Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-06-19

tional convention in San Franclso,
Cal, on his way to the Golden Gate.
DIR. Ottosen had visited the Battle
Creek sanatoriuEi in Michigan anG
also the Mayo clinic at Rochester,
MINI. Many years ago DIR. Ottosen
was an inferno at the Battle creek
institution, and upon his return to
Denmark he founded-largely in
spired by his impressions OF American
methods-hiS sanatorium at Skods-
borg which has served as a model for
62 other such sanatoria throughout
Scandinavia; 10 institutions of that
type have also been founded in Ger
many, largely through the personal
efforts of DR.. Ottosen.
Women May Vote.
The Swedish Lutheran Augustana
synod at its annual convention in
Rock Island, H., has granted women
the right to vote at future meetings.
This new right will become effective
next year. Apparently the decision
came as a complete surprise since
opposition to this move has always
been very determined-had, in fact,
been considered we'll nigh inflexible.
Her "Father's Daughter"
Miss Ella Valborg Rolvaag, North
field, Mimi, has completed her first
literary work, a dramatic sketch en-
titled, "Egill Skallagrimsson," which
is based upon the stormy and adven-
turous life of an Icelandic bard and
chieftain who flourished during the
tenth century. Miss Rolvaag is the
daughter of DIR. o. E. Rolvaag, ma
tive of Norway who in recent years
has won international fame as the
author of Giants in the Earth
Pure Gold" and other novels deal
ing, chiefly, with aspects of life among
early Norwegian settlers in this coun-
try.
Elected Grand Master.
Dr. Charles Henry Johnson who was
recently elected grand master of the
grand lodge of the Masonic order in
the state of New York is the first
man of Scandinavian descent to oc-
cupy this post. 1t had been reported
that his parents were Norwegian i'm
migrants but he says himself that
both his father and his mother came
to Brooklyn, N. Y, from the island
of Bornholm, Denmark.-Severaly years
ago the grand secretary of the New
York state Masonic order was a ma
tive of Denmark. Christian Ehlers.
Morse Appreciation.
DR.. Augustus Trowbridge of Prince
ton university on several occasions
has assisted the government of Nor
way in its efforts to solicit funds for
the establishment of the northern
light observatory at Tromsoe, at the
northernmost point in Norway. In
appreciation OF his services to Nor
way, King Haakon has bestowed upon
DIR. Trowbridge the knighthood of the
St Olav order
Veteran Artist Dead.
Thure de Thulstrup, famous as an
artist and illustrator in the days of
Harpers and Frank Leslie's Week
lies, and a descendant of a long line
of aristocratic Swedish ancestors,
died in New York hospital last week
at the age of SO. He was born in
Sweden as the son of former Swed-
ish minister to France, and received
his military education in academies
in Sweden and France. After the
Prussian war in which he
took part under the French colors,
he began the study Of art in Paris.
About 1875 Mr.. de Thulstrup came to
the United States and soon won ma
tion-wide fame as magazine illustra-
tor and portrait painter. He had
been in failing health during the last
few years.
DIR. Bjarnesen I'm Varde.
DR.. B. Bjarnesen who was the ply
stefan and surgeon of Admiral Byrd
Antarctic expedition, has arrived at
the city of Varde, Denmark, to visit
his mother for a brief vacation. DR..
BjarneSen is a native of that city
and a graduate of the Copenhagen
university. He had been practicins
medicine in Detroit, Mich. for few
years when Admiral Byrd invited him
to join his epoch-making expedition.
tends TO return soon to Detroit
Pilgrimage is On
From all Canadian and American
ports come reports To the effect that
thousands of Norwegian Americans
are leaving for Iceland and Norway
TO attend the national celebration
about TO take place in those coun-
tries. In Iceland the one thousandth
anniversary of the founding of the AL
ting. the oldest parliament in Europe.
will be celebrated during the last
week of June, and few weeks later
Norway will celebrate the ninth
centennial anniversary of the intro
duction of Christianity into that
country. Many of the tourists take
in" both events, and during the last
few days three liners have left Mon
treal and New York direct for Reyk-
javik, the capital of Iceland. carry