Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-05
NEWS AMONG
SCANDINAVIANS
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be $500 more, and from other points
proportionately. The service is avail
able every day until 9 o'clock in the
evening, central standard time.
To Visit U. s.
On July 16, a group of IS Danish
school boys will arrive in New YORK
for a two-month visit in the United
States; Immediately upon their arrival
they will be distributed among homes
in the East, and also will be given
opportunities to travel in various
parts of the country. The visit re-
ciprocates a visit which about one
hundred American boys paid to pri-
vate homes in Denmark last year.
All the arrangements pertaining to
this exchange of boys have been made
by Sven Knudsen, member of the
faculty of Antioch college, Ohio. The
boys left Copenhagen yesterday aboard
the steamer, United States"
In English Version.
Publishing houses in New York an
nounce that during the summer
months English translations of Knut
Hamsun's "Konerne we'd Vandposten"
(''The Women at the Town Pump
and Johan Bojer's "Det nye Temper'
("The New Temple"O, will appear.
The two writer's are at the present
time the most famous of all Norway's
authors, and have for years enjoyed
international recognition on a rather
vast scale. Hamsuns book, now
about to be published in this country,
is one of his most recent works, and
Bojer's is the very latest appearing
under his signature.
Invited to Oregon.
John Runnstroem, instructor at the
University of Stockholm, has been in
vited to occupy the chair of physi-
ology at the State University of Ore
gOn. He has become famous through
out the scientific world as a result of
his painstaking laboratory work as
well as because of his writings which
are said to indicate a strong enthu-
siasm in favor of highly modern re-
search methods. Some of Mr.. RUM
stroem's books are being used in
American universities and colleges.
To Speak in Norway.
A. B. Neuman, chief engineer of the
United States Steel Corporation
plant at Gary, Ind, has left for Nor
way, his native land, where he will
be guest speaker invited by several
engineering societies. Mr.. Neuman
was born in Skaanevik and graduated
from the Technical college at Trond-
hjem in 1890. Two years later he
went to the United States where he
has been in charge of several large
construction jobs. He also is super
vising the building of a $40,000,000
steel plant in Russia.
A tidy Net Amount.
Reports from Chicago show that the
midsummer day festival arranged by
the Swedish Svithiod societies netted
the amount of $16,O0O-in spite of the
fact that the festival took place in
rainy weather. More than 5000 per-
sons were present. One third of the
net amount will, as per previous
agreement, be donated to the Svithiod
Home for the Aged at Lake Mime
tonka, and the balance will go into
the general funds of the societies.
Danes to Organize.
At meeting in Winnipeg last week
steps were taken in the direction
of forming a national Canadian organ
ization of Danes living in the Do
minion. 1t is said that it, to some
extent, will be formed along the lines
of the Danish Brotherhood of the
United States, and in this connection
it is pointed out that at the present
time there are about $4,000 Danes liv-
ing in the various provinces of Can
ada. The immigration from Denmark
to the Dominion is constantly increas-
ing, it is reported.
Many Tourists.
Ben Blessum, manager of the infor-