Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-07-28
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she is the active leader of the colony
of Theosophists, she manages to spend
the greater part of her time travelling
all over the United States and the
rest of the world.
HOn0red by Norway.
DR.. Konrad Birkhaug, a North Da-
kotan of Norwegian parentage, gradu-
ated in 1917 from jamestown College,
jamestown. N D., and during the ten
years elapsed since has won for him.
self unusual recognition as result
of his far-reaching research work in
the field of anti-toxins; he is particu-
larly well known because of his dis
covery of serum that can be effica-
ciously applied against erysipelas.
Last week DR.. Birkhaug who is now
affiliated. with Cornell University at
Ithaca, N. Y, was notified that he had
been elected an honorary fellow of the
Royal Norwegian Pathological Society.
Treaty Planned.
Although the possibility of war
between the United States and Sweden
is as remote as anything can possibly
be, a movement is on foot in Sweden
to negotiate an arbitration treaty with
Washington. merely by way of ex-
ample. The treaty, if the propos-
ition is formally presented to the
American government, will be of the
new type which includes conflicts af-
fecting national honor and vital in
terests problems that hitherto have
been excluded from most arbitration
treaties. The Swedish government
has such unconditional and all-inclu-
sive treaties with the other Scandin-
European nations.
Going to Philadelphia.
Larsen-Ledet, editor of the prohibit
ton daily, Afholdsdagbladet', in
Denmark, is due in Philadelphia next
week and will attend-as a delegate
from his country-the world conven-
tion of the International Order of
Good Templars; later he will proceed
to Winona Lake, Ind, as delegate
to the international gathering of the
Ledet has been in the United States
on several former occasions and has
attended several world conventions of
the Good Templars here as well as in
Europe.
Expect Big Gathering.
The international Pen Cuban or
ganization of literary men and women
comprising Europe and America
will meet in Oslo, Norway, next year,
and American representatives will be
the writer's, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore
Dresser and Fanny Hurst. Many
others are expected to attend from
this country Efforts are being made
to join the centenary of the birth of
Henrik Ibsen-March 20-with the
Pen club convention which takes
place in June, but negotiations so far
have not led to any definite result
Andrew G. Anderson Dead.
Andrew G. Anderson. former man.
ager of the Augustana Book Concern,
Rock Island, ILL.,, died last week at
the age of 70. He was born in yerm-
land, Sweden, and came with his par
ents to Red Wing. Mimi, when he was
Is years old. Originally following
the printers trade Mr.. Anderson in
1889 became affiliated with the bust
ness management of the Augustana
Book Concern, closely united to the
Swedish Lutheran church in this
country, and soon thereafter was
made manager of the entire plant.
And Now Denmark. s.
Christian Johannsen, a Danish av-
iator, has been invited by one of his
countrymen in New York, T. c. Jun
gersen, to make an airplane trip from
Denmark to New York and return,
with one passenger. Mr.. Johannsen
has notified his possible hacker that
he is willing to undertake the trip
AS soon as definite information is re-
ceived from New York. 1t is thought,
however, that the trip will not be
made this summer as the season is
considered pretty far advanced for
transatlantic trips of this precarious
kind.
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