Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-10-31
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weeks. He was a native of Slagelse,
went to the United States in the
eighties, was married in Utah in 1890.
and came to Chicago the following
year having resided there ever since.
Mr.. Nielsen was very widely known
among his compatriots and took active
rart in the work of many of the Dan
ish Chicago organizations. He had
lust returned from the bricklayers
convention in Boston, Mass, when he
was taken ILL.,. presumably as the re-
suits of cold contracted on the trip.
Barney's Book.
Danford Barney, an American writ
err, returns next week from his third
sojourn in Norway where he has COM
piled material for volume which will
be known as Brother of the Noun
tains." Judging from advance notices
the book will be work of fiction with
the majestic scenery of Norway as its
background Incidentally, Mr.. Barney
says that he hopes by his book to
create and stimulate the desire of his
countrymen for visit to what he calls
the most magnificent little country in
the wide, wide world-the alluring
land of the Midnight Sun.
Going to Denmark.
The Danish-American Athletic Club
of Chicago is planning an excursion
to Denmark next year and will give
a series of exhibits of boxing, wrest-
ling, calisthenics, football, basket ball
and folk dances. The special object
of the trip is to make money which
can be contributed to the fund now
being collected in Denmark and the
United States to insure the participa-
ton of representative delegation from
Denmark in the international Olym-
pic games which are to be held in
Los Angeles in the summer of 1882.
1t is said that a majority of the men,
bers of the Chicago organization are
planning to take part in the Denmark
trip.
U. S..NOrway.
The Columbia Broadcasting System
has applied to the federal radio COM
mission for permission to obtain two
new short-waveS for a proposed hook
up with European broadcasting sta
tions. Paul NJ. Greene, one of the
leaders of the chain, announces that
negotiations have already been init
ated with the Oslo, Norway, broad
casting station, and he says that as
far as he now can judge it will not be
long before all the standard Ameri-
can network-programs, sent out by the
Columbia people, will be heard in Nor
way-as distinctly as they are now
being heard in Pine county homes.
There is also some talk of having Nor
way programs relayed to the United
States.
Plan Abandoned.
For some time all the numerous
Swedish organizations in the eastern
part of the United States have been in
terested in the discussion about erect
ing Swedish house-a sort of central
building for Swedish-Americans-
New York A committee has been at
work, and now has reported that al
though the plan is exceedingly attrac-
tive, it cannot at the present time be
considered practical or feasible.
Married IS Years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl M. Madsen Of
Oakland, CAL, last week celebrated
their sixty-fifth wedding anniversary
in the presence of their children and
grandchildren. Friends had planned
an elaborate banquet but this thought
had to be abandoned in view of the
illness of Mrs. Madsen who is Sc years
old. Mr.. Madsen came to America
with his wife in 1874, lived for some
time in Wisconsin and Iowa and went
to California some so years ago. They
are natives of Bjerringbro, Denmark.
Until few years ago Mr.. Madsen
conducted a grocery store in Oakland.
Makes Invention.
DR.. Conrad Tharaldson-a Norwe-
gian-American who is professor at