professor at the Carnegie Institute,
Pittsburg, was the first exchange
student sent here from Norway by the
MISUNDERSTANDING Foundation of
New York.
To Revive Old Dances.
Deploring the tendencies of modern
dancing. especially, it is pointed out,
the Charleston and the Black Bottom,
a group of men and women are plan
ming to organize society in Chicago
to counterfeit these influences by
stimulating interest in old Swedish
folk dances which in former days
have attracted worldwide attention
because of their rhythmical grace
fulness. When present plans mature.
it is the intention of the sponsors of
the plan to give exhibitions Of the
old dances. and in other ways to at
tempt to revive interest In them.
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