Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-10
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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| Norwegian immigrants, and he spent
way. Mr.. KnudsOn, according to re-
ports, was equally popular and re-
spected among his colleagues and the
| Chicago OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, and
also was a leading member of several
Norwegian organizations in that city.
Married SO Years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Hultgren of
Midale, Sask., last week celebrated
| their sixtieth wedding anniversary.
They are natives of Sweden and were
| among the early pioneers of Canada,
| where they have had their home for
more than fifty years. The Baptist
congregation of Midale, of which Mr..
and Mrs. Hultgren are members, hon
ored the diamond couple" in various
ways, and at banquet given in their
honor attention was called to the fact
that they are still hale and hearty
despite their advanced age, 81 and IS.
They have children, 4S grandchil-
dren and great-grondchildre most
of whom helped celebrate the event.
Translated into Danish.
Carl Christian Jensen's autobio-
graphical can American Saga, which
was published last year and aroused
unusual attention, has been translated
into the Danish language by Kristjan
| Lambek, and published by a Copen-
hagen firm. Mr.. Jensen is native of
Denmark who now lives in New York,
and his book is a remarkable record
of the difficulties and hardships suf
fered by an immigrant in his attempts
to become a real American.
Ortenvflle Celebration.
May 18th, the national constitution
al day of Norway, will be celebrated
| by practically all Norwegian organiza-
tions in the United States and Can
ada. One celebration of special i'm
portance will take place at Ortonville,
Mimi, where interest will be awak-
ened in the erection of a monument to
commemorate the alleged-and as yet
holly disputed-arrfval of NOrsemen
in 1862 at what is now Kensington,
Mimi. Governor Theodore Christian
son and Hjalmar Rued Holland of
Ephraim, Wis, until recently the own
er of the socalled Kensington runic
stone, are among the speakers invited
| for Ortonville's "Syttende Mai"
Swedish.Amerfcan Day.
On the Fourth of July thousands of
| American citizens, natives of Sweden
and their descendants, will gather at
the city of Jonkoping, Sweden, where
national exposition then will be in
progress. The American Independ
ence day has been set aside as a. spe-
cial Swedish-American day, and sew
eral prominent men from the United
States will deliver addresses. JON
koping is the center of the far reach
| ing Swedish match industry.
25 Years a Newspaperman.
Last week Georg Strandvold, asso-
Ciate editor of the Decorah-Posten,
DEBORAH, Iowa, celebrated his 25th an
niversary as an active newspaperman.
He was first connected with the Nor
den at Racine, Wis, then with the
Racine Daily Journal, and for several
years was editor of the Danish fNord
lyset in New York City; later he ed
tied Ugebladet in Minneapolis, became
a member of the editorial staff of the
Grand Forks Herald, Grand Forks,
N. D., editor of the Nordmanden and
the Scandinavia, and for many years
has been American correspondent for
daily papers in Denmark, his native
country.
| An Appreciation.
! Bernt Balchen, the Norwegian air
corps lieutenant who flew with Com
mander Byrd across the Atlantic
from New York to Paris last year,
was the pilot of the rescue plane sent
by the North American Newspaper
Alliance to Greenly Island where the
German plane, Bremen, went down
with Baron Won Huenefeld, Pilot
Koehl and Lieutenant Fitzmaurice
In appreciation of his readiness to go
on such an unusually dangerous er
rand Mr.. Balchen has now received a
check of $4,000 from the newspaper
syndicate. He was invited to share
| on tIlC SACOpIlOldl uOuOiS uCSIO"Ou
upon the two German and the Irish
filters when they had their triumphant
entry into New York last week, but
declined to appear on the, ground
that "all the honor belongs to these
| fellows"
Ekman HOnOred.
The National Academy of Science
in Washington has awarded this
years Agassiz medal to Professor V.
Walfrid Ekman of Lund university,
Sweden, in recognition of his eminent
work in the field of oceanography.
AS Professor Ekman was unable to
make the trip from Sweden to the
United States for this purpose, the
medal was accepted in his behalf by
Wollmar F. Bostrem, Swedish min
lister to the American government.
Engaged by Opera.
| Svend Aage Larsen, ballet dancer of
| the ROYAL Theater COpenhagen Den