Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-17
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
Interesting Items Concern
ing People From the
North.

ago was official Norwegian press at
tache in the United States, and who
then was appointed general secretary
of MISUNDERSTANDING (Norsemen's
League), with headquarters in Oslo,
has resigned from the latter position
and will in the future be affiliated
with one of the larger publishing
houses of Norway. Mr.. Kildal in
former years was a librarian, and
one of his achievements in this field
was his complete reorganization of
the library at Bergen, Norway, along
the lines of modern American library
technique. 1t is understood that Mr..
Kildal will continue his connection
with Observation-Disclosures as sort
of unofficial advisor to that organi-
cation.
Swedish Work.
The man who is in charge of the
extensive repair work now in process
at the White House, Washington, is
a Swede, namely, Nils P. SEVERN,
president of a Chicago contracting
firm which obtained the contract for
the Washington work. Mr.. SEVERN
is a native of Shame, Sweden, and
has been in the contr acting business
in Chicago for upward of forty years.
He is known for his activities in the
church field of his compatriots. In
cidentally, the check for the White
House repairs will amount to sum
that is pretty close to a million dol
lars.
T. O. Lskken Coming.
Thomas Olesen Lokken, Danish
author whose novels have brought
him into prominence in Scandina-
Wan literature, is contemplating a
trip to the United States. He is said
to have many relatives in this coun-
try; also is interested in seeing Amer
lea, and requests have been made to
him for lectures among the Danes or
the United States. So the plan is
under consideration. Mr.. L0kken's
success as a prose writer has been
quite unprecedented because it came
late in his life and seemingly without
the tribulations and disappointments
that so often handicap writer's who
court the tickle public.
A Tragedy i'm Mexico.
H. Anderberg, Swedish minister to
the Mexican government, the other
day received visitors from his home
country, and in their honor he and
Mrs. Anderberg prepared a festival
gathering at the home of the legation
in Mexico City. However, just as the
guests were about to assemble, Mrs.
Anderberg died suddenly, death being
due to paralysis of the heart. Under
these circumstances, the celebration
was, of course, called Off-and the
next day those who had expected to
sit at the banquet table, gathered as
mourners around the bier of Mrs
Anderberg.
Fifty Years i'm Business.
K. l. Haugen, a native of Norway,
last week celebrated his fiftieth an
niversary as a businessman in De-
corah, Iowa. Practically the whole
city turned out to do him honor. Mr..
Haugen-who, by the way, is the
father-in-law of Ex-Governor j. A. O..
Preus of Minnesota-started his bus
mess in March, 1875, shortly after
having immigrated from his native
country. One of his sons is now as
ISOLATED with him in business. Mr..
Haugen has always been actively in
terested in the work of the Norwegian
Lutheran church and other Organi-
cations among his compatriots.
SyeinbjsrnssOn Dead.
Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, the
greatest of all Iceland's composers,
died two weeks ago in Copenhagen,
Denmark, where he had made his
home for some years. He was eighty
years old. Professor Sveinbjornsson
had been a teacher of music at Edin-
burg, Scotland, and Winnipeg, Man
itoba, and only four years ago he
made his last visit to the United
States, when he played a few concerts
in private circles, but did not appear
in public. He was the composer OF
the national anthem of Iceland.
ode Svenske.''
Definite plans have now been form
ulated for the forthcoming tour of
de Svenske'', a Swedish male chorus
consisting of fifty members; they will
arrive in New York May 80, and will
sing before audiences in number of
large eastern cities before coming to
the Middle West, and they will make
a tour of the Pacific coast before ap-
pearing in Duluth on June "a for the
Swedish midsummer festival of that
city. The following day DE Svenske"
will sing in Minneapolis. On July IA
the organization will leave New York
for Stockholm. Critics of choral
singing agree that de Svenske' is
the most perfect organization OF its
kind that has ever left Sweden for
foreign tours.
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