Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-02-10
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern.
ing People From the
North.

The Nordic Finance Association,
Inc, of New York, which has been
interested in various Swedish-Amer-
lean activities at its annual meeting
last week decided to devote all it's
efforts toward tho establishment of a
Swedish House for Greater New York.
1t is pointed out that such a center
does not aim at competing with organ
ization buildings already existing in
the city, but that it is felt necessary
to make arrangements for a centrally
located structure which will accom-
modate Swedish exhibits, lectures,
theatrical performances, etc.
Will Finance Experiment.
Fiske Warren, an American paper
manufacturer and millionaire who
last summer was in Denmark attend
ing a conference of Henry George ad-
herents, has given promise to P. r.
Woldike of Copenhagen, that when
certain conditions have been fulfilled,
he will be willing to finance vast
Danish experiment in the field of
homesteading as in accordance with
the ideas of Henry George. The
scheme is, to a certain extent, COM
munistic in the older significance of
the word which at one time denoted
communal ownership and manage
ment of the land.
Trip to Europe.
DR.. Nils Flaten, head of the depart
ment of Romance languages at the
principal school of the Norwegian
Lutheran Church of America, ST..
Olaf College, Northfield, Mimi, will
conduct a European sightseeing tour
during the coming summer. While
the excursion party will largely be
made up of professors and students of
the college, it is understood that
others may join it, too. Visits will
be made to the principal countries.
of the continent as we'll as to Eng
land and the three Scandinavian
countries. The party is planning to
leave Montreal for Liverpool on June
oath.
John F. Anderson Dead.
John F. Anderson, prominent bridge
construction engineer in San Diego,
CAL, died last week, 70 years old. He
was born in Sweden and came to the
United States in 1869. For several
years he was in the employ of the
technical departments of the Union
Pacific railroad, and later was ap-
pointed engineer in charge of i'm
hot Of
structing the subway tunnel under
the Hudson river between New York
City and Jersey City; he also built
sewer systems in Brooklyn, and head
ed bridge construction work in Cuba,
Great Britain, Venezuela, New South
Wales, etc. Mr.. Anderson had made
his home in California during the
last 80 years.
Studied Publishing Work.
Iver Jespersen, a member of the
Danish publishing house headed by
his father, this week returned to his
home in Copenhagen after having
spent nearly a. year in the United
States studying the methods employed
by publishing houses here. He said
that his journey had taught him
much, although he deplored the fact
that he could not learn more than
he did because publishing business
here is far more specialized than In
a small country like Denmark where
the head of such firm must be an
all-round publisher. Some of the me-
thods Mr.. Jespersen had become &C
,ouainted with in this country could,
he thought, be transplanted to the
Danish publishing world.
Joint Capital.
An Oslo report says that Norwegian
concession holders in Russia have
merged themselves with an American
petroleum and transport concern for
the exploitation of oil fields on the
Keida peninsula. The concession
comprises $40 square miles, and it is
understood that a Norwegian cor
poration will be formed with capital
of between S1,500,0O0 and 100000,
part of which will be furnished by
the American firm.
Coming Again.
Larsen Ledet, editor of "Afholds-
dagbladet'-the only temperance dali
ly paper in the world. at Aarhus.
Denmark, is planning to visit the
United States during the coming sum-
mer as he has been elected delegate
to the international congress of the
L. O. O. G. T. which will be held in
PHILADELPHIA. Mr. Larsen Ledet, one
of the ardent and most militant pro-
hibitionists of northern Europe, has
been in this country ON three former
occasions. He is a personal friend
of nearly all the leading prohibition
men and women in the United States,
xuhora make a trim to