Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-24
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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or these numerous specimens OF mod
ern Danish art as significant event
in the art life of our city,.
Trwtvik Sentenced.
Reference was made few weeks
ago to Peter Tr@tvik, a Norwegian
machinist aboard a steamer plying
between New York and Central Amer
lean ports, who was charged with
having struggled arms and munitions
into Nicaragua. He has now pleaded
guilty to specific charge of having
illegally imported 10000 boxes of re-
volver shells to Honduras, and was
Immediately sentenced to two
month stay in the Tombs prison At
the end of his term he will be de-
ported to Norway.
Interested i'm Albania.
DIR. Telford Ericsson of Sweden is
at present travelling through the farm
districts of the United States for the
purpose of studying agricultural meth
DDS. The government of Albania has
appointed him its travelling agricul-
tural advisor, and when he returns to
Durazzo he will be placed at the head
of the agricultural college in that
city-which was founded largely at
his initiative. Recently DR.. Ericsson
was the guest of honor at banquet
given by Albanian organizations of
Chicago.
Mrs. c. H. Hansen Dead.
Mrs. G. H. Hansen, for years one
of the most prominent Danish women
in Chicago, died last week, 70 years
old. She was native of Fredericia,
Denmark, and had made her home
in Chicago for many years. She was
married to Consul C. H. Hansen who
died II years ago, and from her very
first years in Chicago took active part
in all Danish-American affairs. Mrs.
Hansen has become widely known be-
cause of her work in the interest of
the Danish Old Peoples Home at
Norwood Park, Ill.-an institution Of
which she was the real founder and
for years also the president. 1t was
d-repeatedly-that the founding
and the maintenance of this old peo-
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browning achievement of the many
which had reflected great credit upon
Mrs. Hansen.
To Norway i'm 1880.
Thousands of wegian-Americans
are preparing to visit Norway in 1880
when the ninth centennial of the in
PRODUCTION of Christianity into that
country will be widely celebrated. A
number of organizations in this coun-
try have recently launched a prelim-
mary campaign to arouse interest in
the project, and the Norsemen's
League (Normandsforbundet), with
branches in all countries of the earth,
especially in the United States, is Or
ganizing Jubilee Excursions"
Going to Stockholm.
Astrid Olson, young American
singer whose parents are Swedish,
has arrived in Stockholm where she
will appear at the Grand Opera thea
ter, under the direction of John For
sell-formerly a famous tenor who
has been heard in this country, too.
Miss Olson has spent several years
in Sweden where she attended school
for a time, and her voice attracted
much attention a year or so ago when
she was a member of the Greenwich
Village Follies organization in New
York. A few weeks ago, she left for
Sweden, and was given an addition
by Mr.. Forsell who Immediately Of
fered her a contract.
New Vice Consul.
S. Henning Hergel, formerly secre-
tary to the Danish legation in Lon
don, arrived last week at Montreal
where he was appointed Danish vice
consul to succeed Count Schach who
has been transferred to Copenhagen
for service in the foreign office. Mr..
Hergel has been in the consular serv-
ice of his country for several years,
and now will represent Denmark as
acting consul general until Mr.. Bog
gild, permanent consul general, re-
turns from his Denmark journey. A
few years ago vice consul was able
to discharge all the official duties of
Denmark in that part of Canada; then
it was found necessary to appoint a
consul, and, as Danish immigration to
the Dominion increased, to promote