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Yp,-.:, ?\'()J'l-'('lll('l l WEDNESDA �. �.t'!UL ,29, 19Z5 lancted a t Y<'<ll'S nll ' ious times ou o u r ,_)lon-s before thP Y<'lll' 1 1':.!=i, a11d rendPred notablP se_rvi<-e in the wa r of I rnlel)c•rnlencP, but ,t was the ,-;ai l i up; or t he ,-Jo,, 11 1 ti 1 r tl • est 1 � l:� �t:t � r�;.��:e;;� ; 1 �rt�fc'.��!1 f1� CENTENNIAL FUNCTION America I h a !· ma rkecl 1"11r 1>rgi m 1 lng of a real migrat i on from Norwn 1· to thi,; Xorsemen of U. S. mul Camuln continrn l . Thi ,; ( 'entPnnia l "IY i l l be the g1·en tNe t to Gat h er at M i n nesota Sta tf' Helped Settle Mid-West Plains t o lie celeb rat ion ever held hr Nor,;,,m0n i11 Four Governmentii. J<'air G rounds in J u n e AmeriPa. Tl1e prograrn will i u cl urle sp<'akPl'S mid mnc<icians of world-wide 'J'l te I.Jig N'or:se-CPn t·Pmt i a l o f Lo-i, Angeles t o the cen tenn ial ·, BY . G . B. WOLLM.A • fame. 'l'hf' PrPsirlen t. 0r a prominent ebration "if i t can be done," ad<( opyright, l'n1:.!la, by The O,rogonla,11 ., member of his eal.JinN, w i l l i·epi·eSPnt �. ••• . "and I think it can." ay -(Spe6 1 _PAUL;, Min n., M n t t h e )!innesota Sta t 0 l•'n i r Gronnrls, the govel'nmell t of t lw ( J u i tell ::,\ r a i l';; ; s 'I ctal There w i l l be 22 department,/ . J --:-lhe m emory · of the 50 i . f ,. . , . , . , O Canacl·i of Premier e th O rnenu,P. ,t 1 ' : exhibits special besides H a m l i ne. )I i u ne,-ota, on .T n ne 7-8-D, u 11rl i n trepid Norsemen who landed exhibits, . . . 1S ca b1net , w i l l spea k for the domin- in Am erica w i th the sl oop Restora- the .:tate of l\!l;.in11 esota an d the :', ma ny w i l l nnctonbledly a t tenll t llP (. nat their o·r ion to the north ; f'rown Prine0 01Hf. tion, the "Mayfl ower o.E the north," m imon of Canada ga thering from tlli ,-; <·omm1mitY departmental W the Prima t e of Norway, llll(l D r. F rit- 1 0 0 years ago, a n d, trekking- west, resources. These converted hi bits will cover a ,v ide range, ).. Purpose aml lmportanc� • jof N'n n,-:e11 w i l l a ppc-a 1· fo r· nw nw th l'I ' T eel in t l1e pioneering that the t of pioneer ·:·: departmen a bread eluding into s i pla the western n . Thrre ha v e Ileen two i mportn nt m i coun t ry ; a ( l i;; t i ngui f, h e< l fi OJ J of. fr<'- basket of t h e ·w orld, w il l be hon- hibits which will visualize, as {'' , 1 H'}) . / ,e.s.ent. . t 1 JP l:tmous rnland 0 ro d by fo tH" go v ernm en t s at t h e haps n ver before the gro wth { gra tions from Xor,vay. T h e fi rst bega n l a n d . ",·n centenn ial, to be deV�lop;n ent • of t'i10 grea t m i cl:'" a thon,-ancl yPari ago. wlwu rnanv o f wllc1 e t he No1 ;.;emPll settlP(I a • hon- [ N"orse-A merican sand yNll'S ago 1u1d w he11c·t' t hey » a i led 11., 1 (1 on the state fair grounds ad- west during the past century. Th · r t bP Xor:sc ,rn r-Jor<lf', ·f'a rls a nrl • l;<'t t . t·o A mPrica a lmost fi,e l t1 11 l([ l'C< l \"Pa rs j o i n ing the twin <'i ties June 6 to 9. will also be exhibits of fine arts Pre sident Cool idge is coming in (•rafts, !nclucl i n g botlt a J oan '. rulns refm,e<l to hen!l t he knee to Hn r hefore Colmul.Jns � a w t h<� we,;t ern person to pay Americra' s tribute June h i lJl t and a competi t i ve exhibit� old the JTo.i r Hai 1'e< l , w llo had macl<' world 8 to th ose hardy pioneers a,ncl thel1' paintings and sculptµre by Nor w hot,e l i ves malrn u p i n American artists n :1� expeet<,cl that t hn-e \\"il l be a followers . · also will br1· 11g F1 hi m,;el f l'U ler of lll l XOl'"ll'H .Y , and sa i l e1l Tlle C.elebratton �ple o f t h e m a ny great m easure the history of the I away to Jrpla ncl w i t h a l l t heir \YPn l t h a rg-e a t tendauc:e)Hof e m at gr rica n 1:1 odePn w �st. Sec- gether a wonderfu l group of m us\ A e lw fe � t iY i t i e-: 1-tif'i t pa n i ting ,;ocieties l and mnny of their rPta iurrs. The RC'<·· ! 1·e• ta r y �-.- f S t a t P K ellog-g· will speak o rganizations, featu ring· two ill\ nationall y famous choral bodies, ' ond IJPgan a hun<lrecl r<'u t·s ago. wlwn ,1.Ri.<le from n_t t endaucf' of t l te _ rmhl i '" •,i t 0 1 1 th e. ~a n1e, rl a v _. T he go ver n m e n t o f Norw ay proud· Academic choir from Oslo, Norw .., the sloop '' Hestanra t i01wn"" ('ro,-:,;ecl t l w 1:1 1_ge that will tax tilt' <'H JIH''l t�' C'f t he and the St, Olaf Lutheran choir frot eer• pion gronrnls. hur her of ts 1evemen acl1 the nf At l a n ti<- t o t h e la1Hl rl i;.;covc>recl b y Lei r The ciYic organ ization,; of \ l i nnen po - i n,. rnns, is s e n d i n g two of i ts fore- Northfi.e ld, Minn. the Luf'ky, nnrl sta rt< ><l an C'xodus t n n m h l en Of men, Other m us ical organizations ria i • L. t ac l, and St. P a nl "ll' i l l coopera h' w i t h most s ta tes tlw hroncl , frrt ile pla i n,:; o f Ameri ca . l i:s ister of social worl,, and C. J, S am- ticipat in g in the celebration will ra the perfl'cf"ing in C'cnmuitk0 the 1 s l g a 'L'hl' fi rst wa a migra tion o f Xor�P r concert band con r,rnge�<•nt,_ and i u. mn k_ii!g t _h f' �tay of � i�·Lec� �:;z;i0 r: i �;1 L��1 a�� g i��; t h e Luther college f o 5 . chieftain,;, pro u rl, ,w•u !t hy aml powN fnl , hnt he<·a nse of nnfavorn hlf• <·01H l i ,J l l n�i�or,s I l l thf' two l 'l fw,; mte!'e�ting w i t h scores o f lead ing citi zens. G ov - ��t��d: rf��if!�:�h�i�� Acu ��e Canada, ana col l ege cho ir, Concordia colleg ble. enJo�·a :lllcl of B yng ernor-General tion" tl1a t a w a i t PCl tlwm. t hey hn([ a �ot le,:,; tha n 2,700 Lntl1(•ra n congrr- w hich also pr o fited by t h e Norse choir, Aug·usberg seminary glee cluh har Re<'ond was H migrnt ion of Nor �a t ion�, t he Norwegian ol nes, lu ch V ied voiees ·from the Nor we gian Sing e rs ' � u mero m, ega t 1o n , as t s. lcelan t bu wa ,1' · ,. ('()JnJllOll 1wople, ])la in H llCI :s i m ua ries and academies t he n n 1.m g to t h� associati on of A m erica. n 3� / ;\; �\��; ; b s lel yg he t t s, lollgcs of Son e of c 1f t 0 r ga . i plf', wi thout worlclly WPn l tlt, h u t who . � < ag e !tit\ �:i� ia;�!s !;t Governors of six states w h o trace - br�£��:· hN'H ll>'<' of fa Yorahle ('Ollc l itions antl ;>,;orn·ay H l1(l v anous o t 11e1· 1'0cil'tif'fl are Norsemen to back neage i l their assignerl been lrn.ve ions 01·g:u1izat and Norse-Amer of dents stu by contests fa i t h ful \\"O!'k, >'0011 n eqnired a COlll l H'· :- also expected to take part in t he i can coll eges and acadam ies; a 1i tenc<' nrnl fl l'e · now nnJ'nlwrefl .,'.lmoni.i: plae<:' i; i n t h e C<�nten11ia l a nrl a re a< cel e_b r�tion. They . are Theodore ing flag or c hildren, depicting ii� v the 111o�t pl'o:-perou,; peoi1le of the t i l·cly taking pa rt i n t he pre a ra t ions. Chr.,st 1 anso1� o f _1\1111 esota; .f. J . the flag of Norway, which will 1> � '1'1 ,c site self'Ctecl for t h f' <'Plebra tion t en rt 11. c o f e n B la 1 1s- o.n s m ; car J G�! n d e1: rs_o nf. instantly transform ed i nto the s t a > r or N orwegi11 1 1 1 o f S' o u t l1 '\V o r l e o and stripes, and an historical pa Da k o t a ·, ,\_ _ G . Tbr pn1·pose of thi;.; f'C'nten nia l is to is the. g__ < ogru_p hic ee,11t r 1 of Erickson K J. ; Dakota North Twi11 lf' l t <l n a . AmPr1f'n of tJOn a 11?JJU tury cen past the depleting eant commPmorate in a11 i n i pressive m,1 11n0r 1t1es have Joni); l ll! Pll n•cogn i ze<l a s· a M ontana and Governor Whitfield of h istory o f Norse-American contrib t lw <'Y<'nts w h ich mark the beginni n� tlon to American clvillzation and cl nt<>r o f J\"or,;p a rt. 1Pa rning :1 nd c u l- 11 ississippi. of Korse emigration t o t h is continent Directors o f t h e celebration ex- vel o pmen t. L it f a nd to pa y a fi tting t ribu te to the Nor t re. The :\Iinnesot a I i�tori a l 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 persons, posfully that ct e P_ cunta i n:s t he la ro-<•i-t l'OllP<:tion of s1bly G 0 0 . 0 0 0, wtll attend the fourWf'gian pioneers of America. In thP In ry . .. . , lll . , , 11. 1 1· tei,a "tuie Amruca. day e vent-amon g t he many fol lo w rush of our present day life we fa i l to 1 •�o • e-Ame1 1· rn e r s a n d descendants of the o r iginal h0110r. as we shoulfl., (-hOfiC' plain. ea rn Norse-A.m ericans whose ranks i n Pst', O o< l-fca ri ng, modest, but :-tron� A merica now a r e swelled 1.o some 1111(! eou rn g·rous m eu nud women, who thing like 2 , 5 0 0. 0 0 0. d i , l ,-.:o much ·for t heir.: rlecPnclants n ncl Besides the participati o n of Pres i dent Coo l i dge and Secretary Kellogg, th<' lit 111l. of the i r adopt ion. U n i ted States has f u rther recthe "\\'(' r·atmot honor too highly the Xor • ognized the importanc.e of this cen wegia u pimwC'rs of A merica. The ::0 r by co ngressional authoriza tennial v irN1 thf•y renderer! a re of inestimn hh• tion of special Norse-America n cen ral1 1 e a rn l i mport an1 ·P. 'l' hey WPl'<· tennial postage stamps 1 1 1 a moug the foremost in <·011quering t lw 01·s and the m i n ting· of 4 0 . 0 0 0 com • e s i l ver medals at the m w i lrlPl'UN::s, in chwelopi1111: i t i n to one o i: P h i l adel phia m i n t. 'l'his -is the f i rst t hC' rno,;t pi•osperon;.;, mo,;t progre;;;; i rP time in America's h istory that such rpgion,; or the worlrl. "\Y ith cea-:elP"'" a comm emorative m edal has been toil H 1Hl saer iiice the�, J 1elpP1l to rush p,u thorizccl by congress. the frontH•r� of civil izn tion from tlw Secretary of the Navy Wilbur has G J'Pll t La kp,.; to t he Pa<'ifir: a111l hy promiRed to send the g !ant dirig i b l e · 1 h<'i l' u·hole-hc·a rtNl lovn l t :r 1 < t hri t· a d npt1•1 l coun t ry, helpe<l w�fl"I'() t he Union <fU I'· i n g t he CiYil \,a T. 1 By rememberi ng t he noble work : don<' hy our f:1thP1',; W<' shall be in;.;t1i 1•- I eel w i th grea t e r :6eal to 1,rove otui:;(•lvt •;; \ worthy of bei n g tlwir d 1 i l d re u ! iy clea n lh-iug, h? u,seful work for our < ·orn mu n i ty a ncl om· coun1 ry. 11tr <"!c ..kr tW!s.)" Timet t ion ORWEGIANS To HOLD t ORSE -AMERICAN FESTIVAL 0 BE HELD 'NEX'l1-�MONT ? ��tt I "' �Lake WEL T .. r<1 1h1 l l.2, "...: ;� CEN T E N N IAL TO B E GRE A T C E LE BRA TIO N l l "TO BE H E L D AT M I N N ES O TA STATE FAI R G RO U N D S O N J U N E 6, 7, 8. est��:\��:: ;� t�' i:: ;�: !a�� og:-�:: globe, numbering citizens f rom e v1;:ry I nd, should be much interested in the No�!lloJ.:.WJ.liii1,1iii.J,i..,/;iiii11t.lilli,i11-,lllillloli..at the State F'ail' Grounds , Sunday, M onday, and Tuesd ay, June 7, 8, and 9 . A thousand yea rs ago Raro1d Haarfa&"er, one of the kings of Norway, went t o war t o try t o unite the many small principalities of the country into o ne kingd om under his rule, Haar!'ag e r, , �eing tran s lated, means " fairheaded," and he su�ceed ed in his aim. M-any ruie1•3 depose d from their kingdoms ,migrate d fro m the country and sailed away to Icel and, with their ' goods, chattels and retainers. ' A, hun d red years ago a v e ry diffe rent migration from Norway to Amer- ,I ica took place. A s ma l l sl oop c o n- , talning fifty-three passengers s e ttled i11 the state of New York, becoming I tl e first Norwegian settle ment o f any size and uote. There had been many Nors€men landing ,at variou s tim e3 on our shores, and the Lief Erickson i s given the honor of the first landing known in hiSto ry. It is to celebrate t he coming of the sloop "Restoration" and the beginning of the first perma nent settlement or Norwegians in this country in 1825 that this celebration is ,stage d. The president of the United State3 •a nd tq.e P1'emier of Canada will attend. "fha University choir from Norway will sing, there will be an Mstorical I pageant. and a peasant wed d ing in I costume, as well as a. rather remark1 able ·exhibit of pictures, furniture , brass and copr,e1· ware and hand 1 woven articles. 1 0 )l () d Q r u e l'HURSD,t' i. ... <::k "> V . Mi l"l . · - ..- THE NORSE-AMERIC CENTENNIAL (The Duluth Herald) This at the Minneso in St. Paul, opening une an c n tinuing for four days . All persons of Nowegian b i rth or extraction a re in vited t o participate a nd all others are wel come guests . It is, in a way an intern ation al a ffair because C�na dian s and Americans of this good stock h ave joined h and s in the o-ra n d reunio11, and Norway and Ic7iland will t a ke part. It is to be a celelfration of activi ties of the men and women of Norway in . the l ast hundred years in helping build up North America north of the Ri o Grande. I t wil l make not able the co.m ing of the good hip Restoration, the M ayflower of the NortlJ, � s mall sloop of forty-five tons, with t11e nrst organized p arty of No rwegian emigrants to thi s country in 1825. A special center of Norwegian l i fe fi- A .. . Hfflll �,'---�'"""'------------� · ? Fi ,,'-'--'----$=�·=Q;;;_ " � iirh::1r:1:ff�its��:1�>\:��!�� I � aNT R I BU TI a N S Of NO R S E M EN beeause an i mp o rtant percentage of I her people h ave their r a cial origin on the wes tern s ide of the Sc andin avian penin s ul a . s It is n ow well settled that a thout e a1 a d f,�� vi11�;�s f�d fa�:s 1� � r:e�;l ��:;, a n American isl and-continent, notw w i thst anding the rigors of i ts cli mate, alth o ugh there is reason to believe that the climate of that isl and By Dr. C 1 , G. 0 . HANSEN was more m oder ate at th at time than now . In view of th e Norse settle- Editor Mint'Ye apol is Daglig Ti<lende (Written for The United Press) men.t s i n I cel and a u d Greenl and, the ST. PAUL, M i nn.-The Norse close proxi mity of the American co ast and the s kill of these Vikings on sea, American centen nial has as its it woul d be far more rem arkabl e i f purpose to review the fruits o f these m arines h ad n ot s een and visit- the labors performed by immi ed Americ a n coasts than if they had grants frsm No rway on American done s o. A few hanrs' s ail from their soil during the past 1 00 years. The Norse contingent of our vill age i n Greenl and woul d bring them i n s i ght of Americ an conti p opulati on has beel:l;. a'rnong the virforem o,st pi oneers in many states, nent al shores. Indeed, there i s Piotu al ly no donbt that they did visit as especially the middlewe st. is a racial characteristic. neering far south as Mas sach usetts . 1 T he governors of s ix st ates are of Norway taught its sons and daugh Norwegian origi n, and al l of these, ters t o be hardy. Th e first eqiigrant- ship Restaur headed by Governor Theod o re C hristian son, who is of Norse descent, are ationem, left Stavanger, N orway, July 4, 1825, with 52 people on present. be ta expected An import ant feature i s to be a board, and arrived a'.t New York, whQ Octo ber 9, • 1825, with 53 persons, speech by President Coolidge, comes to distinguis h h is fellow citi one having· been born on the voy o rigin. age. zen s o f Nors e a nces try and 2,000,000 Now in U . S . In addition h igh officials from C a n aEleven years elapsed befo re anda, Norw ay and I celand will h on o r other imigrant ·ship left Norway the occasion with their presence. Norwegians are a pionering race. for America, but since that time, This qu al ity h as served them well Norway has sent to this country in North America. It led them t o a ste_a dy stream of immigran1 to as o O h OO 0 :�1c�h�� h�; :�ew ii�� :,):::� kr��g �e �e!ti��" �� half of them have gone t.-0 the prosperity. Americans of other s tocks eactend Great Beyond, · but they still · nurnthis on be r, together with their descend' to Norsemen a w arm h and occ asion and wish them prosperity ants, at least 2, 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 . The centennial is an event, an d h appiness for many more µun_______"II which many other immigrant races ·ed s of year s . might duplicate. It presents one of the potent links in that great chain of events, which has made I American history. The immigrants have played an important p�rt in the lJPbuilding of our country. The Norwegian-AmerirAAs, wish by mea� of tte c@hnial to emphasize 111:eir part in America's I making. They do ; not wish to forget Norway. They cannot forget the. stern l esson,s she taught them . Official recogniti o n is given the ce ntennial by the ·g overnment of Norway and its representatives are present, bringing greetings, telling of the great pride, the peo ple of Norway take_ in the accom plishments of their kinfolk in America. Many have said that Norwegians are more easily ass imilated ·nt the scheme of things in Am� ca - in�migrant�, than, other _ . The s ons and d aughters of Nor way a 1d their offsprings celebrate ,this event and simply wish to say : "Here are our contributi ons to the making of America. " TO AM [RI CA H a w N AT G [NT[ � N I AL NO E I NG . H [ L D I N TW IN· G I l I Es t:��l!!�:. �o 10. C O lJ R =�.Q.!DL-1.J..LD,Ji.,_2,!Ll.925. CENTEN NIAL --, {L 9 1 8 2 5 ' the ship Resta utiou en . fl,1'.rive was . � h_e, firs t in Ame a bri ing 53 Norw eg ilj.ns, }'his to the Umte c o rga1J izecl group o emigr ate from Norw ay wave It mark ed the first low wasl1 of a great tate� <:)f Norweg ian imm igration which foll�wed . . . , [ It i\ in honor of the one-hu ndred.h anm�e1sary � eapohs tlie event that Preside nt Cooli d ge went to M1n?, N� to be presen t at t.he Norse-A merican Centen nial. • g 0r , s mall portion of the dev _ . of N o1 t h e north western st.ates is due to t he efforts r te wegians or descend ants of Non;em cn. And no be � r i ca. class of people ever sought a new home in Ame . They had with i n them the sp irit of A� erican ism be-for : . t.> t hey came to the neVf 1a1;d and adap t1!1g themse �� es , f t h e new environ ment involve d no r a di cal a ltera,.� on ? vicw1:, or habits. They may take a j ustifiab le pride m exhibit i ng what has bee11 achieved hy them i n the dC velop111ent of a section of the U nited Sta tes w here the mass of t hem is settled. '"ne pageant porti·ayi ng a composi te picture of the part layed by Norseme n in the settleme nt of \�i e North west will' b e presented: . The event also p ro'vides the ,o.p port1p1ity for a great reunio_n o f those American s whO' have ', an ancestry dating back to Norway. Tl� a t ti1e;1 hike pricl J in their origin dO!:JS· not necessari ly l m a;k e ' tllcrn • an(Y t,11.9. lE;SS . American i n spirit or the le� s . . dev0ted to. our · iu stitutious. It has been to the pro!i.t A1�i eri�ll. t'liat so1 .roany,�pr wegians 1:,ougl,1-t homy s here: as wel l as profit to the former immigrant s themselve:; . or • I. - Text of President's Aadress; Pays Tr�Jute .to Norse in U. S . STA TE FAIR GROUNl)S, Miwn., June 8.-Ji!ollowing is ✓the text in full of President C-Ooli.dge's ruldi·ess at the Nori/Jegia:n ()entennial Cete ora,tion : How often in the affail'S of this world a small and apparently insignifi :ant occurrence turns out to be an ,vent of great importance, carrying in ts train a m ighty influence for good or avil l Such importance always flows from the character of those concerned. rhe generations of the earth treasure the rude hut that sheltered the in fancy of Abraham Lincoln, seek out the birthplace of Shakespeare and give to the uninviting soil of Palestine the title of the Holy Land, all because cer tain obscure happenings in those places produced those who left a broad mark upon the future course of humanity. The character of the lJlll'· tlc ipants brought future fame. It is such an event that we meet to commemorate to-day. Ol'le hundred years ago a little bark :;ailed from Norway to America. It was almost unnoticed at the time, save for the daring and hardihood of its navigators, but it brought with it the representa tives of a stalwart race, men and women of fixed determination, endur ing courage and high character, who were to draw in their retinue a long line of their •fellow countrymen destined to change the face of an area broad as an empire, direct the historic course of sovereign states and con tribute to the salvation of a great na tion. These m i ghty works have been wro ught because those Norwegian im m i grants were well worthy to follow in the wake of the pilgrim and cavalier. This celebration is most happily identified with the present year, which is an anniversary of notable events in the history of our country. We are rounding out a century and a half fron1 the beginning of the American Revolution. It was half a century from the days of Concord and Lexing ton to the beginning of that stream of immigration from Norway, which was to help guaranty that the spirit of freedom which had been so triumphant in the colonies should not be lost to the states. When we consider the astonishing number of immigrants which the Scan dinavian countries have contributed in proportion to their own population to making the body of American citizen ship, we will appreciate the signifi canc� of this anniversar7.. It well de serves the consideration 1t is receiving here in this state, which has more rich ly profited by a large proportion of this north- of-Europe immigration than any other commonwealth. Minnesota would not be Minnesota, the group of im perial northwestern states would not be what they are, but for the contribu tion that has been made to them by the Scandinavian countries. Because of a profound appreciation of that contribution and of its truly national value I have found it an especial pleasure to come here and join in this commemoration. In the midst of loyalt.i es that are all beyond possibi lity of question it may be diffi cult to choose among the many national and racial grou ps that have sought out America for their home and country. We are thankful for all of them, and yet more thankful that the experiment of their common citizenship has been so magnificently justified in its results. If one were seeking proof of a basic brotherhood among all races of men, if one wel'e to challenge the riddle of Babel in support of asp irations for a unity capable of assuring peace to the nations, in sueh an inquiry I suppose no better testimony cou-ld be taken than the experience of this country. Out of the confusion of tongues, the conflict of traditions, the variations of historical setting, the vast differences in talents and tastes there has been evolved a spiritual union accompanied by a range of capacity and genius which marks this nation for a pre eminent destiny. The Ame rican people have commanded the respect of the world. �J I u:u ne TO wfiat:-..., We 6Xpress' to -niem unr -g-r.u· they have c ontributed to the develo1nne11t. 0 a\�!\,�� f!�iit\n��of� �Jlf{t'. c\'fst��u�!h�i: tl 1 e _ 001;1• ored by reason of tlte factb�that l1eld w1tb.1n templatf' •l celebration will 0,p-prove of this. st:.te a nd that we heartily State Minnc!>Ota, the on d hel r -in� the same ., 0 Fo.fe �l �1he";-"'ii.esolved, that inasmu ch a_ass stat� this c el_ebntion will be held 11m our 10 s '�.�t1�•brf ·t1;: t1:-\te� sf:t:.:; �;�\• ::i�· a�d the uer n -pre th1 the governor ,:ene�al. . 1 1 0 �v�;-,;��.';,��\11� �t�J� �tnf. �h� n::t•t�; 1 ·Ing aud the peoJJI.• of Norway : the JJ>,mate .cor-'lia.l 1!'· • nd the )leo1,te o f Icela nd, .• most m tho s:ud Titation . to attend and 1,arhc11,at· ce1obratwn. . r �ltit·<'? . 1 11; ,rn�. n T I H' huu,,0 J"N<olut,1o : ,t,, r<.e111·,,:s011 ta1lvc' I ,. i\ . \\ i l ldns'.-'n. _h. '\\" , Tr i t chcc,cl, . Y. A . G rc·c n , 0 "\ \ • h.CJl · slii��\>mtlon of Hcp rcscn1 n t iYc 1\ ' ilkin o<on 1 lic ru l•'� were rsu,sp,:, nde<l and tlw ,re solu tion w,, s 1 ,u:,sf'd 1rn:1 nimou:;l) . _ _ •·~- - tl1� House Resolution Exten ds Invi tation to Centennial A reso l ution exlencling congratulations to tho :Norse- Americ an citizens or ' thio •state , t hat th e N"orse A111e1:Jc an 1 • " Cente nnial , i:; to be held in tho '!.'win , Cities fn Sune . and exten ding' peop le of ihe Domi 111<m olr Ca11a to · the d<1, L1,6 gove rnme nt an<.! th!,) IJCOlJ le of 'Nul'• way a cord ial invit ation 1o atten d a_nd part�cipate in this celebra• tion, was introduced irt the hous day hy Repr esent ative s R. A . e Tues Wilkin son , Lake Elmp; R vV. Hitcli c ock I.Jing, and . l!'. A. Green, S�ephe1 ' Hib� 1. Leach Exte s City's lnvita on for Norse · Fete NORSE CENTENNIAL (;ETS STATE BACKING , Mayor Offer� Every Fa�ility to Entertam Centennial \ • Guests. tf ouse Rei-;olu tinn Gives Official ! ' Re cognitio n of Jubilee Mayor Leach Tuesday issued a state ment extending a general invitation to Senate to Act OUlcta l 1 ecogmt ion toda} is gin•n J.,y ;fhe lower house of the ::\Irnesota Legisuature to the Norse.A merican centenS J ia l to lJe conducte d ill ::winneso ht in J une, 19:l3. Resolutlon s adopteu b , the house coii f,;'l'atulat e t he Norse•Arn ei·ican c i t izens of the 1;tate and e xtend iin-itation s to 0.t tend the celebration on beh alf of t he 1:;tate. Similiar rnsolution s a re to be ]) re �ented to ihe senate. The resolut ion rea<:Is : Whereas, tl1e Y.'ar 1925 m-:trks the 100th n o ��i\it1:.?�z::'J :f iheNc;;,_� llllf_ of the Norwegian sloop "Restaurationen" ": Juch broug)lt . the first large group o f Norweg-1an 1mrn�g1ants to our s hores i and, ration of this event �•reas, m commemo a :co��r:a,��o; b!1ti� ��1r:f\;"t��n��.�!! of this c�untry, to be held o n the �mericans n • s F Grounds, June .6. 7, B a;3 3 it�. ;�1� : :-'n';i , Whe"'as. Minnesota. has a larger number f �taf.6''f�l rl ;;'1�1;c�g!1��lnt1.!1taih:.·:t 1l!�1� the har�sh,_JJ• of frontier settlements }�a.ved m u 1 0 ti,! �t ·a.\;':K�\ �1 oi,'.'-Ys"tat��ooJP aJxr1�� Pl'!-yecl an important part i n trft,nsfoi,ning 0 e �.)li1.��s .°l�"�n� �}hl'i,; t;��t o n most progreesive sec tio ns of our lfreat coun-t�e an!ve ?11'Li1';:ui �� tlifii;;n :,,'i��";' di:'snt! sturdy industi· ious a nd frugal i:,-0ple: 1,ave e u i !� ;0 �;t/:ri';;1�.'tt� ;; t�.�··��i�l� nent \n educ ationa Jines, ir,._s n science, in art t• u n :��tr�, bj ;g0v"e !u'.1,t;;,•;,1,o��"'ii1�m��l�� to be_ J?Ublic spirited and most loyal Amari: 1.d oa.�'.;-:C�!�� ;0�� •�•,te will, by reason of this <lelebratio11, be v1s1ted by tho.usa,nds of peon thi• pa.,·t of the ��thw1:c°s /��o•w. t�;!:e/itt . Bo Is Resolved. by the house of re prese ntaf s �0-:-,�';, r�fni�• tf!t�..: .��%e �� · c��esrr':..et�,t!� hons to our N�rse•An:-.... nc�_ni.: ...��tize:!ls ; tpat f:',i:r:.:w;;i;, t� ::t. M�!l' �t:J:f /:r!. � I ,._ ,._ ;:,-c. Paul, M'111n. SUNDAY, J p· �r-r p r�f;S ..- ,, 1 ,;.J LSON GR�ETS NORSE � -�O n beh a lf of 300,000 citizen11 of St. P a u l , I extend a hearty a n d sincere welcome to those who_ ;1 re o u r g ue�ts at the N o rse - Am erican centen n i a l , . J un � 6 tg JI - .guat pr1".11�ge �...-.i.--•--i'-• to have the honor of enterta i n i ng the m a n y thousands of persons N orway, who a re here from Canada a n d a l l p a rts o f the U n i t de• the ed States. W e honor sccn d a nts of those h a rd y p i on eers who left t h e i r homes in N orway, sailed to A merica on the Restau rationen came t o the N orthwest a n d helped �rect cities that bear the ma rks of N o rweg i a n b ra i n a nd brawn a n d b ro u g h t wealth out of virgin p ra i r i e &oil. W e acknowledg e o u r d ebt to t hose men and women who b ro u g ht to M i n nesota with them t h e i r. strong v i rtues of i n d ustry, thr ift a n d good citizensh i p t h a t have g o n e i nto the m a k i n g o f t h i s state. W e want you t? p a rt ici pate i n a l l of t h e good t h i n g s that a s p l e n d i q comm ittee has prepared for you. P lease feel free to c a l l o n us f o r a n y t h i n g y o u m a y desire ; it w i l l be o u r p leasure to respond. A n d wh e n you depart we want y• u to hel t-hat yo�• a re welcom• i n St. P a u l any time you may w i sh to retu rn-w h i c h we aln cerely hope w i l l b "' llften . A R T H U R E.. N E LS O N , St. Pau1 TUE SD!' ', . M � y o,. the public to come to Minneapolis June 6 to 9, inclusive, to attend the NorseAm erican centennfal celebration "As mayor or Minneapolis I ha�e the honor and pleaiJure, through the cour tesy and co-operation of the press, of voicing the offi:ial invitation of �he people of this city to come and enJoy with us the programs and pageantry which will constitute the Norse-Ameri- pl'Oclamation inYiting the entire can centennial celebration to be held world to . the Korsc-American ccn here .on Sune 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1925, mark- tcnnial here in June. ing as .it does the 100th a11niversa1T of 1 St. Paul, the inYita.tion declares, 1 • an �vent dear to the heart of every 1 will str!Ye to pro,·e itself the ideal Norse ' descendant, and of historical imhost. '.!.' he proclamation follows: I porfance . to the coun _try at large," "The city of St. Paul joins wh0Je . Mayor Leach says in h is statement. l1eartedly in extending to the world "We are well equipped to handle a a cordial i nvitation to the celebration ' record-breaking' attendance in every which will commemorate the coming sense of the statement; we can satisfy of the Norsemen to this country 100 I every want our guests n1ay express. years ago. police . protection will be adequate to "St. Paul hopes and will ever striYc successfully cope with every possible to be the ideal host. With adequa situation-the . splendid personnel of the department will be constantly attentive facilities for the best of accomm a, tions, it is in a position to d thls. '.1-nd on the . 8:lert to be of general serV• St . Paul's people appreciate ti great ice to our v1s1tors; our natural resources honor that i s paid them by t e thou are especially dellghttul ; in tact, eyery facll!ty at OUL" command�and we have sands who will come from l points m any-will be freely and studiously of the globe to immortalize 1e hardy spirit of the Norse pioneers utll!zed for the entertainment 3.lid ben"It will be the aim. of thi e�t ?f those who ma:r share our hosextend e,·ery courtesy and to p1tahty. all possible comforts for the g s. "Come to Minneapolis and let us prove our contention that every MinIt will be the agreeable duty of y,!" nea.polis visitor is a Minneapolis booster omcials to protect the Yisitors and for the r The Norsein eYer)' way to make the occasion . Amer · cente11ni_al is be aged for one long; to be rememberecl by them." yo nd is decidedly worthy st hearty consideration and Wo rld Invited to ti-0rse Meet ing n u ""�Y f::!,� �;}�� . I �' ,:- 11 � , rl , Lutheran choir, wfiich thousands of you heard with such delight from this sam·'l radio studio a couple of weeks ago, the ,.,/ nationally famous Luther College ConY cert Band of 60 pieces, the St. Olaf Col lege Band, the excellent mixed choir':l from Concordia College, Moorhead, Wal dorf College, Forest City, Iowa ; Augns tana Col lege, Sioux Falls, S. D., the Augsburg Seminary Glee Club oe Min neapolis, and a male chorus of 500 or more voices from the Norwegian Sin;;ing Association of : � e r� ! RADIO SENDS CALL TO NATION TO VISIT N(!RSE CEiliNMA ---orwegians Here Rush Plans to Finish for , "Greatest Gathering in America in 1925" TRAFFIC HEADS ARRANGE TO HANDLE RECORD CROWD One-way Streets to Be Desig·nat ed-Poli ce Promise Every Courtesy to Visitors Norwegian s of .A merica, enterta ining the ent ire nation, regardless o f natio11 ality, in exhibits, addresses, stunts and fun, is tl\e cosmoJ)ol i tan progrnm fo r the Norse-A me rica n Centen n ial at the State ]'air grounds in .Tune, G\lS \" . Wollan, director of publicity for t h e cente n n ial , tolcl t h e world by radio i n a n address from WCC O . He issued a. general invilatiou l o "Ame1·icans all." And, to p1'0,·e that Xorwegians a t'e en titled to celebrate, an d to prove that the Cen t e n n ial ,vill be wol'th ,·isiting, he �aid 1.haL On the hundredth anniversary of Norse immigration, the North American conti nent has a greater Norse population tllan Norway itself. Twenty-two per cent of the population of the state is Norwegian. President Coolidge, the dirigible Los Angeles, a pageant with 1,000 characters, the greatest choirs and bands of Nor wegian churches and colleges, and ex hibits will help make it a great occa.... sion. The Centennial, while it is by Nor· wegia.ns, is for all Americans, as " we are Americans all." t"-- "Bygdelag·s" Starte!l i\fonment "Upton Sinclair, well known A mer ican . novelist, insc'ribecl his novel of the Ci vil " a r, 'Manassas,' with these words : 'That t h e men of this land may know the J1eritag·e that has come (lown 1.o tbem,' " M r. Woolan said last night. "It ,vas with such a. thought in mind t hat members of some of ihe 'Bygdl'! lags,' 01· Norse clans, several years ago began 1.o discuss the question of how most fittingly to commemorate the 100th ann iversary of the beginning of Norse immigration to America. They began to Jay plans, with the result that preparations today are rapidly nearing completion for what will undoubtedly be the greatest gathering in America in 1925, the Norse-American Centennial celebration and exposit10n at the Min nesota State Fair grounds from Sn.tur,J une 6, to Tuesday, J une 9, in• day, 1 elusive. "You all know about President Coo! idge's coming to make an address a t the celebration and lend official dignity and importance to this great event. You' ve heard about the navy's giant airship, the Los Angeles, coming, and a fleet of perhaps 50 army ai rplanes,. "You've been advised of the fact th,i.r.·, Norway is sending several of its fore most citizens as official representativc:s -1. hat Canada and Iceland will do like wise. You know that many quite pretentious 'music weeks' or festivals wlll I pale into insignitlcance as compared with the array of splendid musical or I gani:.mtions to be heard at the centen nial, including the famous Students' Chorus of 50 trained voices from. Nor way, the internationally famous St. Olar �1 1 le' -__,---,--. 1 i ' ITV. A1d « -:r =---_::_--==--- ..-,. - � .13otrme -aeaUs 13ody �:.{C.l. 1 :., _ l'..l� will mar k • , • - -The cent enn ial celebrationsary 'ot the \ _ the one hul\dredth ann iver :; L rl es loop R • ___. · s • qn 5 c sailing to America of theegian an s May - 1 • Q1 d _, tauratl onen, the "Norwthe start of. 0 _ 11' flower," whic h mar ked, the Umt \_ s • ed 0 to B t1on Q U) Norse immig;a e of U ni_ States. Professor Gisle Bothn ident of ___ pres ___ is p s F, a rl Y] ta, neso Min of ity vers . . 1' ' O n T r i h ' t or the I-f g ngin arra e � l • H ce eop • P l e the cent ral committeeon has progress\ '.£,f_,et . i• d 1 W i lly acati on !V p ies centennial. Organizati G o to ' ' V i the ll in ict \V distr y t -ever lly a ,. ed Into practica 111� ; L_ el , , •t S w arn p Sc o tt . Ii for the ob• • n orithwelit 1n preparation r,eg11i•,1t11. Ho u s e a Wom en's Auxil ia1·y to Be servanc e. th e S �n ate . k e a u u_mbe l ta An . be wil . J ul y, he_ ,,, ill .,,, , M arch .7. .- · , \ ea'-1 1 , 1n • J tme gin Ticket Sale, Make � WAS HIN GTON --- sictent1a, o f t rips nn t1 la te tn c pr h olu e th e on e I is h the r s. Lt1te . , First Plans exten d ed cruis p;ym \i u tll , Vts'tot\ tr e At . ".\1:1. S-H ·'H , skirtmg , . nP-- •\ to ower a1 yfl a be b M ht · yac to M ct,; :, as �i11e th � as far noY On� of the first steps i n preparation , .. ; � A��!-('��r �:� ,/- ,,0,; ,,<_f1, /f/.,-vi VVIJ J lantic coast p, e�: �� \ ,W n�i, 111 :;� 01� for the Minneapolis reception feature place _ amon_g e a es pi cele fo1 nial ccu centen i o an ✓ ns of the Norse-Americ a.:at1 on pla � � J Co olidge's y bration .w ill be taken at 1 p.m. Mon u ;�:e\; esit1 en� wi ll nsP /l�111��i;.� day, Feb. 23, when the women 's ai.tx- ' s r I/ iJ / Cl ').,e( iliary of the Norse Centen nial com- I . . to go to t1ie ro vos ott. !.t:5 _ n �; r � rn.,. If ou�e" nt s wam pfo1•Sc se1ect ,;h\�� ""' =� mltte� of Minnea polis meets at the l �-----�-I ---1-.--on� e a chMni,,:e rm ( tl Hi rens Nicolle t hotel to start advanc e sale of c ;� ": o, ne n . � nm 11 � , _co tt . �Hth sho re from the , tickets and other arrangementll . . C"AJR Sw [' G ROUNDS • presi<l ent ' nial, to be held at the tlie M ay t]ouws : i �t , • which theeIrn in 1-tt 1 The centen ' e SCENE OF co unl rv l1o grounds the week of June we Fair $tate n'. 1 ,;e\' cr a 1 ' spe [ to gather n ns t [pl • J , ;s expected to be the bigges A � gtt:-;t. i ,� T Julv ot· A u urr1tn gemen t s, in c1 u'.•tr1i.on. I BIG CEN ENN ini;- of any kind i n northwest histor'y, efin ite !1\1 av D ml • spe · n \ surpassing even tlle best years of the_ l Ii . t e l w l h 11 . i e ime t exnct . ! i� th� I Fo ur- D ay N o r s e Celeb rat10 11-�� Minne sota State ]!'air. It wi l t be a \ , as nn ., to 'er t1 et a ·1i hnve n ot bPc:>li ed worl_d event drawing up to a half roil' • <lecitl :,o and • ot h t h e pre�1t� 1 � n't has ent -Presid f une d or 1 <e B oo • ' , J e 1. States settl'e tl. bnt l ion persons from the United conun g s11m mc1 . \ Canada and the Scandinavian penin tl;at (l nr i ni::somthi� lidge to Att end Coo a t. ewh 1 0 l\ 1 ca ii i:el flx .1e 0f the ra et he 1 l1 a n sthan --sula. on nti v,1c ' ' c1 rn1� \ ,,v � J\'otables to Attend xte In com Th e No_rse-Americau Centennial, 1 . ikP :,l l-. Cool id!J:r Const itutio nal gover nmen t will be J m �moratmg the sailin g of the first im- m: a •\/ ��1 �rum iu oe r, l m cl e . t n ceni e rn n to America in \:�� ui· tni l e<l p r eve nr �n ly t nP::; the subject of the speech at the W t;w i. � m1gran�s from Norway or s ve tenia.l b y President Coolid ge, who H. 182 5, will be staged on the Minne sota ti ve pl a n �n g.f He b:1s ,111·actic·t1 .;ft ;i�1 k l'.rnP ge, :spri Coolid . ; to come with 1:lt'.:. State Fair Grounds, June 6, 7, 8 and 9. earl)" he "· il l n o t be ,lbl i to L�x d l Kellogg, H. H. Bryh n, Norwegian . minArrangements for the use of th e ,!hidee r-e1 eb rnt8nn�irhh f,, 1t1\s!�chuse t\s. others and , States d Unite the to committee ister grounds by the executive t�m n�id .0 ti,e coiwention of Ad· of the official family. Lord Byng·, gov Centennial were com- ing Norse the of l (l ot th e t\Yor o, ernor-general of Sanada, his wife: gova ple_ted at the last meeting of the State ;J�-�\�il�; c\;�ibs �l n,v . 1 1 (, l.o bod.1 Tex ., . �ton ernor s of gve n G>rthwcst states , and Farr Board. Uou ' te< 1 111 v . been col ns and h churc n, heh essma 10 grO'UP of congr The four-day celebration is expected " hic'h p.-eside u t. h'.""'� e;, \'ro_1 s?10� T he 1 lege leaders also are to atten d. r to bring hundr eds of th ousand s o:t t nkc a n umbe r of . t r ql:s • " ,J V Details anno unced today with the e to the Twi n Cities including Wn�h 1 ngt<>.11 e� 'i{ Ill e tll�t" 8t1�'.!��l�ri peopl daily e I United States 0 both prog-ress of definite plans includ of ials \g offic high nt alm pr �s•tJ. e,;t b 1 mc t 1 . 1��ut' musical programs by St. Olaf college and Norway. President Calvin Cool- t-i \ b a t th_e :� \n the tll e o1·; h·, '. 1 e1 � n b��;ib the executive com- hoir, Decora h college band an.d other informe� has id?e e e t e ir p1· s • � to ight a r 1rnv e e c �nationally know n organizatio ns; mo e, t h at t p opl m1ttee t_h at he w_rll be presen s • :l \ ly nt" d tn·c coin.e unforeseen nln. barring tion pictures of characters and event te celebration, im I n �lta tion s h e has t t connected witl;l. Norse history and ting plications. n i '\'t�� :i f depic t nt ��t� mi'gratlon ; a historic pagea Many big features are planned for r·�11 r,;ecle-:\ in ;,'. �; _the .�;lebrationtoof. \ Vikin g activi ties of 1,00 years ag·o and th_e four-day program. A big pageant No , B<>s n \ and nt, prese the 1�ukerhi1 1 Rt to up ry ted depic�in� the early �\�:r �� Nors e histo prese;11 be �111 1abb· , n t . th ; pro: s. te�s sport and anrl sest conte tic !), the J athel J une of the p10nee rs. Smgmg by hfe ll niver· Uie or c1ses xe1 on e · . � un e • Special Rail Rates m St. Olaf choir, unde r r,r,1tlu u ti Michiga d famous er worl : lat _ n : ' reCl'\.lc l sitv of Visito rs comin g, with specia 1n·csHle11t � present 1 - the direction of Prof. F. Melius Chris• \.cc ordin �" to• t h e ummer will there· • h ed ]fa!lroad rates, Includ e representa er Lut the by certs d con ban tianson · c ' a rts. Norl'h'.ns, q'1 m�� l ; i n t o t ln e� phing1 . tives of the 37 "bygdelags" or Luth, College band of Decorah, in addition e Was 1:e m ain in are \ wegian clans; 2,700 Norwegian features, big 1'.� t :� w \ vc other of . 1[ score a to �l e strut) ,lmini n nll ns ; other egatio 1 . 'di?:rn congr 1 �, h churc m eran n com a , to to b �mg plann ed by the progr t h recent ses81� Luthe ran organizations and branches;- m1ttee. w�rk left overancl y th e e prese nt srec 1,1l , of Norway; Norse . H. Hol stad, of Min neapolis is of Con gress \ Sons ai;td Daughters S' American Histo rical society; tJ:le Norsk , managing director for the Centen�ial Sang-e rforbund of .A:rnerica, includ ing His offices are at the Nicollet Hotel. • all Norwegian singin g societies on thep North American continent, and Bisho Lunde with an academic choir from Oslo, capitol of Norway. Every Norse-American college, semi . nary and academy in the Unite d S� tes and Canada will close its school year in time for' the centennial so that its ; musical and athletic organizations, teachers and students may atten d, it was anno_�n-�ed t ��ay. rai�11 i.i1 i CEN TEN NIA L FETE RECE PTION TO BE MAP PED FEB, 23 i ge 0•n J 'i-1� . /7 Ja . � . Pl ' f l er f M· ay s. t. -�-;, :i vr, To BE I. · J t ,, f > 0 l�t �? p, -�w� I a:� Ytfli e umm e r �� 01 forty-five tons, manned !JY J'Wy ! t l1 ree Norsemen wLo lelt . 1 hell' - --=--�===-"-'=""""�'llllli;;;::-- -- , fatherland 1 0 0 years . a g_o t lw; year to seek fortune in Amen ca . The centen nial is planned 1 . ') c: Dm ni cmorate the even ts of this � ! 1 �t 1.1i gration a n d to e lt logize thP 1\ �, c·, ·,,g i a n pioneers in Amerka . O tft1:1• , m char e are negoti a ting to m , : :l''.Jl' � _ 01 way's )articipal ion in t h a .:.. J ,ur a n o f!i 1 nature. RSE FESTI PLANS ARE MAD St. Olaf to Figure Prominently m Events of Centennial Program in June. Beginning with the St. Olaf com mencement and fiftieth am1iv ersary celebration at the college, June 4:6, followed by the festivities in the twm cities of the Norse-A!!:_e rican immigra tion centennial exposil'fon &lid ffl�, iltJ.i4)1J., June Gna't,uh[I I. I . L. £. C 9 and culminating in the biennial ;10eting of the Norwegian Lu_ther�n church of America, events of vital m terest to Americans of Norwegian birth or extraction are planned in Minne sota this year. The St. Olaf choir will give a con cert in the St. Paul auditorium on Tuesday evening, June 9, and the St. Olaf band has been invited to play the prelude and postlude at the singing of hymns during the English services to be held in the grandstand at the state fair grounds on Sunday, June 7, thus 'binging St. Olaf and Northfield in the foreground in the great centennial cel ebration of Norse immigration. The activities at St. Olaf will in clude the baccalaureate and dedica tion service on Thursday, June 4, tlie fiftieth anniversary program on June 5, and commencement on June 6. On Sunday, June 7, four religious -s ervices will be held under the aus pices of the Centennial. At the Nor wegian services, Dr. H. 'G. Stub, presi dent of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America will speak. President Coolidge will address the Young People's Luther League con vention on Monday, June 8 . Other ad dresses will be delivered by Bishop Lunde of Norway, L. S. Swenson, Unit ed States minister to Norway, Govern or Christia nson of Minneso ta and May or Leach of Minneapo lis. S. H. Holstad , Minneap olis business ma n and well known former resident of Northfie ld, is managi ng director 1)f the Centenn ial. FA J R Olaf to i;ee X ors<>-.l merkan l�xpositfon in . linnesot a. Haml ine, .M i nn . When ;'Jorw0;sians from all parts of 1.l1 e wor l d , come here f o r the Norse-A merh:an I Centenn ial t. hey wiJl see tl1G 1,t,wy or f the little sloop Restau ra.n tion"n d e , pictecl in pageant. She wa:, a ns .� �el I ' - ,, '1:/V'is .. New� SATURDAY. MARCH 21, 1 925 ;�_YAINJ{EE C EN�(N I A L /4N JUNE 6, 7, 8i Norse Centennial at St. Paul Commemoration of Landing in Amer ica of First Norwegian Emigrants Will Be Celebrated. One of the biggest celebrations the Northwe3t has ever attempted will be the one at St. Paul June 6, 7, 8 , 9, commemorating the 1 00th i !1 I of the land (11g anniversary America of the first Norwegian emi- 1 The sloop Restoration left I grants. Stavanger July 4, 1 8 25, with 53 men, women and children, and land ed in New York October 9th, after a voyage lasting more than three The sloop was a little 45 months. ton sailing ve::;sel which attracted considerable attention after its ar rival, the emigrants being hale and hearty after the long experience on These pioneers settled the ocean. in Kendall town on the south shore of Lake Ontario, establishing the 1 first Norwegian colony in America. The President· and Mrs. Coolidge will be guests of the Norsemen, making their first trip west to at tend the celebration. Constitutional government will likely be the sub ject of the !'resident's .address. The progress of Norwegians in America will be illustrated by an exposition, which will contain every thing pertaining to achievements attained by the hardy and indus trious Norsemen since the little boatload· of emigrants arrived a Among other hundred years ago. displays, an Ashland man is direct ing the National ski exhibit which will include a miniature ski hill to be enlivened by numerous Ashland spruce, effecting a naturnl Iandsc�pe in the Northwoods, an attractive display sign giving this information to the thousands of vi�itors. Wm See Story of Coming v • d in D ep:tde Pageant Celebratiion TO Be Carrim ed On At State Fair Grounds St. Paul-Mi nneapol ir. , March 24. Minnesota will lJe host t.o Norweg• :�n.-, from all parts of the woricl at tnr Norse-American Centennial of the _ United Rtates and Canalla at the Mm nesota State Fair grounds ii.t Ham line Minn. , June G, 7, and • '\m The Cer1 teui1 ia! is design memornt� the events. whic1, tl: e begi nning of Norse em igratit, . t,, t�rn continent, and to eulogize the Nor wegia n pioneers of America . Descendants of tlrnt doughty band of 5,G Norsemen, who left the father land lOO years ago 1 o seek [ortnne in the new country, "Americ.a," will see the story of the little sloop, "Restau antionen," d e pi cted in pnµ·eant. 'The "Re staurantion en,'' a veBsel of 4 5 tons, taking the winrl in its te� t'.1 , responded to t h e adventurous sp:nt of the Vikings and battled its way to New York, arriving there October !J, is.2•5 , four months after it started. T� clay, descendants of these same Vi kings can make the trip in a week. Officials' in char gc1 of the centennial activities in the twin cities are nego. tiating through Consul Lauritz Swen son at Oslo, (Christiania ) , to ma �e Norway's parti cipation in the :ciffair of an official nr>ture. which ·would mean that Crown Prince Olaf wo,,lcl represent Norway at u, ,, expos (tion. Because of the signific,mce of tlie Centennial, it is becoming interna tional in its scope, Twin Cities No,· wegfa ns say. IccJancl will be represented hy the Primate and Norwa.y will send the State Mi litary band , referred to as "The King's Own Band," officials an nounced. It remains onlv for the assembly of the legislative bod:v to give official sancti�n to Prince Ola.f to ·narti.cipate in the celehrfltion. Ir�porters and Pxporti'l's are ar- ra1wi no- for flxhil.lition space :rn d Lhn sev:ral Bygrlelags, composed of for mer reRi<le�ts of towns in J';orway, and Norwegian societies will pl�ce exhibits in the Afl ministn1 tion hmld ing at the state fair gro11nds. ,whPrP I JI j 1 �the iientennial will he helrl . The ex hibits will represent goocls and toolR of early Norwegian hist ory anr1 phases of early l i fe O'. Norse emi grants in the North west. There 11 re 2701) Lntheran cbnrch congregations, lodges, Bygedelags anc1 other societies tll at h ave been given a ctive parts in the Cen tennial cele bration. Lutheran collei?;es of ihe northwest will furn ish musi. c and take charge of the rel igiou s services in the morning and eve11ing and i n the afternoon speeches w ill be made by m en prom in\"nt in international affairs . Officials of the exposition here fore. cast 0118 of the largest crowds ever gathered in the northwest because of the preponderance of Norr i0 peo,ile now living in th i s state, Wisconsin, N•orth and So11th Dakota and IVTon tana. The bttlk of the population in these states is of Norwegian cl escen1-. Many of the early settlem('nts were J made in thi,; vicinity anc1 the first N01·wegi:rn Lutheran chnrch i n Amer ica-a little log building begun in 1843 anrl completetl i:11 1845-still ex ists. The church, however, has been rem oved from Mm,k\"go, the oriisin a.l site, to St. Anthony Park. Minn., I ,vl wre it RtandR on the grounds of ......-1 u theran Seminary campus. ----c.r ,,,-r'.·l!. Minn. Yndel)endent Ft:HDAY, AP.R T L,. P, 1'425 th� I Sioux Falls, S. D., Press SUNDAY, MARCH 29. 1925 COOLIDGE IS COMING 60 IS KING HAAKON President Calvin Coolidge will speak at the Norse-American Cen tenial at the Minnesota State .B'afr Gtonnd· 1 Junth•��, .�oo- the local committee also informR UR that Kin g· Haakon of Norway has indicated that he will be present 1 dnring the occasion. Rail road;:; ann OlJnce a fal'e ancf one-th ird for t h e l'ourid t rip �Tune 4th to June 20th and t h e Omah a o ffi cial,; a(1,·iRe the local co·m mit tee t h at fileeping car reservations mar he made,, the cars to remain on the track dm·ing th e celebra tion and that berths m ay be Re cured for six nigltt for $5. The ad vance sale of tickets continues and those c1esfrin g to secure them should caU 1prornptl� on some , 1e committee. member of 1r , L_ riimous Norwegians Coming For Centen*nial Celebration di.splay at the Fair Ground s . The R estaurationen. together with the pi oneer party, will live· again in moving 'pictures which- will be shown during· s v th ! ;f: i��l�t��e program as outlined by the committees recen tly follows: 11 Saturday, Juno 6 Nationa l Conventions of Bygdelags of Pr e organizations. Addresses oth and primat the Crown Prince Olaf, . No rway, and Dr. Fritjof Nansen, the and M usic. Juno '1 Sunday, the famous explorer, wlll be among more rel igious or ur e s or Forenoon-Fo N the at Norway from guests kn own i A m;.,rlcan Celltennial o-l!l-""i!ffl!!'e""lt'l!Wf'l!n,,,;,"o'l'i""'1s;, Sermons by well and bands. choirs by :Music ,,. preache, of l) and 8 Hamllne, Minn., June 7, from I. Aftern >on-Repre.se ntatives this year, according to word rece ived bring greet- • "!' N p i7 ttd tm. ��M•wegian vic e Norway u.nd others willfrom Norway consul andchalrman of the Minnehaha ings. University choir 1 will sing. county centennial committee. Ad Short Festival, sic Evening-Mu Marking the beginning of the huge Norwegian emigration to this coun- dresses. Monday, June 8 t ry, tho sloop Restaurationen, often Forenoon and Afternoon-S hort adcalled the "Mayflower of the North," reached this country in 1 8 2 6 . This dresses concern ing activities of Norse year, descendants of the original men in ·America. Evening-Ad dress by the President group and of others who h�,.-e come since then, wlll join in the centennial of the United States. 'l'uesday, June 9 observance. Forenoon and Afternoon-Add resskccordi:lg to :present plans of the comm!ttee, the centennial will have es concerning Norse-American inst!tu a two-fold 1>urpose . It will mark the tions. Evening-Historical Pageant. beginning of Norse emigration to this S pecial features during the four continent and wi ll pay a tri.bute to will Include athletics, lectures, in days pioneers the work of the Norwegian exhibits and entertainments of an apdeveloping the great northwest. Wed Not less than 2, 710 0 Lutheran con- prop.rlate character. .A Peasant ) w lth costumes, gregations, the Norwegian colleges, ding ( Bondebryllu pwill the of one be seminaries and academies; the num- music and gam(\S erous Bygdelags, the Sons of Norwa:i, many interesting features. Committees have been a9po!nted by and other societies and organizations p lete p lans for are taking· an active part in prepara- N. O. Monserud to com attenda nce from MiI:\neh a.ha record a "-lions for the centennial. ls An exhibit of pictures, furniture, oour,ty. Hans A. Ustrud of Pierrethe tool s, !n.struments , wearing apparel stBJte chairman, and is organizing and other things connected with county committees, having named Norse-Amer ican history will be on mny chairmen recently. C rOWn P rI nee 01 af an d D f, N ansen E Xp0Ct 0 d F Or N Q rse Anniver sary; Commi ttee s Plan 1ter esti ng Exh i bi ts ,� ~lesv i JJe, VJ'is . 'R::!publica;1 -I URSD..:\Y� APlliL....L J925 �---'T,,__,I= ifimmestad Will Spea ,at Norse Centennia Dl'. L. M. Gimmest-ad, former presi-· dent of Gale College, a.nd now re�,idi n.g at Orfa i-cl ville, wH! be one of t, he prin cipa l speukerR1 at the grn-a,t Norse O e1•ican centen•n1i,al to he .h eld in St. Pa u lj i n Ju 1ffl. A Brodhead paper ha�1 thi;; announPe ment : Rev. D1·. L. M . Gimmes1t a d has been paid Pig·n.al honor the pas,t few day,:. in the an nouncement of tile program com mittee of the No.rf'!e•-Ameri-can Centen nial Oelebl'ation, that he ,had been unanimou�1l y ch\Osen to present thR n.d· d res,<>, giving a comiprehensive S' Urve·y of the history of the peop•le of Norwe gian, de&cent i n, th1i>'1 country. Dr. Gimmes,tiad is not unmi ndful o f t h e re�,pon,,;1 ibiil ity dev;olving· upon h i m i n .t,he preparation o f th-isi ,a dd ress, and while there are perh•a.ps few other Nor wegian l"oh.0 J.a 11s, i n Ame1ica who have a mo1•e g,enera J kn,owled<g,e on t he �ub ject th1an he, the tas k w i l l req uire an immense amount of studiy, beca use of the fact that it wHl form one of the historical documentRJ of Norse imrn i gra, tion to, America, and w.i 1 l th1us be pre served in l ibn.1. ries and other i nsititt1tions, of lea l'll i ng in thiilll n,ati on as well as in. No1'\vay. Those of us who kno-w D r. Gimme•• st.ad kno•w thiat his; work w.i ll be pro•• ductive of a mosit i nteresbin.g ,historical add,reP�. Th:iA office expects to be able I to put the ad•d'ress i 111to type before its del ivery, and! provide thie copies which the Doctor will be cal led• upon to fur nish ot her publ ioations as wel.1 as for ,historical• reference in insltitutions, and• we wiH therefo re be able to g,ive it to ou. r own readerR1 immed iately upon itf' elivery at t,he great celeb ration at St. aul and Minneapol is• n.e xt June . :'j �Glyndo n, l\Mnn., News THTTl>SDAV AOl>T• . 9. i°"' I t> LITTL E STORIES From In and Out of Town past. witn e ss the pageant of 160 y�ars of progress, a n d come home fee��:\ Norsemen and better Ame r- l A feature o! the Cenlenni:i.l wiil be In vai·ied exhibits in 22 depart ments, aR follows: )c,ionee-.: Iil". church, schools, farming, fJress, lit era tu1·e men in public service, art. charity' s.nd mutt.ml aid. women' s department, societies and org3,nlza tio ns, music. engineering an d s.1·ch� iteciure, trad e and commerce , Nor wegian ski sport in America, Lab0t', , Sb ns or Korway. Daughters o! Xor,va.y, men in t h e rnedical profesi:;io11, industrie>'I., bu i lders and ben efacton;, 1 Norse-Can adian ex hibits . PresidPn t Coolidge is to deliver an address on Jun e 8, on the occa- i sion ot "Governors' Night," when The opening day of the Norseheric1111 Centennial, to be held at state fair grounds on June 6th to 9th, inclusive: will be devoted to the Bygdelag meetings, who ate planning the biggest and best conventions in their history, most of them wrn ·conclude with a din?).er or banquet, ar.. rangernents being made for a large public reception Saturday evening by Gov. and Mrs. Theodore Christianson, of Minnesota, in the rotunda of Minnesota's wonderful state capitol in �- Paul. One of the most prom short address es wll1 be giYen by \ ising indications of the broadening of interest in the Centennial is con.. vlf:iti ng gover n oes ancl other highl of Korse birth or b lood. tained in the announs,ement just made that Minnesota's executive and his ofl'icln.lS" F.labc,rate music·al and athletic 1 estimable wife will be assisted in an·anging- for this reception by the ·St. I progra1ns are among the features ) and nt11nerou s other fea- , Paul Allied Women's organizations, comprising 52 different bodies, civic, !';<'hed11 l ecl. plan n ed. I professiona'l, politicai, social, religious �nd fraternal, and having a c·ombined 'tu1 es are -----membership of more than 10,000 women. A-.:!cording to present plans President Calvin Coolidge will give his Duluth. Minn .. News-Tribune address on Monday afternoon, June 8. Definite announcement as to the S.UNDAY~.AERIL 19. 1925 president's Jileasure as to the hour of pis address is still awaited from the White House. 'that evening will be "Governor's Night," when short ad dresses will ,be given by the visiting kovernors and other high officials of Norse birth or Mood. Word has been received · from Congressman 0. J. Kvale at Washington, that the U. S. treasury department has designated James Earle Frazier to ' design the Centennidl medal to be struck off at the Philadelphia mint. , Congress has authorized the minting of 40,0-00 of these m-e dals as souvenirs • of the Norse-American ,centennial celebration. Mr. Frazier also designed the Buffalo nickel, the Victory n' edal, the navy Distinguished Service cross, the Roosevelt Award medal and the John Erickson Monitor memoriai. U }U Th-e special Centennial postage stamp\, are expected to be printed $d_ •• placed on sale throughout .the country in the near future. The musical and athletic programs are rapidly ass uming definite form. Vast preparations, in which Arnold •Oss, famous University o{ Minnesota football star, as chairman I several hundred Duluth resi 1 of the athletic program committee, has been working hard to provide • dents are participating, are in schedule of athletic games, sports and races that not oll'ly will demonstrate prog s for the celebration of erican ce ary in the ability of Norse-American athletes but also interest th e general sport- the N Minneapolis in une, which will loving public. True to the traditions of the Norse race as a mu.sic-loving people, the commemorate the arrival in New musical program being arranged by H. Askeland, music chairman, and York of the little sloop Restaura his capa9le committee, promises , to be one of absolutely unrivaUed tionen, with 53 settlers from the excellenc·e in Norse-American hfatory. Centennial visitors are promised Norwegian homeland across thf the opportunity of hearing some of the world's best musical organization8 sea. '.!'h e flow of Norse imm;. gration to the United States i! , of their kind, as well as n oted individual artists. reckoned by Norwegian-Ameri 1 tennial which is to be held at cans as having begun on Oct. Mi nneapoli s, 1\1inn:, Jnne 6, 7. 8 and 1825, when the Restaurationen 9 and which fs to commemorat� the. � _ _ j?_ ..L_ �V � reached American shores. 100th an nlver�arv of �orse citizen '!'be main theme of the celebration, �hip In this collnt..ry. Chd s tian J. however, will be the building of the Larsell, �orwt'gian oonsot at Char-p {"2> _ • /. J-' {J-4,/ V ' American northwest by Norwegian to ei J ! ��! te n�:� n1;:� 1ee� d1��;;;�1rs� f��J I pioneers. That theme 'Will be the that th e cel eb-·a t(on " 111 be a natasubject of addresses and the motif l ·ble occasion is eyide n t from the of a great historical pageant, in elab?rate plans that are un der way. I which 500 persons_ will take part. C'1 /N I Its 1mporlance may be judge d l)y It will inspire more than 3,000 sing the fact that President Coo l idge is ers and musicians ,from the United ._ • to deliver an address, an<.1. that States, Canada and Norway. It v.-111 .-Con gress has authorized th e strik. be illustrated in a concrete way by exhjbils tracing the earliest beg1,n. ni.n gs of the Norse pioneer in Amer• t�:t such a ste p. The Ce ntennial celeic� to the place now occupied by his n he descendants in industry, in govern.. ment, in the arts and crafts. ��t�a c��t�:��;t�;�iub�1�: e lt is the pride o( t h e Norse-Amer h n o 1 es v ican . of today that his ancestors· dld �� J- w�� :� ;ogr�� !�fen t� not ·t;:.hoose to add to the congestion the first ot its ki n d in America. of eastern cities but instead ollowed ____ The event will take on the aspect \ tb·o uncertain _trail of the ftrapper of an elaborate review of 100 �·eJ.rf: an t e 1 Norse-American Centen ol Amedcan h istory as e xem11lified \ ��\h: w!�t T�! :��tef:::�l :�;�� in American citir.enship of Xorse nial to Be Held Next ancestry bratfon, its exhibits, its pageantry . It will be educational, inspiratio nal, and enterta!ning in and its great choruses will be a June the hlgh('st dl?gree. ''Frien ds a n d tribute to that far-seeing Norv.•egian 1.:elatives ." 1-e,a,18 an annou ncem en t. · who, ti::tie to Ms native • instincts, for ye,<irs. will flnd earh turnt;id his face toward the prairies. _,\_mf'rican citizens or N"orse d e!" - "parted h·e ion. n u e r re,· cent in A m erica a,·e keenl )' in ter- oth er in this great ested in the l\"orse-American cen - o ld memor:es. Jive again in th1> TH,lLNORSE - AMERICAN .CENTENNIAL the Norsemen Caravans to Bri gThous�nds to . Centenary at,Minnea�olis in June Week o f Pageantry Will o· -ep1·ct Bu"'d1 . U 'ng of Northwest,· • ' · tnc f ' D th Will Tak�e A1 Ct}Ve • part �.�. ,,n \ ,• ,/"'.• jt}Ofl. •- - ---- -�--- a I� I ' • I /�,=) a//../0- I s- 12, I =�: MINNEJ\f t'l}OLIS · ��!filt ��t{:t!�!�7�::�!;1!�� CELEBRATION I I �'The Norwegians Are Coming! "The Norse -American Centennial, Inc.," is housed in a new hotel in the city which so many Norse pionee,s found fair in the days when marsh grass waved ou the site o_f ite now famous flour mills. Behind the glass doors marl�ed by a huge yellow poster o f. a viking ship a score or more of volunteer workers do extra time each day in organizing the first great reunion of Norwegian citizens. Letter,s · come from remote farm houses on the Dakota prairies, where ''crystal sets'' have brought news of the centennial. - A. Norw egian jew eler ln a tiny inland villagil in Alaska wants permission to enter ex hibits of filigree jewelry f(l,shioued from native gold, together with a col lection of canes carved from a mastodon's bones. l\layor Georg·e Ji:. Leach of- Minneapolis offers a prize of $ 1 0 0 to the school children of Oslo .for the best model of a viking ship, • From the Red River valley, that agricultural paradise that joins Minnesota with the two Do.k ota:-s, , comes w9rd from farmers' clubs that , automobile caravans are being orimposing caravans of im 0 ganized, posing cars, whose sl ogan, "'.rb.e Norsemen Are Coming !" From the Sons of 1.:.eif the Lucky comes word that the invitation of the Minnesota -- state legislature to attend the Norse American centenary will be a,ccepted by a delegation. Commercial clubs from hundreds of cities between Chi cago and the Pacific coast have off ered their co-operation. Each mail bi·ings the name of another chorus to join the music festival, of another Norwegian college team eager to contend for honor.s in the athletic meets. In recognition of the nation-wide observance of the centenary, the fed eral government has authoril!led the issue of lipecial stamps, to be printed in two ·col ors, a 2-cent stamp bear ing the p'tcture of tho sloop Remaura , Uonen and a 5-cent stamp. decorated with a viking ship. • With the single exception of the $ 5 stamp, no other issue has ever used a die of two col ors, making the centennial stamp distinctive. A Norse-American cen tennial mo4el, the first commemora tive medal to be issued in the history of the mint, has -also been author ized by the government. It Will be designed by Earl Frazer. The sloop Resiaurationen, :f�ail l\t I tle sailing vessel that ,landed m New York a century ago, will occupy a prominent place in the pageant, the 1 speeche.s and the songs of the cele bration. Tales of the Restauration in's crossing have been told to five •enerations of Norse-American chil iren, and have lost nothing in the ,etelling. An account of the :N._orwegian A.m.erican historical narrative would be incomplete witi1out me11tion of picturesque Kleng Peerson, trail blazer for the first Norwegian ex pedition to the United States and for the first exodus of the early colon ists from the middle Atlantic .states to the western prairies. Kleng Peer son, also called Klehg Pederson and Person Hesthammer, did scout duty :l:or his countrymen three years be fore the sailing of the fam.ou.s little sloop vessel. In 1 8 2 1 he visited the United States with Knud Olson Eide. He returned to Norway in 1 8 U with such gl owing tales of broad, unten anted acres that the expedition of the next year was inspired. • After seeing the colony s-<1.fely planted in New York state, Kleng went roving again, and returned to the settlers of Orleans county with tal es of the broad, rolling prairies Federal Sta.mp Authorized. , I of Ill inois. y 1 3 6, mos· of t e - -_ Norwegians of the New York co1 ony hibit by Mrs. Oscar W. Bergh of Brookly n date back to the fifth cen had moved to the west and the NorSuch • typically Norwegian wegian center of population had been tury. definitely fixed in the middle western �ra!ts as lace making, Aaklaer em - I ro1 ery, wood carvmg, metal work 5t atcs. an� pottery will be displayed. Heroes 00 Lh·e Again. Kleng Peerson will again point the \ 'I h� part_ p laye � by th � �orse es a,t tlle American pioneer m the bmldmg of ., -•N _t O_ !'l" eener naetur the northwest will be reveale d in a Norse-America.if centenary. L,ars rare old stone mill for grinding flour, Larson and hi* sturdy countrymen which wa.s brought to Minnesota in I, will live again. Col. Hans Heg, com- 1 8 5 0 by Norse pioneers. This mander of the I•'iftn,enth ,iv1sconsin cursor of the largest flour millspre- , in I regiment of volunteers, a Civil war the world, t h e pride of regiment made up almost entirely of' consists of two large flat Minnesota , Norwegians, will once more carry; a frame to be moved by a stones on w heel. A into battle the flag that bore on one wagon whose so.lid wooden side the Red, White and Blue of were fashioned from a cross- wheels America and on the other the Red, of a log will also be shown. ,seclion lt was White and Blue of Norway. For on in this very wagon, according to "Norse-American day," the closing fessor Knut Gjerset, chairman Pro - ! · of the ' day of the gathering, the beloved exhibits committee, that young pio heroe9 and heroin:es of Norwegian neer and his prospeciivea bride once pioneer days will take part in a great made the journey from Deerfield to historical pageant in which the Nor-· McFarland, Wis.• to be married, the wegian love of the dramatic and the1 bride seated on a stout bolster picturesque will embell1sh the story hay. There are other exhibits • of that of frontier days. tell a story; stout homema de furniThe centenary will open on Sat- ture, delicate yellowed lace, ageles& urday, June 6, at the State Fai wood carving; and the story is one grounds, Minneapolis, with conven, of sturdy endeavor to win the best tions of the 32 Norwegian clans or with small advantages, to creat<,· en "Bygdelags." There will be a. re .. during beauty while laboring with ce12tion at �he state �apitol in st. primitive tool� amid, hard discour1 Pa,tl with six Norwegian gover � ors_ age rr.i.ents. It is _ hope� _that the ccn' and their wives in the receiving lme, t�nmal celebration will give to the Religious services on J une 7 wil: world a truer view of America. [ ta.lee on the aspects of a great music festival, when Norwegian choruses from Canada, Norway and Ble many 4 Norwegian colleges and singing so Ftannat'or '. N'. ·• .. cieties of the United States will com TUESDAY, APRIL "-----bine in the singing of hymns. Among the great ehoir11 to be heard in op.e n air recital are the "Academic Chor us" of 50 male voices from the University of Oslo. The guest list. of the celebration carries at its head ·· the names of President Coolidge and Mrs. Cool� idge, Prince Olaf of Norway, Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and 'T HE-- NORSE A.i\O}lUC AN CENMrs. Kellogg, Lord Byng, governor TEN N l AL, J UNE 6 'l'O l4 general of Canada, and Lady Byng; MacKenzie King, premier of ci:mada ; H . H . Brysn, Norwegian minist!)r to Arc you planning on taking a v:1the United States; Lawrence S. ';ation this summer? If so, plr1n to Swenson, American minister to No way; Bishop Johan Lunde of Oslo; .:ilrn it the first pa'.'t of J une and Kristine Bonnevie, Norway's greatest spend it in iVIiJ)..ll.e.:l.�.U... ¥m -wtH woman scientist, and delegations from the, Norwegian storthing and be able to cro,wd more events into from both houses of the American one w€·el, the-re than ever before in congress. v our life,, and more inspir::ttion, edu Coolidge to Speak. Au address- b1 President Coolidge c,, ticn and entertainment, too. will be tlie chief event of "America These are ,so-m e o-f tbe events that day," June 8. A living Norwegian flag, formed by 600 children of St. will take p.l ace between J u ne G and Paul, will at a signal transform it 14: self into the Stars and Stripes ·of Norse-American,"> America. It is characteristic of the The 2 , 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 Norwegian national attitude toward ir this coun•�ry will stn.ge an im women that the names of two women mem,e celebration, a hundred ye-ars' have · been chosen from,d;he list of speakers to appear on the same pro festiv�l, a t the Minnesota State Fair gram with President Coolidge. These ground•s June 6 , 7 , 8 and 9 . women are Kristine Bonnevie, the only woman to hold the rank of pro The Luther::m Young Peoples I fessor at the University of Oslo, and League will have its naitional con Hannah A strup Larsen, editor of the Scand.inavian-American Review, of VE-•n tion in Minneapolis from J u ne 6 New Yo;rk City. • .An athletic meet will be held in ' to 9 . The Womami Missionl'.rY Federa the new University of Minnesota Me morial Btadlum under the direction ' tion of the Lutheran Church meel,� o.t: Am.�3�. !59Cl.Cfil'.,__Jh_e summer , in St. Paul, June ! O to 1 2 . sport of Norway, will have a place � in the events. The No,rw.egian Lutheran Ch urch_ Modern Norse-Am erican art as re- I vealed in tho work of Jonas Lie and I of America ho-lds it::; bi-ennial con Karl Curen, Christian Midjo, Gil bert vention at the St. Paul Auclito-!'ium Risvold and Jorgcn Dreyer will share June 9 to 1 4 . interest among the exhibits with rare pieces of pictorial weaving, a Norse Here are ,some o f the GJ)ecial ::i.t art that is believed to antedate any tructions the Norne-American cele European tapestry work. Some of bration will offer : the pieces to be loan_ed for this ex- , I This Suffimer's Greatest Event I 'I �The Centennial will also be attendAm erican sentennial, which will be Red uced rnnroad fare to and ai; 'Th e Mlltncsoea sltlll!e �te!lil:1{111, eel by many other notabiables includ • / 1 from the 'fwin Cities-:;, fare ::tnd a June 6-9. It is announced as the la1" ing· the governors of Minnesota, 1 third. gest gathering to b� held in the Unit- , Wisconsin, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakcrta-all of whom f A n add ress by Pre;:;ident Coolidge eel States this year. Al of Norwegian descent. are Pr-0f. Gisl e Bothne, dean of the The attendance of several gov so many prominent in • '.ltional af Scanclina_vian department, University ernment offic,i�ls o.f national prom of Minesota, w110' is general chairman fairs will be in attendance a t the inence a.s Secretary of State Keiiogg of the Centeirnial committee returne d celebration. The Governor General 1 of Canada and his wife, L ord and -a nd Secretary ot the Navy Wil bur. recently from a trip in Canada with Lady Byng, have bee11 invited and M usic by tht/ .famous Academic i nformation that between 3 0 ,000 and will attend. I 60, 0 . 0 0 Norse-Canadians an d other Ca Choir of Oslo, Norway. . An elatorat e program of music, Rev. Lunde, Bishop of Oslo, Nor- na dians will attend the cele bration. various entertainments, an historical Presd dent Coolidge will a ddress the pageant, an d a host of ther things way, will bring greeting,s from Nor , o way to Norway's transplanted sons conclave on the afternoon of Mon day, / have bee1t planned. Th e celebration June 8, Six Governors-all of Norse a s a whole will 'be attended by hund and daughters. blood-will attend the same day. The Music by the world !a mous St. evening will be kn wn a "Governor's reds of thousands of people and win 9 s be undoubtedly the largest gathering Olaf Choir-,ancl by In1'.,ny other Night." T110se exp�cted to attend are : of its ki nd e ver held in America. But choir.:; and !).and s from our Nonveg Governor: The odore Christianso� of the managing committee of the Cen I i an-American 1scilool£ . Minnesota; oGveronr John J. E lam of tennia l is proparing accomodation s An immense exhibit o•f articles o f Wisconsin ; Governor Carl Gun derson for a l l the people th-at w i l l attend i n historical val ue t o Norwegian-Am- o f South Dakota; Governor J . E . Minneapolis a n d S t . Paul. Th e event is t o be financed solely Erickson of Montana and Governor H. erican history. I L. Whitfiield, Mississippi. through the sale of t ickets. I t is un The "living ff og" which will be Th e opening day, Saturday June 6, d erstood that ticke.t s are being sold compo:sed of 600 St. Paul IEC'hool will be devote d to the national con- at a reduction of fifty cents now but chil dren and will be fe?,tured i-n ve ntions of about 3 O"Bagdelags," or- t his privilege on advanced sales will connection with P1"esident Cool- ganizations of Norse immigrants an d be taken away and peopl e are in id0e's address. their decen dents from the .' various g�meral urge d to secure their tickets A historical pagoan t which w'll "bygds" or counties of Norway. Th ese $ soon as possible. picture the leading events in the 1 have memberships ran,g'ling form 300 j STTPERTOR WTS TELR history of Norse-American and C:i.- 1 to 5, 000 . ' FRIDa.Y, .l.'11a.Y 1, UHl61 , tapAntique Norse jew e lry, wov e n nadiau development. estry, musical furniture, instruments, According to the moot recent in 1 , ' a e n d 1 formation from Wa,s hington, the bi g ORSE PROGRAM _\ :�::::: ��{ �: :��;;i�� !:i:� !�� Navy di rigi ble airship, t h e "Lo,s An exposition. There wdll be 22 depart- , gele£, " Will come to the Twin Citie-s ments of exhibits, under th direction e : COMPLETE � for this celebri\_tion . .!Jt fleet of about of Dr, Knut Gjerset, curator of th, 1 es and 5 O a irplanes, of vario1!s useum of Luther College, D cora 1 � � t President Coolid ge and Dir[modc:s, are . also exp0cte·c1. igible Los Angel t Be T'.1ose a;·e only eome of the out e,• ,.,,- F' �n 'l . "", 77 !; . , 7o;.-naf at Min ne a _1JHJ_�_§_D�..::... A!'RIL -30,. 1925 standing feJ.tuces of thi3 g:re:it celebration. There :ne hu ndreds of MINNBAPOLIS-The program for othe:· a ttractions. Plan to take them TH E NORSE-Al\I E!RICAN the Centennial celebration at the L State Fair grounds June 6 to 9, is CENTEN in. Ticket s are $ 1 . 0 0 per perison, practically complete. The program committee expects to publish the pro P.n d can be bought at Aurest'.ld Bros. gram soon. ial n The Nors e-Am erican· Cente & Troseth'G sto re. Even tiloueil you 'r hat President Coolidge will attend ta s Minne the at held b will e the Centennial and deliver an a-d do· not intend to go, buy a ticket which groun ds in e arly J ne dress June 8 is assured. Frank B. wort:1y cause. Sltate Fair a nanco fi he,lp so and secretary of state, and Sena- I Kellogg, nd s tation I has out done all expec tor Peter Norbeck, South Dakota, FJve1 thougb you m'.ly no� i.Je of promise s to be an unecli psed eve in will also make brief addresses June 8. descer..t U-,is ovent will world celebr ative history . I Nor' •egi:?. n Senator Henrik Shipstead will pre side at this session and there will be I b e of i!lterest to you. I t is of naOlffici al recogn itio � has been iven I music by bands from Luther college, Decorah, Iowa, anji St. Olaf college, tion� l importan ce. It is not so much the event by th e Dinted State � gov Northfield. govern ents, a Norw egian celebrati on ,as an An!- ernme nt, sev€ral state • A "l!ving flag" by 420 St. Paul 1 and by the Domi nion of Can fia , as school children, showing the Nor eric::m one. --- ---- -wegian flag, which w!lI unfold into well as by the King·dom of 1 orway. the Stars and Stripes, will be a fea SWEE'.ri-:TA TEI;,, T!�X.. fiEPOTI TEH 'T he United States government has ture. AP.i.aL .29, rn.25 al t posi rniaI Cente1 l specia is�ued An historical pageant participated sale on be wil! these in by more than 1,000 per-sons, w!ll stamps and be the concluding feature of June 9. soon. This will depict in tablea m��his President Calvin Coolidge has ac tory of the �PCRft 1ww·a !f'fffs ?, nd their descenaants and their contribu cepted the invitia tion to attend the tion to American development dur Cente nnial and to speak . Mrs. Cool ,ing the 100 years since the beginning of Norse i mmigration to this coun idge will also attend . The presen c0 try. Visitors Expected to At of the Presid ent is taken to mean Los Ang,eles Com i n g. orse-American CentenThe dirigible Los Angeles will be that he will be attended by his of here for the Centennial and the air Kel nial At St. Paul B. F. fic ial family , includ ing derby being planned by the 109th I log•g·, secrea,1;y..-of st.ate, and H i s � x Aero squadron at the Wold-Cham- 1 air fie).d. By Unite d Pres. ccllenc y, H. H. Bryhn , t he Norwegian berlain 'r he musical program of th.e Cen ST. PAUL, Minn., Ali)iril 29.-From l\'linister to the Unite d States . tennial will include the famous aca 250 ,00 0 to 500 ,000 out of the city visi The Royal Famil y of Norw ay, iL is demic choir of 50 voices from Oslo, Norwav. on its first American tour; I tors 3Z!ill.'tl��tet:l,.tlU\.�nc1 t$. J:fo.1'8'e· under stood , will be hei·e to celebrate the event. I NEAR - I I I �theinternationally famous 'S( Olaf Lutheran choir, the St. Olaf band, the Luther college band, the choirs from Concordia coUege, M oorhead ; Augustana college, Sioux Falls, S. D. ; Waldorf college, Forest City, Iowa ; the Augsburg seminary Glee <\,'lb, Minneapolis, and a massed i :ale chorus of 5 0 0 voices from the Norwegian Singers' Association of America. There also will be s everal well known Norse-American soioists, vocal and instrumenta).. 'l"he exposition will have 22 differ ent departments of exhibits, includ ing special exhibits by the state of Minnesota, for which the recent leg islature appropriated $10,000 and a large exhibit from Canada. The section devoted to pioneer llfe will be most varied and will visual ize the growth and development pf the Northwest and Middle West dur ing the pa.st century. Norse Artists Exh ibit. The fine arts and crafts exhibits will also be of educational value. There will be two exhibits of pa.lnt ings and sculpture, one a loan ex hibit the other a competitive exhiblt for Norse-American artists. In the loan exhibit will be shown masterpieces by noted painters of Norse birth or ancestry. The department of antiques and relics promises to be one of the larg ei<t and most interesting o:t all. Here I may be seen articles many centuries old, many of them not to be duplicated and practically priceless. The Pxhibits department is unde1· direction of Dr. Knut Gjerset, curator of the Luther Cpllege museum, which has the largest collection in the world of articles relating to the early Norse settlers in America. Many of these will be shown at the Centennial . The Minnesota Historical society wiH also have a large exhibit. Practically every building on the slate fair grounds will be used for exhibits and meetings of various kinds. From present indications the visi tors from outside the Twin Ci ties wlll number 250 ,0 0 0. From 25, 000 to 40,0 0 0 a re expected from C�da. -5i. PnNirn� NORSE Oma · , C[NT ENNl� l MEET WEll UNDER WAY Twin Citfes to Be Hosts to Many Norse-Am ericans at Celebrat ion. TO BE H ELD J U N E 6 TO 9 Plans for the Norse-American c e n celebration to he held in St. Paul and l\Iinneapolis, Minn., June (i to 9, were announced today by Mrs. R. Ulvilden, wh o is . chairman of Ne bra ska preparatio ns. Our Savi or's Lutheran church ch oi r of t hirty m e mbers a nd over 500 other Nebraskan·s are expected t o attend the. gathering, a ccording to the Rev . R. UlvildE>n, pastor of Our Savi or's church. Some 300,000 pe ople, a tenth o f the No rs e-American popul a tion of 3,000,000 peopl e in the United States, a r e E>xpected at the cele brati on, the Rev. M r . UlvildE>n says. t ennial •m Presiden t Calvin Cool idge and other natio nal omcials will be pres- ' ent and some of the lead ing musical organiza tions o f the land, i n cluding the Augustan a a cappella choir, I v 1 i h a:i : � t� e ��:� . here receLitly , .'r.i be The cE>l ebration , t o be held at the fair grounds o f the Twin_ Citi e s , 1s to co m memora te the Jandmg of the ��-t s es t t:e Fairman , mr-11 . vED . ra a [ ['R [' p l A N T O ATTEND �� N O R S E C ENTENN l� l h �!!l;o/� :�;: ;�r�� sh i�load of �orse immigra nts t o the Umted States Ove r 40,000 congres si onal medals , which were made bv authori ty of a s pE>cial act of congre ss, will be dis t r ibuted, and the dirigib le "Los An gf Jes" will 1wrform during the three day stay. A special issue of 2 and 5cent po,s tR.gE> stam p s has also been pl'in tecl for the p,vent. In connE>c tion with the centen nial the annual i n tern ational mee ting of the Lu th N· league will be hel d. •I q I Navy Depa rtment Promises to l Send Balloon Los Ang-el� in Connection With Program Knute Helvig of Lake Parli:. Addi t io n, an upsta n ding Norwegian-Am erican, is greaUy interes•tec1' in the Norse centen nial celebration to ·b e h eld in the twin cities June 6 t o 9 and a,sk' s publicati o n of the fol lowing from t he Lutheran Church H e rald : Cen te1mial ' -;.<; e-A merican The n:t: the 1 celebra 1011 ,a Mi nnes o ta State Fairgro und s , June 6-9, has as s u med propOI'tions far be j Program Committee Winds Up l yond the expectations of tho�e who , commenced to lay t h e pla ns for t he 1 '\York, Except for Accept- \ ce n tenary obser�a�ce. i · I t i6 n o w defimtely .settled th at · mg Some N um bers Prec;iden,t C o olidge will be here the 8th o E June, and• with him will be The_ program committ ee of t�P Nor,;e- i Secretary Kellogg, Senators Henrik Amom . M ��nial .Ir..u,� i;u.,,uk. ,w�n- I. Ships:tead and Peter Norbeck, and . pleted its worl,, except t!1at of _obta m, United St a tes· C ongressm e n and Gov mg a cceptances on some numbe ts . I ernoi .8.. 0,,. -, rs will N o rway descent o e " . Thirty separate sessions have been ar• • . .. •. c, d ;, ranger1, to provide interest .for crowds 1, send its m uuster t o t b e U_mt expected to throng the State J◄'a-i,\, 1!. States, Hou. H. H. Bryhn, . Bish o p I Grounds in June. In a statement, Pro- \ .Lu udo, and two representa tives o! fessor Gisle Bothne, president of the i t he Storth ing. centennial , thanked Urn _ comir;lttee for j O ffic ial r eprcs e n lat_i ves vl'ill als-o its work. On the committee " ere R ev. 110 sent by the Do mm1011 of Canad a B. E. Berge!len, H. Askeland, Dr. Carl 1 and I celand. Am o ng th e m usical or D. Kolset, Rev. O. H. Sletten and R ev. i g an izaq ons will be the Academic H. K. Madsen. ·C hoi r ( 5 0 voice.s ) from No rway , th e . .. . . mght A telegram from Wmnipeg laSt Luther announced appoiutment of Thomas H. St • Olaf Ch oir and Banrl 'A ugs'lm rg C o n ce tt Band . Johnson, former attorney general of Co 11 �ge : Canada as official representative of the Som mary Glee Club , Con cordia Col domini�n government to the centennial. lege Ch o ir, t h e '\V:aldorf Colleg� Premier Bracken will represent the Choi r, N o nv egian Smgers' A�,soc1province of Ma nitoba. a ti on Male Chorus, and promu�ent • instrumental soloists. vocal and SUPERTOR Wl"l TP:£,ll! There will be a h ist o rical p,ageant 4• J 9 'Jfi, NDAY, MA • -' , w i t h 1 ,000 people taki n g part, l i".ing fla gs. o r NorwRy and the U rnted I ec. Kellogg and Wife States by 420 school children, and ! t wE>nty-rw o d or►a rtments o r intere,H- 1 0 Attend Norse Meet _,'Jt.· l' i11g cxlli1bits. at Minne11po 1S 1n June Chairman I3ot.bne h a s r_ecen t l y h ad i a lelter from Senator Sh1 p�teacl who ST. PAU ..-Secretary of State has t he ass•uranco from Secreta r y of . ad M rs. ,:an k B. Kellogg have 1 h e N a v y ,vi!bur, that the blg nav�' i accepted an i nvitation to attend d irigible airshi p, t,be "Los Angeles," I the No rse American im,m i g ration will come to the Twin Ci ties. To arl· Centen niel la I �to 9. The vcrtise the Centennial the SL . O la! Secretary of State wi address Ch o ir con ,,en•lecl to broa d cast a pro· \ the Centennial on Mon day, J u ne 8 rrram over the ,vcco l aat ,vednes- , when President Cool idge w i l l s. peak. day, and during t h e in termi ss1ion \ Senator Henrik S h i pstead w i l l G o vernor Christianson spoke ab o ut i preside at t h e p,•esidential pro• I b o Cen tennial. H o n. Oley Nels on, of 1 gram and ' Gov. Theodore ;Ch r i s s1,ater. Icwa, the Civil ,var v e teran. i tianson will i ntroduce the presi• is advert i sing for the tallest a n d bigdent. ge s t Nor-se -American vet erans of th e ' Spanish-American a n d Wo rld War to I ·serve a s b o rl,, guard 1for the pre si\ dent. M. r. S. H . H o ls tad. the factotum and gE>neral man ager with headqn a r- , •t ern at th e Nicollet Hole!, has been at lh e wlrnel for 1,everal m o nth,, s teeri n �' this colc-ssal mach ine. now runn ing in high g e ar, lo reach ita d Ps-t ination in t.i nie . Tlie clifficnlt ' \ c-n rves a nfl ro11gh r1;�dways hav � heen 1ia sse<l . and he is now on thi 1 on •t h e �RD CENT 'MAPS 30 FEATURES f 1 • , L • _ /7. �1., Plentyv,ood, Mont. , Pro� j,:,,..,.,,_ FRlDAY.. MA,Y, 1, 192.:• NORSE-AMERICAN CENTENNIAL AT MINNESOTA . STATE FAIR GROUNDS JUNE �TH T�_ · 9T� - ro�ram includes ' t he fc.1- ��- Tbe p • • 0ne Hundredth Anniversary' 0f Norweg1an C. 0lomzaflOn Oc- lowing·Mr ,., Pion. Ufe ; 2, Church ; 81 Scho ois; curs 1nav1an and culture 1 4 Farm' • • 5, Press ; . 6; Literature ; Ii\,. Att; �• of A . 7'. Men :i.n ilblic SerVic�i. Charity' tM tlial Aid ; 10, Domestic Service ; 1 , ,icieties and ·organizations ; 12, u c ; 13, Trade and C omffll ��: e; 4•i! ee ring and Ahchitec- · WILL ATTE GOVERNORS �� 1 ,A'IVE NORSE The Women's Auxiiliary ,has for its outline of exhibits : 1, Fine Arts ; Arts. and Crafts ; 3, Relics and Cu Gov. Christianson of Minnesota Will Give Public Reception 2, ric.s ; 4, Natio nal Costumes ; 5 , Jewelry -Delegations from Norway and Canada-Representa and H ousehold Silver; 6, China ; '7, Music. � ❖I:" ,,# --=------- tives from Every State in Union. • • • J, FRIDA HANSEN'S TAPESTRY � at deserves' • One -0f the exhibits tli e I\ en a 0 t J;!fe� �� UNITED STATES STRIKES OFF 40,000 MEDALS �o;!: i; :�da�e Norway? a piece that took the first premium in Paris in 1900 and has s ince been e xhibited in the art c enters • The Norse-American Centennial celebration, which is to be of Europe and in many eaStern citi es , of th �· United States . It is 14x'.l.6 be held at tne-M'1111CS 8ili! Ii.Hate Fair Grounds June 6-9, is to com- feet, eand represe nts seven goddesses memorate the hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the Nor- riding south through the sea on the wegians who formed the first settlement in the United States in backs c.f swans, taking with them the 1825. It was natural and logical that from .this first colonization · sun, heat and flowers which they in New York state there should 1 ater be a movement to the west brot north to form the summer days . The garments ,of the goddesses are and northwest. To-day the Twin Cities form the acknowledged woven in sterli ng silver thread procenter of the Scandinavian population of the country. ducing a truly w,mderful effect. �a. Mrs. EVERY STATE "Saturday evening by Gov. 3:n ta, I ORGANIZED nneso M! ,of son n tia Chris . . . eodore The Women' ;, Auxiliary has a state The proJect f,or . this celehratio!1 Th state \ s ota s inne of M n d a t u ro t he a m i has already m et with s�ch �nthus1- in One of the . mo st ch ir an n almo st every state in the tcJ. i n St. Paul. capi a stic response, nc,t only m Mm!lesota >romising indications of the bro.a.de:z:- I Union, in an attempt to gathe r· worth f while exHibits and to arrouse interest and the Northw est; not only m the J of interest in the C entenmal is for the coming event. And mo st of �Jn�ted States �nd C anada, but also ing m�nt t?,at ntain ed in the announce co m old Nonyay itself, and the suc�ess Minnesota's executive and ftls estrm- the chief citi es in the countl'y have of the affair seems beyond question. able wife will be assi sted m arr ang their city chairman an d exhibit s. The P aui me n have ,organized the counties for WORLD AFFAIR ing for this reception bf t�e St, comthe s ale of coupon bo oks , which give o�s., i at mz a ASPECT org s ' en Wom u Allie reduced rates of admissi on to the c The promis e of President Coolidge pirising 52 different o to come and p articipate on Mcnday, fessional, p cJ.itical , \o�i�t 1�f{J;�; fair �rounds. This advanced tic�et June 8, and the prohability that some and fraternal, having a combined s ale 1s the cnly mean s of . financing the gr • eat u• ndertaking, so the commithigh re presentative of the Dominion membership of 10,000 women. • tee 1s ur;gmg eve·ry true Amer1can Governme_nt w1·11 b.e .here, as ¥;e11 as NORSE GOVERNORS \ citizen of Norse extraction to buy a the prrom1s ed coming 0� the d�le- IN LINE . gates from the N�rwegian Storthl:ng In the receiving line with Gov. ooupon book for the great cause , even though ,he may not b e able to at _ and, Government gwe the celebrat1<m Mrs . Christianson will be the fi':e tend the celebration. the aspe�t c.f a re�l w orld affair. and giovernors and . their STAMPS AND er Norse pt}l The official delegation from Nor:way wives namely : Gov. J. J. Blame of will include a memb er of _the cabm�t, w·sc ' sin · G ov. A. G. S orli e, Norj;h MEDALS . United State_s governm�nt has a m emb e r of the Stro thmg (P arh aGc.v. C arl Gunderson, South auThe thorized the m akin g Qf special two ,:. t'!!-'. 0- . J • E• Eri'ckson' Monment ) ' and Karl Wefring' • form1er Dal:!.O l!:-'ov a an ve Othe·r official de e- · t st amps w1·th "Rest auras ecretary o f war. !UOY· H• L• Whitfield' Mis- t ·odnefln, " cten tana; a'nd n he .s1oop that brought the gates will come to represent the . 1. •. Others in the receiving line 1 P Norwegian state church, the Univer- 11 \� officilll · ri;presentatives ' of fir�t 52_ emigrants from Norway, of O slo, and Nordmandsfor- t1....ee ov�rn:ments : the United States , p n11ted rn black . and red on the two s ity . bundet. bl3:ck ,on besid�s s ome cen\ stamp and m blue a � ""'n;;l·, a, and Norway • 1 ffi�iai' -·-- •• the ve cent stamp, the i bi-color RECEPTION BY , Q . . .... !1, a_ f (:�nt�:nm the o tamps i ssued by ' r governP2,.�ta GOV. CHRISTIA �SON . .�. "· While the c,pemug day will be de- �';f;ERES'!:,I�<?_. .. . . :EA.t:tHHTS E , s ing t e NORS voted to the "Bygdelag" me . m ost of them concluding with a din- An ext�hs1ve ex?,ibit. du�ng 1the n 1s bemg P :i,n: io at br e l e C e �r l a ents i n m e e � nt n Ce rra a , t ba.'1lque nel' or . b eing madp,· fo r a public reception n ed and sponsored by Dr. Knut GJ er I i:>iko1n. :f *��: �More than sixty t h ou�and prop , <· ment with the si glE:. exception c.f the are expect f'd to lrn present, f r om ali \r�k �rJ�.. Alfa� $5.00 stamp. parts o f t he Un ited S t a les a n d C a n THURS1'A¥. MAY 7__ 1Q'25 Congress has also recently author ada., probab l y one thousa nd from ized the striking off of 40,000 medals, our ow1\ city or C h i p pewa Ji'a l l s a n d commemorative of the Norse-Ameri ,I--outlying dist ric t s, a n d 11erhaps two can Centennial. This is the first time tllo n�and or more from Ea n Clai r< in American history that Congress has authorized a commemorative med county. al. Tihey are to be struck c.ff at the The celebrat ion will be Jwlcl at. the , ,1 • �::1 l r , .... 4-.,c,TI " :al rf United States mint at Philadelphia. esota State Fa : r grounds, op.en inn M . ,'1 ,. . n l ( ,,.. , , <J. w The design shows an herioc Viking turday, J u n e 6, with conven Sa g n i ' � 1 rte Pai,· chieftan setting foot on American tion oC the Byclelags , and C'l os i n , I soil, with � small Viking ship riding bP held at the Min "<'"O th:·c e Tuesday evening, J u ne 9 w i t h r Gl'Ounrls , T-i. ,1lin �, ::_1,1 · nne1; 0t", the sea in the background. . wonderfu l h istorical pagea nt . Thel'f fl tn . 7 June . cavs. MAYOR LEACH · d 1 will 1:)e addresses by pro m i n e n t peo 1 This i s t,, c: ltl·� - • a r irr • r·1 GIVE S PRIZES ple on topics o! timely in terest and t t hE , n ·1 rica 1 A"1 to has Minneapolis of Leach Mayor nR v<'<"i::i Mor, I I i m portance, President Coolidge be sent $100 to be given in three p izes hund•·ed yNFS ago ,1 ing schedu l ed for a n adckess 0 11 to the pupils in Oslo, ( Christi ·a) i<> al ' n •1t<'r ( s t½ The p1�r: Jo: <' oi Monday, .J u n e 8 . Thecre w i l l be a Norway, wl).o make the thr.ee st v h•rh to con 11'1<''110 ·ate t:Jw event:. _ M mooels of a Viking ship. m usic festi val full of me l ody a n d i n nr.' • rrr'c Leach's only condition is that and en tertainmen t of var; spiration m,1rk the br!"i nn · ll',; of Non;e nt ti0,., to t',i <' ,-, 'H' i<· :(p r' 'I'), • a t�,1' three winning models mwit be will be provicled for old kinds ous · to this country in time to be exhibi d and ry.oung. • onvegian 1i onee1 s of •" t� thP u at the Centennial celebration. . T The Third Tr:enn i a l o f the Younf A, 1P ;ea . winner in a similar contest in th People's Luther League w i l l ha held Minn�apolis schools was a twelve in the Twin Cities at the same time , ! Rugby, N. D., Globe year-old boy of Bohemian-Swedish w i t h delega tions from the Dakotas 1925 ' MAY !. extraction. Mayor Leach also donat l\Tich igan . ,v isronsi n , l\I i n nesota, ed the money for the Minneapolis contest. 1tennial c�l-ebr�t ion Iowa , I lli nois, Nebrask a, Texas, and H from the local THE LIVING t� M inne . ._ Ca l i fornia . Delegates Jessie to be hela Peterson FLAG league wi l l be Miss J s scta fair grou nds give A most unique and interesting fea a n d Miss A n n a Sands. Two hotels, tur,e of the celebration promises to Leam ington , a<' prom ise of being a real trea t to t he Curtis andY , The be the "living flag. '' This will be :.I . C . A . b u i l d i n g , the as well be • des featured on Monday afternoc,n , June those who attend. Besi h a v e been engaged f o r the conven 8, in connection with President Cool t meeting plac-e for I tion. Addresse s by well l rnown grea a ing idge's address in front of the mam a I speakers, and music by the Conco r there are acquaintances moth grandstand at the Minnesota dia Col l ege Choir, St. O l a f College 1 This "living state fair grounds. ers umb n ile h-wh wort y man t Choir, and other n oted bands · a n ll flag" will be composed of 600 St. j grea glee clubs will form a part of t ht> Paul children, who will be dre1:sed in on the prng ram. And then there the colc.rs of the Norse and United is the chanc e of getting a look program. The delegates and v i s i t .. 3tate'S flags, red white and blue, most ors will he treated to a great conven ge Coolid Calvin of them with reversible c s ( one at our pr-2sid ent, tion outing Wednesday, .J une 1 0 , 1' h<· ·olor on ea� side) . '!-'h;iy�ill fi�st who speak s there on the openin g outing probably ta king p l ace at. I . _ ag, whll� avp,-�;;,.J;!l�_ . . Norweg1� S fn g Pa rk, La �rn M i n ne tonka..__ day. .. tf" • , . . .. • V'I µ,-., � � ! "/; v: Elsker De�te Landet" is �ung I t. ... 19'!5 l'-..Y __ l� Tliti.RSDA -and then at a given signal, the CMppew? alls. \Vi s , HereM children will reverse their capes in WEDNESDAY. MAY 13, 192.S such manner as will transform the Norse flag in the twinkling of an eye to the "Stars and Stripes." MUSIC AT THE CENTENNIAL �·F]T;NESDAY , �I AY 1 3 , 10 2 5 . True to the traditions of the Norse race as a music-loving pec,p,le, the musical program · being arranged C l�1.\ N l) < F. X'rR:\' :\'L\ L o:� ' The prog- cam for the .No1'S e-Am eripromises to be one of unriyalleu ex :"\'Ol{ � JOJE�'\' I X .tL \!ERH'.' c:an Ce n te rnii!<11 and Exposition, ;vhich cellence in Norse-American history. Norway will be represented by the the :Minnesot2 State ThP 11roj0ct ror a ('2: c>bra�;on o 1I t:.;kes plarc at fam,ocs University of Oslo ( Chris 6, 7, 8 and !), has June , i i·omH g Fafr · the Nor�•❖::: ::i : n ..c,,nt 011 n ial ir tiania ) Academic of 50 trained and appears bev l voices, wihich will choir out, en i•;i the Twin C i t ies nrx t .J une h as 111 0 1 , now been make its firs t visit to America on accc.unt of the Cen with ::i n en t h u si.:i sl ir rrspon se. 11 0 1 low. From the program it ap9ears tennial. Norse-Americans will offer on l y in 1 11 f' Nort hwest ern sta te:, 0 that Norway has been very li b2ral in such renowned organizations as the t he l,\1 : n nl'go l a gro u p , h11t in f h e en ,:i_•wiing- tal,�nl, and our own p:overn St. Olaf College choir and band, the t ire Un i f Pd Sta t0i; and Ca1i a cb , so m ent is tak ing a great part in the Luther College concert band, the the s11 <·ces,; of tr!e a ffa i r £tPms t o lw Augustana College chorus, Sioux celeb ratio ri. Be-sides other 11aiio nal a l ready a ssu rNl . FaJls, S. D., the Aug-sburk 8eminarv am sta te:s th.'.1 t• th e , 'l'he mol lwr co1111 try l tsoll' l oolr •i C.:ispla ys th�• 1,rog-r chorus and band, Minneapolis; Con air 1'h''lp I·'� 8 ' giant ,y Nu. S. 1.: n yN . u p on t h <' J) ro j<'ct wit h 11 1rn l l o l av cordia College band and chorus, Moor 50 a nry air of fleet a :-i.n<l or, as show;ng t h P aC'hi<'ve m en t s of Ange les hf'ac!, Minn. ; Luther Seminary chor us, SL. Paul; and a large male cho1us the Norsemc•n wlH'n t 1 ·anspl:rn : E!cl to I planes will ne there. c-omposed of Norse singers from vari the Nf>w vVor l (l . By t h i> a rts of p<>'ler' I These who have a place t,n the ocs cities. rather t ha n tho1s e of w n r the Norse- , i,rogram ;ii-c as follows : m a n is m a k i n g his way u waken i n g ::i I I H on. C a l v in C o olidge, Pre•,\cknt of HISTORICAL PAGEANT feeli n g of !) r i de in 1 he h<·arts of h · s � lhe Unite:'\ State s. f� l l o w co u n t rymen i i: l h e old la 1 : < l The historical pageant whic ilI H on. F t·.mk B. Kellogg, 8otrctary � be given June 9, in the evenin One of t h e l'PS U l t s of tli P c011 te11 1 1 1 :i :1 , at • c\ te.- . the concluding climax of the ggest w i l l be t o h ring toget lw r in u :nv o ,i l - of State. ot• the U 111't ed. St· Afov, i nckel , I gathering in America in 1925, will Ludwig .Tohan H y l on. \v io n f u n , tlw people o t h is i < el eel be another w.onderful and inspiring scattered stra i n of b l oocl , in w)1 ' c h Primo Mini:;ter of Norway. . . \ feature. It will depict in both sta re .. t!ll lOll a l l rel igious diJfrronces, s o· Hon. H. H. Bl'yn, Norway'r, l\h111:sonary and moving tableaux, in most ciaJ c'. ist i n c 1io1: s. and v� ryi n g P ? l itic· - tE r to the r inited States. I �cJ.orful fashion, one of the most in,] al o � , n ions . will bf> obli tna tecl m t lh 1 \ Re v. •1 P. Lunde, Bishop cii'. O slo '. eresting chapters in American his• Rt. rea l Jzat,on of a com 1,1011 race. ory. I i Norw:iv. IT »4¥. ' . tflorse Program 1s Now Completed r c· �-nc ot I - Al_, - I1':!l' 0ffi• cia l represe n tatives of �l orway, [? �;}and and the Domni'on of j Canada, ais<> U. S. Senatorii, Con • gl'es smf'n mid Governors of Norse a ncestry, Aclidemi;; Choir ( 50 vo ices ) from • ;forway. . St. Olaf Colle11:e ,. Ch o ir and Rmd. L u the1· <::oll e ge Concert .a nd Band. Aug s bu ri: Seminary Glee Club. Co 1w o rdi;i Co lleg·e Choir. t \ Aug1.1sta1111 College Choi r. 1 W.a1d o rf College Choir. · • t·ton , s·mger,s '"'-, -;bL\t:ia l N orweg1at, I Chorus. \ \ 1�:·ominer,r. vocal and instrumental i i I �olo1sts. Among the attrac tions the follow- i ing are listed : The immense, colorful Hi stor ic ] pageant Wl't h 1 • 000 p eop Ie ta • g j kiri . part. I The 'beaptiful " Living Flags" of 1r0rway and the Unite:i Statu s , by I 120 school chrldren. The full 1;ize model of the sloop, "Rest.aurationen," (the Norwegian "Mayflower." ) The prize-winnin g mode ls uf the n11c'ient Viking ships . The Nor se woven wonderful Tapestrie<;, worth thousands r)f ,follars. The baseL,al1 and tenni s game,;, soecer game, and big program of athletic conte sts and rac e s. The offi.::ia l exhibits of the natural ! res ources of the State of Minnf.'s ota the Domini on of Canada. The many paintings and scnlpture by famous Norwegian and NorseAmerican nrtists . A veritable "world's f�ir" of intere sting exhil.Jits in 22 �ifferent .Jepartments, indnding- wonderful col le ctions of '.lid Norse relics an,l those pi o neer dayfS in America-,wtLtal ly j thousands o f' a1·ticles of historic value 1 and intere st. _ . _ -�--_ R0<11't"ll'Oltn rtLL. ) !l'l'A'II fiU:PA¥, �y lo,_ l9Z_6, .___ _ i i i I i I SORSE �ETE TO OBSERVE FIRST SHIPLOAD HERE il NY WILL ATTEND NORWEGI f AN CELEBRATJON AT MINNEAPOLIS 'Ihe Norse America n centennial will be held at the i\l[innesota State B'air grounds at Mi�eapolis J u ne i to 9 of this year. �m is to 1 �ommemorate the sailing frc;m Nor way of the first shipload of emi ;rants to the U1aited States, '!' hi>' ship which la nded at New York har� oor Oct 9, 1925, after having been 1t sea for 14 weeks, was the real ,tart of the large flow of NO:rSe to this country which has continue(\ to the present day. 'l'"he snip wasasmall sloop, capabl<l expecte rorn the old country anr of accommodating 5,;• passengers and at least 1 00,000 from the United was owned and comanded by Klang States will come. Plans are being Pearson, who had visited the new made for overflew crowds at all world . a nd knew something or the meetings, life and opportunitiPs of the new A large party wlll go to the cen country. He led them after landing tennial from Rockford, it .ls ex to a place near Rochester, N. Y., pected . ,.., - 1 1 , where they set up a community Mfor�.� Tim!i...11 which has remained :Norwegian to SATURDAYb MAY 16, J 925. this day. Almost an those who followed them went first a fter landin g C ent e n n i a l ""Iru llefi n-� ln Amerjca to this colony of Klan; After a month of tirele ss effort, :Pears on's where they were outfitte • the N orse Centenn ial c ommitte e has a i,d went out in parties to the land te d its trem en d o u s task and com.p_le a head of them. the pr oll:Tam, for the three-day fe sMove Westwanl These f1eople moved rnj, i dl y we at• tival, filled to capacity with interestwatd until one party u n der t he ler¼.1- ing- events , has b een printed. A s ership of the same Klant Pearso n manv as thirty different s essi ons will settled in 1834 where Chicago no \\ be held at one time" an d the days stands. In a few yea1·s they moved will be packed with go od things for on to Jeffer·s on Prairie, Wis., near th e th o u sands of visitors here fro m Beloit, and the m they remained. all over thi s c ou ntry, Can ada and From there they spread to Kosh - N orway. The programs c over a wide konong and to M uskegon where the y fi eld . and demonstrate that the high " founded the first No 1·se church in ideals with which th e committee s tarted o ut, have been kept at a fine the new world. Fjrst services ot th!s new church standard. As ther e are so many dewere .h eld in the barn of Avon Haeg·g mands from out of the city for re the father of a civil war colonel of s erved s eats for -the pr'ncip::>.l e'.rents, the same name. From there they a porti on of the seats have b e en set spread until they are now in large as ide for the grand concerts in the n n mbers in New York, Minnesota, Hippodro me and before the G ran d Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, \ Stand on Sunday, June 7th, the ses · w 1sconsln and Montana ar!SJ - i n ) sion on Monday aftern o on when smaller _ n umbers in . many of th�J Pre siden t C o olidge will speak, and othe r ;itatcs of the un10n. I the wond erful historical pageant b e Norway sent a Jarg�r p er,1ents.;e fore the ' Grand Stand on Tuesday of her population to the United ,7tates e ven ing. Sunday morning at 1 0 than any other _country exC'ept, Ire• I o'cl o ck ther e wi; l b e a service• in• th e land. In the United States ther� are I, N rwegia • n 1 angu .,ge, the mus1c t o be almost 2,400,00 0 Norse people while led by the Lutheran C ollege con cert in Norway there are only 2 ,600, 0 0 0. I ba n d ? f _Decorah, Iowa, Carlo A. . Among the Norse in this counhy Sperati, d1rector. At the same time there are many nationally known he young peo ple who are also h o ldpersons includin � more than 1 5 � membei:s of cong�ess. Even G eorge m gv _a c onven ti on here , will have a Washington, the father of h i s coun - ser 1ce at th e Horticultural building. try, bad Norse ancestors of which Sunday af�ernoon will b e Norwegian he was very proud, as he stated in a �u est se ssi on , and Con sul R o be will speech before a Norse association in I mtro duce th e n oted vis itors fr om Fbiladelphia on Dec. 11, 1782. 1 N orway an d some of th e w onderful I musician s of that land will entertain . Centenni11l Program. The program for the centennial \ Mus i_c will have a big part in the Cen tennrn.I, and all who are privilege d to was announced yesterday. _ Saturday, June 6 will be devoted ] atten d the se ssion, will have a treat. those each of from meeting the ·to section of Norway by themselves. Sunday, .Turie 7 will be given over ln the morning to 1:el!giouR services I 1n which noted Norse Lutheran ec- • cleslasties of bo.th countries will ta l;e part. The afternoon program will consist of greelings from prominent public officials of Norway including King Haakon VII, Foreign Minister Mowinclcel, and greetings in person I _[rem Ivar Lykke, president of the Norse congress. W. Morgcnsticrne will bring greetings from the his torical association of Norway and greetings from the Norse press. 'rhe program M<>nday morning Speakers Will Be Heard will consist of aadresses by 1'J.· omi a:t Internati onal Ses nent Norwegians of both the old and new countries. In the afternoon sion June 9 President Co6lidge, Secretary of State R:el!ogg, Senator Peter Nor· Greetings from Swedish-Amer icans beck and Senator Henry Shipsteatl iDan ish-Americans and Icelandic-Amer'. will spealt. In the evening the 1 icans will be brought to the interna mayor� of St. Paul and Mirmeapolis, tlonal s·esslon of the 1'{2,rse-Am i a.n i( h e prime roiniste1 of British Col,1m- ,centennia1 celebrat ion at"78' !lhl:;af �es �JJa, a nd the governors and former I1 day:, June 9, by leaders of the three govern•ors of sev�i-al st�tes will talk. ;roups, . it was announced today by Tuesday mornmg w1ll be devoted ! ?rof. G1sle Bothne, chairman of the to talks o n business, modern life, )Oard of directors of the celebration. literature a nd kindred subjects by . The internatlonal session wil l open emmlnent Norse au thorities. The , it 9 : 3 0 a.m., June_ 9, at the hippodrome Program for Tuesday afternoon will State Fai r grounds. Congressma� -be arra�ged by tjle women for the [. Knud Wefald of Hawley, Minn . , wi l l women-, and a grand pageant and ;>reside. concert will be held in the Chicagoan to Speak ;�,�:;i�::. A n express Band. and orchestra munbers will . 3wedi h-.Ameriion of the good will the cans hold for Norwegian. � be scattered throi.:gh the entire pro- A.mer1c ans will be contain ed in an adgram. dress to be delivered by Judge C. R. More than a thousa nd vistiors are Magny of Duluth R. Bauman of Chi- ICElAN OERS SEND :NORSE GREETIN GS �atLention as e most impos ug spec1 acle of the _vPa" on this continent. Pre�ident CalYin Coolidge will make expected that Ii.It address. anrl it is frince Olat will come over as a spe · , cial favor. The puri:ose of the C e ntennial is t0 rommemorate the arrival in Lhi,; <·ountry of the first shipload o" "Nor wegians a cen t ury ngo . The promo \ ters are rl esirons o f se t ting fo:-th be Cast Asked to Repeat Performance Jore thrlr ff:llow citizens the results Glee Club to Sing at Norse-Am erican Centennial ' of all the tol l. hop e s. and ambitio t1s Congressman 0. J. Kvale will deliver at SlJC'5 I&ii Brem d ,. i o! th e se early immlgTants. a 15-miI)ute address on "How We Be c te 1 came Americans," and Congressman " Sigurd JorsalfaT," an historical th:i�· t��fe ��m:�IfY, 1� � r �� Wefald has selected as his subject play by Bjornstjerne Bjornson, was 1 o,wegian'l banded under the l e ader "The Land We Found." presented in the St. Olaf gymnasium ,llhip of Kleng Pe e rson. pathfinder and Musical selections at the interna. . from t he state church, and tional session will be given by the St. " Saturday evening. The play was fea- dissenter ilocided to go to America. So July 4., Olaf college glee club, directed by Pr f I tured by impressive pageantry and 1 26, a 45 ton Bloop, "'I'he Restorabrilliant costuming, and the play as a T A. Tjomsland, and i;ongs will �� 1 sung by Mrs. B. A. Clepp, and Rev. whole was given excellent execution. tion," aet sai l from Stavanger • •'or ::· B. 'I'orgrimse.n of Grand Farks, N. D. The cast was under the direction of way, and reached New York on Oct. 9. Came in 'SO's Miss Esther Gulbrandson of this city, In the latter pal·t of the '30's, the t lf,·hfit>M 'J' teacher in the Norse department. fl rst bettlements in southern ,visconWF..UNE With many of the actors wearing sin were start'Hl. It ls n'po1·ted tlla: the armor of V ikings and others the JUeng Peerson came to our state in ' colorful costumes of that period, the 1833, to the present site of :!\lilwau- 1 kee, but when Solomon Ju neau tolcl v arious scenes were full of martial and THE..,NORSE,, CENTENNIA L h i m of tb.e great forests or Wiscon- ' The Norse ceift€hili&l celebration brilliant display. The play revolved sin, he returned to the prai ries o1 Illi to be held at the state fair grounds around the rivalries of two brothers, nois where his descend ants still live. June 6 to 9 will be addressed on Sigurd and 0ystein, jointly kings of Tho large st. Wisconsin settlement was Monday afternoon the 8th by Presi- Norway, in the 12th century. The for- at Koshkonong. 1 dent Coolidge, Secretary of State mer attained fame abroad by crusades The first Norwegian Lutheran Frank B. Kellogg and others. The in pagan countries, and the latter won church in this country was built here the love of his people by his good rule in 1844 . The first Norwegian news program for the four days of the paper w as started her e in 1847. celebration is very complete. There at home. Norway h as contributed many gre at Outstanding among the actors were will be several meetings going on at m en to the United States. The largest the same time, at the grand stand, in Odvin Hagen as 0ystein ; Gunnar Mal ancl best tool machine in the world is hippodrome and in other buildings. ! min as Sigurd Raneson, a chief of 0Y- made by the Ui:,holt company o[ Mad hotels of St. Paul and Minneapo- I st� in's bodyguard ; Edgar Kittleson as i son, founded by S e nator John A. The \ make special reduced rates to \ V1clkunn Jonson, a chief of Sigurd's Johnson. all lis I l't was a Norwegian , who w as edu, The admis.sion price is a bodyguard, and John Furuseth as As\ visitors. dollar for a three day ticket, or lak Hane, a member of Sigurd's body cat ed at lhe university here, Magnus S w enson, who built the great clams at three persons one day. It will be a ?uard. 1:he l ast named, although play .meeting, and there will be a I m g a m mor role, carried his part par- Kilbourn and Sank City. The oldest great . 1 nu,t company in the state was ·round ticularly well. great attendance. ____..o....-. A very attractive part of the pro- ed by a Norwegian pioneer. cago, consul-general for Denmark will speak in behalf of the Danlsh-Ame�ican people, and Gunnar B. Bjornson. Min neota, Minn., will represent the Ice landic-American group. . The Norse influence upon American htei:ature will be explained in an ad dress to be del ivered by Dr. H. A. Bel low.a . of Minneapolis. ''Norse Influ ence upon Anglo-Saxon Law" will be the subject of an address by Judge Oscar '.l' orrlson of Chicago. Northfield (W1 � THURSDAY. xlA. � J>{g'eantry Features St. Olaf Norse Play t';;�� - I Greetings }'rom � onrnv gram were the incidental musical numIt is int e rE>sting to know thiit since r ,,,...,.. V�l'"v JO 1� T HJ,RSD/;. V Tv(A " 21_ l9Z.'.i bers by Grieg, played by the �t. O�af a century ago, over a million Norwe '-College orchestra under the direction i,:ians have come to this C'onntry, :1n 1 1 of J. Arndt Bergh, and the songs that in proportion to population, Nor Sh OUId Att end C eI ebrab. n I forming p art of the pla y, sung by the way has given more people than any _ r 1 Every good American 1 of Nor W-,-,,-- µaren tag-e plan to attcn ? t h e s r ar y ce leb ra tion at t h e s tate fair grou n s the fore part of June . It will be an epoch in the Sca11 d au avian history of the Northw est a d al though a Norweg ian fe te, a l l of Scanda nwian lineage s h o u l d take part in it . Preside nt Coo l i dge , Ki o g- Oscar a n <l many o f his royal family , b e s i d e & n otable s of the United States wi l l be in attendance and speak to t h e assemb led throng s. I actors with the vim , volume, and spontaneity that characterize St. Olaf student singing. The cast has been asked b y the management of the Norse-American centennia.,l to present the play again at the celebration at the state fair I irounds in June. \\. 1\lADTSON WIS JOU1l MGNnA-Y; l'-1 AY 3§, Wati, orse to Present Sp11ctacular Event for AH Continen � ·nee Olaf and Coolidge Ma) A:ttend Minneapolis Nor wegian Celebration are l.Jelng made {or �J��;;i<4ll'l!l!ffl�l::..,'fhich will l>e :Minneaoolis from .T une 6 L,l J t llas been att1 acting ;y;d<' land except Ireland. The program that has been arrange<.! is or unusual interest. The Univer sity of Norw ay wlll send greetings through a mixed chorus of fifty voices, all alumni of the university. The chorus will sing in Madison, Sunday afternoon, May 21, at Olin Park. A public reception will be gi ven by Gov. Th e odore Christianson of MinneAota, at whlcl) five other Norse gov e rnors will be pr e sen t : J . .T. Blaine,. of Wisconsin ; A. G. Sorlie, of North Dakota ; Carl Gunderson . of South Dakota : J. El. Erickson. of Montana · H. L. Whitfield, of Mississippi. As a special mark of honor, Con gress has passed an act to strike a m P<l al iri comn: ,,.,,n,. ,ifi o� ,. ' · I I �Lutheran drnrch o f America , will give the sermon at 10 :30 a. m. in the Hippodro me. There will 1be music by the St. Olaf college choral society. Bishop John P. Lunde, of Oslo, Nor way, will give a short talk. At the sam e tim e there will be services at l the Grand Stand, when Rev. H. 0. 1Sletten of Minneap olis will give the sermon. Music by the St. Olaf col GT. }\ �L, :\Tinn., :\lay 28 . - I.1 creased with each succeed ing clr,- ' lege band. At the Horticultural h rmo/ Yt�e centPnnial or the fl1 �t cade until, at the prese,1t time, there are said to be more people bu l1ding, at 10 :30 a. m. Rev. J. A. Norwegians of gration immi ;:;roi1p 1 of Norwegian stock in America Aasgaard, D. D., of Moorhead, will to the United States, the, federal than the present population oI :Norgive the sermon. Music by the Con -,, overnmt:.1t, the slate of .\ l inneso- way. cordia c ollege ,c hoir and the joint ta an d the cities of �linneapolis While this migration, in ilR inanll ,St. Paul are uniting in plans ception, had a partial religious church choruses of Grand Forks, N. for one of the -most elaborate cele- cause, the m a in driving power D. , under th e direction of Mrs. David "Restauration en," will lb e on d isp la y brations (Iver held in this section through th e years has been eco S toove. Also music ,by Division B as well as pri ze winning- models 0 celebration, of the country. The nomic. of th e Luther college concert band. the ancien t Viking ships. which will have its form a l opea in g The Norwegians are ·not unm i n cl A m ost interesting and unique feaEach day, hour, yes, minute, i s filled here on .Sa turday of next week, is ful of the, material blessings wltich with program s so elaborate , so varie d / ture of the celebration promi ses t expected to attract an enormou s have surrounded them in the new attendanc e of visitors f_rom P_oi nls land, and thef have al lottecl 011 e and full of goo d talks and: musi-� be the "livin g flag. " T'h is will b E I in Minnesota, \Vi scon sm, Illnwis, entire day • of the cente-n nial pr0that on e will be thrilled with just featur ed on Monda y aftern oon, ir I Io wa, ;s.:e braska, the Dakot,rn and gram t o the honor of the land of conne ction with Presid ent Coolidge'; being present. , ? the: states i11 '\\'ll) c �ous a·.ul s c� their adoption a·n.d which will b e � �� On Mondiay afternoon Governor address. It will be compo sed of 600 1 1mmgrant s from ::-.:01 w ay and theu k n o wn as "America Day." Tho . Theodore Christianson will introduce St. Paul schoo l childr en, espec ial!) c1e scen clants have found n ew home;; I chief feature w ill be an elaborate Calvin Coolidge, president of the traine d for their parts. and are now numbered - amo ng the outdoor pageant depictin g the s1.o The concludi ng feature of the most prosperous and esteemed ry of th eir progr0ss under lhP Unit€d States, who wil l give the ad citizen s of thc,ir res p ective com- 8 tars and Stri pes and the part they dress. Hon. Frank B. Kellogg, sec- celebration will 1be the histor ical pa The committees in have playe<l in the uplrnil tling of mon wealths. retary of state, will bring greetings. geant, whi·:!•h will b e given on Tues charge of the local arn,.1 gements the north west. Among the other speaker s you will day evening. This pageant wil l de believe that at le,ast 150 , 0 00 vis il orR Tuesday, N o rway Dayhear will b e Hon. H. H. Bryhn, Nor- Pict in both station ary and movin g will be here durin g the week of the Tuesday of the centenn ial week way's Min ister to the U. S., Rt. tableaux t he history of the first cen celebration. will b e. Norway Day, and a pagean t Rev. J. P. Lunde, Bishop of Oslo, tury of Norse-American and Norse j President Coolidge will bf! thr will represent the history of lhc 'and obhe,r official representatives Canadian development, visualizing in guest of honor and central figure mother country from tl1e mo(, ,, an al the celebration . His visit lo the, cient perio d to the pre,rn n t ti me. A from Norway, Iceland and the Do- most colorful fashio n one of the Twin Cities will be the first ex- replica of such a ves Rel as Llwt in minion of Canada Also U. S. ISen- m ost interes ting chapters in Ameri trmsive 1rip that he has und erta1'- which Lei( Eri ecson cl iscoYerr:1 history. Over 1 ,000 peopl e will ators, Congressmen and state goveranother of a sloop ! 1 en since he became president. Olli- America a n d nors of Norse ancestry. 0,r men and wome-11 of national like the R0sl.oration will be exhi!J- } The following famous musical or promi nence have accepted invita- Heel. ganizations will be present and will tions to participate in the centenA dis ti•nguisherl delegation rPpre- fJ present programs and selections durnial progra m , includ ing the gov- sen ting th e govern ment, t he ('hurch ern ors of several states. and numerous societies in Norway ing the three days : the Academic has already arrived in tile country L a nded In 1825choir of fifty voices from Norway ; The event which givr.s d ·,te to to attend the celebration. On NorSt. Olaf choir and !band ; Luthei- colthe celebration was the land ing of way clay a special message of lege band ; Augsbur g Seminary Glee I the sloop Restoration i n New York, greetin g from King Haakon VIL dub ; Concord ia college choir and i from Norway, on OctobPr 9, 1 92 5 . will be read. Th e Norwegia•n band ; Augustana college and W_al- I I several years earlier Cleng Per.r- churches throughout the l.'nited son an d R nud Olsen Eide had ap- States and Canada will be repredorf college choirs ; the Norwegian \ 11eared in New York as advan ce sen tecl in the program of exerr isPS Singers associat ion male . chorus, and age nts for a group of Qua kers in and festivities, as well as the num promin ent vocal and mstrumental I a·ml about the city of Stavanger, erous "Bygdc.lag," which are orThe Woman 's program , soloists . Norway. This resultc.d in the com- ganizations of immigrants and commit tees have arranged special ' ] ing of the "sloop-folk," who left their <1escP11elants !Jy d istricts in concerts in the Woma n's buildin g for L, f avanger on July 4, 18 2:i, anrl ar- Norway whence they origi·nat.ecl. Monday and Tuesd ay moTni ng and I rived in New York Oct. 9, afler a Many Norwegian musicians anrl c!toral organ i zations of n ote will circuitous journey. Also a special children's even ing. In 1:836 and 1837 a more exten- furnish tile elaborate musical fe,t ram. prog sive immigration began which in- turcs of the program. The num·b er and variet y of exhibits have so far e-x ceeded what was and wil1 go i n automobiles, equipped l ooked for, that . it will be a verita ble to camp on the n umer�us camping "worl d's fair," in:!lud ing the wond er grounds that will be provi de d, others ful collec tion of old Norse relics and CROWDS WILL START will go by trains, and will find ac pionee r days in America ; FOR CENT(E NNIA commodations at the numerous hotel s those from officia l exh�bi ts of the n atural re and private hemes, whose rooms have o.f M inn esota The coming waek, the roads a a b e en care.fully listed by the Minnea sources of the state and Canad.a ; Norse woven tapestries ; trains will be literally a teemitag polis and ISt. Paul dvic bodies. painti ngs and sculpt ure of . famou s n.ss of humanity, wending its way Saturday will be the meeting day -American ar to the . greatest of all celebration s of the "Bygdelags" -0f whom there Norwegian_ an d Norse tists. t11at ha, 0 been st::i:;;cd in this great ar e about sixteen. In the athlet ic line, there will be northwest, wh the Norse-Amer ican Th e main Centenn1al program will games , bicy Centennia l will ope � flit sfatb""f'.,, · open on 'S unday, June 7th, with re base ball games , soccer � meets. field and 1 track ra:ces, cle grounds at Hamlme, on Saturday, ligi ous services and concerts. Dr. H . The ful1 size model of the sloop June 6th. Thousand s upon thou;:;- J G. Stub , presid ent of the Norwegian 1 rNonveg.ians, Honoring the Ceutm,nial of First Group Immigrants, to M e e t f o r Elaborate Cetebration J u n e 6 I. I �n. P)Jk Poin . . Herald THU RSD AY. MAY 26. �925 AUTO CARAVANS TO TWIN CITIES T.raveling in special trains and iu caravans of automobiles, hundreds of residents of South Dakota of :Norwe gian birlh and extraction will find their way June 6 and 7 to the twin. cities, to attend the Norse-American Centennial commemorating the 100th aii niversary of the coming of the first imm iinants to this country from Nor way. It will be held at the i\Iiune ;iota State Fai r grounds, between Min neapolis and St. Paul. ..,The Centen nial...,!""'�'1"1e��'f''-1haw 200,000 to ::i00,000 Yisitors, the worlu's largest gathering for the year. Wl1ile a large number of persons will attend the Centennial to see the exposition which will include rare relics of Norwegian life and of the progrc�s of the people iu thi,,; country, a hn-gc attendance is a;:;sured because nw ny organizations, church and lay, have a greed to holll their annual con Y011t ion'; at that tim0 anfl place. l\Io·re I th,tn 3,000 church congr,'gationi; will hi repl'C'S{'I\ted. and ,ome ::G"hyclelags" n j or so ietics _from 1hc various Jlarts of • he oltl country. The Yarious cle ,m nt,s to be repn'$CI1lPrl i11cltH.l e : Or3m1i:ratiou·; to G:1awr I. ','1,'t. t:t-:;L· "IJ�·tl!'lflg� .. . '.? l ( , i cle, hyd 'la!ss in t11E l.'. S. 1 ti Cai , , a, Nonrav w,11 ,en l "epre ,e, ' ,tt•r s 1;'10 will be the t, 1 :, t of j Cl, ,. )(('ti\'ll l>ytlc]an,;; h<>re. T11 ' • 'vrwe o-ian L11theron t h1 rch c .\111-r,ca (2,700 con_gre.,. •io•1 ) . T 1w • ·orw0g-i 1 n L u 1 • r m Free d 11rc '1 of .Am,2riu1. . T 1c r 1 lwr· ll "9r thr0 . li. Tl ·r ) oung· f'eopl ,J's Leap;uc of I tl c S<•nYep;iau Lut!wran church. 7. Del . ·or::;k Lutherske Lnnd.,; or ln:llll For Ungdom i Amerika. I s. Son of . 'orway. !.>. Daughters of :\"orway. 10. :'\or.; c-,\merica n Histonc:r>I So < lfl �-. 1 1 . F:tecl renearven Societ)·. 12 Xorsk Sangerforbund of Amer ica (consisting of all ;\"orwegian i,ing i;,g so<"ietics o.f U. S. and Canada.) J ..: . An Academic: Choir from O!so, Xorway. consisting of 30 women and '.!O men students from Olso university. H. All Norse-American colleges, .i caclemies and serninariei, in U. S .and Canada. in every 15. :\'orse-Amencaus f-late. eyery province oi' Canada, the home country, large .;orwegian col- cn ic" in G reat Brita:in, in France and in Germany, in Sweden. Dt:nmark and Finlancl . in South Africa. Asia and ..\11 !'t r.1 i i a , in .M exico and South Amer ic.a. Evt>n the time of thP >iorthwestern Inclu�trir.l Exposition . to lJe given in the Qycr!a ,Hl building bt>tween Min11e apcli� ancl St. Paul, was fixed to coin cide II ith that of the C'c 11tennial. The Tri-State Post.mastor·s assoein.tion al so will have its convention there on rrr· c-ount of the Centennial. Tice famous choil' of Augustana col lege also is to attend and appear on the program. Arrangements are be � mad e for special sleepers for the choir, and for concerts enroute. Miss Marie Toohey, conductor of the Au gustana orchestra, is to give a violin 20!0 at the Centennial. ' · m ' �p tfngs 71a.) Rer"� TH URSQ.AY1, MAY zs. 1925 ORSE-.\ !\lERICAN CENTENNIAL EXPOSITI ON Just a Few of. the Things to Be Seen an1l i\leanl at the lUinnesota State Fair tlt·oundi.. June 6, 7, s, 9, __ Four lJig daye--continuous program I1 Ed ucatl"·'-�.1, entertaini ng, i nspi r ing . P · ·h.�il1. it 1,lvin Coolidge, president of the Unit, ' States. Hon. Fr.mk B. Kellogg, secrettary 1 of state :1Y :·he United States. Hol\, Joh' n Ludwig, Mowinc kel , p.rime· mi:nil'.\ w of Norway. Hon. H. E Bryan, Norway's minisi,er to th-3 l,;1 ed States. Rt. r.ev. J, _ Lunde, Bis hop of Oslo, , I Msny �tfngs and scu,ptui-e by L fam,Jus Norwegian and Norse-Ameri• J Jan artists. :hibi':s in 22 departments, inclnd- ·I l ::.-. .,, wonderful collections of old 1 ' Norse relies and those from pioneer I l days in /1 :-n erica-actually thousands 1 of article;; of historic value and in• 1 trest, I The U. fu. n avy giant airship "L"S 1 : Angeles" and e fleet of 50 army c:i.ir• pl.:mes, r :J �t;;rkweatt-ier. T, U.. 'l t Fl{ID.I\ Y_,. MAY 29. ' 92., -ente n ia l i t Minn Event Elaborat � ffai r N o t·se A m dean 11 e J itll t ,. 1 t .1 9 l-fo l l e t m 1 1u 1 4 t·o111111 d t c1 1 1 , , 1,a t K • u the N<1r • \ 111t"f1 1·.rn < 't·u lt'ii t ::l i to lit ht'ld 11 i\1 rn 1 1cc1pol 1 , at tl1e t..1 1 1 l{, ound'J rm I trnt' / 8 Y l i:,I , 1)111 111 t ilt' OH, .t r- l :1but a l t pm .ra nt , r- -,•1 1•r t:'pa1 ..1 101 st1ch ,I ll t',' t t t 1 he prog1 ,rn1 opt•n;s 011 Sund,, J 1 1ne 7 t h at ten 1 11 t l 1t· 111 m 1 • 1 r1g l 1 1 t h e .iftc'rnoon a n d ven i n g t ht p c i ;i l ad,lr L' ·se..:; and lllllt 1 L t1 i pro r 11 1-; w t l l lw g iven ·1 1 ! h t gt 11d t HHI . Reserved se al£ or t i (' pro!;( 1 1 11 ' t fl it' t h e granctsland an .>0 crnts musica l orga11 1 ;,:ntio ns uppeann� t11 t lw i r progra m a r c• the I tt ther B,rn J nf Deco rah, l o w 21 , t <l l i f ' H,wJ ot N o1 t h l w l •l , 1 •d t h : Atad1:nuc M i xtd < 'h o i i nl U l e , Un Tucsd ,n t ltt• prllg <i m wli i ll IS d,· · i g n a l •cl t lir. P n· •rnl u ti ,,1 c 1011 f : �ial tepresentatives of · .:r-, , • fr.<lll}l 1 ancl the Domiin, ion ,, • "•,: r1ch. t1,l ·o U. S. ser.lators, con1 , ••_ · ·,, '1?>"l -:, Jvernors of Norse ancc He,u· tlie follow i ng famous musical ')rganiz11,tfo s: Acadcm\ · Choir (50 voices) from :�or.war. w i l l i m: l ucle a gn·ellll f' b, � c 1 t't c11 , rn, Oliu C 1 t0lr and Band, of Sfate Kel l o�g. t he respon. ti, ::..:ther Ci llege Concert Band. Sen ator Norbeck of Sou t h l>akota, "' .�x �esher C(Jllege Choir. add re,;ses by !'rPs ident Ca l v i n Conl r/4lrJ.cor1' College Choir. idge and at ;i secon d seS:'ill'll t h College Choir. ,.,,,,:::-.,� i l l be add resses by Mayor Leac h , w • watdorf College Choir. Norwegian Singers asscciation, male :\-I i nneapolis, \il ayor N t I s o u ot c..; 1 ;:horUft, Pau l , H o n . Thos. IL J ,ihnson ot Prominnnt 1r: str umental and VOPn l W i n n i pe g a n d Prem ier Brn,ko1 o! soloist& , W i n n i peg . Gae- . I Business meet mgs and S'lt' ·ial . t;J'.J.OlJ SC colorful htstor1cal pa- I . . . ectio n a l meetmgs w t l l fe, t u r the s , 11 1000 people tak ing part. 1 Ch t eautiful living flags of the I program for Wed 1 1 , Jt •1 Norway by 120 1 I t is ex µeded t !J u t an e1101 mou s:utes and chUdre1,. ,·row d w i l l attend t h is cen ten 1at full ::;izr model of! the sloop, celebrn t i o n and e l a borate preparn "Restaun• Uonen," (th� Norwegian twn� a re h t ll g ni-td I > p1 ovilhMayflov.-<.n',) .1 i:t!X()ll lOlud a l l!Jll tor all l�U\._ ,cl1} lU tl'>! :illf e Prize- w!r�nin g mod ls o the o_ _rn_ilt--tf-J_!_ � tnro·oA:o,.1 JO siuapp, a-=J__ A\�cient Viking sh ips. qseu uap pn ilufm,rn The W•J'1derful Norse wovon tapes-H Jo aJns�uem 1111J ru 1H!.M. A:nsue1 u r aqi paq::iua r eouu tries wort_h thousands of dollars. [JlllS!P 0 11..1 ·Jarq urn.q atn P�A \O!IOJ P.lH ,lOJJOl[ JO saua os 0111 JO SlUllOJJU If �Engl ish Services to FOLK-I N THr NorwegiMan and k Norse Centenn ial_ -Open ing COUNTY PLAN GREAT Both HEGIRA IO CITIES B i s h op o f Oslo t.o Speak a t H i ppodrome and _ D e o r ranclstand-S t. Olaf Col l ege Ch oir and Lu t h e r ColleFe B a nd · \Vill • 0 Pro·v ide Music. . Fo u r sei·y\ces, Lwo in Norwegian of Grand l•'o1·ks, N. D. O u r Savi our's ___ �, two . i n }i)11glish , wiJ I . be h o1c1 at church, Omaha. and instrument al Train For Some ai\d and the fa ir gT6u nc1s Sunday, .J une 7, the fJUartet from the Lutl1 e·r col lege L otor nps For Others j OJ)el1 i ng_ ,lay ot ibe Norse- An�erican ban<; Hev.- 0. H. Sl etten will _p i-each t h e _ / �entcnma1. serm011 at the English· services be� I Provided. fore the. grand stand, 'I'he service ' t e w ill be conducted by Dr. IJ. W. Boe • 1. i n �� :�:o c1/��! a �1d 11 / :: "��g�:· music by the st: O!o.f college • . I 'L · IJA, U J.', i and beCor.e tl1e gTti.nd staM. Rt. R� • bii;nd and Norse male c horus. J. P. Lunde, bishop of Osl o, wil: b e Occasion \ m-iJrh·; g Co111 i dgc T eo h "! war. o. Wis., Jou �rd O p1:escnt at both to bring· the greet111gs1 N {)f'.t• h WCI-> · TUE-S.QAY. JUN E 2. 1 0,,5 • est Of , o'f 1.he Norwcg'ian chu rch. Jtace H ere and Ab r:m d . D R, · sT u s · TO S P E A K . ,.--...- COl\IING CONTENN� The Norse-American Contennial Dr. rr. G. Stub \,: i l l speak at the , A l l 0 rc1· l's ·t h Amer-ic,i. n orLh . �outh , east anad west ;peop.l e wllh tJ.c services in • U1e Hippodrome. , 'I: he celebration to commemorat the 100th blood of t h e V i k i 1gs co ursing in t he i ,· s·en i ce:,; • w i l l be co11 d u cted by Re,.• a:nniversary c'.lf-'t'ffi egmmng orllirorse veins al'e preparing to at t e nd t he !;Teat 1 C. . N. Nng-l estad and m usic w i l l be immigration to America will be held ·,st g·athel"ing of itB Jdnd in th o !J islory provided l)y the . St. Olaf Co l lege • I choral society and the Lutl1er col - 1 ,f t h e Norsemen i n ,\ medca. at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds Jcge concert band. St. Paul-M inneapo lis, Saturday Jun; }'rorn ,J ' ·,;·i J l ,lBscml,lc 'l'h e sermon at t he sen·�ces be.fore iii .IH inncapolis at t h e ;;tatc fair grnu nds . the grand stand will be by Rev. H. K. 6, to Tuesday June · 9th, inclusive. 1 h u ge crnwd of people, esLima te.tl to Madsen. Music wi. 1 1 be by the S t. · June 6 is "Bygdelag" day, June 7 is n u mber from 1 00,000 lo J 2 5,000 /-JOul;;, Ola f colleg·e .-band and the Norse male · "Church and Inter:iational'' day, June met with t h e common 1rn 1·pose of com• chorus of 600 voices. The _l<'l nglish services will be g·iveri , mernorat!ng the advent oC tbeit' a nces•• : 8 is "America" day, (when President lors, in great t ides of im111ig1·atio11, tc1 in the 11ort i cult uraf building at 10:30 Coolidge will attend and deliver an h e shore,; of the Land. o( Oppo1· tunity.l a . n,. and before the gTand stand at · address) and June 9 is "Norway and This event l,no"· n a,; the "Centen n ial> 11 a . m. I 1 Women's" day. Every day will be a At the hort icultural building , ser- , I .'.elebration" beca. use It falls upon u-..J: / 1:iundreclth an n iversary or th i,; famou, . vices, pie sermon wifr be by Dr. J; ; , big day. A. Aasgaat'd ; liturgical serTice b'y ' 1 ivcnt of landing, will be featured by t�1 H ev. M. C. Smeby, ::J l).d music by l 3 day ptogram, a. rra.nged to ho)d t 1 J ican island-continent, notwithstanding interci,t or t h e vast throng w h ich wil • Conco{1! a. c ll� �� choir, j o Int ii:01,rs �'---j_ the r.igors of its climate, although there ., --,-c... · --,--1 1---;;:....__...-,.;"----'· be assembled at that time. Pre,;ideoi • _i oolidge hllH agrood to be pi·csent in ·-�=n J h is reason to believe that the climate of 11 ut M' u ·so n . a:c; has secretary or S l>lte Ke!that island was more moderate at that MOND � J lo g( lo ad.cl to t he formal ity of t ho oc: ----� ..,___ t ime than now. In view of the Norse ca �on . The go vern or,; o( <1 lmost every' THE NO RSE-AMERICAN , 5�.§.1.ern st�,le. will lso�e there, re1Jl'ec settlements in I celand and Greenland, senting the Common-\vealths whic)i il11i CENTENNIAL. the close proximity of the American 8ca.ndinavian,; have ren·dered so l>eautlh coast and the skill of these Vikings on s t interesting event hel a be d will i T th'! f d The hea s o ,ul and. pro1:;perous. ,;lates of No1·th Dakota. 8outh Dakou,, the Minnesota state fair grounds i"n S t. the sea, it would be far more remark M ontana,, M i nnesota, ,visconsln a:1d Paul , opening Tpp+(\ and continuing for able if these mariners had not seen and llisi;issippi have all signiDeu thelr l n · four days. A l l persbns of Norwegian visited American coasts than if they ha,d • ln • the c.om birth or extraction are invited . ent ions of coming to ass!;;t to partici, done so. A few hours' sail from their Tiemorati.on. Special trains arc l.Jeini; chattered all pate and all others will b e welcom i village in Greenland would bring them • vcr the continent. T he G r eat No T th • guests. I t is , in a way, an internationa in sight of American contir1ental shores. • �rn Railway, here In Al.Jerdeen is bu,iy a air because Canadians and American Indeed, there is virtually no doubt that ff ;ccuring resei·vations for al least l!.l!i, this of good stock have j oined hands i i they did visit as far south as Massachu,v hkh is tile n umber neoo.e<l to sched1.1le a special of this kind. At present the grand reunion, and Norway an( setts. ,nit ing t "·u Pullman cars have b�n Iceland will take part The governors of six states are of . l llecl and it iii hoped that witllin a da v I .• I t is to be a celebration of the activ, Norwegian ongm, and all of these, or t irn tli e anno uncement may be ma.c'ie itie s of the men and women of Norwa ) headed by Governor Theodore Chrish u t the' quota is complete. Tbo · local ag-ent. has :.i rrangoo it _so . in the last hundred years in hel p in s tianson, who is of Norse descent, are . hat the cars will be dra wn into the bui' ld up No 1·th A �enca • • � t 0 b e P r e se· nt • nort h o f t 11€ exp ect�d . limit,; of lbe fair gTouncls so tlw.t th" An important feature is to b e a speech occupa.nts will not have to bothei· t ;:i 1 R 1 0 Grande. I t will make notabl e the make 1:escrvation>i at t he hotels. Such f coming of the good ship R estoration , by President Coolidge, who comes to ·on vemenccs as hot an<l cold ·wa t er, the Mayflower of the North a s mall distinguish his fellow citizens of Norse . • arrangcmQuts. • lighting and h eating sloop 0( for ty- five t ons, wit ~ h' th e fi rst ancestry and origin. I n addition hiirh . .viii be pi-oyide<l. . orga 1 ed party of Norwegian 11 emigrants officials from Canada, Norway and I cez propar°in15 busy. are The Twin cities ·oL' t he rece)) t ion o f the va;;t multltu<l'.? to this country in 1 825. land will honor the occasion with their 11·hich is }louring In b y e ve ry k i nd of A special ce11te r of Norwekian life has pre s ence. • l • • • . . . conveyance . .'rhe greatest number wJ\l l a 1ways b e N orweg1ans are a . p1011 eenng race. en t 1e Upper M1ss1ss1pp1 valley JH'ob,;,bly cornc from Minnesota aml t.hc I �ell in them served has states quality This of and .M these , innesot thll-t a has been Dakotas, )Jut i ndic.:J,tiohs show :t Canada a.nc, the >,outhern . and w es t,)1· :1 signally favored, because an important North America. It l e d them to fron- y states will be iv-ell . represented. percentage of her people have th eir • J tiers which soon c eased to be frontiers, f • racia . . Besides t he regular spaeches and re: 1g1 � on the_ western side of the S can- and thus they grew into prosperity. po,:ts the Yisiioi·s to the convention Americans of other stocks extend to a nra.y ta k e part in the · extensive · pro- d 1 nav1 an peninsula. I t is now well settled that a thousand Norsemen a warm hand on this occasion 1 ;<: -rt1\m oC ou tdoor games and fe1:;Uvals • j • • • "·hi . h am being planned as v.-en '.tS years ago N orweg1an sett 1ers had vii- an d w1s h th em prospen' ty an d J1appmess. l witn\.ss 'the priceless collection of sou - ages t yea of hundreds and more many farms in Greenland, an Amer- foi:: Yen�"'i- _anu antiques which wm bct o.n- l M T . · i GREJ T ST SfJMMER vv-�NT s:t�:: I I x, °: 1,l I �was sold for $400 upon its arrival at New York. Unable to place before the Norse American Centennial visitors, the original boat, members of the Oster dalslaget have approached that ac complishment as nearly as ls pos R E B U I L D N0RS�MAY FL0WE • sible with the completion of the ex of the northern 1 act reproduction ' F i rst Sc a n dlnavian I m m i grant's S0- "Mayflower.'' 1 . Foot S l oo p to Be Copi e d E:xactfy. : :\Un neapolis -In the stat e fair l groun ds, workmen were hu�y bn ilding a tiny F<l oop w h ich woulrl s,w m hard· _ ly SP a wo rth�· for th " na vigation !'If onP ot' M i n nesota's l akes, so � m all i::; i t. I nnt in that sl oop t hey a re rc•('re· , n l i n g t 10 ",i\.l a y rtower of t he North ." a j Yt,si;pJ of oniy 45 tons. w h i C'h erossed , t h e A tl a n t ic oc,ean in 1 s2 ;:; , w i th r,3 pa n· <>.,, g-ers who provnl themselves 1 tlw 1·ang-uarrl of the great Scandi navi an emigration to America. l When thousands of vi:;itors <'ome the Twin Cities in ,T 1111e to join Ho!Iancl, FRID.t I LAG REPRODUCES NORSE BOAT FOR CENTENNI in which th at party hraved an ocea n . Under d irec t i on of the Os t Prd a l slaget, a nation:. d American- : ',orwegian orga nization . t h e sloo p bei:1g rebuilt i n every deUd l . __ I WEJ!J.N!:!it1.V��. • mri, WllRKMEN BUSY ION NORSE SHIP , _. li'UPERTOR WIS TET,11 1 L'L.2 �- uction Completing on Tiny Sloo the Twin City Centennial. /13y Ttoit<J.d >'r<>�� . ) T PAUL M i nn.-Wor kmen are bus • today o'n the state fair grounds oomp ting the construction of a tiny at does not appear capable sloop of weat ring navigation difficulties of Minnesota's "ten thou so small is it. " M ayflower.'' In the pi cture above Is shown skeleton of u. replica, 11O\V under con1 struction at the State I•';J ir Grounds of t Ji e famous sloop, "Uestauratin," which in 182:5 brought 53 im nu 1ts from- StaYanger, Norw ay, itecl States. to the • y sloop has been re created the ayf!ower of the North, " a 45 ton vessel whlch crossed I the Atlantic ln 1825 with 53 pas I sengers, the van guard of the great Scan dinavian emigration to the United States. Scandi Next week thousands of navians, living i n all section s of the world, are to view the replica of the boat their forefathers trusted to carry thern to the "land of opportun ity." The small skiff will be one of the of features at th�orse� hundre Centennial ,;ic.p�n America r grounds he which ope Sat urday. A s t h e completed model rests b e fore the eyes of the visitors here next wee'k, it w!ll recall vividly the history of the voyage reminiscent of the daring exploits of the early Vik ings-a voyage which paved the way for the multitudes w ho followed the small hand ful of pioneers. Sailed in 1825. The small party sai led from Sta vanger harbor, July 4, 1825 and threaded their w ay through the p�· ils of the English channel, across the Atlantic ocean and bravely into the New York harbor, just three months an d five days from the time of their departure. The vessel was but 50 feet long, 20 feet w ide and eight feet deep and The m od('\ is being constru cted by t h e Osten.l.i lslag-et for the N orse American Centennial • aml after l he Centennial it w i l l be s:C't u p on t h e campus of Luther collc 6e at Deco rah, Iowa. · '.l.'iiP nffiC"ers of ( l1e Osterdalslaget are N. T. :..Ylocn, Ferg1is F'alls, .\l inn. : 'INNEAPOLIS READY � TO HONOR NORSEMEN � WESTERN PLAINS MINNEAPOLIS, June 2 .-Pagentry and song wil l vie with speechei and e xhibits i n depicting the part p layed by Norwegians in the de velopment of t h e n orthwest at, the Norse-American centennial celebra tion here, June 6 to 9. Mu ch of. the romance i n the build ing of the northwester n section o t the United States are chapters from the history of the Norse-American s in this c ountry, for it is in this sec " hardy maj.o rity of t h e tion a Norse" settled. Interest will be added to the celebration by ·the presence of P res! dent and Mrs. Coolidge, and June 8 has been set aside as President's presiden t ; nev. IC G. N'il;,en, Osag lowa, vice president; a.n d K n ut Haug-eseth, Minneapolis, sec1·etar and t reasu rcr. Reverend i\lr. Nilsen, whn is :;11 per vi sing tac b uilding of the model, i showu in I hR foregroun d, cxaminin t l l<l blueprin ts. Day, when he will speak at -2 p:-in. at the state fair grounds, where the celebration will be held . Promis_e of the presen ce of the giant dirigible Los Angeles for pa rt of the c elebration has providecl an other point of attraction for those w h o have never seen a dir igible. But to the thousan ds of Norse Americans b orn in Norway, or mem bers of the early Norwegian col onies in the northwest, the celebration has its main attraction i n the p rom ise of a gigantic reunion, particu larly in the conventions of "Bygdelags" on J une 6. T 11irty "Bygd elags" will h old their reunions on that day, each consti tuting descendents of a Norwegia n community or clan, distinguished by a distinct d ialect. These conventions are annual affairs in this country, and are expected to attract 2 5 , 0 0 0 person s this year. In this grou p will be many descendents of the original 5 3 i m mi grants who arrived in this county October 9, 1 8 2 5 , on the Norwegian �sloop Restau ratione n, the first or Norwegians to ganized group of emigra te to America. It is in comme morati on of the ar rival of this now historic sloop that the celebra tion will be held, spon sored by Norse-A merica n church eo:. colleges, associations and individ u als to enable a compos ite picture of wh,at the Norsem an has done in the settleme nt and growth of the northwest. In the original grouv, that board ed the sloop at Stavanger were 52 men, women and children , but be fore the voyage had been completed, the roster had been increase d by the birth of a girl, Margaret Allen Larsen Atwater. Participat ing in the celebration here will be Mrs. Atwater's son, Rev. Joh n Larsen Atwater of Chicago, a retired Baptist clergymal1' now 73 years old, and Mrs. At rn. ter's sister, Jane S. Atwater, for 5 0 years a teacher in the public schools- of i nte ·est will I1 the p;·bcip al points • • • be a model or tne swop 1�, e• "'0 'aUI' _ I at1on en. Officer s in charge of the celebration are �reparin g: for a h)ta� � attenda nce of about 200,000 . _Ll t i o,'., of an e x e c u t fVe c o m m ittee or b o a r d of d i rectors, w h i c h h a � h a d c h arge of a l l p r e p a ra t i o n s. R EC O G N I T I O N - Off i c i a l l y nations, fo u r by recog n i zed n a m e l y, U n i te d State�. D o m i n • i o n o f C a n a d a , N o rway a n d I c e · l a n d , a l l o f w h i c h w i l l be o f • f i c i a l l y rep resented, i n cl u cl i n s t h e p r e s i d e n t o f t h e U n i ted States, m e m b e r s of N o rw a y ' g c a b i n e t a n ci p a r- l i a m e n t . o t h e,r h i g h :! i g n i tar i es. L P R O G R A M - R e l i g i o u s se r v i c es ( S u n d a y, J u n e 7 ) , c o n c e rt� by f a m o u s m u s i ca l .J rg a n i z a • add resses, t i o n s a n d s o l o i sts, h i storical essays, a t h l et i c g a m e� a n d c o n t e sts, " l i v i n g f l a g s," 23 d e p a rt m e n t s of educat i o n a l e x • h i b i ts a n d p a g ea n t, " T h e Com • i n g of t h e N o r t h m e n." -------��---::=.ONICLF A Centennial Head quarters LL the official guests during the Norse-American Centennial celebration at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds, June 6-9, will be entertained at the New Nicollet Hotel, Minneapolis, where rooms for fi fty if1 '['NNIA' U C people have been reserved. Mr. George L. Crocker, manager, was authorized by the directors of the hotel corporation to offer free ATTENDED TO accommodations for Centennial offices and headquar ters on the ground floor, Washington Ave. front of the hotel. The address is 1 1 Washington Ave. South. Y The business of the headquarters force has already out icans, will make an ·important part (By Associated Press) grown the quarters originally tendered, so the hotel of the celebration, and 011 the closMINNEAPOLIS, June 4.-One / . management has . generously offered, also free of 0 0 0 , 1 including pageant a night ing hundred years ago the Konvegian / charge, considerable additional office space adj oining, person s will picture the American - sloop Res tauration en la e d nd 53 1 comprising large room at corner of Washington and 1 ization of the Norwegian. emigrants from Norway at the NicoUet Aves. This pageant will center aroun d hal'bo r of New York, the first or- . The New Nicollet Hotel is the Northwest's finest Colonel Haris Heg of the Fifteenth gani zed c ol ony to i:cach this coun- j hotel, absolutely up to date in every way, having 600 Wisconsin Infantry, the all-Norse fry fr o;;, t'he �f 'C midni h t � 1 rooms with bath or connecting bath. Every room is r egi �� n.t of the Civil war, which sun. an outside room. The hotel has every facility for _ \ j participated m 29 engagements beCommemorating thatl e v e n t luncheons, banquets, and other meetings, from small fore Colonel Heg was killed in the Norse-Americans will stage a committee meetings to the largest gatherings, the ele I battle of Chickam auga. .___..-- fom·-tla y cel ebration at t'.1e Il'I inne - f gant banquet room accommodating 1 , 500 people, the 8�ta st;te fair gToun.ds here June 1 largest and finest room of its kind in the Northwest. St. Paul, Minn., News G tJG..,_ 9, with P • · {tent Coolidge For the information of our readers who contem NEDN ESDAY, JUNE 3, 1925 and 1\�r.tr"g e heading thG list plate attending the Centennial celebration we give here of distinguished ,·is itors. with the schedule of room rates, the qbotecl rate being for two persons to the room : 50 rooms at $3.50 ; 68 Before tho main grantlstand 1 President CoohJge w:11 speak Mon- i rooms at $4.00 ; 84 rooms at $4 . 50 ; 257 rooms at day, June 8, at �� p. m., with ampli- I $5.00 ; 41 rooms at $5.50 and $6.00 ; and 38 rooms at fiers carrying h is voice to thous- ; $7.00. ands in otheL· bui ldings on the In explanation let it be said that it is common prac grounds. tice in large cities entertaining crowds such as are ex a 1 0 11 a n d can pected at the Centennial to put two persons in each ex pos i t i o n . The presidential party will inW H E R E - M i n n esota stat e elude Frank E. Keliog·g, sec'.rntary \ room ( in order to accommodate the largest possible ( A t h l et i c p ro · fa i r g r o u n ds. number ) , or charge the same price for one person. In of state, at whose St. P«ul home g r a m· s a t U n iversity o f M i n n e the President and Mrs. Cool idge j other words, two persons may occupy a $3 .50 room at s o t a M em o r i a l stad i u m . i $1 .75 each, but i f one person insists on having the room will be guests while hero. W H E N - S a t u rday, S u n d a y J un e T u e s d a y, M o n d i: y a n d alone he must pay the regular room price of $3 . 50. From Norway will c:0,11 2 two 6 · 9. offi cials o:f th e Norwegian govern Persons intending to visit the Centennial are urged W H Y-Tb c e l e b r a t e c e ,, t e n · ment, Pri!l.e J\.1 ini,;fo;: ,r. L. Mo- : not to delay in making hotel reservations, as indications a ry of N o rse g ro u p i m m i g ra t i o ii ' winckel to rcprese;1t the cabi:1et t o A m e r i c a, to pay d eserveo are that the gathering will be the largest in America in I . t ri b ute to p i o n eers and b u i lders and Ivan Lykke, president of chc of t h e U n ited St.,tes a n cl C 3 n • Storthing, to repL·escnt that parl ia1 9�5, and that the number of visitors will prob�bly a d a , a m o n g w h o m t h e N o rse H. JI. Bryn, Norwcglan ; ! ment. p l a y e d an i m p o rt a n t role, ,3 nd 200,000. reach . . t o e d ucate, e n t e rta i n and i n • minister at Vi ashi ngton, will be · Prof. Gisle Bothne, dean of the Scand111av1a:1 � e s p i r e t h e p re s e n t g e n e ra t i o n . the personal l'E'presentative of partment, University of Mi �nesota, is general chair B Y W H O M O R I G I N A T E D King Haakon. man of the Centenmal Committee, and Mr. S. H . Hol S t a v a n g e r l a g et, a ,, a s s o c i a t i o n Bands and choil·. from Norse stad Minneapoli�, is managing director. Rev. B. E . o f i m m i g ra n t s a n d t h e i r d e American colleges and from the Stava n g e r from s c e n J a ,,ta Bergesen, Minneapolis, i s chairman o f the program -W . t h e sloop whence N orway, University of Oslo i n Norway, to committee. Resta u ra t i o n e n s a i l e d o n J u ly 4 , gether \1\-� ith n1usical org·anizacions 1 825, w i t h first orga n i :i:ed g r o u p of churches and associa:ions. will of N o rse i m m : g ra n t s to t h e famish the music for the rnlebrr.Un fted States. tion. BY W H O M S P O N 5 O R E D I By t h e t h i rty - o dd b y g d e l a g s, Exhibits will i nclude the wo1·k of t h ro u g h a j o i n t cou n c i l of re p · Norse-Americans in �rts ar;d the I resu l t e d w h ich r e s e n t a t ives, professions, whi,e perliaps one o f i a b o u t two years ago i n ,e l e � - ! _t · ,L BE }ff NORWEGIANS ! ::,!�,;:,�:·::,,:�,:'� ·�:,:�:!::.: I' I ! I . r- �- i be sure -to have th-e room wh en you ; nature , with speake rs in Norse and 1 St. Paul. Minn., 1=':0-er� p.-,es,; call for it. If for any reason you do 1 Englis h, and some of the most fam SU NDA'Z,..J_v1t-...=: 7 :ns _ n ot call for the room on the day it has ous singing and musica l societi es of : been reserve d, it ca nnot be rented to the world, includ ing the famou s TT � n t t s Studen ts' Chorus from Oslo , Nor - ::m� �; ;�/�� !?�hel da! i/;:: way, which bas been. makin g a o m h triump hal tour of the countr y for 1;i�l :;t;te i!�: :�� h! :o!: two weeks ; the interna tionally l wilt be rented to som e one else. This famous St. Olaf choir; Waldo rf Col \ agreement is fair to both the hotel lege choir, Concor dia Colleg e choir, ! Rooms in Private H ouses N ot &n d person who has reserved the August ana College choir, Augsbu rg 1 I room. Y et Listed , S. P. A. LeadSemin ary Glee club, a male cho_r us Any further inforn:fat�on about of 5 0 0 voices and the ch urcm. choir er R e p o rt 5• h otels may be obtain ed either bv , from Omah a, while the prelud es, Less than 10 per cent of the possible writin g to the hotel direct, to the St. postlu des ¥d hymn accom pania l,.otel accommodation or th e '.l' win C it - Paul Associa tion, St. Paul, th e Min ne ments will be played bY the St. Olaf les has been reserve'd so fa r for p ros- apolis Civic an d Commerce Associ a al).d Lutlie r Colleg e bands . I t is coming the during :pective guests tion, Minn eapolis, or the Norse-Ameri doubt fnl if ever there bas been such Norse-Am@Ij£@P 9a;n 1;cnnial and St. c:"laiin�� ffl'e'l'l''l'ffl��f+.""'!9'Mll.i.._ an impos ing array of great music al amply Paul and Minneapolis will be organ izatio ns partic: ipatin g in such able to w1rn care of from anywhere servic es. On Sunda y evenin g there I Buffa1o , Minn., Joun' between 50,000 and 350,000 visitorsal . '.t;'l:WRS.DAY* J UNE � L<.'� will be two great music al progr ams, \ that time, according to an official \ , one before the grand sta:m.d and the statement issued by Franlr M. :Moore, I convention sectetary of the St. Paul ' other in the Hippo drome , at both of . l Association, Se,t urday. which the pri:zie Centen nial cantat a I Mr. Moore also pointed out that as l will be presen ted. _ I yet no steps have been t-al-:en to list M onday will b e Presid ent's Day, a,vailable rooms in private houses and Q featur ing the visit and addre ss of a,sserted that his statement regards _PrEisid ent _ Calvin C_Qolid ge, wbo_will hotels only. L For several weeks past, the Associ arrive in the Twin Cities on a ation secretary saicl, there have been special train 011 Sunday night. 'Vague reports circulated that St. Pa1.1l President Coolidge, Secretary of LARGEST GATHERING OF MUSIand Minneapolis would not be able State Kellogg and U. S. Senator CAL ORANQIATIONS 'l'O BE comfortably to house the large num Peter Norbeck of South Dak ota wm ber of visitors expected here in .June. FEATURE speak at the presidential session on These rnmors, M r. Moore declared, }1a ve gained some credence th rough Monday afternoon. There will be -0ut the state but are allsolntely with PRJiJSIDENT COOLIDGE WffiL numerous great musical numbers · by nu t vestige of foundation in fact. . SPEAK MON DAY-ROOM FOR the variot,s organizations in addiDuring the la.st week of May mobt l iza tion oC rooms in t he residence dt� -tion to the U. S.. Marine Band . This ALL VISITORS tricts w ill be effected by lhe Assoct session will also be featured by the at ioh in orde1· Lhat persons who pre fer rooms in private hou�es may be presentation of the Living Flag by ' The general committee of the . placed to their sa.tisfact10n. 'l.' he Usting· of rooms doe? n.ot sig Norse-American Centennial celebra• 450 • school children, the flag first nify a lack of hotel space, it was a� tion in the 'fwin Cities has re- appearing as that of Norway and ' .gerted, but is cont.ei:n))lated more . 111 quested that there be the widest then at a signal being transformed the nature of. an additional enterta.m :rnent courtesy. publicity given to the fact that instantly into the Stars and Strips- I signifying in this unusual manner r- , .,.,;t Cit . (Yo"'- a.) Repuh!lr ' tf ► there ,vill be plenty of accomo·da- the transformation of the people of lions in the Twin Citi�s for everY 1 visitor. Stories have been circulated N-0r.seland into Anmerica n. cit_i zens. "The Pageant of the Northmen," that the hotels will not be able to [ � N f provide sleeping q��rters. These on Tuesday i� another unique ind I ssoneapolis Civic and Com.merce are p ro��unced mal:ci_ ous misstate elaborate spectacle, which will prove ciat io� _an1 the hotel and rest �ra nt ments, 1ntended to rnJu�e the cele: the climax of the entire celebration, 1 \ associations of St. Paul and Mm n e bration. As a ma�ter of f ct there \ in which 1 0 0 0 p-e rsons will appear ap • are co-operating with the direc will be accomodat1on f_o r e�•, �ry Iler- in a series of 2 4 scenes emblemat\C tors of - merican Centen son who visits the Twrn Cities dur- of the traditions of the Norse race, nial to provide amp e 1!!!'!ffli ing ·any o r all of the three days, June I its transplanting to American soil his modatioqs at .reasonable . prices for 6, 7 and 8. But few of the bo_tels and its contribution to American � ory and progress. • t l 1 visitors duri ng the celebration. � have their quota of reservations I , These spectacular features are. b-Ut Please note duri ng the Centennial filled, a_n d tb�re are �undreds I . a· l)art of the Centennial celebratiqn, celehratio n , rooms must be occupied to homes hsted rn additw� to t capacity, that is to say, if a room can scores of hotels and roommg houses I thtire being a presentati_o n in z.l de \ partments, filling large fair build accommodate two or more persons, available . . \ mgs, prepared by the committee, i n unless such person is willing to pay T ]J. e Norse-American Centenmal the price which two or more person will be held at the Minnesota State I addition to the official exhibits of would be charged. This is fair to the . Fair grounds, o pening on SaturdaY I the State of Minnesota for 'Which I thle }\egislature appropriated $ 1 0 , hotels and to th e many who need with the sessions of the numerous I '00 0. 0 0 . room s. These nationa l "lags" or societi es.: i The visit of the U. S. army �n� Suggestion : If you wish to stay at a I. are business sessions and no entrance i navy air fleets with the huge dll'l h otel in St. Paul or Minneapolis, and \ charge will be made to the fair gib-le Los Angeles, will be an even h ave not already done so, please send : grounds that day. 1>e1dom seen in this section of ou your reservation at once directed to, th e The formal programs of th e country, _ hotel and enclose ch eck for one day's I Centennial open on Sunday . when room rent. The hotels are all reliable the buildings housin the thousands \i g ai,.d will issue a receipt for advance . of splendid and interesting exhibits i payment, which constitutes a contract will be open to the public. There will ; between you and the hotel, so you will be huge gatherings of a religious ERVICE IS ASS� n� FOR 3 60 000 GUBSTS· ! �::� l NORSE AMERICAN CattEMfflAl� BE SPECTACULAR AF FAIR :{:�::2��::;;i·� �! i 1 I I �of providing lodgfogs-for a l arge pro- , time set for the prqgra m , in o rder to Garv. J\. n . r. a . get a good seat . portion of the visitors. .F.R� DAY. JUNE 'i. 1 15 Sunday. Ju ne 7t h l There was no time during th e big' / The ,progra m - �MJ lulil !!:kPII Am eric a n Le gion convention in St. ny s•plen d•i d event� Very llnJlortant \a:11 last Septe mber when the two it owing to m ited s·pa•c e, w e give My a ttention has\ repeatedly been cities· could not . have c ared for 5 0,000 ew i f h on ! the outstand1ng feacalled to some very active and vicious more people th an th ey were called up t es : propa gand a , evid ently inte nd ed to on to lodg few of the ' e . In fact, very w,u s 1' k• .r-fvedd LUc� h er c-0ll eige C'oncert . . . ke ep pe ople away fro1n the celebra thousands of rooms ava ilable m pri• · Ba d Avd',e Ii ng ''A" , Decoria h , Ioma. • tion. vate homes were occupied. yre h�ve 1 Pr . Carlo A. Spera tl, D!rigent . THERE IS NO TRUTH IN THE devoted a lot of sp ace to d1scussmg I e· ,.�'tpra e,d1'k&n--,iD·r. H . G . ·st u lb, • . STA TEMENTS that aJI the hotels in the housmg s1• tua t·ion, but we be lieve ) Fo a l! d., for D en u� swl1s k L u th ers,rn ,. St. Paul a nd Mineapolis· a re filled. it is justifi ed because of the p ersis- / 1 K·I' -e. A few are unable to accept more re- • tent propa ganda being spread about . �ov�r d e n Herre-i.st. Olaf C-01!ege servations-but hotels al'e still able , relative to th e situa tion. It would / Chg;ral Society. _ . 1 I to accomod ate many thousa nds at a1most se em a s 1f a conc erted attempt k G u d. stj e•neste-i;past H. K. N � oi·:,.· / reasonabl e rates. were being made to injure the cele- Madisen , Led:e r, Minnea.'po·l is, Minn . 1 • THERE IS ROOM ENOUGH for at . EngHsh conducted by . ,,, peop1 e away. bration by keepmg m .,erv1ces reast two hundred th ousand more PLEASE DON'T BE FOOLED BY Rev. . H 0. S l ett i} n. Minnea!!) olls. i,eople in the hotels and pricate homes· ;� .L "... _ _..._,"'1JCIOUS PRO • Music ·bY the St. Olaf College of the Twin Cities. Housing commit Ban d, Nrnrth1field, Minn . , P:riof. .J. ,.,t&l'l . l'c' , · .; � :c:!;,c>t,on tees are listing every avail able cl ean Arndt Berg, Director. F.RJDAV, I 1NF S. 1 a;,; and comfortable bed in both cities. At 1 0 : ,3 0 i-n •the morn in•g t h e Past experi ence with l)ig meetings pro· g ram a t t h e Horti'c ultural Buil'd 'fl.as demonstrated that th ous ands· of i n•g h as a s s pec ia.J n u mibers : available beds have not been occu Ff)stal Sermon-The Rev. J. A. pied. Possibly this will be the case Aas· giaardi, D. D . , l\1()1orehea d , Minn . during the Cente·n nial, but better to A nthe,m -Joint Ch urch Choruses, After many m onths o, bave thousa nds of beds un -occupied G11and1 Fork s, N. D., Mrs. Da-vid om th an to h ave one pers·on without o ' fort Hnd la:bor. •he pr()lgram Stove Directm·. I m ittee o f the C e n ten-n ial h as fin lly p�� Up, K 1. 2 COME! You will be ta ken eare of. 1 I completed, i ts tremendous taisk nd Hilson fra H . M. Ko nig Haa kon Plea se p ass this on and if possible , I we' feel sure that .a l l who attein will V H. Ved Norgeis M i n ister , H. Bry,lf, liave your local papers run a story 1 join in congratulating th e ��mbers •, Wash ington. D. C. of the committee i n the splendid• re-inviting everybody to come. i _ re,praesentan-t , Biskop Kirkens PLEA SE ASK YOUR LOCAL • :mlts t hey ha Ye be-en able to brmg Joha n P. Lund,e, Oslo, Nor,w ay. NEWSPAPERS TO "TELL THE : about. I San g av Det aloademiske blan dete WORLD" THAT CEN'rE NNIAL VI As will readily be seen 'bY a pe rusal 1 kor. SITORS WILL BE PROPERLY AND of this program, the thre e d aY;l'io d-e- : �Iusi k av Luther Col'lege Con crtt voted to the celelbratiou proper are SATISFA CTORILY HOUSED. Band. Of couri:::e , we don't expect th at the lite ra lly filled to oa1p aci-ty with in- . M o s t of t h e afternoon a n d, eveni rug Hotels are going to be able to c are teresting even ts a n d t hat the various program for Sunday is devoted t o for A LL Centenni al visitors. For : session pTo•gram•s cover a wid e field. mu sic. ibo1th voca.J and· instru ment1al, ason, well equipped and man ' 'I'he m e mbers of the comm ittee bethis • a m ong which ·t h€re are some splen ned "h o gan their work with h igh ideals, and bureaus'' have been e1:< the results i n d icate t h at they h a-ve j did numlh ers. At eigh t o'cl01ck in tablished in bot?r M' rn;,1111polis l!ind St. , the e-vening a concert in the Gran ., n·o t fa llen short of t h ese ideals. Paul, under the experienced super \ vision of the Convention Secretari es 1 Th e ge n e1�al a d1m iss ion 9".> the cen- 1 i Stand will be a marvel for the exof the Minneapolis Civic & Commer('e celebration e n titles th e , i haust! veuess of the progra,m <and tenni-al As·s oci ation and the St. Paul Associa . bearer to a ttend any and an pro- : 1 in the grand con greg,ation of 1n u, sical tion. These housing bureaus are now i grams given in the St a,te Fair I talen t -t h a t w il l parti cipate. M ond a y, Jun e 8th busy listing rooms available in pri Grounds wi th, four exce'l)-t ions Be- i This day is devoited m,o stly to 15 vate. homes, thousands of which al 1 cause o· f a great demand from •p e o- , m i n u t fl 1ad d resses, reminscenses a n d rea dy h ave been liste d and hundreds . ple ou tsid e 01f the dty for o,p<po·rbeing added daily. The usual rate tunity to provide themse.l ve,s with j hi storical sket ches. At 1 0 a. m . be·ns the presidential sessi n , G ov, for rooms in . private homes is : ' $1.50 l; reserved, seiats for cer,tain programs , • hristianson, in·trod u'Ci n g the Pres!- '. for on e person, $2.50 for the room if . the •Oe·n tenn i a l co,mm ittee has de- ! occupied by two p ersons. It is with 1 cided to sell re.seT·ved seats at 5 0,c , 'nt of the Un i ted States. I 1 Address by Calvin Coolid•ge. the understanding tha t this rate is to i for the gra n d con cer•ts at the IUppo@-reeting by Frank B. Kellog. be uniform in both cities and it is ! drome and before the Grand Sltand Re sponse by Pete;:-?-nirbeck. with th is understanding that home 1 I on S und1ay even ing, June 7th, and Tl!n·e will a,Js,o be many other owners are pl acing th eir spare rooms ' for the presiden tia I session :Mond ay addresses by prominen t men and at disposal of the Centennial commit- I a fternoon , June 8th. 1an d fo.r t h e . women. tee. Be sides, th ere will be ampl e ac wonder fu l hist oric ,p ageant o n Tues Tuesd-a y, June 9th comodations at the fair gro1mds for ; d;a y eve n i n g. June 9 t h , the latter two all thos e who de sire to "camp out". i both being give.n before •t h e Gran d Initernation al Day Th ere is pl e nty · of room available for • This d,ay will be devoted mostly Stand . In a d,d. ition to the reserved th ose who bring their own .camping ! sections of the Gra n d .S tan d . h ow • to greeting in the form o.f short aid · . equipm ent and arra ngements are also I ever. there wil l be 111 a 11 y thousan ds d,resses and sh ort resumies c,.f Norse under way for rental of tents on the of s eats aV1aila1b le wlth•out any extra imflu e nce on our social. literary and fair grounds. And pl ease don't for ' ch arge. An other rea'Son for reserv- gorvern, mental s,pheres. get that m any thousands· of Cent enn Tuesd1ay even ing a grand .pa geant, sea.t ing cavacity 1 ing a pal't of th e 1 i al visitors have relatives or close d iffere nt phases of : for th e progra m s mention ed• is that illustratin g friends in th e Twin Cities with wh om • life, follO'Wed 'by a -American e Nors pay to pref!?r atly many people , g re' they will stay during th eir visit h ere . the sm1a l l extra charge to scra1111bli n g d·ivers!.tle d progra,m that has a con This fact relieves th e hotels and the . for seats and takin•g their places two clusi>on cons'lsiting of E::r.bibitsi and housing bureaus of the responsibility 1 or t hree hours or more be,fore tl1e A thletic pro•grams. I I , I rs. n .. Orse-Amer,·can Centenn·1al ,· I ! I I ! • ! I I I �FR!D.;\Y ru�:: �- FRIDAY., J .., l 1 \ �r,p l CIJ,;:' Ko°rdic Centennial Cele bration This Week St. Paul, Minn., May 2 8.-In honor of the centenn i� of the first group � migrati n of or eigans to y � I T\lfj y, :iim!."Vr..l"<rn'-' LA. '!11.·'r.'ES J_QNI!. 6, 1025. Hanll ! �i nn., .-i,,.r n e 5.-Wher I NorwegJa !Jrom al 'tll•, of the 1vorld co1 h re fol" t he Norse-Am er • lean CE'-n �, 11 1�!, _ they • � , 08 � -'9f'·,.;t Ef• •J ttt1e sloop "Restaura nti onen" depicted in pageant. S h e was 11 vesse l of 45 tons, manne_d by 53 rsemen who left their fatherland Monday, the �th day of Jun , No I 00 years ago this year to se.ek for is going to be a wild affair in the tune in Ameri ca. The centenn ial is p l a n n ed to com win Ci �ies. First of all it l,il l rue111_orate the events of th is first mi b� tin t,:g clJ.9 bl the Norse-_A g�atron_ an d to eulogize the Norwe !l'lan p1011e!'-rs in America. Offi cials merican ceten niul program be in charge a re negotiating to make Norway's participatio n in the affair cause President Coolidge, Secre of an official 11ature, wh ich would t ary of State Fra nk B. Kel log;�, mean that Crown P1·ince Olaf would 1 r��resent his coun try at the H. Bryn. Mi nist er frum Norway, ut1011. TO Twin Cities Rea For Gala Occa the United States, the Federal Gov 1 ernment, the State of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St.Paul are uniting in plans for one of the most elaborate celebrations ever held in this section of the country. The celebrati on , which wi l l have its form al opening here on Saturday of this week, is expected to attract an enor mous attendance of ,visitors from poi and a hundred other celebrities n ts i_n Minnesota, Wisconsin,, Illinois, w i l l be h ere. Iowa, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and oth The Uni ted States Naval M ar er states in which thousands of imm Band. known as • '1 he Presi ine igrants from Norway have found new homes and are now numbered arn,ong cJent's own", w l l l be on t he job the most prosperous and esteemed cit to d iscoun,e sweet mu sic, w ! i ile izens of their respective common th� Los A n geles a n d a flock of wealths. airpla1ws "' ill kef' P thi11 gs well President Coolidge will be the stirred up a bPve. guest of honor and central figure at Th e Tw in Ci ties are getti ng· all the celebration. His visit to the Twin cities will be the first extended trip he dressed up for one of the gala has undertaken since he became Pres events in ttJP i r lives. N ewspap ident. Other men and women of nat El' men and moving picture pho ional prominence have accepted in- tog raphers are coming from all / vitations to participate in the cen parts of the coun try to behold t h e tennial program, including the gov-, fun , and those who hadn't phm ernors of the several states. The Norweigan s are not unmindful ned on it had bett er g et old Dob of the m�terial blessings which have bin ou t and dust him off for a surrounded them in their new land 0 dav's holiday. ' and have allotted one entire day of There will be five Mart i n bomb the program to "America Day." ers, a fleet of the fa test t vpe The Norweigan churches through ot' U nited Sta l es fighting- planes out the United States and Canada will be represen ted in the exercises and ' and a unit of navy a ces to enter ta in the crowds for two days be festivities. HONOR NO RWEGJ;AN, By tf" Associated Press.) 'f I Pla;nv•ew \ FRID ____,_ � Norse-Ame rican-� --Qentenial June --- I j fore the Los Angeles tu rns its nose north ward , Great rjvalry between the army an d navy fliers has sprouted ,;i nce the deal was made, with the result that all are l oo k i n g forward to manv a thri ll. F'rinsta nce - there w i l l be what the arm y men c a l l the "a pr on string format ion ", in whic h three planes, each capable of traveling 200 m i les an hour, w i ll be tied t oR·e ther w i t h ordinar y string that a child conld break. Thu.3 connected they will ascend and perform a variety of flip flops w h i le going at top speed and then return to earth w i t h the string a8 good as new. Try tha i� 7 0�u r�l�ia�� -n��----••--- J:.! � Monda�, the 8th day o June, is going to be a wild affair in St. Paul. First of all it will be the big day of the Norse.American centennial program because Presiden t Coolidge, Secretary of State , Frank B. Kellogg, H. Bryn, Minister from Norway, and a hundred other celebrities will be there. The United States Naval Marine Band, known as "The Presfolent's own" will be on the job to discourse sweet ' music, while the Los .Angeles and a flock of airplanes will keep things well stirred up above. St. _ Paul is getting all dressed up for · one of the gala events of its life. News- • "" paper men and moving"picture photog- 1 raphers are coming from all parts of the country to behold the fun, and those who hadn't planned on it had better get old Dobbin out and dust him off for a day's holiday. Good Week to Budgeti-z e Time. neapolis has celebrated all kipds o:f "weeks" in last few years, but none with so many facets of • terest as that which begins today. If there were to be any specializing of participation in the activities of the next seven days, the world minded citizen would pr�fer to 1:,e 'in on the celebration of the ,Norse-American centennli.H, the manufacturer and merchant on Ute industrial e>:position in the Over land building, the sports-lover on the game:;; at the University of Minnesota Memorial stadium, the student of politics and government on the program for the president's visit, the forward-looking transportationist on the flying at the Wold-Chamberlain field, the music lover on the concerts of the United States Marine band, rnilady and her modiste on the style show, and-but what shall we say about those who will wish to lo<:>k on "the most beautiful girl" ? Naturally there will be specializing of this kind, but it can easily go too far. There will be time and oppor tunity for nearly every visitor and towns-person to show a personal interest in the whole comprehensive program for the week. In a very real sense the lay- I out will be educat:onal and profitable, and that goes I as well for the long-time resident of the Twin Cities ' and the country generally as for those who are to be transients among us. Comparatively few of us have seen or heard President Coolidge, Comparatively few of us have any adequate idea of the scope and kinds of manufacturing in the Ninth Federal reserve i:}istrict. Comparatively few of us know much of the social tie that relates our country to Norway, and there are not many of us who haven't a great deal to learn about" airplanes and dirigibles. The foregoing is a brief catalog of things of tran sitory being. Besides them there are many permanent objects worthy of the critical attention of the visitors. Without any feeling of vainglory we commend to our guests the city of Minne11,polis-its lakes, parks, boule vards, mills, public institutions, residences, works of art and .stores. To inspect them adequately would require more than a week. If, after having seen Minneapolis, the visitor will examine the directory, he will find there very substantial evidence of the part Scandinavians have played in building up the city to its present stature. It is not necessary in the coming week to "sej Minneapolis first," but not to see it at all would e to miss a great and informing opportunity. Thou sense typical of all American municipal character and personality of its own. �MANY HA VE PART IN BIG FESTIVAL N oted N a mes A p p e a r on Bo ard of Di rectors; D r. Gj e rset Praised. -sical or other entertafom('nt feature I will be gi ven. Compl e t e playroom will be furnished by t he , . 1 equipment Golden Rule and Donaldson ' s de partment stores :i.no a rest room by the New Engl and Furniture & C11,rI . pet Co. J I rNbrweg1ans of U. S. To Hear Coolidge at Minneapolis1 in June The hMll'd or d i rect ors o r lhP NO l'SC'- ' .\.m e1'1can Cen tennial is com posC'd o r Pro t"ssor G isle Bothne, Un iversity of Min uesota, chairma n ; Nels '.I' . Moen, Fcrg\1s Fal ls. M in n ., first yice DY 'I'he Assoc iated 1'res:schairman; A . C'. Floa n , St. Paul, sec . ·111 1NNEAPOLIS, June 6.-One hundred yea.rs ago the Nor·w eg1an slov11 • ond vice chail'man ; '.Professor J. A. irtestaurationen Landed f1tty-t hree em!Holvik, "1l oorhearl, secreta ry, a n d , grant fvom J'-.orwa:y at lhe, h,irhor or '£ rygve 011.s, Minnea polis, treasurer . New York, the first oi;t-anized colonY to reach this country {tom the land of 'l'hese men and S. l:L Holstad, Min th neapolis, managing dirnctor, con st i co��:r;;afi�� ti:J.t event Norse tute the "Big Six" who are mainly ', '.American s will sta,r;J a four-,day eel<;-, responsible for laying the plans for bration at the M neoota StatePr fa)• : the big celebration and on whose l· grounds here Jun 6 to 9, '".1th �s1_e he,id· shouldel's have rested the arduouR de11 t Coolidi;e an Mrs. Cool!dg , visitors hed stinguls t o· !is the in<\' duties and respon sibil ities connected a.in grand,stand Prest• Before th with carrying them ou t to a success will speak Monday, , e Coolidg dent ful concl usion. 'l'hese men have per . .Tune 8, at 2 p. m . , with amplifiers carformed a most notit ble sel'Vice to , rYi11'� his vqice tv tqousands in othet Pa 1·ned 1 h i>ir t heir race and have buildings on the &"I"OtlnCls. The p,residential party will include' countrymen's cteepe;,L gTat i tuile and '.Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of 5ctate,t n ppreci ation . : at whose St. Paul ho.m e the Presiden Great credit i11 also dne to Dr. and Mrs. Coolidge will )Je guests while Knut Gjersf't, cu1·ator o f the Lut hf>1• e college m 11 se1 1 111 , Decorah, lowa, ancl h f';,;m:1 Norway will come two ofill• :M i ss He1'borg Reque, M innellpolis, ials o! the Norwegian governmen t, .1;>rlme Minister J. L. Mowinck el t'O • chaitmap and vic-e chairman, re represent the cabinet and Ivan Lykke, spective'iy of the exhib iLs comm ittee, t)r')sident of th, Storthing, to . repre for their excel l e nt work in gatherin g· sent that parliamen t. H. H. Bryan, an array or exhibits worthy of t b P Norwegian • minister at Washington, occasion n n d which h 1t s never be Cor<' will be the ' personal representative of King Haa,kon. been even approached In Norse Norsefrom Bands and choirs American h i story. '.Amet"ican colleges and fro,m the Uni T h ou s a n d s of E x h i b i t s. verS,ty of Osl,o in Norway, together with musical organizations of churches L l tera l l y t hnus11 n d s oC e x h i h i t s hl'lVP the ·an,1 a,s soci11,tions, will furnish been ga th Pred f.l•o m a l l. po i n ts o f t h P :music for the celebration. compass, f1•om nea r a nd fa t·, to Y i s Exhibits will Include the work of u alize the con tl' i h u tion s or. Americans . Norse-Americans in arts ana the pro fessions, while pe>rhaps one of the of Nor:;;P. Rncestry Io the progres:;; J'.)rincLpal ]Joints of interest will he a.nd hist. or:-· of t h e i 1.· A dopted cou n t n• . model of the sloop .Restauratlo11• a Many o r these ex hibits h ;, ,·e n e v e l' en. be.fore been offered to public v iew, j Oflf lcers In charge of the celebra ma n y a l'(', pric€lesl'l hairlooms, m fl n v tion are pl"e.parin3 for a total .atten• • cannot b e dUJ)l\cated anywhere else ' �nee of about 2,Q,000. on earth , many are intensely ln ter- j esting e i t h er because of intrinsic val ue or for their historical associatioi\i:l. There will be 21- different departm ents o! exhiblts, besides which there w i l l bY the be special official exhibits State o f Minnesota and the Dominion of Canada. The women's committees have also done splendid work worthy or h!g·h est com mendation. Deserving oi: spe cial mention are the members of. the wom en's el'tecutive com mittee : Miss Elisa P. Farseth, chairman ; Mrs. J. E. Haugen, vice chairman ; irrs. vv. 0. Storlie , secreta ry; Mrs. M a n l ey Fosseen and Mrs. G i lbert G 111te1·sen. al so the fol lowing· s11b-c:orn mi ttef' ch a f rmen : :M rs . .A . C. )<'Joan, pro g1·am ; Mrs. Sophia WeL t e l a n a , hM pitA.J i ty ; Mrs. G isle Bothne, reception, and Mr�. J. O . Lee. W o m e n H ave Program, �!'h e ;vomE'n ' � com m i !t ee h H :s h a d en t i re r>ha rge nc t he < 'enlen n i a l progra m for Tuesrla .v " rt ernoon . .J L m e n, a.ncl "' mos� varied and inlere�f i n g Pl'Ogram is Lhe result. Principally t hrough Mrs. Floan'.s e ffo.r t:s arrangements have· been concluder! for "parking" chlldren at the C hi l d ren ' s bu l lrling while th eir mothers taJ-e in t h e Cen tennial "cloing." The children i,;·ill nl�y 1111cl.>r �11pervision of six play �uperYisors fur nished by St . .Paul and M i nn eapol i s playgrounds departments while eY ery h al_f hour duri n g each d a y' a m u- �1 s a re I special Centen nial postag e stamp en•ui ug hy Gov. a ll(l )!rs. Theotlorl' I e print etl a n <l phv·Nl on b to ed expeet n the ro- ! i , esota n Min of n iauso < 'ltrist s,tle throughout the coun try in the j tmHl:l u[ :\J inues ota's WOl!<lerful state 1wa r future. capit ol iu St. Paul. One of the must The music al and athlet ic programs ponn i:-;iug i ndicat ions of the brou d en rapid ly a:-;suming dPfinite form. b arc nnial ing of iutPrc:-;t in the Cente Oss, famous U n iversit y of Arnold n t just me unce anno e th n i co ntained football s tar, as chairman rsotn nn l\li and tiv'e xceu mmle that :\linucsota· s e 11rogram comm ittee, has thletic u d in of the hi8 estimab le w ife will be assiste hnrd to 1Jroyi<1e a ng worki n he bee t by 1,tion e c e arrangiug for this r ic games, sports and athlet of ulc ;;, n sd1ecl tio St. Paul Allietl "'omen·s organiza s tr:tt e es that not only w ill demon rac dYic. lies, l.Jot t u e cliffcr (:0llll)ri7'il lg ;:;2 e-Am erican at hlet es Nors of hility n th(' u,-; religio , prnt"e;;s iunal, politic al, sudal N orse-Amer1·can bi ned hut al:so iut erl'st the gener al sl)ort-lovall(l frat ern al, and had ng a com i nrZ �rnblic. 0 , 000 1 han t 1 G m, t:tYe B. '\Yollan, Publicity I >ircdor. mcml.Jership of more de ll l i prc eam, True to thP tradit ion s of the Norne ::; A r . s K . . P en. wo l\I m u I mu, i t "'l'h is is about tile busies spot ons, is alread y ra c·r a s a mu,;ic-lov ing people the - of the allietl orgitnizati 1 L by gl'll n I t own,'' n•rnarkell a y'i si tor to CPnh•n arra . hciug the plans sical program enthu:siastic all r at work on uial hcatl11 u,1rtcrs in Xicullet IIotd the natur e 01 Askel n nd , music chairm an, a nd his n will b e in the ptio rece The ' e other day. Ile was right. Th re isn t teu:, o f c-apahlc tommi ttt>e, prom ises- to be one I a n oftieial welc-ome to the in a rla y but ha::; i ts full quota uf c:olllitor s i ia Y n n :; . lu of absolu tely unriY alled excellence Cente l thous,mds of ial ntenn e C mil tt•c rncctiugs, :;pedal tonfcroucc:-;, y. rs. histor ican and Norse-Amer 111 the retei\' iug li n e w ith G ov. the opportunity intL•nicw s, au almo f:l t con staut stream un will be five other .N orsl visito rs nre prom ised iam-i Cllri;;t re p ation in worltl's best of visito rs :;eeki ng inform the of e y som g n namel s, e heari of : gover 1wr;; antl t heir wi y kind, us :so u or by phone-i n fact, e rerythi ng n sin ; G oY. s ical orgau lr.atio us of tlloir isco mu e lain W B , . , J. o poin t8 to a ra])iclly growing intere st iu G v. J Nor• Carl . ts. 1 Gov ; artis nta idual wd ,a s not ed indiv mi g A. U . Sorlie, ::'\urt h Dalr famous u ud enthu siasm for the forthco n ov the by J. . l'presented ota wa Da K r ; k be Soutll ill y rson, � G u n de celebration . E · i:k ou, l\I? n�ai�a '. a Dct G ov, . II . _L; I l' ui n ·it y of Oslo ( Uhristiania ) Aca 1 � ! Aruerica iu gathering bigge:c<t m th( del llic 10ir of 30 train ed voites, whkh I "The W hit.fielu, i\hssissipp1. Others iu Ul25" is not au Wle boast, toined ecciv ing line will be official r eprescn - " ill !lll "l' its fir:st vi:sit to Ame rica 011 ] i· _ f or publieity purposes ; it is, from pres- ta ti veH of three governments ; th" 1 account of the Centen nial. N orsc tin or ena ns , co e11t imlkatio us, but a l' ni le<l Stat es, Cana<la a ud Norway Ameril-a ns w ill offer i;uell n•now ncd pro!lli:-;e. Are yon uoing your part tt besi •les som e of thc Cen tenn ial offic ial�. gan iza{\.on s as the St. Olaf College ;den l choir uud 1>,rnd , the Luth er College 1p•iJ·(' the vrowisc ,come t1·ue ? .\u·ortliug to prc.,ent plan s Pre!cl ''ollei!C d res,; l, C'u11Lt•r·t u1 ·,·1 (I, the _,. d a give his to .' ug11,,L,••ta11a v r e cndeayo gir will ill This bulletin C' a l du Coolidge w .. , 'uir<l's ere v iew" of the Centen n ial a, on �Iomlay afte rn oon, June 8• Definite i Cl10n1:;, Sioux !;"alls, S . D., the Aug,;t lle plans begin tu a ssu!lle 1uore uml muiunncemell t as to I thc �resident's ! lmr!-: Hemi nary thorns an tl hand , l\linmorc defin ite shape. There a re still l l' t ure s to tl'.� hou r of ,h�s a d clre�s I ueap olis, Conc ordia cul!Pge ba n d antl \ �� . • , 1\li n n., Ltitber '-'elll- �lourhe:1d cl frnm the II hite House. �,•l1ut·t1s, 1J1an�· det ails to receiYc a t ten tion aud 1s still a" a1te or':-; oYern UH by \ " oYed ,nary l'hor us, St. l'aul, and a large 1.Je sa nctioned or disappr 'l'ha t eYcn iug w ill be G Singb0' differP n t commit tees or the board ot N' ig, t,'' 'vhen "11_ort_ a u d re��es w_ m_ l mule choru,; corupo,,e<.l of :Nor:; e , go ,ernors • � _ 1 • n . . _ a . . s _ an.. citie , ting '-' l s Yariuu 1 .; intNl's • g r; rom , 0 H11 h 3 the nsitm b clJrecturs. New arnl 1 in '\Yurtl ha s reached h eadquarters 11onncemen ts may be expected from other high ofiicials of Nor ::ie birt h or al- I ,he la:;;t few uays of arrangements t ime to time. l.Jluo tl. n :omrnu ral c seYe orse really u 11cll'r way in Rc1iorts arc brgi nn i11g to sift in to A pre si dential bocly guard of N n s or autom obile trai 11 :;pet:i, hfur Spanis .t cs ygde·· i I lwadquarters from some of lhe B yeterans of the Civil war, l l)e , ·cura nrns '' tu ..-the Cent enn ial. A. O . lags· • about their program plans, i n Am erie an war an<l ·worltl war w il 1 couu of ! Chri stian sen,, clrnir rnan for Clay \ 1licati ug that the Lag::; arc pla nning a ppointed. This i s in the llnnds wn , 1y, ;\liun. , bas been in cuuferell(·e with t he l>iggl'SL arnl best con yeutio u iu Ol<•y Nelso n , 8later , fow a, well kn o cial spe a liug o the ' :ailru .l ll o Uidals regun their hi:-;tory. '.l.'he re i s now little. CiYil war vetcr,rn and president f ion. .rain from �Iuurhl•all to the Twin I1 lloul>t but that the attendance at lll•""1:: Scand inavian Veterans' a :;sociat Simi lar word comes from \ \Yill li, 'ities . e I un Conlay, J rueelingc on Satun '\Yonl ha s been r eceiv�d from , S.. D., also that T. T. all:,; cn x 'ie F asllington ,;ou ex<:eed an ythi ng ever before cxpel n 0. J . K Yal e at \\' ma gre county, :,::,; 10 s , ('Xe, Cllainnu11 for Lincoln epar tment etl. The Byg delags are al o goi n g that the U . S. Treasury d u spec ial car Ior g ngiu :s arra i:-; tre D,, di t , iute r e 1 be very helpful in pro vi ng atc<l J am es E arle F raz (\ has dP�igu .. Canton to ''hook up" w ith the iug and uniqu e ex hibi ts of the goo dl',;ign the Ct'ntcn n ial m edal to be I i:rom an N orm From Siou x Falls. ol d tl ay;;· • that w ill challenge the au-l stru ck offll at the P hiladelphia min t. ,pL•c ial at wurtl of plans \' l n ty, �liim ., com es on ing n s u s we ::s' mint egia orw outhe n d n of orize atio ml.r ress ll n s auth Cong ntn to the c:arn big auto mob ile us bring ha ppy recollectio ns to the of 40 ,000 of these me(lals as s<nw cnirs or a ing a slo- \ heat car ry e eY , uial n tc n 't• e nten nial N orse pioneers. of the Norse-American C ans Arc Norm "The hat designed , nn to effe<:t t '\Vhile the Ol)Cnin g day will l>c tle- celebr ation . :M r. Frazer also ng." , l 'omi dal, ury m e vutct l to t he Bygdclng meet ing,;, most the Buff alo n itkle, the Yict • >'-> ,u • • ice C'roRs, or m i•..' · � 11 to � funmit um of them concluding with a di n ner the Navy Distiugul. slwcl Serv neral .111 .,e , the a n tl . au mad< medal l eric being Am are Award 'seuts Nol geme en'lt oo s arrau l for nct, the R l>anq • ;bits l':).u ,, . • l. Ille ona Centennial for a large public rceeption Satu rday Joh n Eril:son )lomtur Mem 'hu:wd 2l -/ Cf2S: . Centenn1aI 1 �, .,,_i"\Ye are collcdiug relics an<l curios ,f a ll k imls 1;itber from Xorwuy or •adj• pion<'er <lays hl•re, which arc of historical Yaiue as illustrating our ,ace, heritage, autl the deyelornnent of j our people lluri11g the last 100 years iu , /� ' ,hi:-; country. Som e idea of th e imp o rta n c e a n d gran dstand at the M i nnes ota Throug'li. th.e ki n d ness of P "\Ye will exhibit banclierafts such as s cope of the exhibit features of the fair gr o u n ds. This "livi n g flag" 1 l'tn ing. ta1>cst.ries (Aaklaer ) em- te r t'd- A. m�ir.a.�Cl.. �Lake 1 comi ng C ente nnial may b e o btain e d b.c c o mp o sed o f 3 U 0 St. Pau l c iroitlPries nnd lacPs of all kinds, w.ll is al s o e ditor of the Lake >Graphic a n d promi n en t in Nor . e- from an an nou nc.em e nt just made by d re n , who will be trai ne d for th , I ,ewclry and metal work of all kinds, gian-American movem ents, The - Dr. K n ut Gj e rts et, chairman exhibits parts u nder direct io n of Mrs. J 1rnoll caning and <:llilm either macle ch o r i s en abl er, t o print the folio committ ee. We shall at this time n ot o. L ee A special stan d will be b n :Norway or l11n ing :No,:wcgian uc ing information about t he attempt to go into detail, but shall enu m e rate th e 2 2 differ e nt de• e-Am e rican Centennial : ; :;;u-:; ,.,,. 1·::wlictuHs of nll ldm�: 11rn<le exhibit plann.ed, viz: for th e children so all the 1. e n!;l.'-e ,y AmPrk:rns of . ·orwegian uescent. thousa n ds o f people may s ee it. •Vt Pion ee r Lif e . In fo rmation has just b e en rece ived I 'l'hc' la:;t tnw 11· ill he in the nature chil d re n will be dr.ess e d in th e co J 2 . Church . : of a l'UllllH.!1 itiYe exll ibi L aUll will illus- from Co n gre s sman 0. J. Kval e , one o• the Norse an d Unite d State s tg 3 . Schools. nll P tl>l' t·omhinPd i nfluen<·e of the o f Min nesota's five Norse-American s most --red, white a nd blue Farmi ng. I n c o ngress, an d who i n troduc e d the torn,• Ii r,, of both (·otmtrie:, on the arts them with reversible capes fo 5 . Press. to have co n gress authoriz e the bill col or o n e ach side . ) Th e y will I G. Lit e rature. mll cr.1rt:s. • · orwegiuus haye always striki ng o ff o f 4 0 , 0 0 0 co mmemora appe2r as the No rw e gian flag, W1 t 7 . Me n in Public S e rvice. •xeelled in wood varving ; it would l>e tive m e dals fo r the Norse-American "J a V i Elsker De tte La n det" is a01 Art. uteresiing to ll<>monstratc thii; fu<:t by C entennial, to th.e e -and then at a given sig nal , 0 9. Charity and Mutual Aid. 1 line exhibit of wood carving. sign s ubmitt e d by James Earle Frachildren will rev.ers e their cap� l O . Women's Departm e nt. l!'or the music exhibit we would lilrn zer has b ee n approved by th e fe d e ral 1 1 • So cie ti e s and Organizatio n s. s uch a mann e r as will transfo rm ro ,!cl iustn1ments such a s sal moclo<:uru, fine arts c o m missio ns a nd that the 1 2 • M usic. Norse flag in the twin �lin g of an 1 angl' l l'ik, Yiolins, pianos, in fu<:t, dies will be fi nishe d i n ab o ut three 1 3 • E n gi nee rin g an d Architecture . to the "Stars and Stripe s." Bes.Y week s . 1 4 • Trade a nd Com merce. th e magnific ent s pectacl e affordE nuskal instruml'nts of all kinds either Le t it b e e sp e cially n ot e d that this (rom �onrny or made by peo1>le here i s the first time i n American history 1 5 • Norw e gian Ski Sport i n Amer th e chang.e from o ne flag to the oth will also visualize the eas e a n d wt ica. Jf . 'orwegian birth o r extraction who::;e that co ngre ss has authorized a comin g ne ss with which N o rs e iron 1 6 • Labor. 1rnrk is reeugnizcd ; also origi ual mem orativ e meda•L By this acti o n grants ar e transf o rmed i nt o lo 1 7 • S on s o f Norway. ,eon's and pietures of <:oruposers and th.e No rse-Am erica n C e ntenn• ial has 1 8 . Daughte rs of N o rway . Am e rican citizens. This on e feat be e n m ost signal ly honor ed . Let us lllUl>kinm;, 1 9 . Men in th e M e dical Profes- of t h e doze ns planne d for the Ce all try to be duly appreciat ive of this sio n . t e nn ial will in itself be we ll wor I f vos;;iblc, hayc a historical sketeh distinction officially acco rd e d o ur 2 0. Industrie s . the price o f admissi on a nd is su ,Yl lh cad1 artide stating \Yh en it . was c e lebration and exposition . I n this t� leave a vivid and lasting impre I ,nnc!P or l>rtrnght to this t.m mtry 01,. am· c o n nectio n a brie f description o f the 2 1 . Buil ders a n d B ene factors. 2 2 . Norse-Canad �an Exhibits. s� on _u pon all fo rtu nate .en ough uteresing or instrudirn informa tion m e dal will no t be out o f place. I t is . 1· . yone P�:s.css;n g :-� - k� owm g of I view it. �� b.e o t shap ctagonal , o n sil e i of ver ihont the design, e tc. " * * ar c e s wor Y O ex i it m any _ o f 1 . . rm int in:! identical with that i n o ur silv er , the �bove d epartm e nts , . o r hav m g Th_e lustoncal pag e a nt 1 There wil l L>e an exhibit of � coins, a n d approximati n g the silv er . . statistical data of val�e, is u�gently I be give n on Tuesd�y e v�n mg, Ju 1 ,11Hl sc · ulpt urc. A competitiYe exhibi t half-dollar in size . The d esign sh o ws •>f rl'eent w ork hy artists of N or w e- a h e roic V iki ng chi e ftain settin g foot request e� to c o m municat e with Dr. �ti�, a s th e conc_ludi� g chmax_ of t . nca i I Jian !J irtb or extraetion and a loan on Am e rica n s o i l , with a small Vik - K n ut GJ e rtse t, Luthe r_ C o llege: D.e- b1gg�st �ath ermg m Am e l t'Xhibit of work of Xorwegian masters ing ship ridin g th e s ea in the back- cor�h: Iowa. Infor�at 1 0 n relative t o 1 9 2 5 : "'. 1 �1 be an o th e r wonderfu exl�1 b 1ts o f art , mus 1 c, or h o use_hold � nd i�s pu-: n g f.ea tu1;e . W ork on th; or re("og uizetl arti::;ts of :Norwegian <le- 1 grou n d. The board o f dire ctors of r t1 l e s ( _ l u d 1. g a n t i que f urmt�re 1s .,g&mg "'. ·wa: d , uut •d e ta1·1e d a: me � a � I 1 , • , t e ial cts e enn cent o t exp make o h r I 1 ((n t. e welry, chmawar e, tap�stn e s, nou n cement can no t be mad e as Yf or J . . .. n cem en t i n the ne ar f�tu�e . . " e " oulcl be vexy giateful for. [ e r annou--14#"""'1ft-..�•" n c.-= dle art e tc. ) sh o uld be giv en to Su ffice to say at that t im e th e pag as t o ho . ese medals . ' org ' Reque , Ce nten mal ant will depict i n both stati on ary ni Miss H erb 11am":s an<l ml<lresse:s of pnvate owners w1. 11 b e o n 1y an di ed . Th ere 1;ea d �uarte rs , l l Washin gton Av e . m_ ovi ng tableau x th e h istor! of tit of _ •0 r 1wgia u art or of artists of Nor- i , 0 0 o f th.em this is ., M mneap o1 1_ s, M i. nn . 8 f 1rst cen tury o f No rse- Am.er1can a ,, c•gian <lP:-c·ent whose work has been ; maximum d by * * * Norse -Ca n adian de velo pm e nt, visu ,tt'(· ('ptl•(l at :,;ome art exhibit. u-----11111!' Atte n tion is also failed to the fact izing in most colorful fa shio n o n e �-'l'he <·om mit1 cc will pay express that the Wom e n 's Auxiliaries of Min- the most i nte resting chapt ers drn rg<',; to au<l from exposition grounds I n vi ew o f the fact that c tain neapolis an d St. Paul are preparing Am erican hist o ry. * " * •unl irnrnranee in transit and while at n e wspap e rs ( with o ut the kn o w e dge fo r publicatio n a Co ok B o ok of N orse or co nsen t o f th.e C entennial P blic- receipts, which will b e sold at a nom We a re advised by Mr. Ott o Cl •xpo,-;ition groniHls. . . . ity depar en t ) have recently prin t- inal price durin g the c elebratio n . It sen , Chicago, h e ad commi s sio n.er . . B lanks for !J,;tmg rour exlnlnts will ' e d it ems ma for is the inte n tion t o mak e this Co o k "Norma n ds forbu nd e t" : Ile su1>1>liP<l on rpqnest either l>y your that Presid ent C o olidge will atten d Book a s c om plete as p o ssible, con- Un ited States and Ca nada, that ,tat<' diairman or local dtr ellainnan the Ce nten n ial, w.e are glad to advise taining al! mann e r o f r ec.eipts f o r will have som e interesti ng in form of <' ·hi hit ;; or )Jy ll erhorg Reque ut all co nce r ned that almost positive Norw egian dish e s, many of which tion within a few days r e lative t o t! 1 • orsP-Am e rkn n ce ntPunial Jk:ulquar- assuran ce o f his co mi ng was re ce ive d thre ate n to b ecome u nk n ow n in this famous Acad·e mic Ch oir of Osl o , Nt, ter,;, • •ew _ 'icollet Hotel, :\Iiuneapolii;;, th e oth e r d ay by Oscar Arne so n , pub- cou ntry unl e ss ste ps b e taken t o pre- way, which is to sing at th p:e�t licity ch airman. This assuran ce serv e them a nd make them available :.\liun. cam e i n a l etter from -Ho n . Fra nk B. to all who appre ciat e distinctive later All exhibits must l>e ,;cnt not K e ll o gg, S e cretary o f State , stating Nors e co oking. P e rson s havi n g n ial and later make a co n cert tour V All 1iadrn gl's or !that he and Mrs. K ellogg will accom- "tried an d tru e rec e ipts f o r distinct the l eading Am erican citie s. lhan Avril 2:itl1. hux<'s mn:,t be achlresst•,l to Norse, pan y th e Pre sid e ntial party t o the ly N o rse d ish es are 1•e ques t e d to s e nd h o pe to giv e y o u this i n th e n e .\ meri t-an c,,utpnuia l Exh ibit, \Yomum; e e ntenn ia:, F_urth er assuran ce was them, with nam e and addre s s of s en bulletin, a lso som e m o re ab o ut t _ t<' l!'air G ·onu•l� . l als o re ce iv.ed m a l etter fro m S e n. der, to Mrs. I. L. Tuv e , 1 2 0 3 7th St. big music f.eatur e s plann e d for t a\ l<lg., :.\l i unl'so t a Sta Pete r No rb eck, o f S o uth Dak o ta, ex- s. E . , Minne apoli s , M in n . , without celebratio n . We are awaiting inf mati o n from the variou s Bygdel pressing th e Pre siden t's desire to d elay. officials relative to the plan s * * * 3peak in the afte rno on o f Mon d ay, June 8th , rath er than in the .even A m o st i nt e resting and u n iqu e th e ir conv en ti o ns o n Saturday, Ju ing . "Th e re has never b ee n any feature o f the celebratio n promis e s to Gth. so we may give a n outlin e d • t i n my mi n d but that Presid ent be th e "living flag". This will be tho fe atnr.es of th e se programs i n C o olil'I will c o me," declared Con. fe2ture d Mo nd ay aft ern o on , Ju ne 8 , ,, ·•ly hullelir. . n n ial h.eadqu arte rs a i n con n ection with Pr e s. C o olidg e 's e da:vs _a amm o th r-----�----------......1 ad d ress in fro nt of the ..... I Norse-American Centen nia l, New �for several cele!Jrations also in Norway to commemorate the 100th anniversary ,of th depar ture of the little sloop, "Ilestaurationen" for America, on July 4th, 1825. A whole week's cele bration is planned to be helcl at Aker hus. The dates for this monster cele bration are June 23rd to June 30th, and the committee in charge comprises Local Sale- of Tickets Now On In Earnest, According the leading men and women of Nor way,, including the Foreign Minister, to County Chairman Casper Smedsrud. President of the Storting, the Com mancling General of the Army, Com Extensive Program. mancling Admiral of the Navy, Presi dent of the University of Oslo anll the presidents of all leading organizations l\Ioorhead. The musical program will N-01·s,e-Ame1�ic'an Oentennial of various kinds. The program for Sunday, June 7th, !Je giYen by the Concordia College Pl!\ns have a)so been made for " the opening day of the celebration f'hornA anc1 BaJ11l or the mn�ieal forces > proper, is not yet fully completed but from Augustana College , Sioux Falb, big celebration on July 4th at Stav anger, the port from which the "Res we are able, at this time, to give a South Dakota. At 2 :30 p, m. there will be a mas;i tanra tionen" sailed for America, with r fairly complete outl ine of this day'::! meeting at the Hippodrome, presi�l�,1 its rnnguarcl of 52 �orse emigrants, on program. Sunday will ,be devo ted, exclusively over by Rev. Bergesen. At this ga th- Jul�· 4, 1825. Many hundreds of Norse , to religious service::! and concerts. ering the official address of welcome to Americans have already planned to at There will be two big services at 10 the Centennial celebra t ion, will be de- tend the NorS'e-American Centennial o'clock in the morning, both in t he Livered by Professor Gisle Bothne, eelebration in the Twin cities, June Norwegian language. The services to general chail·man of the Centennia l Gth to 9th, and then leave immediately be held in the Hippodrome, a !Juilding Committee. ( Professor Bothne is Dean afterwards for Norway to participate which will !,eat about 7,000 people, of the Scandinavian Depa1,tment at the in the big doings OYer there. Word has just been received from will be in charge of Reverend B. E. University of Minnesota ) . At this Bergesen, Minnea1)0liS, Chairman of meeting also, there willl !Je shor t a d- Honorabl<l Laurits S. Swenson, U nited the Centennial Program committee. dresses by Bishop Johan Lunde and States Minister to Norway, that he Professo1· Kristine Bonnevie, th e only wil� be unable to come o America t for The sermon will be cleliyere<l by Dr. H. G. Stub of St . Paul, president of the woman who holds a full professorship the celebration here, much as he per Norwegian Lutheran churc:h of AIDeri at the University of Oslo, Norway, an� sonally would like to do so. He has ca. The musical program at· this ser one of the few women in the world been urgently requested by officials of vice will be given uy the Luther Col similarly honored. There will also be the Norwegian government, and others, I lege Concert Band of 75 pieces, of responses from the official representa- to postpone his planned vacation trip ernment; to his home in Minneapolis and remain Decorah, Iowa, the Luther Seminary tives of the Norwegian Goy orting'' ( t Parliame "S the U ni Y<' r- in 1·orway- that he may officially rep t n ) Chorus of S t. Paul and the Norwegian sity of Oslo, "Normands-Forbmttl,et '' reseHt the United States, as well as , Singers association. and others. The internationally f a. the Norse-Americans, at the various • The other services in Norwegian a t , mous Academ c Choir of fifty trafned, i 10 a. m. will be given at the Grurnl mixed voices from Norway, will sing. commemorative celebrations to be held in the Mother coun try. Minister Stand, with Reverend II. K. :\Iadsen of It is also expected that the Norwegian Swenson advises that he has accede<l the Norwegian Mcth0cUS't church, Singers associa t ion chorus will sing a t preaching the sermon. The musical this meeting. The o i ial res onses to to these requests and Ims acc<'pted an ff c p program will be given by the Augs- the address of welcome will be given invitation to deliver the principal ad clresi:I at the Stavauge.x celebratiol/- on Semina !Jurg ry Chorus and Band of by T. o. Gilbert, president of th S n e o � July 4tli. Minneapolis and the Norwegian Sing- of Norway. ers association. The last named orAll of tlle thir ty-two male choruses, l!'rom 1 :30 to 5 :00 Sunday aft�rnoon, ganizution will sing, a t both service:.-:, ' it is plrumed to have a series of open compnsrng the Norwegian Singers' ·'Den store hviclc J<' lok" ( The Great air concerts inf ront of the Gr,lrnl Association of America, have been il. Whi t e Host ) , by Gri0g, Norway's most Stand participa ted in by most of the l'ited to participate in the Ce1,f enmal , famous composer. musical organizations engaged for tlle celebration through Mr. T. F. Uamanu, Rt. Reverend Johan Lunde, Bishop l celebration. There will be a conce:: t Minneapolis, corresponding secretary of Oslo, Norway, will bring greet ings at the pavilion from c; :00 to 7 :30 p. m. of the assochttion. Althungh i is vre t from the Mother church at !Joth of by the Luther college !Jand. ,;urned that many of tlle�e orgli:iiza thcsc Norse services. A grand concert, in which several of tious will not be a!Jle to atLi t: ,i. iu fnll At eleven o'clock, before the G rand the leading mm;ical o.rgauizations, also strength, it is hoped tlt,1 t eni, 11.;h <,f , Stand, t here will be English services, vocal ancl instrumental soloists w;ill Lbe individual member.; will come so with sermon by Revere:ucl O. H. Slet- take part, will !Je given at 8 :00 p. ID. as to form a large male chorus to sinJ tens, Minneapolis, of the Lut heran before the Grauel S tand. on Sunuay, June 7th , anJ possi!Jly a t l!'ree church. Tl1e music will be proSo-called "amplifiers," or loud speak other doings during the cele!Jra tions vided by the famous St. Olaf Lutheran ers will be installed in front of the Paul and Minneapolis orgaui:r.a tions Choir and S t. Olaf Band from North- Grand stand whicll. will enable as will furnish about 200 singers, :'!1> i t ;& ' , tielcl. many as 150,000 people to hear both hope<! t hat a ch� rus of at lea� t �00 _ At t:he Horticultural Bui1cHng a,t the addresses and music. voices will be available. An mv1ta t lon I 11 :00 a. m. there will be s:pecia1' young is also extended to Norse male choruse13 F rom copies of newspapers, re peoples' �en'ices ulncler direjl'tion oi cently received from Norway, as well that do no belong to the Norwegian t Itev. N. • M. Ylvisakcr, Miuneapolis, as direct information from certain or Singers' association, as well as the inwith sermon by Professor J. A. Ans- ganiza tions in the Old •Country, it ap tli vi<lual singers to join this special !faard, president of Concordia co ll e ge, pears that plans arc alr<:'acly well along Centennial Choir. All singers who are GREAT f REPARATiONS FOR THE NORSE-AMERICAN CENTENN IAL l I I I· �willing to participate are requested ·I VH'Y well organized in all the -places ( Note-In the above extract ;f;r.:o� • wn• tl• at once to ¥-r· T. lf. Hamann, j he visited. He was especially impress• ., tla,e Boston "Herald ed1tor,al we took '\the liberty of changing the word Mis4009 Harriett Ave., Minneapolis·, Min- ed with the wondetfu activities dis• • souri to "Wisconsin," as one of the nesota, preferably not later than May played_j)]'__J;� �ian committee. 1 st ates to which the Norwegians mi • • 1st. Mr. Hamaun announces that the I which has head uarters a t Wmmpeg. . . grated principally, as this is m ore . following songs are ex])ected to com• ,,. w· q · , h1 le a t mmpeg, Chall'man Bothne . . . . historically correct. Permit us also prise the rei:ierto1re : LandkJendmg, <a lsO hac1 a conference with Premier . Based to make another correction. Nraar ·.F'Jordane Blaaner, Gud Signe BrackA.,n of the p rovmce of Manitoba, . . ,. on statistics furnished us by Dr. 0. Norges Land, V1kmgsonner, Beaut1fm I who promi' sed h,1' s personal co-opera. . . , . M .Norlie, Luther College, Decorah, Sano r, :he Flag without a S tam ; and ti.on in helping make the Centennial Iowa, the most eminent No1·se-Amer the National anthems, �he Star Span- celebration a success. On his return ican statistician, the number of Norse gled Banner and Ja, Vi Elske1· Dette I froM this trip, Chairman Bothne was Americans in this country is now ap Lamhit. mori) optimistic than ever as to the f proximately 2,500,000, - instead of Mr. E. G. Quamme, President of the succ .• ·s of the coming celebration. "I merely "more than a million,'' as Federal Land Bank at St. Paul, who foun a great deal of enthusiasm every stated in the editorial just quoted. ) is also chairman of the Centennial Fi- wherQ, and hundreds of Norse-AmeriIncidentally, it may be mentioned nance Committee, is anxiously await cii,1 men and women ";Orking hard in that there is a road leading into Ken ing word as to which county will be their respective communHies to make dall, Orleans county, New York, (site the first to "go over the top" on ticket the Norse-American Centennial cele of the 'f\rst Norse settlement in Am sales. The quotas for the various com• ),)ration an event of wh ich every wie of erica) , known as "Norwegian Road." mittees have been made as fairly as Norse blood may have. reason to be There are also living in that com mun possible, based on statistics as to the pr"nnd," said Chairman Bothne. ity today several descendants of numbflr of Norse-Americans in each some of the original "sloopers," and county. There is no contest on, but in Rochester, N. Y., still stands the !11ck!on (Minn.T e J.. R first house built there by a N orweg the Publicity Director will venture to F IDAY, A.Ph!!., ?.4. ian, and reported to be in good resay that the Chairman o•f the first pair and occupied today as a resi county that disposes of its quota of dence. This was built by a m ember tickets, will have some free smolrns at of the sloop party more than 75 years Mr. Quamme's expense. ago. J\Ir. W. L. Gorder, who has imme• ' INFORMATION . WANTED-The cUate charge of the ticket sales cam I Centennial Committee wishes to learn paign, announces that 142 counties are Exhibits of Art, Literature and M ic I if possible, the name and address of now organized for the campaign with tl\e oldest living Norse-American vetfrom M any States Being Collect from 15 to 75 ti-cket salesmen each and \ eran of the Civil War. The Commit ed and Displayed that other counties are being organized >itee has a special purpose in seeking as rapidly as county chairmen are ap this information, hence we ask those Under the date of April 3 the B pointee!. w�10 rec.eive this Bulletin to send in ton Herald published an editorial the i nan\'e and address of the oldest titled "Norway and the New Wor Mr. C. O. Teisberg, Chairman of the livibg such veteran within their know in which attention is called to · Manuf:ieturers and Inclust1:ies Commit led re. Out of the replies thus receiv forthcoming N orse�American tee of the Centennial, desires to have ed it should be possible to find the tennial celebration and tlle name and address of all Norse OI ,DEST veteran. Possibly there After telling something Ame�·icans engaged in manufacturing I m, y still be living a Norse-American 1 commemorative postage stamps ,$on ' of auythi11g from Dins to threshing ma• veteran of the Mexican War. If you to be offered for sa\e and about the chines, Also of inventors who have know of any such, please advise S. H. sloop, "Restaurationen," with its •dJioinvented anything that is of generall Holstad, m anaging director, 11 Wash 11eer cargo of Norwegian immigr4nts, interest to the public, even though the ington Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. the Herald goes on to say : invented article is not being manufac. At any rate, let's hear from the oldest "A tract of land had beet! purchas tured or on sale. There are many in Civil War veteran. ed for them in Orleans county, New ventious patented that are 1·eally worth Incidentally, names and addresses , York, and there the Norwegians set while, but are not on the mai-lrnt, fre• of living direct descendents of the or tled. The home country soon heard quently because of lack -0f capital. In iginal "sloopers" are also desired. Th� of their successes with result in more such cases this committee would like Committee has quite a list of such al cross-Atlantic trips. As the num very much to have the inventor's ready, but is ·d:esirous to make it as ber of the colonists grew, many of 1 model on exhilbit. Manufacturing con them migrated to the western states, complete as , possible. Your assistance in this direction is earnestly recerns desiring to exhibit their products notably lllinois, Wisconsin and I owa, quested. must be owned or controlled by men of with final result in a gTowth which Mr. N . A. Thorson, Crookston, Norse or Icelandic ancestry. has given us, according to recent cen Minm, secretary-treasurer of the Tri It is to be hoped that all who read sus returns, a Norwegian population State Postmasters' Association (com this article will exert -themse:l vs to help of more than a million, if account be prising the Postmasters of Minneso the committee, as outlined above, that taken not only of p�ople born in Nor the industrial exhibits be as large and way, but of individuals one of both of ta, South Dakotli'- and North Dakota ) , interesting as possible. whose parents are natives of that writes t o Director Holstad that this organization has decided to hold its c�µntry. All the while these incom Professor Gisle Botlme, General 1925 convention in Minneapolis on ers h ave been helping us .to utilize Chairman of the Centennial, has just June 8 and 9 in order that the mem N orvvegfa n contributions to the lit i:etunwd from a ten days' trip in the bers "can avail themselves of the ex erature, art ancl, music of the world ; interest of the Centennial celebration, cellent programs arranged for the they have all the while been active as He vlsited Duluth, Virginia and Centennial celebration." The big educators and patriotic ·a s American Crooksrnn, Minnesota ; Fargo and Northwestern Industrial Exposition citizens. And t he new stamps will Grand Forks, North Dakota and Winni• . will be held in the Overland Building, appropriately recognize these debts peg, Canada . Professor Bothne spoke St. Paul, the week of June 8 for the 1 of ours to the 'land of the midnight to large and enthusiastic audiences in same reason. This exposition will al" sun.' ; most of these cities. He reports the so afford an added attraction for Cen- , o • on behalf of the Oentennial is ro I I 71 TI l �tenmal v�s1fors � o·ne well worth He crowned with honor human toil present plans. I Beneath the mundane dome. seeing, according to Bsides, there are score s of institu- 1 tions, buildings, parks and other 1 Unmoved by fear, unspoile d by hoard, places of real interest in both Minne Unbeaten at the goal, apolis and �aul that are wep He humbly yielded to the Lord worth visiting b:y'those who have not The homage of his soul. previou sly had opportunity to see A comrade of the woods and plain them. In this connection, let us just He tuned his voice to their refrain, mention that the Minnesota Historical The Maker to extol. _ £Qgiety has in its splen� �ilding near the State Capitol in St. Paul, the His work is done ; his day is spent; He rests among his peers; largest collection of Norse literature in the world. n its museum are also A nation is his monument, hundreds of interesting relics and ex I His requiem, our cheers. hibits of various kinds that have a But still in cottage, town and mart, In all we are in mind and heart, direct bearing on the century of pro gres s in America that our Centennial He lives through countless years. celebration is to commemorate. Mrs. A. C. Floan, Chairman of the Glendive, Mont.. Monitor Program Committee for the Women's I TH�SDAY.. AfRIL 30. 1925 Auxiliary reports that in addition to pl s �:�:�;;:�::I:i:f::;e :i�di:� --N0!}'O[ 100n , · · .�;i-\AM--�-\IT-1 �- _ EB R -=- --r---i :; ER ICA N C EI E N N IAL C E l The Park Board of the Cities of • Minneapolis and St. Paul have each I agreed to furnish three trained play . ground instructors each day so parN E NE . . · I .D.,, � N I N __-�J.\l ents can feel assured that the child- , ren are safe. In addition to that pro- • g-rams of music and story telling have / Th@ Norse-A merican Centennial c·el of Minnesota's state · capitol in St. been planned. ebratton, �h is to }]elf] iJal;, J<he Min Paul. One of the rust promising in Rev. D. G. Ristad, Manitowoc, Wis., nesota State .Fair G rounds June 6-9, dications or the broadening of interest President of "Tronderlaget," has just is to commemorate the hundredth anin the Centennial ls contained in the written a poem , entitled "The Pio -n.t.versary of the arrival of the Norweannouncement that Minnesota's exec neer," which he has sent to the Pub gians who formed the first settlement utive and his estimable wife will be licity Directo1;. Rev. Ristad i s known in the United States in 1825. It was assisted in arranging t1or this rer-e11 t !on as a n author uf ability, having writ natural and logical that from this first by the St. Paul All i ed Women's •o rgan ten several • rmns in both Norwegian colouizatiou iu New York state the•re izations, comprising tlfty-t,wo diff( rent and Englis' besides other poems of should later be a movement to the 1 bodie·s , civic, professional. political, It is our belief that his much meri west and northwest. Today the Twin wcial, rel:lgous and fraternal, having latest effo ,, in this direction, the Cities JoJ:1:1 the acknowledged center I a combined membership of 10,000 iwro poem just mentioned, is one of his of �he ..�c��!iinavian \POpulation or the mon. j best and will live as a real apprecia country: , , In the receiving line with Gov. and tion of the labors and sacrifice·s of 'l'he p1:0Ject ror the · celebration ha:s Mrs. Christianson will bR the flvR the pioneers who found wilderness and already met with such enthusiastic other Norse governors a.nd their transformed into a veritable paradise res ponse,. not ,only in Minnesota and wivces, namely : Gov. J. J. Blaine of on earth. It is to be hoped that s ome the Northwest, not only in the United Wi,sconsin ; Gov. A. G. Sorlie, North Norse-American composer will write States and Ca,nada, but a1so in old Dakota ; Gov. Cal Gunderson, South music for this poem that will be Norway itself, that the success of the Dakota ; Gov. J. E. Erickson, Montana ; worthy of the sentiments so well a ffair seems beyond question. and Go v. H. L. Whitfield, Missig�i,ppl. f worded by Rev. Rista9. We quote Th< : J:ll'Q.mis:e of . President Coolidge Others in the receiving line will be of the poem herewith : to c:t>m'e '.ana:pai.'. ticipate on Monday, ficial repre;s entatives of three govern The Pioneer June' ·g;.and . th�· •p,robability that some m ent�. the United States, Canada, and I love this mighty land of God high repre1i'en tativ-e of the Dominion Norway, besides· some of then Cen My fathers' home and mine, Gqvernment will be here, as well as tennial officials. Where honest labor proudly trod the p1•on1is,ed coming of the delegates An extensive exhibit during the Cen In peaceful battle-line. frorn the Norwegian Storthing and tennial celebratfon is being ,p,l anned ( From Maine anil to the Golden Gate Government give the celebration the and ,sponsored by Dr. Iyiut Gjerset. Is flung our free and fair estate aspect of a real world affair. The ofThe program includes the following : : Upon the shining sod. Pdal rlelega tlon from Nor,w;ay will in I-Pioneer Life. 2-Church. 3elude a member of the cabinet, a School s. 4-Farming. 5-Press. 6By faith the Pilgrim Fathers fought member of the Storthing {Parliament) Literature. 7-;-Men in Public Service. To win our nation's right ; and Karf Welring, f,ormer secretary of 8-Art . 9-Cbarity and · Mutual Aid. The pioneer in silence wrought war. Other official del eg-ate:s will l0�D01nestic Service. 11-Societies The marrow of our might; come ' to represent the Norwegian and Organizations. 12-'-Music. 13. He was our fortune's ea1·nest pledge, state church, the University of Oslo, Trade a11d Comme1·ce. 1 4.-Engineer• The guardian of our heritage, aind Nordmandsforhundet. ing and Architecture. 15-Labor. The foremost in the fight. While the opening day will be devot The Women's Auxiliary_ b as for its ed to . the "B'ygdelag" meetings, most outline o.f exhibits : 1-Fine Arts. No better boon in manhood sheer of them •c oncluding with a dinner or 2-Arts and Crafts. :l-RP,Ucs and banquet, arrangements are being made Curi os. 4-National Costumes. 5Ennobled Tyre or Rome, fol' a ,public reception Saturday even- · Jewelry and Househol d Rilver. 6Than owned the s overeign pioneer ing by Gov. and Mr.s. Theodore Chris- I Cl:J_ina. 7-Muslc. Who made his land our home. t!anson of Minnesota, m the rotunda I One of the exhibits t11at deserv " I A hero of the· living soil lID H LO I M N E POL SJIJU 6 TO 1 �special mention is a piec e of tapertry connection with President Coolidge's - Profr-,. s or Gide Botbne. deaen of the woven by Madame Frida Hansen of a:lidress in front of the mammoth Scandinav,ian departmePt Universi_ty I Norway, a piece that took the first trandstand at the Minnesota State of Minnesota. who is general cih a1r premium in Pari,s in 1900 anrl has since Fair gro unds. This "living flag" will man of the Centennial committee. re recently from a trip into Cana- , been exhibited in the art centers of he comp osed of 600 St. Paul children, turned da with the information that estimates 1 Europe and in many eastern cities of v. ho will be dressed in the color11 of made by the Canadian Centennial com the United States. lt is 14 by 16 feet, t·te Nor,s e and United States flags, red , ntittee indiicate that between 30,000 and represent.':! seven goddesses riding \ hite an d blue, most ot them with and 60,000 Norse-Canadians and other C anadians will attend the celebration. s ...uth through the sea on the back of 1•wersible capes (one color on each Special trains are being arranged swans, taking · with them the sun, heat ,l de. ) Thfly wil l first appear in the to carry the crowds from all points of and flowers, which th ey brought north • trnwegian flag, while "Ja. Vi Elsker the compass-from Winnipeg and Vancouver, Can., from Minot, Grand to form the summer days. The ·gar- : f ette Landet'' is ,sung-and then at Forks and Fargo. N. D .. C'hica�o. Ill., ments of the goddesses are woven in • g ,ven ,iignal, the children will rf'verse Madison, Wis., S•ioux Falls S. Dak., Rterling silver th rearl. producing a t' 1eir capes ln such manner as will Decorah, Iowa. and ot1h er cities. Antot ·ansform the Norse flag in the twinktruly wonderful effect. • mobilr- caravans are also being plan ned from many sections within rea The l'omen',s Auxiliary bas a state ling or an eye to the "Stars and sonable driving distan re of the Twin chairman In almost every state in the ' �t rloes. " 1 Cities. The railroads wr-st of Chica.go Union, in an attempt to gather worthM usi<: at t h e Centen n ial haYe madA a rate of one and one-third while exhlbtts, and to arouse interest True to the traditions of the Norse ,I for the round trip .. Eas tern roads are tor the coming event. And most of r 1ce as a music-loving people, the i expected to make a · . imilar rate. A world' fair will virtually be the chief cities in the country have n-.usical program being arranged cro wded into the four day's celebra their city chairmen of exhibits. The , omis� to be one of the unrivalled tion. The celebration has been offici men have organized the counties for e ,cellence_ fo Norse-American history. ally recognized by four nation s-the th e sale of coupon booJrn, which give . orway will be repTe,iented by the l'nitecl St tei;, Dominion of Canada, reduced rates of admission to the Fair · f mous Unh ersity of Oslo (ChrisNorwav and Iceland and these coun tries ,1:ill he officially rPr:resented. Grounds. Thi s advanced ticket sale trained Presid ent Calvin Coolidge w ill speak is the only means of financing the • e ·, which will make its first visit efore Hie grandstand on Monday af great undertaking, so the committee to America 011 account of the Centen noon. June 8. On the evening of i s urging every true American citizen rdal. Norse-Americans will offer such at cl ay, designated as "Governor's ight," .it is expected that all six govof Norse extraction to buy a coupon renowed organizations as the St. Olaf ernors of Norse blood will be present book for the great cause, even though College choir and band, the Luther and make short address. They are : h e may not be able to att�md the celf' Colleg e concert band, the Augustana Gov. Theodore Chirstianson, Mineso bration. ta ; Gov. J .J. Blaine, Wi,s consin ; Gov. College chorus, Sioux F'alls, S. D., the Carl G;unclerson, South Dakota ; Gov. Stamps and M edals Augsburg Seminary chorus and band. A . G. Sorlie. North Dak ota · Gov . .J. E. government has Minneapolis, Concordia College band The United S Erickson. Montana, and Gov. H. L. authorized the g ot _special two and chorus, Moorehead, Minn . ; Luther I Whitfield , Mississippi. and fi ve cent !it "Restaurai th s , Seminary choru, St. Paul ; and a large , •w· The opening <lay, Saturdav, June 6. will he devoted to the national con t brouirht th• male chours composed of Norse singt,jouen," the aloo ventions of the about ,30 "Bygdelags ," irst 52 emigrants from Norway, pri-nt ers from various cities. organizations of Koi'se immigrants• •id Jn black and red on the two cen H i storica l Pageant and their decendants form the various 1tamp ; and in blue and black ou th The historical pageant IW'hich will be "bygds'' or counties of Norway. These ive cent stamp, the only bi-color post given June 9, in the evening, as the have memberships ranging from 300 to 5,000. �g e stamps issued by our governmen concluding climax of the biggest gathSunday, June 7., will be devoted to With the single exception of the $5. 0 ering in America in 1925, will be anreligions services and concerts. PaR •tamp. other wonderful and inspiring feature. tors of various denominations will Congr es.s has also recently author It will depict in both stationary and preach and the music at these servi ces will be rendered by some of the zed the striking off of 40,000 medal , ' moving tableaux, i'n most colorful leading musical organizations in the <•. omme morat ive of the Norse-Americ fashion, one of the mo.st interesting country, including the internationally chapters in American history. Centennial. This i s the first time famous Academic choir of 50 voices \.merican history that Congress h s from Oslo, Norway, the eriually fam ous St. Olaf LutJh eran choir o fNorthuthorized a commemorative medJ,L erooksto . 'Minn.. Leade:, field . l\Iinnesota, the Luther College 1 , ,. hey are to be struck off at the Uni d FRIDAY. MAY 8, 1925 Concert Band cf 75 piecer. from Decor- I f ,,tates mint at Ph11adelphia. The de- ah, Iowa the St. Olaf College band, I , f'i,gn shows an heroic Viking chiefta n, Concord ia College choir ancl band, ::\Iinne�ota, Moorhead , Augsburgh ettlng foot on Ameri can soil, with a Seminarv chorus, l\Iinne1polis, and a mall Viking ship ridng the sea in the male ch-orus oi 500 or more voices l ,ackgrouud. from the Norwegian Singers' associ Mayor Leach of Minnea polis has ation. There will also be special con oerts and free open air concerts by �ent $1 0 0 to b e given in three prizes these musidl forces. to the pupils in Oslo (Christiania,) The ex,h ibits will be large, varied Norway , who make the three , best and highly interesting, including an model,s of a Viking ship. Mayor tique Norse jewelry, woven tapestry, furniture, musical instruments, house Leach's only condition is that the hold utensil�. needle art, besides ex Nor se-American Centennial three winning models must be s ent to hibits showing the contribution of this country in time to' be exhibited at Norse-Am erican to the develop Dates Set For June 6th the Centenni al celebration. The win• ment and history of America in many The 9th. To n er in a similar contest in the Min fields, educational. religions, industri al and h istorical. There will be 22 de ueapoHs schools wa.s a twelve-year-old partments of exhibits being arranged 1 oy of Bohemian -Swedish extraction . The Norl'!e-American Centenial cel under th e general direction of Dr. . fayor Leach also donated the money ebr,ation �!ffl"'elli!'l'J'Jl!!!i!'l!'ffll!fl"!ll9<·the Minne Knut Gjerset. curator of the museum f'\Ota state fa,ir grounds, between St. ! of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. fvr tba Minneapolis contest. I1 on Paul and Minneapolis June 6 to 9, An interesting program of athletic The Living Flag wi_ll b_ th: largest gathering in Am- 1 sports ::ind contests is also being ar A most unique and interesting fea enca m 19�5. ranged under direction of Arnold Oss, t ire of the celebration promise_s to be ThO Fe in position to ltnow are now 1 famous University of Minnesota ath variously estimating the attend 'Ince lete. This will include baseball and thfl "living flag.'' This will be featur for the four day's celebration at from tennis tounaments for Norse-Ameri Qd on Monday afternoon. Jun� 8, in j can schools, a soccer game and two 2fi0,000 to 500,000 . I I GENERAL STORY ON NORWEGIAN C E L EB R AT I O �7 - • tr�ck meets , one Tm1ted to Norse:XmI ro,m which-they oa1me. It is COIJl · ericans, the other an o pen meet. The pwbHcity department of the, ceded that a great deal of money is A "livi!3g flag"' of 420 •st- Paul I Centennial sends, necessair1y to defray the expenses . school children w,1. 11 be a feature on Norse1--Amedcan. . M onday .June 8 " America Day, " and :florth tihe followmg lengthy but mter- connected with su<lh a celebrat10n.. It \ a wonderful h istroical ,l)ag\eant d e- esting ann,oun,cement relative to ar- it h0iped that this large expenditure , pictin g the life of tJhe Norse pioneers r,a,ngements iwhiich. have been com- will be cared for through the s,ale wil l be \the conoluding feature on pleted foi· the big event and Wlhich o.f admission tickets. All the me.n 's Tuesday 1:1ight. Seve:al h�ndreds of persons will take part rn the1s pageant, will be read with interest by many clubs, ladies aid societies, young pe a� pie's ass1oiciations and o,rganizations The United states Government has ' of ou r rea�ers : , . uroh should do every recog_n ized the ,importance _of this celPlans have been made and instm�- within the ah ebrat10n of the 100th anmver,sary of tions sent out to county chairmen thing in their po;wer to assist in the the arrival of the first S'h iploacl of 1 • . , wu the1· r •"espec w1·�i..,n • ._ • for sale o f' ad - . s·•ale orf t1·,.kets Norse immigrants in America by for an mtens1ve d rive authorizin g the issuance of special vam,ce tickets od' admission to the tive O!l"gah izations and cong,regations. Centeµnial postal Centenial cel eibiration:, during the first ' It is, -a lso od' importance to the com NorSE:!•American stamps, a two-ce�t _ and a five-cent week o f' May and until May 10th . mittee in cha1,ge that the tickets be stamp, a1_1 d th � mrntmg of 40.000 comdisposed of a, s soon ,as possiJble and m emorative ,silver medals, the first These we eks are to be known as he mo ney remitted to the Cente n.i 1:J man <l n every ai Weeks" "Centenial t n the hat try history of cou e th time in such medals have been a uthorized by and wQmain hiaiving to do with the nial offices . While the words of the ••• advance ,sale of ti>ckets is most ur- old song, "Me ska komma, um inkje Congress . It is also 1h o:i,led that the Navy de- gently requested to work harder than s,a brat," might be ·applicable to us • partm ent will send the giant dirigible I N ol e,g1ans, 1 et us nQW t ry to d_eme airshi p, the Los Angeles , to the cele- ever duriilig this particular ,prtliad to, i - '!W that even ,we can do thmgs ,I strate n our of success financial the ? bration and that it will be accompan- 1 a,ssure a h ied b y a fleet of 50 airplanes. celebration. Com!I)aI'atively few of m UJ11l'y JW,h.en necessary. The executive committee in charg e\ our pe·01p,le realize the tr:emendou,i "Neither should we forget that the of arrangement for the big celebration expense in!V'olved in ;putting on this coming celebration is ,of such na consists of t he.'·.· follow',ing : ;P!rofGisle Botbne, Minneapolis, chairman ; celebration. IT:housands and tens o1 ture that not ·only men and women Hon. N. T. Moen, Fergus Falls, 1st 1 thousands of dollars are required tc of Norse blood may attend and re v-ice chairman ; A. C. Floan . St. Paul , 1 defray such expense,s as rental of th� ceive pleasure and inspiration foam. "2nd viice chairman ; Prof. J . A. Ho!- l.\'[innes,ota Fair Gmunds r the celebration, but 1als·o those of State vik, M oor<head, secrtary ; Trygve Oas, ,,,. and statio111ery ,· postag· e anc other nationalities. The,n,fore, one n•.., Minneapolis, treasurer ; A. Uelancl, nrinti " Minnea polis, counsel , a nd s. H. · Ho!- advertising ; clerical help· ; install,atio,r should not hesitate to ask people of stad , Minneapolis , managing director. of loud s,pe aking equipment ( whid other nationalities to, support the un� • Rev. B. E. Bergesen, M inneapolis, alone will oo-st a;]:),out $3500.00 ) , dertaking by buying tickets, and' also ii, chairman of tb.e program commit- I staging, <JostlltlTiing and fl.oats for th� urge them to attend. It is beeause tee. Other committee chairman are : finance, iE. G. Quamme, president ; \ biig pageant ; Taising platform and cos- I feel ,a keen de-sire to ibe o f greatFederal Farm Land Bank, St. Paul ; tumes for the livinig flag ; insull'lallc est possible assistaTllCe in making the transportation. Hon. O.· P. B. Jacob- of viari-ous. kinds, including insura111ci Centeintn ial ,celebration a big suiecess son, Fergus Falls, chairman, Minne- of all exihi.bits both in t na nsit am that I appeal to the members of our s ota 1Railway and Warehouse Cammi sion ; budget, J. G. Norby, Minn 0_ while at the :£a.f r ,gr,ounds and a thou church body_ t._o participate to the fu.11Hs ; publicity , . chief sand and ooe items of expense which est extent po-s,siible in this wo,nder sota Hot1 �0,_,......,...,,r clerk run into many thousands of dollars. ful festival. In ,o0111dusion, :permit With true ,characteristic Norwegian me to siay that whether one can at i,ndepe ndence, the Boa.rd of DiirectO!rs tend o,r not, he should show his in of the Ce ntennial decided at the rut- terest in the vitally imp10rtant un set that, they would not ask for cash dertaking by buying tickets." contributions foom the business inThat the Norse -American Centen terests IO'f Minneaipolis and St. Paul, nial celebration is r:e,garded in Nor or from individual Novse-Americans way as an event of great signifi and others, to finia.n ce the celeib ra- ,can.ce to the entire NoTse race has tion,. This means that the celeibra- ' �gain been emphasized. • The Nor tion must ibe financed � incip�lly i wegi�,n Ship Owners As,s·odation . tihrou;gh the sia,l e of admission bck- tlwough its president, H. W estfal _ ets. We believe �veryibody _con,�e-rn- Larsen, has issued a :Eomnal request ed .should be adVIsed of this situ a- to oJWners and cauitains of Noriwegian , tion, that they ma.y fu lly realize the ships, that may happen t;o be in tiremendous im1po,rtan,ce od' the· ad,- American p:01rts during the Centen ial n , va,nce ticket sales campaign and ex- celebration to hoist their colors and insure to ert themselves to the limit decocr:iate theiir ships in h!onOT of the the financial success of the under- ,oocas sion. This order als,o ap-plies • , taking. to , all N o,rwegian shipping that may . In a statement Just made espec- happen to, be in the ha11bo r of Ne,w ially for puibli,c ation in the church Y 01rk on Oc1:Jober 9th the hundredth papers and Norse-American p,ress, anniversary of the �rtrivel there of DI". G. Stub, president of the N_orCampaign Waged for Advance Tick weg1an Lutheran chu1 ch of A erica the sl011:i,p , "Restauratione1n," with its 1 m , fivst ca,rgo of Norse immigrants on et Sales ; Reduced Rates Se among other things says : IWhicll. day a big celebration •m be cured on All Railroads. "It is the Nol"se-American peOfP1e held in New York. in its en,tirety which ·will celeb11ato Announcement has previously been the Centennial , a,nd all of our. people made that the railil',ods will sell tic:kHOUSING PROBLEM SOLVED should p,airticipate. It should be a ets for the Centennial at the rate USING SLEEPING CARS. matter of ip,ride for everyone of of one and one-third fare for .the Norse ancestry to exert himself to round trip. The Centennial Oom make this celebration a really g,reat mittee has just been advised that the Local Committee in Charge of Sales! affair, in every way worthy of the time of the final return limit, om all Nonse-Am ericans and their influ ence such tickets, will be Ju�e 20th. The of Coupon Boo_k� Also Sell on Ameri can, development, and like - dates of saJe will no doubt va ry Reservations. / wise worthy of the land and peo1Ple s01IDewhat aocoil'ding to distance from I ARRANfiEMENTS MADE FOR Blfi CENTENNIAL AT ST. FAIR fiROUNDS; !f· �the Trwin Cities, also acoordi11Jg to • Hoy a nd Girl Clwb Work Building fl�omally invited t attend -the Centern1iia.l celeJbl'lation and in event that- 1 decision of the various railroads. 'l'he -Nio rdlandslaget; rocal ticket agents at •a ll stations will Industrial Building, No. 2-Land- the "Los Angeles" a,n d the fleet of l_ 1aiI1planes are sent, it is believed that be advised in due time b y the re- ingslaget; Bldg.-Mjosenlaget, these two memers of President Oool Agriciulturial sipective roads, not om.l y as to dates orf s,aJe and return limits, but als,o Hu!I'dalslaget, Sondfjordlaget, Vos- idge's Cabinet will acrnpt the invi/as to stopover privileges either go- s,daget. tatfon. ing orr returning. Homooltu,r,al Bldg.--Osterrd>alsla, Let us aigaiin1 ap1peal to all readers It shlould be of interest to those get, S.olorlaget, Romsdalslaget, Berg- of this bulletin to assist in Locating the oldest living Norse-America n planning to attend the Norsa-Amer- emslaiget., Hauges.undslaget; ican Centen:nial to know o f 10.tiher Pulblic Health Exihibits Bldg.-'Dot- vete:r,an of the Civil W,ar. So far on ly albout a dozeni daimants for this events in and near the T,win Cities enraget; Dining Hall, No. 6-Ifongsibergla- 1 distinction have be en brought :florduring the fore part of June. For this reas·o n the foHowi:nig informa - g-�t, Numedalslaget ; I ward, ,o ne od' wihom happens tc, be a tiio n i-s given : St. Olaf College, H ipipodr'ome-Stavang,erlaget ; veteran of Co}onel Heg's famous FifNorthfield, Minnesota, will celebrate Internati·o n1a,l H,wrvester Co's. Bldg . . ( teenth Wis,c omsin regiment, which its fiftieth anniversary and d�dicate --'-Hadelandia,get; • Was co ,tn>posed entirely of Nomve its ne,w Science Hall during oomRadisson Hotel, Minneapolis-Tel- \ gians. Hon. Oley Nelson, Slater, mencement exercises June 4, 5 amd 6 ; eget. Iowa, clta.i11man of the committee on . 'I1he Lutheran Young People's League The remaining Lags are expected selecting membe;rs of the Guiard o f will have its national conventi,on in to select their meeting places in the Hono1r to President Ooo,lidge, is an M inneaipolis f.rom June 6th to 9th , > very near future. Trh e Augsburg xious to hea,r from the tallest and a rrianging its events so that the Publishing House and "N ordmands- biggest Nocrse-Ame,dcan veterans of thousands o:f delegates and visitors :florfuundent" will have headqua:rlters the S1panish-American War and the may r1artiici1pate in the Centeninial i in the Minnes,ooo. Editorial Associ<a- World War, as he is desirous of hav events ; the Woman's Missionary Fed- 1 tion Building. Headquarters will al- ing the presidential body guard of a eration of Norwegian Luther,an s·o be ,s elected s•o on fto!I' the Sons o-f ty,pically Viking ohal'lalCter. ChuJ:1ch of Annedca , meets_ in St. Paul , Nonway, Daughte·rs of Nor:wa,y , _ Al'iran,geiments have been made June 10-12 ; the N orwegi an lJuther- 1 Luuheran Brotherh!ood, Lief Erikso n with the Northwe,stern Ra ilroad for 1an Cihu'l'ch orf Amerioa holds its bien- j Society, No;r,we,gian Singers Ais siocia- 1s leepli11)g 1ca1'1 alCICJOimiodations a,t the .nial 1co1I1vention ·at the St. Paul Au- I tion and alumnd •a ssociations of the ate of $6 .fo;r five nights. Leaving St. James at 3 : 30 P. M . on June 5th, ditio1rh:um, June 9-14 ; the Norwegia n ) Norse-American Colleges. , Lutheran Free Church meets ini Min- 1 Acording to, the most recent i n- the triad.n !Will ,a,rrive at the• State Fair n�aplolis June 10-1� ; . the Tri -Sta�e I Jl'or:mati>on from Washingto n, the big Grounds· wihere extra tracka.ge has Postmasters Ass•o c1at1on. meets m , navy diirigilble ,ai rship, the "Los An- been installed to accommodate slee.p MinneaipoHs, June 8th and 9th and geles," will oame to the Twin Cities \ng c ars fl"om every part cxf Amer' the Northwestem Industrial Ex;posi- ! f!o,r the Centennial celebration. Ohair- i,tca iwihich ;will take care• of the hous tion will be held in the Overland man Bothne has received a · letter. ing pro[P·ositiion as the hotels of the ' building, St. Paul, Jp-ne 6-13. • j from United States Senator Henrik Tiwin Cities will be crowded to the j RI'lofess•o•r Gisle Bothne, President I Sihip;stead, from Minnesiot;a, to th e hrim, oaring fioir the greatest g,ather oif the Norrse-American Centennial, effect that SeCII'etary o.f the Navy ing ·ever assembled in Minnesota. I has just received a lengthy letter Wilbur infoiI"l'Iled him tlh at the bi.g . Place you:r resel"V'atioll1 with Ben fl,OIIU Honorable G. J. lJOllllen, Judge airship will be sent to the Centenmi al Olseth, St. Jame,s ; Jacoib Bvogger, of United States D istrict Court at if it can be done, and then Secretary I Butterfield; P. T. Laingen, Odi,n; Nome, Alaska, in whirch he aicce1pts Wilbur added the wiords : "and I am 'Olaus Syverson, Ormsby ; Helmer the Centern,nial ,c:haimnanshiip f1or the quite sure it can be done. " Since Blackstad, Echols ; 0. E. Sundt, La territory •orf Alaslm.. Judge Loma1_1 • then, diSIJ)atches from. Washington to Sane ; Ole Kolstad, Godahl ; Ole Hol s1 a,y,s in pa rt : "Alas, ,we are too far Thvin City papers carried the irnfor- ley, M1adelia ; J1ohn Ask, Triumipih ; Andr� w 1aiway to aco.� mplisill. much towa rds m�tion thi�t' Oongressman N e':'to .n, o f • Gus J ohinson1, Triwnph; : . _ l Mmneapohs, the success of the ,great celebration. had conferred with Ad- LeV1g, Truman oir Martm Helv1g, It is an event that will accoonplish miral Moffett, iruead of the Naval Air and purchase your coupon books dur much ,good and frtOl!ll advia111.ce imrl'or- Service, who had given even more ing tih.e coming week frOI!J. any of m:at1on, I am sUII'e it will be a grand · definite assurance that the big the ge:ntlemen named. success. I am sure the attendance •�blimp" will be sent to the Centenis gioill!g to lbe very large. It will niial celebratiro,n . It is also e.x;pe.cted furnish an opportunity for old and that a fleet orf about fifty ahip1anes, scattered friends to meet a.giain and of viadous sized models, :flvom the for s•o·cieties of various kinds to ihia;ve Anny Air Service , will •be sent to theill' re,uni,ons. I rwish to go on rec7 the 'Dw:in Cities f1or this oClcas1on. ord as having 1great interest in this In the effort to obtain these \VlOncelebration, to my mind the g·rea.t denful attra,ctiorns, the Centennial t est in the oountry." Ooimmittee has had the active 00-·�- 1 The bygdelags which have so fa erati<o n of the Minneapolis Civic and } definitely decided upon their meetini Commerce Ass'n., the St. Raul Ass'n., ! place on June 6th at the Minnes-ot� ,and the 1091:ih Aero Squad,rion the State Faiir Ground.s a,re as folloiws l Minneso,ta unit of the army air serState De[P,a,rtment of Ex.hilbits vice. Inasmuch as there is no steel Buildin1g-Gudbiriandsdalslaget ; , landing toiwer in the T,win Cities, Industrial Building, No. 1-Sogna- the 109th Aero Squadron has v,olun) teered to supply the 600 men neces\a get; Poultry Buildi11g-V1aldris Sam- sary to man the 11opes to hold _tihebig dirigiible at anchorage at the f band, Hallin,gfaget; Maahinery Hall-Tro>nderlaiget, Vik- Wold-Cllambedain Airfield, nea,r Fort tnia.le get, Selbulaget, Ringerikslaget, Snelling, , in o rder t.ruat the creiw may land and that needed supplies may HardangeTla,get ; Industri,al Building, No. 3-Norrd- be taken aihoard. The Secretaries of hiordlandslaget,, S1ondho111dlandsl aget ; the Navy, and the Army have been o i 1 i · 1 �Form a• 1. T.hrUR have been most gracious in g1v111g ns ,space and we are using your B ulletins to good advantage.'' �-- Intensive \Vork Inaugurated For Success of Centennial June 6 to 9 The pnblislwrs of "Slrnndinaven," fhe well known No r wegian newspaper published in Ohi<'n go, ad vise us tha t the judges have ,:elected the winnet·<; in i ts prize contest instituted last fall Onkrs fo r Norse-Amer ican Cen ten- iYith me or with a ny one else connC'ctC'd fo r the best three articles o r esays an I n i a l C '0mmemorati ve meda h; are now witli the Centennial celebra tion so fn r I swering the question :"What is the big l1Ping recei l'c•cl at headcgrn.rters by the a s I know. I am not e,en advised u s p;est and most impor tant work do1rn by lrnndt·e<ls cla i ly 'l'he rn·icc of the rnelln l to whether o r n o t these stamps w i ll h e t h e Norsemen , in America i n the 100 . is :i;1 .2;;, postpa id, and no r>erson w ill placed on sale at other postoffices later years s ince the bf'ginning of Norse ip.i be perm i t t C'd to huy more than Olll'. • l n , lrn t I ho pe sueh may be the r.ass> ." migra1'ion ?" The prize money totalled 'l'h is floes uot mean, llowC'vrr, that one The f<!)ecin l Centennial 8tam ps will be $500, rlirided i nto three prizes : 1st, cannot purchase m�tlals for other mem- in two colors-the first t ime in AmN'i - $250 ; 2nd, $1!i0 ; 3rd, $100. The letter iht>rH of 011e's family, i f cksire<l , bnt in can history tba t RlWh i,pec-ial Rta ni pis from '"Slrnndinavcn" says : "Tl.le ar RlHc h cases an i ll(l i vi flnal order nrnst be have been issued in more than one ticles, of whieh hundreds came in, I sent in for each medal, together with ! colo r. have now ,been r ead hy the judges and name arnl a11<1 resR. '.r he orders are I.JcThe ,voman's Aux iliary committl'rs the th1·ee considered the be,:t have ing filccl in the order received and each . 11 l\linnrsota countiC's have been tloing !wen selech•d. The rir izP article to or<ler numbC'rNl . Each medal will be ·omP rC'all:v remarkable work in fur- gether w it h the na 1t1es, pictureR and bi SC'nt hy mail in a specially ma <le conogra ph ies of t ile w inners, also of the th e ring an understnn ding of and creH t- ta iucr, anll rPgistered in order that the appear in one of Skandi in g intNest in the forthcoming Cc-n- .i udgC'S, will commi t tee mn y get a receipt fo r C\'e ry tennial , under the clirer tion and supn·- uav c n's i �sue during the celf'bration. " medal sC'nt out. NONE WILL BE l'iRion of l\1rs. l\Iabel Johnson Lelarnl, " Lnndsforbundet" advises that its SOLD OYBR 'l'HE C OUNTER, or de- state cbairnrn n. In many ritirs and headquarters during the Centennial lh·er0cl in person at the time of pn r - towns the woman's auxiliary oommit- will be Luther Seminary, St. Paul, a nd ellase. A,; Congress has authorized tees have · inte re;:;ted • the riuhlic school Bethlehem church , 14th Ave. S. and the ma king of only 40, 000 of these teaehcrn :rn<l pupil;:; in various way ;,, 1 8th S t., l\Iinncapolis. medals, it behoo\'es all who desire to have bad Literary and Musical clubs The number �ml variety of exhibits obtain one of these valuable memC'·n tos put on ;:;veci a l programs with reference so far promised for the Centennial are I of th e Cel<'bra tion not to delay in sendto Norse literature and mmiic, featur-. so fa r in excess of what had been ing in their or<l('r. Send onlers to I 00l,ell fo r tl18 t Dr . K nut G J·erset, ex •• Norse-Anwricn n Centennial Comm ittee, ing also the W«;Jl'I, of N'orse,Americnn h ibit to clrn irman,. found it necessary l\ I eclul DE'�lt., II Washington ave., S.. ·niters and compO<;ers, have �rovi'cl ed I lllake a nother trip to the Twin Cities I : Minneapolis,: l\ I i 1111., a t·ompanie<l by speakers for meetmgs of various or- to arrange for addi tional exhibit space _ materor postal ga nizations and have pronded bank eheck or draft ' exorC's . at the fair gronncl. IIe was h er. la s t . . . Do not SC'11<l stamps. i a l for a great deal of public i ty ID th ei r Saturday and Sunday for this purpose rnom'Y order. . ctivity i this All pe r newspa s. local a Bea r in m ind that these meclah; wjll be s A ccompanying him was Prof. Karl I u � ,' t,�" t i· ma �· nas.,,�es, p·,i i·ti ctl· having tremendous influence for good, Jacobs-011, Luthe r College librarian, lll()r·e \",tliia'•ln lnrly sinc·c• the NorRe-An;C'rican Centen- I an i nfluence that will extencl far �e- who will have charge of the books ex_ nial me<lal is the first commemo rn tive ' youcl the Centenmal, namely, to give hibits, whic-h will include as complete medal ever authorized by the Congress the non-Norse part of our pouulation � a collection aR po;;sible of the works of clearer understanding of the Contnof the United States. Norse-American w r iters, also o�d and . bution of ou r people to American civ i l, C'ongre;;;;mni_i 0. J. I'-vak, of ;\,l mne) and, as a con- rare co! irs of Norwegian books. This develonment and ization , sota . anthor of the bill in Congress I :-- g a c1 e arer and exllihit alone promises to be a veritable , sequen<:e, riroc1 u m nrovidino. .., " for -nrinting of the i-perial _ � of such contnbu- Heyeopenrr" even to our own people, 1 l<'ever appl'enatwn . :Nor;;e-.A.merican Centenmal two-cent c ion, Similar activity is being d isplay- m any of whom a re unaware of either t and five-cent postnge stamps, has been eel by the women's auxiliaries of other the quantity 01• qual ity of Norse-Ameri not i fied by tile Postoffice department at states. l!'or example, let us quote brief- ean c011trihntions to American literaWashington that these stamps will be ly from a lotter received from Mrs. tme. plnce!l on sr l e o n M11y 17, Norway's Tn• Katie N. K j orlie, North Dalrnta state We hope to have some more detailed clC'pcndn1r<' Da y, . i n the following SC'Wn c:hairman : " A talk on the Norse-.A.meri- informa tion ns to exhibits ,,ery soon, : cities : ,vashington. th e n n tion's capi- r·n n C eutenn i a l as a C urrent Event of probably in our next B ulletin . tnl : C'hiengo. w l.lkh llas the la rgC'st I n terest was given at the Fargo DelIn t he A!)ril 21st issue of "'l:he population of Norse-Amcrkn ns ; St . p hian C lub ; an entire program, talks :M i u ncapol i tnn." ollicial bulletin of the y ,Pa ul and :\l iJmen �1oli::: , 1 here the Cen- and music, was giYen at the First M imwapolis Civic & ·Commerce Asso tC'nnial CC'kbra tion is to be hel ll ; De- Lutheran L ad ies' Aid a nd at the Luth- I c iation, was Dnblished 11 lengthy articl e eor11h, Iowa, and NorthfiC'hl. l\I iun., pran B B rotherhood ; under the a uspices on the Ccmtennial. Among other thing s wher e arc '1ocntNl, reRpC'etively, Lut11rr of the Rc·n ndinnvian "' C. T. U . a i t i,ays : "First among the great na · Collrge a ml St. Ola f College, thC' w hole evenings ·s entertn inment , open to l ional events of histor ical i nterest la rgest ::'\orsr-AmC'rican higher in�ti- th<.' rrnhl ic. has· bePn n rra ngPcl, with nn which is bonud indelibly to the Nortb tnti om; of learning ; a n<l B rnson , Miun., illustrated talk on Norway hy Rev. C. west is the Norse-AmE-rican Centennial the home of Oongresmau Kvnle. "1\ nd ,v. Finwall , a talk on the Centennia l in commPmoration of the coming o f t ile T w a n t it to he known tha t I had nolh- celebration by Dr. J. A. Aasgaard, 'Vikings of the North' to Ame rica in ing whn tevC'r to do wi th sC'leeting thf' president 0{ Concordia college, and tS25. The Ci vie & Commerce Associa. cities whE-rc t he Centennial stamps are musical numbers by Norse-Ame r ican ti.on officers are giving every servke to he sol<l, " sa i<l Congressma n KY de compoi::crs ; other orgn nizations have pos&ible to i nsu re th success of this when a t hra(lquartC'l'S the other d ) y . included or have pr omised to include event. The co-opera tion of the mem "'l'his ac-tion was taken by the Post- numbers conce rning the Centennial at hers will mea n mueh in the task of office Department without consultation coming meC'tings. Our daily papers playing host to the pP()ple who visit l J I �r e-gon,rnrrrem o �orway; prci�� lory of Norse- American contrib ution the city for this evnt. " And then thf> 1 xorwny that Wm. Morgenstierne, Vice of her pioneer to Americ an civiltzation and devel achievements the of arti<.:le also goes on to urge the mem- President of Normanclsforbundet will ing sons, is sending two of its fore opment. hers of the As,;ociation to asist in the represent that well known orga11ization most statesmen, L. Oftendahl, min a <lYanre :;;ale of tickets to insure the a t tpe Centennia l. It is also expected ister of social worl{, and C. J. Ham finan cial success of the undertaking. tha t other Civic and Industrial organ- bro, chairman of the Storthing com mittee on foreign relations, together Similar hearty co-0Deratio11 is being izat ions in the Mother Country will with scores of ieading citizens. Gov ml?t 1Yith nt the hands of officers and Rend official representati ves. ernor General Byng of Canada, which nwmbers of the St. Paul Association of Just before its adjournment last also profited by the Norse emigra sending a special delegation, tion,, week the }Linnesota State Legislature as is isIcelar,1, Puolic and B usiness Affairs. . which vied with Nor The Minnesota Conference of tb e a ppropriated $10,000.00 for an exhibit was,- in contributing to the pioneer Swedish A ug-ustana Synod, which met of Minnesota's na tural resources and -mg brigade. Governors W i l l Attend. last we('k in Minneapolis, did a very attractions to -be put on at the State Governors of six states, which • courteom; and brotherly act in ad-0pt l?air Grounds in connection with the trace their lineage back to Norse ing re8olutions commending the Norse Norse-American Centennial. The ex men, also are expected to take part 1 Mbit is to be arranged all(l the money ia the celebration. They are Gov. America n Centennial , as folows : expf'nrled under th direction of Hon. Theodore Christianson, of Minnesota; '".rhe Minuesota Conference of Gov. J. J. Blaine, of Wisconsin; Gov. J. P. Hohnbreg, State Commis.'3ioner of Carl G underson, of South Dakota ; the Lutheran Augustana Syn-0d in Agriculture. Acting with him as a Gov. A. G. Sorlie, of North Dakqta ; sesi-;ion asseml}led, is familiar with commit.tee on the Minnesota Exhibit < +ov. J. E. Erickson, of -Montana, and 1 the fact tha t your people in the will be Prof. C. G. Selvig, Supt. of the GoY. H. L. Whi tfield, of Mississippi. I United Sta tes and Canada are pre Directors of the celebration expect ' State Agricultural School at Crooks- that fully 250,000 persons, possiblY paring to celebrate the bistorie ton, Minnesota , Senator Freeman .J . 500,000, will attend the four-c.la'.,r , event of a llun(l1•ed y�rs ag� Thoe, Hayfield, Minn., Repre,;entative event, among them many followers ' when Norwrgian ·lmiiiij;ran s came and desc:endants of the original N. T. Moen, Fergus Falls, Minn. , and Norse-American", whose l'ank.� in to this country with the pla n and America now have swelled to some G. B. Wollan, Publicity Director. Deft purpose to estahlh:;h a settlement in nite work is also expected • in a few thing like 2,500,000. t his land of ours. Besides the participation of Presi days 1·el11Uv0 to the e:xhtbit of the dent Coolidge and Secretary of State "vVe, Swed ish-Americans, being Kellogg, the United States has Dominion ot Canad&.. <'losely related to you as a. pPoplE further recognized the importance of from the Xorra in anc<>stry, lan thi:,;i centennial by congressional au guage, cu,;toms and traditions, as thorization of special Norse-Ameri can centennial postage stamps in two wel l as religious faith, rejoice with colors and the minting of 40,000 com you in the anticiDa.tion of a grea t memorativ e silver medals at the :rnd worthy celebration, recogniz J"hiladelphi a, Pa., mint. This is the first time in America's history that upon blessing ing God's wonderful such a commemorative medal · has you in the past ancl wishing yon Leen authorized by congress. great success in noble achieve- • D i ri gible Max Come. ments in the future." -Secretary of the Navy Wilbur bas promised to send the giant dirigi))ie, This was addresi;;ed to the hoard of the Los Angeles, to the centennial signed and Centenniel the of rectors di I celebration, "if it can be done," add- . L L I R A P N E M N R E and GOV R FO U ing, "and I think it can." by Rev. P. A. Mattson, president, There will be 22 departm·ents of 1 T I C I PAT E I N JU.N E, Rev. N. J. W. Nelson, secretary. Need exhibits besides special exhibit::i by and tribute splendid less to say, this the state of Minnesota and the do minion of Canada, of their natural these good wishes from our Swedish resources. These departmental exbrethern are deeDlY appreciated. will cover a wide range includ GOVERN ORS W I LL ATTEN D hibits '.rhe Centennial Committee wants to ing a department of pioneer exhibits w hich will visualize , as perhaps never hear from more old Civi l War veterans before, the growth and development of Norse birth or a ncestry. About 20 of the great middle west during the have so far come forwar(l w ith claims ",ou r Days' Celebration is ti!I Bring past century. There will also be ex t.dr the distinctio n of being "the oldest ' hibits of ilne arts and crafts, includ -wo Famous Choral Societies ]Jlg both a loan exhibit and a com living Norse-American Civil War Vet u M petitive Other and exhibit of painting s and ;"ogether eran." The oldest so far to be named sculptures by Norse -Americ an art Cente1•, Sauk of Johnson, is .J ohn ists. The celebra tion also will bring toMinn., wl10 is pa st 92 years of ag('. gether a wonderful group of musical Most of the other claiman ts are from organiz ations featuring two interna 82 to 88 years old. Is there one older tionally famous choral bodies ihe BY G. B. woi,LAN. than Mr. Johnso n ? If so, let us hear [Copyl'ight, 1925, by South ;l�!ld Tribune.) Academ ic choir from Oslo, N�rway, ST. PAUL, Minn., May . �0 .-'.l\he and the St. Olaf Lutheran choir J:rom from him or from somebody f'lse on who Northfield, 1v.):inn. Other musica l or County chairmen ancl memory of 53 intrepid Norsemeli his behalf. ganizations partici pating in the cele landed !fl. Amorica from the ..,slo� bratio are B ulletin this ng receivi n will be the Luther college others the "Mayfl o wer of the Restoration, concert band consis ting of 75 pieces • ocal l their in urged to give :rmblici ty North" 100 years ago and, trekking F;t , Olaf college band papers to this search for the "oldest .w est leq. in the pioneering that con l ege cho ir; Auguslana; Waldorf 001: college choir; is it _ college as certain be us " -on�ord1a Yet('ran . Let i:ihoir; A ugsburg ,erted the middle western plains into � clis Semm ary Glee club, and a male J,umnuly possible to be thnt the the bread basket of the world, will chorus of 500 more voices from tinctio n goes to the veteran entitled to be honored by four governments at t he NorwegJan orSingers' Association it beyond questi on. Your asistance in lhe Norse-American cente:g.nial, to of America. thiR will be deeply apprec iaterl. Games ground adto Feat u re. be held Other special features of the cde,vorcl was received the other rla:v joining the twin icties June · s to 9. bratio n nnrned w i ll be athlet ic game s and President Coolidge is coming in that th<' Norwegian Government conte ats by stude nts of Norse -Ame ri Ml its representatives to attend the person to pay America's tribute on can college and academies; a Jiving 1'he eighth to· those hardy pioneers � :Nor�e�Amer Ycan Ce11te nnial , Prem ier and .t heir followers, whose lives make flag by child ren, depic ting first the J. L. Mowin kel to repreRent the Cab up in great measure the history of flag of Norway which will be in stant ly transformed into the "star s inet and Ivan Lykke, Presid ent of th<' the great American middle west. 1 a;nd stripes," and an historical page Secretary of S tate Kellogg will be ody. Anb tJrnt Storthing, to t de icting the pa - st century's hisp the same day. 1 ,m n made in prnsent and speak on as GOOUOGE Will SPEAK �T HUGE NOH.SE C�NTENN IAL �THE CENTEN NI1\L NEA Some Sid€J Li�hts on Great Cele bration to Be Held at Min nesota F air Grounds The Norse-Am erican Centenni al celebrati on to commem orate the 100th anniversa ry of the begin ning of Norse immigra tion to America will be held at the Min nesota 1State Fair Grounds , St . Paul-Min neapolis, Satnrclay , Julle 6, to Tuesday , Jnn� 9th, inclusive . June 6 is " Bygdela ·g " day, June 7 i n " Church anrl Internati onal " clay, June 8 is " Am<>rica ' ' day, (when President Coolidge •w ill at tend ancl deliver a n addr<>ss ) , and ,Tune 9 is " NoT'way ;:inn Wom P.., " o ay . Every day · will b e a RIG clay . Fonr n ations will be officially repres<>nt ecl-the Un itec1 Stat<>s. Domin i on of (',i n a <'1 a . NnrwaY a n rl Icelan<l . n<>" i cl <>s President · d.onl frb:i:'. tlw Fn iti:'rl Rtat"" w ill hr represPnted hv Hon . F1·ank KPl l o g·Q". Ser,.,eh rv of RtR t 0 . a n d by thP LM An gel es. rti w n t N a vy <l i"' io•ible · Norwav ·w ill he rrnrr<:Pnt �� in · offici a l · (' fl naritv . hv Hon . H . H . TirYn . N0rweu- i a n �11 ini .-tP 1 to the Unit rcl Stfl t C'" ·an d 1wr�n11 '1 l represcnt�ti vc o f T(in (? Il fl n k 1m , a n d h v �Ir. J;:us OftNl a l . member· of the· C'abinet, ,i nd C'. ,T. IJ,nnlwn, member nf the Rtortl1 in g- : th .-. Do minion of ('fl n R cl a will sen cl Hon . Thomas II . ,Jolrnson . former min i ster o f la•b o1· ancl attorn PY rrPnPr n 1 of the TJl'OYin,..e of M,i n i t nbR, ann. P,·emi er .J. Dr11cke11 of 1\1:an itoba , while Irrl :r n o w i l l lw T'P• -p r psp,, tprl ih y Pn o-fr11 Holmfricl Arn a cl ottir arnl TTn a·fru T n !!' a L11n1sclott ir . l �r'-i(l e� a n11mh r1· of Nonvcgian int,,rn a t i on si l a11 cl n ation al org1- m izations will h a ve -renresent l'l t i ves . Rri q- . Gen . A. W. Bjornstad, first Norsc-A mrri r ::i n to att::iin 11 general 's rank in th,, rr,1 iter1 Rta tc>s AT'mv. n ow <stntionecl 11 t Ft . Omi=i h :ci .' Npl1 . . Im � a rreptrrl th e i nvitation t o n t t enrl a n d wi l l lJe nre�ent . Hr W I! " horn i=i n cl raised in St. Panl M i n n . . wl, i lp "hoth h i >' fatJ, rr ancl moth er ,,.PT'r 1)0rn in No�n1 :v . ' \Six states will b e represented by Gov ernors of Nor�e ancestry, 11.imel ;v : Theoil ore Christianson , Minnesota ; J. J. Blaine, Wiscon -sin ; A . G. Sorl ie, N 01-th Da kota : . Carl Gunderson, South Dakota : . F. Stan gland. Rochester, N . . ...Y. ; John E . Erickson, l\Iontana, and 1 l\Trs . Emilv Fruland and ::.\1rs . I-I. S. Whitfield, 1\'f o,sissippi. Gov Caroline Bower, Rherida n , Ill . , ernors from two or three other ancl Miss Sadie Selle, Chicago . 8t, a tes may also attend . Gov . Al All but two or three of these a re 'l:3 mith, New York, h a s a ppointPd expected to attend the Centen three d elegates from the Empir<> nial celeib ration . Sta te, namel y, 1\Iaj. Gen . Charles I The Board of 'D irectors of the Berry, c ommandin g- the National Centennial is comoosed of : P'l'of. Guard, Capt . S. ,T. Arneson and Gisle Bothne, University of Min Rev . C. 0. Pedersen , while Gov . nesota, chairman ; Hon . Nels 'I' . Len Small, Illinois, has appointed 1\foen, Fergus Falls, Minn . , bt Hon . N . A . Grevstad, Chicago, Yice chairman ; A. C. Form, St . former United States minister to Paul, 2nd vice chairman ; Prof . J . Para1qiuay and Uruguay, as his A . Holvik, Mool'head, secretary ; personal represent ative . and Trygve Oas, M inneapolis, 'l'he United St ates government tre asurer . Th ese a11 d S. H. Hol established two precedents in con nection with the Norse-American stad, 1\Iinneapolis, Managing Di constitute the '' Bi g Six ' ' Centennial . Por the first time in hrector, o a re mairily responsible for lay its h i-s tory Congress authorized a ing the plans for the big cclc,b ra commemorative meda l and £or tion and on whose shoulcl en, ha ve the first time in h istory the Post rested the a nluous duties a n d 1 e office department has issued two �ponsibilities connected \vith c a· r •c olor stamps £or a commemorative ying them out to a successful r .celcibration . N o special stamp is- conclusion . T hese men have per ·ue has ever created such a stir a mong stamp collectors as did formed a most notable service to the Norse-American Centennial t h eir race and have earned their 's deepest gra t itnc1c issue . Orders £or the Centennial countrymen and appreciation . medals arc now being r eceived . They sell for 1 . 25 each and each Great credit is also due to Dr . medal ,,vill be sent to the bu.rer direct by registered mail-n�ne Knut Gjerset, cu rator of the vLl1wi ll be sold " ove r the counter. , , thcr qo llc ge museum, Decorah, )I a il orders, accom p anied by an� 1\I iss _H e rborg Re9-uc, 1\I�nnea d raft or check to Nors e-Ame r ican po hs, chai rma n and v1ce chairman Centennial , •1 i Washin gt on A ve . , r e�pectiv,el y o � the Exhibits COl?, S . , :.\iinneapolis, Minn . Only one m1tt ee,_ for then· excellent wor_k m medal will 1b e sold to anv one gathermg an a rray of exh1i)its person, although one p ers on m ay I w orthy of 1the occasion and which huy £or other m embers of t h e h a s never bcfore been even ap f amily by giving- name and ad- proach c d _ in Norse-American his dress of each of such others i ll tory . Literally thousands of ex the family . The mccl a l s ,vill be :hiJbits . h a ve been gathered from all pomts of the . cornpa:,s, from mailed :-;<>para1cly to eath . To " Stavanger la "'c1, " one of near and far, to v1snahzc the con th e 30-odd N orse " la; s '' or d an s , t dbutions of Americans of Nor;'l e goes the credit for initiatin()' t h e ancestry to t h e progress a n d Ins movement to celebrntc the " cen- t ory of tl1eir a dopted country . trnary of Norse imm igration to 1\I any o f these exhibits have nev e r �\ mf'ri c a, mar keel h? t h r s ci i l i n g b �fo re ·been offered to pu1b lic of the littlr 4i5-1 on sloop. " Re- view, many arc priceless heir ;-;t a urati onen , ' ' f rom IStn vanger on l ooms, many can not be dupli<iat ,Tul .v 4, 182fi, with i ts r a rgo o f ,> 2 ed a�ywhcre els e on earth, many n ,i s-;rn grrs. nwn ··w omr n an cl ch i l - arc mtcnsely interesting either llrcn . Stavang�r lagrt m a d e the because of intrinsic value o r for· form a l nroposal to th r o ther J a gs t heir histo ric al associ ations. 'l' hc r e i n 1:11,8 -to join wi1 h i t in arran g- will 'b � ? 1 different departments of exlub1t8, besdes which there i n �()' for such a cclrhrat i on . . ,,ill be special official exhibits 'b0y , Of lilc first �cneration b orn to tihe State of Minnesota ancl. th e " s loop ers ' ' on Am erican soil, only Dominion of Canada . The women 's committees h ave twelYe are still l i ving. n am el,v : 1\'trs . Anna Daniel son Parker of a lso do ne s p lendid work "· orthy Ken del l. T . Y., wl1 rre thr sloo ri- of high commendation,. Dcsen: ('rs s ettled, Kiss Georgiana L a r- ing of .-p ecial mention arc t h e members of the women sou, Hoel1este1·, , r . Y . . i �:- In f!•t•r tive committee : :Miss 's f'xecu Elisa Fa •· . .;'If. J ohn �on , Detroit, Jlil . : H P Y sct h , chairman ; Mrs . J. E. n a:1Jo 1m L. At,n 1c1·, .;'lli:-;s J, c .S . gen, vice .,\ hyater and ,'I I rs . J [abel 'rue'- St orlie, ch airman ; Mrs . W. O. dt 11, Chica Q' o, all three child1 ll of Pos:;een secretary ; Mrs . Manley and l\'Irs . Gil bert Gutte1:_ , Mrs . ::.\Ia1· g aret Allen Larso1 At- sen , a lso the following sub-com • "\PltPr, known as the " sloop b a h ;v , " because she was born at sea mittee chairmen : �lrs . A . C. F'loan, program ; l\frs . !S ophia on the •wa :v from Norwa y in 1, 2:=i ; W cttclancl, hospitality ; l\Irs. Gis Daniel Ro<;d a il , 1\IarReilles, I 1 . ; le Bothne, reception ; and :.\Irs . J. Jacob Rosdail , Norwa y, Iowa : B . 1 ��mployed in the executive house hold. Miss Langeberg then moved to Fridley, Minn. , where she married a man named Clark, later removing to Meeker county and still later to Minneapolis. * * * � 'ft'kmi r·s:e!"•,,i tJ!!X!!IC�1"�o�l.!! .eiiii'18i)lfll 111r1ii1111oii·..,.,. grants began to co:rre into Minnesota from but mbers, in any considerable p then on for several decades the1·e was I a constant stream of them, settling in i::outheastern Minnesota and rapidly settling· farther north and west in this ,1tate. From this• modest beginning of Norse settlement in Minnesota, 75 yeat·s ago it is now estimated by Dr. 0. M. Norlie, statistician of Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, that the popu-• lation of Norse-Americans in this state is approximately 525,000, or 1 22 % of the state's population, more than one out of every five of the state's inhabitants. Dr. Norlie is al l so authority for other interesting fig\ ures relative to Minnesotans of Norse , He estimates that ' birth or blood. i 214,000 of them are bread-winners ; I o_dd Norse "lags" or clans, goes the 100,000 working on farms; 40,000 in credit for initiating the movement to mechanical and manufacturing pur celebrate the centenary of Norse im suits ; 20,000 in trades; 14,000 in migration to America, marked by the transportation and an equal number in sailing of the little 45-ton sloop, "Res domestic service; 13,000 in clerical taurationen," from Stavanger harbor, service and 11,000 in professional �orway, on July 4, 1825, with its car service. Based on careful investiga go o:f 52 passengers, men, women and tion by Samuel G. Iverson, former children. "Stavangerlaget" made state auditor, and others, it i's esti formal proposal to the other "lags" in mated that 45,000 Norse-Americans in 1918 to join with it in a'Tanging for own farms, with an acre Minnesota such a celebration. age of more than 7,500,000 acres and Of the first generntion born to worth, with improvements, more than "sloopers" on American soil, only $1,000,000,000. twelve are still li'ving. All but two or Dr. Norlie also gives these further three of these ai-e expected to attend figures relative to occupations of the Centennial celebration. Norse-Americans in Minnesota: retail Literally thousands of exhi bits have merch;;mts, 5,400 ; teachers, 4,800 ; car been gathered from all points of the penters, 4,400 ; lumbering, 2,800 ; min compass, from near and far, to visual ers, 2,000 ; public service, 2,000, ize the contributions of Americans of stationary engineers, 1,600; bankers, Norse ancestry to the progress and 1,000 ; clergymen, 600; physicians, history of their · adopted country. 600; nurses, 600 ; technical engineers, Many of these exhibits have never be 550; lawyers, 500, insurance agents, fore been offered to public view, many 450; dentists, 300; professors, 300; are priceless heirloom many can not inters, 300 ; editors, 175. be duplicated an where else on earth, many are intensely interesting either because of intrinsic value or for their historical associations. There will be 21 different departments of exhibits, besides which there will be special of- · fiicial exhibits by the State o;f Minne sota and the Dominion of Canada. In connection with the coming Norse-American Centennial it is in- ], teresting to note that the first authen tic record of a Norse immigrant in Minnesota is that of Nils Nilson, born in Modum, Norway, Jan. 2, 1830, who came to St. Paul in 1849 after having worked for a time in the lead mines Nilson obtained near Galena, Ill. work at a sort of hotel or inn known as "Moffett's Castle," near the banks of the Mississippi river, approximate ly where the new St. Paul Union sta tion now stands. The following spring he went to Stillwater where he worked in a sawmill, remaining a resident of that city until 1882 when he bought a farm near New York Mills, Minn. He died there a few years ago. The first Norse woman known to have located in Minnesota was Miss Ingeborg L. Langeberg, who came to St. Paul with her brother, Around, in 1850. They were natives of Halling dal, Norway. Miss Langeberg was employed for about a year as a do mestic servant in the home of Alex ander Ramsey, first territorial gover nor and second state governor of Min nesota. It was during Ramsey's res !!ime as territorial governor that she u. Lee, concessions . The women 's J. Blaine, Wisconsir�; -A-: G. Sorlie, committee h as had entire charo•e North Dakota; Carl Gunderson, South John E. Erikson, Montana, of the Centennial prooTam f�r Dakota; and H. S. Whitfield, Mississippi. Gov 'l'uesda y a fternoon, Jun� 9, and a ernors of two or three other states most varied and interesting pro may also attend. Gov. Al Smith, gram is the result . Principally New York, has appointed three dele through Mrs . ]?loan 's effort s a r gates from the Empire State, namely, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Berry, com rangements h a ve ' b een concluded manding the National Guard. S. J. for " parkin g " children at the Arneson and Rev. C. 0. Pedersen, Children 's building while · th P i , whH Gov. Len. Small, Il Utwis, has mothers take i n t h e Centen1J ial appointed Hon. N. A. Grevstad, Chi cago, former United States minister ' ' doings . '' T h_e children "· i l l play to Paraguay and Urnguay, �l\ his per under the ·s upervision of Ri x play sonal representative. sn pervisol's furnish ed by St. Pau l The United States government es a n d Minnea polis playgroun ds d e tablished two precedents in connecti partmentR while every h a lf hour 1 ?n with the Norse-Amel'ican Centen nial. For the first time in its history during elfch clay a musi c a l Congress authorized a commemorative e r entertainment feature will b e , medal and for the first time in history given . Complete playroom equip the Postoffice department has issued ment will be fnrnished bv the two-color stamps for a commemoTa Golden Rule and Donaldso�� 's de tive celebration. No special stamp is has ever created such a stir among pa rtment stores and a rest room sue stamp col lectors as did the Nor8e-Am 1 . - the New England Fnrn itnre & erican Centennial issue. To "Stavangerlaget," one of the 30Ca I c N<>v.:s 1925 KEEN IN'fEfHM= � IN CENTENNIAL LARGE NUMBER IN MONTEVIDEO AND VICINITY PLAN TO AT TEND CELEBRATION IS NATIONAL IN SCOPE President and Congress Recognize Im portance of Anniversary of Norwegian Immigration. On many farms in this part of the state corn cultivators will stand idle next Monday ii - l Tuesday. Business places and wo1 mops in Montevideo and near-by to, 5 expect to operate 1 1e reason is the short-handed. Norse-American _<;mtennial which has aroused unusual interest among citi zens of Norwegian descent. The cen tennial opens Sunday with church services and reaches its climax Mon day afternoon when President Cool idge speaks in front of the grand stand at the fair grounds. Foui- nations will be officially rep • resented-the United States, Domin ion of Canada, Norway and Iceland, Besides President Coolidge, the Uni ted States will be represented by Hon. Frank B. Kellogg, Secretru:y of State, and by the Los Angeles, giant Navy dirigible; Norway will be represented .in official capacity by Hon. H. H. Bryn, Norwegian mi1µster to the Uni ted States and person.�l representative of King Haakon, and by Hon. Lars Oftedal, member of the Cabinet, and C. J. Hambro, member of the Stor. ting ; the Dominion of Canada will send Hon. Thomas H. Johnson, former minister of labor and attorney gen eral of the province of Manitoba, and Premier J. Bracken, of Manitoba, while Iceland will be represented by Ungfru Holmfrid Arnadottir and U ngfru Inga, Larnsdettir. Six states will be represented by Governors of �o.rse ancestry, namely; Theodore Chnstianson. M innesota; J. I �"lfi nneci poli , 1VJ"1.1r .. Mor Trih 1 •, e SU NDAx, i., A� CH 29, 1925 U. S. Mint to Strike OfJ edals · ntennU _ for Norse�A merican For the first time in history, congress has a u orized the making f The m edal in quest. a commemorative medal in a United States min is the Norse-American centennial m edal, which ill be struck off at " Philadelp ia mint and used as,, souvenir f the centennial June 6 9 in the fair grounds. It will co m emOI' e the arrival in this coun of the rst shipload of Norse i migran s. The medal, designed by J arr �s signs w i l l l>e 11rr:1 ngc.cl h�s not yet Earle razer, will be octagonal \ been decided br the ronuni1 tee. shape, f silver, in quality the sa e lt is planuP\l to sell the meda ls be- .\,· : as the tion's silver coin an� ab )Ut fol'() a nd during the l>i'.s c:clehrution, f the Pl'ice to be at a small advance uv<'r cost to hel p uc[ray the celebra tion cx11enses. · gress has uthorized the mintin The auvance c,alc of sc::i �uu tickets 40,000 of t medals. 1>' just beginning lo gain mumcntum, n ccor,ling to S. H. Ilolst::id, manag Thfl desig for the medal s17 ing d\rPctor. Cl,alrman for Licket here, has not t been approv:e1a ,,ales are l.Jeil':; appointed ill all coun the federal fine rts comm1str essary be n t ies, In ol her /Slates as .,ell :ts in ;\li n who:;e approval is n<->sotn, wh ere there is a n,• ··onsidc·r they can be made. The figure in the foregroun� is that of . an _be d IS P r. i,tye num!Jrr of people < C orse i n the act of setting foot on Am,erican so�l. T�e design blood. 'rhe l>::nmu· request Ro fa r Viking of both e the discovery of Amenca by Leif Ericson, 1000 A,b blematic came frnm ('la}' connt �-. ?<lin ncsola, 1l of the Norse people in 18:i5. \\ h lcl'l aslicd ro,· �.ooo books of 1 ick• and the arrival els. Souven ir Jv/edals Are to Be Minted by U. S. /or Sale During Norse Cen"tennial in St. Paul 'l' hc L'nitt•d States government has placed i t s stamp or •1pproval on the Nur:;c-.\mcriean cent 0nnial cclrbra Uon at the s1ale fair grounrJs in June. \\'o l'l.l was rccei v(:d i:-1aturday at centennial headqu:uters, :N1collct ho lrl, l\l lnneapofo;, that l.J<,th brauches of congress lmJ pasi;ed t )le hill a u thorizing th e ;;ovcrnment mi nt at Philadel111lia to Rtril,e off 40,000 me dals for the centenn ia l. The medals will be struck (;ff under d i rection of. .Andrew :'.lellon, secre1 n ry of th,J trN1sury, ac cost d m:r n u f::l c:ture. T h e cle:,ign ls t o b c :-;elected hy the -<'f'!l1 Pnnia! committ<•c, of \\·hich !'rot Gisle JJoilmP, 1Jnncrsi!y of .\l lnncsota. !Fi 1..• hnirnwn. \V ltetlier or not a c:onteF<t for submixoion of ue- r ,: ?:ii:if1��; • nhs�� ;��:�ti��:is:�i�:��. )� Until March 4, Mr. Fraser was r, J m� m�er of the federal fine arts com- ! m1ss1on, and one of the original ap _ pomtees. Among his artistic achievements are the buffalo nickel, Victory I medal, Distinguished Service Cross of the navy and -the Roosevelt award medal. He is at present engaged on a 1 large statue of Ericson to be erected in Washington in memory of the hero of the Monitor. t, / The medals will be stl uck at the 1 De.sign Norse-American mint as soon as the models are preCentennial Co:n. pared. Treasury and mine officials have promised to lend every assistance in expidi t:n g delive 1y of the 1 Washmgton-J ames Earle Frase1·, medals to the centenn ial association noted s � ulptor and artist, will prepare for sale before the event takes place the design and models of the Norse - / on the Minneso ta fair grounds in June. American Cente nnial medal ,••J-,1 , · c11 . Pres1' dent ··coolidge has practically will be coined at Tirlfed States I decided to attend the centennial. The mint, Representative 0. J. Kvale, of f. president is anxious to leam whether Minnesota, announced here. '. he has increased in the estimation of Mr. Kvale was authori zed by the Minnesota since his ill-fated address centennial committee to secure an at the state fair in 1922, according artist to prepare the design . �is fliends. �! 1 J,lU. h nC A'l• • ,.. ' � ,...H 19, d, , r7 � , ,: .,. J.9.,:.,J 1 I I . I I I I 1· �t-/-o CTa'°fr". '"."" FRIDAY, L . _ -;_ __.;-.-" � "�Z=s=======::..;=====� tl' ::1 1 1 , T � Norse�America!: �,: ntenoial To . \ . Be Commemorated by Medal l Uj We >oo oo ! . (Contrib u ted by Publicity Commit• 1 9, as the concluding climax of the tee. ) "biggest gathering in America in Information has b een rece ived 1 9 2 5 " �ill be another wonderful and inspiring feature. Work on this from Congressm a n o. J . Kvale_ - one of lVIinnesot a 's 5 - Norse-Americans is going forward, but detailed an in congress, and who introd u ced nouncement cannot behimatde as ty et. the bl!! to have congress authorize 1 Suffice it to s�y at _t s ime hat will depict in both sta the striking off of 40 o o o com- the pageant and moving tableax the memorative medals for ;;h e Norse- tionary history of the first century ot American cf'ntennial, to effect that _ the design submitted by J as. Earle .N_o rse-Amencan and Norse-Cana Frazer has been approved by the �� i a n deve ::o �ment , visu alizin� in federal , fine arts commiss f on and �st color f u l fashion one of the that the dies will b e fi nished in m <iet interesting chapters in Amer• !ca'A histoi;y. abo u t two weeks'. 'the advance sa le of tickets is Let it be especially noted that this is the first time in Americ an no "lf on and don 't fall to g e t your history that congress has autho riz• tickets now while they are selling ed a commemor a tive medal . B y at red u ced prices. Se ason tick e ts this action the Norse-American are selling for $ 1 u ntil May 1 . Pro centennial has been most signally c u re your tickets from local co m h onored. Let u s a ll tr y to be d u ly mittee members or at the follow appreciative of this distinction of- , i n g b u siness place s in this city : ficially accorded o ur celebration • T he Bootery, Lofte Electric Co., • and exposition. In this connection ' A. L. Larson, Wisconsin St., Ideal a brief descriptio n of the medal l Upho lstering. Grand Ave. , W. , "Re will not be out o f place. It ts to 1 rm ," S. Barstow. ?e octagonal in shape, of, silver, j identica l with that in our silver ,:oins, and approx imating the silver I half dollar in size. The design shows an heroic Viking chieftain : rn �\:-'..1. i: Z "Pca irie 7!vEnn.) Tfi,. , .. . setting fo<!t on Americ an son, with __ I�.,,:i.liRSD.A.Y� _\PRIL .:JO. • 1 92_-; a small Viking ship riding the ,sea 1 I In the backg round . The board of directo·r s of the centen nial ex- U. S. MINT TO STRIKE pects to m ake proper annou nceme nt OFF VIKING M E DALS in the near future as · to how the sale o f these medals wil lbe handl Congress Authorizes Norse ed. There will be only 4 0 , 0 0 0 of them American Centennial A most interesting and u nique Memorials. featu re of the celebration promises to be the l ivi�g flag, This will ( .\l i nneapolis, :.II i nn . ) be �eatur !.;;.; ternoon .Tune f=t';J! • '.Pres. CoolFor t h e first time i n h istory, Con 8. . , m co: . h as authorized the ma.kin of idge's address in frontc>f tlle I gress a commemor a tive m.edal in a Un it-Qi! gr andstand a t the Minnesota state , S'ta tes mint. The medal in quesiio fair grounds. This living flag will · is the Nt,,i;· ·e-Arnerica11 centennial be co mposed of 6 0 0 St. Paul ·chil m edai, which • be sti u-ck o ff at dren, ;who will be trained for their' the Ph iladelphia !Il l son venir of the ce ntennial June 6 to p a rts under direction of Mrs. John !l in the :.l[inneai;i olis fair grounds. l t 0. Lee. A special stand will be b u ilt will commemorate the a rrival in this for the children so all the tens ot c-oun try of the fi rst shi pload of Not·sc I thousands of people may see it. The - i m m i grants. I children will be dressed in colors • The medal, designed by Ja mes of the Norse and U. S. flags-most ' Earle Fr·awr. will be octagonal in of theni with reversible caps ( one f sh ape , of sil ver, in q uality the same color on each side ) . They wm first I c, s t h e nation's silver coin, an d about a ppear a s the Norwegian flag, \ the size of a half dollar. It is prob while "Ja Vi Elsker Dette Landet" I a ble t hat 1 , 0 0 0 o t' these medals in Is sung•-and then a t a given slg- 1 gold will be struck oft' also, for con 1 nal, the childr e n will reverse ;s1·ess ha,; authorized the m i nting. of their capes in such manner as will ! 4 0 , 0 0 0 o f the medals . transform the Norse flag to the Tho design for the m e dal l1as n ot Stars and Stripes. Besides the mag- : yet been ap p1:oved. by the Federal nificent spectacle afforded, the • Fine Arts commission, whose appTOV change from one flag to the other a l is necessary 'be>fore t hey can be will also visualize the ease and made. The figure in th e foregrou n d wlllingnE;)BS with which Norse Immi is UtaL o f a n heroic Viking in t h e act grants are t ransformed into loyal o f set ting foot on American soi l . The citizens. This one featu re of the <lesign is emblemati<' of both the dis dozens planned for the centennial e;overlf of America. , by Li.ef F.riC'son , Will itself be wel l worth the pr� 1 0 0 0 • A.. D . . antl the arri v:1 1 of tlw of admi�Sion an d is s ure to leave >lorse people in 1 8 2 3 . ! a vivid an d lasting Impression u pon all fortunate eno u gh to view it. The historical pageant which will be given on Tuesday evening, Jnne. Sac art, Minn . Y..ft>w" !HUredRSDHeAY, MAY lA ins NEWS OF NORSECENTENNIAL Orders for the Norse-Centennial commemorative medals are now being received at headquar I ters by the hun dreds daily. The price of the medal is $1.25, postpaid, and no person will be per mitted to JlUY more than one. This does not mean , however, that one cannot purchase medals for other members of one's fami ly. if desired , but in such cases an individual order must be sent in for each medal , together with name and address. The orders are being filed in the order received and each order numbered , Each medal will be sent by mail in a specially made container, and registered, in order that the committee may get a receipt for every medal sent out. " None Will Be Sold Over The Counter", or delivered in person at the time of t,urchase. As Congress has aufaorized the making of only 40,000 of these me.dals, it be hooves all who desire to ohtain one of these valuable mementos of the celebration not to delay in sending their orders . Send orders to Norse-American Centennial Committee, Medal Dept., 11 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis, Minn. , accompanied by bank check or draft, express or postal money order. Do Not Send Stamps. Bear in mind that these medals will be more valuable as time passes; particularly since the Norse- American Centennial medal is the First commemora tive medal authorized by the Congress of the United States. Cong. 0. J. Kvale, of Minne sota, author of the bill in Con gress providing for printing of the special N osre-American Cen - \ tem{ial two-cent and five-cent postage stamps. has been notified by the Postoffice department at Washington that these stamps will be placed sale on May 17 Norway's Inde en.dence Day , in the following s vfn cities: Wash- i: �ingto n , the nation's capitol ; Chin'-� or · n. 'Bensr1 cago. w h1ch has the largest. popu- THURSD ·2s, 19z.5 -x. _ lation of Norse-Americans; St. No:rse-Amerfoan Coins Paul and Minneapolis, where the a e n 'Benson Centennial celebration is to be held ; Decorah, Iowa, and North- Silver medals, valued at $ 1.25, field , Minn . , where are located, and gold medals, at $12.5 0 , c_om Norse-Amencan respectively ' Luther Colleg e and memorating the been placed on centenn ial, have St. Olaf College, the largest sal in this city in a limited quanNorse-American higher institions tit;. These coins are being han of )earning,and , B enson , Minn .. dle<j. locally by Pa�l Alsal�er and M. \ ..e, 2 :nd will be dispos ed by . t h e home of Cong . Kvale . " A n d A. Overli these gentle men to the first callers. : I want it to be known that I had nothing whatever to do with sei:ecting the cities where the Centennial stamps are to be sold," said Con g. Kvale when at headquarters the other day."This action was taken by the Postoffice Department without con sultation with me, or with anyone else connected with the Centenr,ial c.e lebration , so far as I know . I am not even advised as to w hether or not these stamps will be placed on sale at other postoffices later on , but 1 hope such may be the case." The special Centennial stamps will be in two colors-the First Time in American history that such special stamps have issued in more tnan one color. ¥1 l��f:J � fNEW MEMORIAt · STAMPS READY Celebrate Coming of First Norse Immigrants. ARRIVED. HERE 100 YEARS AGO Issue to Be Placed on Sale in Few Cities on May 18. . Speofar !Jlepatoh to 'l'Hl!l SuN. The Sun Bureau, l Washington, l\la.y 7, f P.ostmaster General New has pl'dered that !he .dlrst Issue of the p:tJw Nors� Amei::foan stamps be pl�ced on sale M�• 1.8 to Qommemorate +tm arl·ival in New Yorl{, October 9, 1825, of the sloop Restauratlonen with the first group of immigrants from Norway to t!1e Unite(! States. The stamps will be �old fll·st at St. Paul, Minneapolis, n and Northfield, Minn., and f Bense Decorah, . Ia., where there are large numbed of Norse-Americans, and at Wasl1ing( on. Later they will go on sale in i,lew York and a few other I cities. The stamp s will be issued h1 two cent and five cent denominations. '£he two cent stan'.)P has for its central de r"t' t - "'t1 "'"tnn� 1 , sign a shi'p re presenting, the Restaura 1 ·n,{lJRS...,�• Y, _:UN E ', c;�;. tioueu with a smaller vess01 in the background. )..t the top of the stamp NORSR Sll NER PLECE. IS in a straight p@,nel appear the words RECEIVF.,O BY LOCAL MA ''Norse American" 4n white Roman letters, and below on' a curved ,ribbon J uvenile Officer is the word "Centennial" in dark let '\\7e d nesday afternoon ters. Ribbon scrolls appflal' in t h e upper portion on each s1de o f the tho meta.lie souven • stamp with the year ''1825" at the left Norse Centen and "1925" at the right. Alt the bot be�i;� tom in three straight linei\l are the neapolis next . The souwords "United , States Postll.ge Tw,o venir, a uthorize the CongTess of Cents," .arid in both l ower corners the Unltecr fltat is made of coin silwithin circles with dark bac!{grounds l ver by the gov nment and stamped is the white numeral "2." The cen j in the government mint. It is about tral desidgn is printed in black with t h e size o f a half dollar and is octa , the border design printed 111 rM. gonal. O n the reverse side is the The five cent Rtamp ltas for its cen representation of one of t�,e Norse tral design a Viking ship. At the top of the stamp in white got.hie letters Vikings with the Viking ship in the appear the words "Norse-Amer ican," back-grou nd. The Centennial is in and below this on a curve'd ribbon ls observance o r the one-hu ndredth an the word "Centennial" in dark letters. niversary of the immigration of the At the left of the stamp is a shield Vikings into New York state in 1 8 2 5 . of Norway with the year "1825" above, A notation i s also made on the coin I and at the right of the stamp ls a "A. D. 1 , 0 0 0 " • representative of the I sl:;-ield of the tTnited States with the discove:re;v of America by 'Lief Eri ck- 1 year ''1926" above. Below the <'entl'al son and the Norse,men. TheiI'e were design in three straight llm:s are the> 4 0 , 0 0 0 of the coin words "United St n.tcs postnge, five j � cents," and In both lower corners Congress. � within circles with da1·k backgrounds is the white numet·al "5." The cen tral deslgn Is printed in black, wit.h • the border design printed In blue. , By reason of the fact tha� the issue of the Norse-American Centennial , stamps will be small, postmasters will not su'bmlt requisitions for n. supply of them. The apportionment will be , made by the department an,t sent to postmasters without requisition. For •the benefit of stam]) co! leotors tlwse stamps will he placed 011 sale May L---------------------------------------�---------------i 18 at th� Philatelic Agency, Div i si m, I �N-orse.-...American Stamps in Demand. way at the time of the Columbian Ex position in Chicago in 1893. On the left is pictured a shield, with the colors of the Norse flag, and on the right the Stars and Stripes. . Mr. Dickinson obtained the recognition for the Norwegian population of Kossuth county in this advance sale of stamps, and expects to be first to buy one "."hen they go on sale Monday mornmg. There are to be 1 0, 000, 000 two-cent and 2, 0 0 0, 00 0 five-cent stamps of this kind issued. How long the adance sa_le w ill last before the stamps a u t m to general circulation is not yet · It was announce rom \Vashinat, last week that the Norse-Americi commemorative postage stamps wou be placed on sale on Monday, May 18t at seven points in the United State These are Wahsington, St. Paul, Minn'' apolis, Decorah, Algoiia, Northfield an Benson, Minn. These stamps • are i two denominations, the t w o cent bear ing a representation of the ship "Res KLA,I taurationen" and the five cent showing i: ' V1k·mg ��;;z:====="---=-"'--'--"-'-':....--� ' ship. Both stamps will be i i two colors. This announcement has ere ated widespread interest amon" stamp I collectors and as a re � ult the de;and for s first day covers beanng these stamps is very large. The editor of tl1e "RepubHean" has received orders from several l parties covering stamps to the amount of about $25, and Postmaster Linnevold ' also received a number of orders, ASHING TON', May 1 3 .-Postfrom dealers and individu&liiilll_,_."'!1 I UT n General New announced tomaster 1 1 day that tl}.e first issue of the new 1 Ntorse- A.merica n stamps, t0 coml :nemora t e the arrival in Ne" York j on Octob e r 9: 1 8 2 5 , of t h e s l o op [ irs t the \ "Restau rationen " with grou p o f immig rants from Nor way 11 to the U ni t e d Sta tes w i l l be placed 1 on sale J1a y 1 8 , 1 9 2 5 . The Slamps will b e on sale at St. P � i � n e · 1 Northfie ld, and a polis, Benson , D e corah, Iowa, an gona, . Al . d Mifin l'few Postage Stamps Will Commemor• ' and Washingt on, D C . \ ate Coming of Norwegians. Thes e stam ps will be isS ue cl in two denomina tion s, 2 een t and 5 TWO AND FIVE CENT STAMPS � I cent. The 2 cent stamp ha s for _ i ts ISSUED ; TWO COLOR DESIGN central design a ship represe nt in g ,, � . . \ I t h e s loo p " Restaurat1 onen w i th a 1 I . Recognition of Norwegian Populu.i.luh I s maller vsesel in t he bac kgro•und • of Kossuth County Obtained by At the to p of the stamp, in a Congressman Dickinson. . · ght pan e l appear the words \ s t iat 1 . ' , . _ 1 · te Roman ' " Norse-A mencan , 1 11 "11 Alg a is one of the seven cities in . letters, :i nd b e l ow -t his, on a curved five- 1 ribbon. is th e worl d "Ce ntennial " Ribbon scrolls on \ in da l'l, lett ers . eent postag sale next Monday in connection with 1 ·a p pe a r in the up p e 1• p ortion on the celebration next month in the •each side of the sta mp wi· th tll e ' Twin Cities of the Norse centennial. and The beginnings of immigration of \ years '' 1 8 2 5 " at the left Norwegians to America took place in 1 " 1 9 2 5 " a t the right. A t the bot1825 with the sailing of the sloop I tom o t th e stamp, in t hree straight ·"Restaurationen" from Norway, and ! lines • are the words "United States . b ti1 the stamps are issued a s a memorial of P os a ge Two Cen ts, ,, a i�d 111 � t this event. _ _ 1 w i th rcles c w th ners c . Kossuth county has a great number : 1owe1· ol' 1 m i of citizens of N ordic descent, and the ba ckg r o unds, is the white n umeral postoffice department recognized this " 2 " . T he central design is prin ti • • fact by placing Algona on the first list ed in bl ac k w i' th t ie b oroer d esi gn to receive the stamps. The other cities red. n pr inted i are st. Paul, Minneapolis, Benson , and Northfield, Minnesota, Decorah, Iowa, 1 Th e 5-cent st�mp has for i1s ce nand Washington, D. C. , tral design a Viking iship. At the The two-cent stamp is engraved in ' \ top of the s tamp in whit e Gothic ., _ . ' . " . , stamp e-cent v fi red and black, and the lette i s . appeai the woi ds Noi s e in blue and black. These are the only two- color stamps in circulation, with 1 American" an d b elow this , on a the exception of a $5 stamp . Plans for curved ribbon. is the word "Cen ten the two-cent stamp provide for a pie- n ial " i n dark letters.ture of the sloop "Restaurationen" flanked on each side with figures that adorned the prows of ancient Viking ships and battleshields used by Norse chieftains. The fiv e-cent stamps bear a true picture of the famous Viking ship that sailed to the United States from Nor- X?I-�----------- ORS[' TAMPS To B[ OUT SOON , AlGON A ONE Of 7 CIT IES REC OGN IZED M.A. DISON wrn 'T'TMTJ:P '.l'UESDAY, 1Al IV� .19.2.5-_ J pecial Stamp Sold Here to Commemorate Norse Jubilee and a s such two stamps would be A. 0. BARTON With app e arance in :M adic;011 mor e prope r than one. •in a daythe "In pleading with the department • 1 posor two o f two spec1a t age scamps • commem o• rat'mg t'ne to issu e two s tamps inste ad of tb•J • Xorse Centennial. wh• •h on e called for in my resolution, T be celebrat in l'\Thrneapol i� i n also calle d attention to th e fact ttat June, publ i c attention wi ll be ca'lcd while on e stamp would nat1.1ralh· 1 o a n e vent which aprx:'are<l in.,;gnificani, a cenLury ago, but w hich Re:::was fraught with consequences (>f• hear the picture of the sloop • gre a t importance io this secti oJl 'J c taurationen ano ti1er spec1a 1 s tamp America. The:,;e stamps, one of a bearing the p icture of a viking ship dPn9m ination o( two cents a nd tlw would be moi;t appropriate and other of five cent�, were p ut on .:;,ilo would be deeplr appreciated . • '''T'h e story of how the V1k:n,r '\f onday a t :-;e ·cii clti(';, in adntnc" o f gen°i>ral di id ri huti on. th e -;;>, l'i l,i f'<; r-,po!'itions i n itsf'! f i n<l·cath·,e of being Wa:sh ' n gton, D. C . ; Chic:igo, ,hip wa� built a11d brought to the :11 i nneapoli,; ann St. Pau l , l)eco1a;1, •.:�-? spirit thtT. has lived ii, T i"' Io wa, N o rth field, Minn . , and Benson, hi -art!' of the Norse peopl e thr<}� :\J inn . Th<' last nan1ed pl al'e i � thP • 11t the ages . With iJ fund .£�� home . of Congressman O. •1 • Kval_,! . from ev ery villag<) in the kin gdoP1 wh o mtroduc�d . th e resol ut i. on ; ,1 of Norway-testin g i that way the < ongres� prov1dmir f or thes e _8 Pf' • 1 a! truth of their traditi onns-they con 'tamp 1_ssues • . :Mr. K Ya_le 15 ,,. ,,1 , sLrnckd an exact and a se a,�orthy known m 1\�ad1son, haY n g- b <'c n a re plica of an ancif'11 t V i king Ye.os• • l l ,utheran 1�11 n\ste r fo r some ye ar ., dug from the earth i11 Go N or at O r�o rdv1l le._ Rock eou nty. b"for+> way, i n J 880 . omplete inks.itad, ts deta il, C 1 ·emov111g to l\11nnesota wh e1·e he de- with the drngon'shead pro,Y, wi th feated . C ongre ssman Vo l stad , o f d ry highly burnished shield along the s f ame. m 1 922• sid e s, with i t :32 lonir oars. its sai l s he ta o e a s usu u l beauty and rudder, th ifl little 67-fo o h·1 a t � n f r mp � ' [_ 'T'de.sign ancl w o rkmansl:1!1. Bo th was rowed acro ss the entire' t Atl -tn, "e b1col? r ; they a re th st i.1 r <·om- tic by Ca pt. Magnus Anderson , wi' h 1 . ''morat1ve stam_ps t o b e i ssued b :,>• 1 1,c Norw egian com m i ssioner,-; takJ (' departme nt, 1 11 two colors, .1� 1 � i'1g sail as crew. Once in the,;c wa_,e on lf tw�-co�or s�amp s now . 1 1 ' l.A'rs, they brought their ,· (';;,-;el to rculat1on w i t h the s 111glc exceptirin Chica go by way o f Ne\\' Yo r k and � th-e Great Lakes . " f t h e $5 stamp, . The '2-cent i;t_a mp._ _ in 1·<"d ar In addition to th-0 stm11p;; the b lack, he ars the m� c nption-a 'i d oe .;; goYernmf>nt will issue' a ,. 0111111e111 ,11,_ so _ th e 5-ct'll t �: a m p-:-;'' No '.· �e,; ati ve 111e�al . It w i l l bC' th e fi rst ('O m �l m .\ er 1 c an C e1: te n m al , 1 8�5-; 1 9 2 .J , . m emorahve meda l t o b e i ,;,med m an d also .-:. fa i thful rep1·od uct10 11 of ; he h i storv of the United 8taies !he sloop Restaurati onen. Flan :dn g :\T i n t. Olhe� 111.-,dals ha,·e bC'en c, i n 1 t �n the borde rs o n eac h s ide a 1·e 1 <·tl. but t hey havf> hecn foi· aw ar, ' ; de p i cted the fi gu r� s tha� l;ld o rn �11c· in 1 h e <'a�.,., or ex posi tio ns and si n: i r rows of the anc 1en t v1 kmg s 11 1 p!; l a i· ev en ts. a nd the battlf' shi. e lds used by t h e 1 'T'f'ntath·t· arnrngenw n t s h av<) b..,,.,.1 old chieftains. They are adm ittecllyi m ad-� for the medal A s · planned, 'it a� fin e s p-ec i m<ms of c-ngraving a st wi l l be octagona l in · s h �pc of , i ];·(',. th e departm e n t. ha s e.'·er issu e d. . i dentical w' th that ;:-; ed i ;, th! .'1 8 _ The � -cent stamp is e1�gra v<:d 1,n � i on ':-; s i l ver c0 imi . � n d _ap proxi t black a nd _bl ue . If poss i ble, i t ' 5 mg a hal f do!lar 111 s 1zP . It ma wi l1 mor() b e autiful than the 0ther. A� bear a pprcpriate inscri pt;ons a11rl . . . . true picture of the now f amo u s deyicei. with . a Yikin� �hip a;,d \110 Vi �ing sh ip whi<:h wa s sail ed to ti, ' h€roic figure of a V ikin g C'h'c f t<1i• 1 �mte d States from �orway at. theJ i n fu l l fi ghti ng regal ia. Und�r th :,i me _of t h� C olu m b i �n Ex posih oi� te rms of the h i l l , med al s wi l l l,e h ic ago m 1 �93 ]i o . ds t)i e c? 1t� 1i co i ned to the number o f 4 0 , 000 . w i t h 111 C of the stamp. 1 he romantic t-hip is a thou,;and of t h i .., nu1,1he1· m ad<' of fl anke d on the left by a shield w i th gold. exa('( repP�a,; 0r I lw �i i /C' t he c ? lor s of th e No ni e fl ag, an? on med al,;. bu t !'- l igh t l y s mal le r • 11 s 'l,P . lh e ng�t _ b�r th e St� rs and Stri µe s. I � T n g 1 vm g the lu s� orr of th('i:e stampR Mr. Kvale said m a spe<'ch recently : " Al though this -rei;olution pro vidcd for the issu e of but on e posta',);e tamp of the denomination o f 2 :s cents, which wa_s as much as w e h<'-d dared to feel 011gnally that we could Rsk for, I went at once to the Third I Assistant Postmaster General, M r. Warren Irving Glover, in charge oi this division within the department. and explained to him that while the cen tennial would in the main obrnrve the hundredth anniversary 0f lhe arrival of th e R e staurationcn, still it would in a broader sense commemorate also the arrival in t.lie Western He mispl1ere of the first Vikings m any lmndred years a"o, ,,-m 1 0 ��SK CANCELLATION ON FIRST OA-Y OF SALE C ollectors Want Local Post.office Dates on Norse-A.merican Stamps. ONE MAN WANTS LETTERS RETURNE D VIA AIR MAIL ' Request's Received from Persons N early Every Walk of Life- la �any "Registered. I Cincinnati, Allentown, Pa., Manka.to, Muscatine, Sellersville, Pa., Lexington, Ky., Cambridge, Mass., Chicago, Washington, D. C., Philadelphia, Heatstown, N. J., Detroit, Harrisburg. Pa., East Liverpool, 0., Lynchburg,. Va., Nichols, Ia., Ridgewood, N. J'., Pittsburgh,. Worcester, Mass. Baltimore, Buffalo, N. Y., St. Louis. Batavia, N. Y., Ambridge, Pa., Cleve• land, Binghampton, N. Y., Southington. C o nn., Warsaw, Ind., Oberlin, o.. Springfield, Ill., Lawrence, Kas., Lone, Pine, Neb., Bath, Me., Fargo, N. D. Milwaukee, Concord, Mass., St. Paul, Norristown, Pa., Denver, Winchester, Pa., McCaustland, Ia., Elizabeth, N. J., Hartford, Conn., Willimantic, Conn.• Saginaw, Mich., Dayton, 0., Vicks• burg, Miss., Audubon, Ia. Brookline, Mass., Brooklyn, N. Y.• Summit, N. J., Watertown, N. Y., Rav-• I enna, 0., _Saco, Me., Cookeville, Tenn.• Fitchburg, Mass., Novinger, Mo., Wyn. cote, Pa., East Downington, Pa., Han• over, N. J. Stamp collectors from all over the , United States wrote the local postoffic.e Department A ids Collectors. last week to ask that envelopes be· A letter from the postoffice depart mailed to them Monday bearing one or ment requested that all orders be filled, more new Ng.rse-America.!J. §$'\Jll,pfil It and Assistant-Postmaster D.- P. Smith seems that staWiff EiJlleclMs have to was• kO;Jpt busy most of Saturday, Sun have stamps such as those issued in day, and Monday licking stamps. A celebration of the Norse centennial circular letter from· the department used and cancelled on the first day ot was also sent to each . stamp collector issue at a postoffice authorized to sell advising him of the date of issue. Many them, or they are of no special value. local buyers mailed envelopes to col• Stamps mailed from the local postof- lee.tors. The department in this way fice and bearing cancellation date of makes some money, since many dol Monday, May 18, can be sold to other Jars' worth of stamps are used on such collectors for more than stamps can- envelopes. celled later. W. J. Payne, farm editor of the AdMany different instructions were re- vance, is a veteran stamp collector ceived from the collectors concerning with a large collection. Mr. Payne re the way the stamps were to be at:- ceived and filled orders from a large t� ched to self-addressed envelopes fur- number of other collectors, and besides mshed by �he collectors. Many wanted purchased a supply for himself, pur _ blocks cons1stmg of four stamps. Oth - chasing 236 stamps altogether at an. ers wanted one two-cent stamp and 1 expense of $6.13. .:..____._______..._.. one five-cent stamp. Others wanted just one of either kind. But most sent enough envelopes to have all the dif 1Vr , , /h� Trihrme Minneapolis, ferent kinds used on their requests. ' T..U ESDAY, � �"i. 1' , .'..'25 One man wanted "books" of four five-cent stamps on 50 envelopes which he sent returned to him by registered mail, each envelope bearing cancella tion date and 1·egistration number. An other wanted his stamped envelopes returned by registered air-plane mall. One man sent 50 envelopes to be thu.s I returned. This registered airplane mail I envelope required three Norse-American two cent/stamps and five 5-cent stamps. It -fill be worth many times the value of the stamps to collectors. Collectors Rush to Buy Stamps of Norse Centen nial I Collector Sends 50 Envelopes. 1 One man addressed his envelope to Algona, "the Postmaster - General, Iowa." Another signed his letter, ''Almost a Rtranger, yet a Friend." One registered letter for Lexington, Ky., bore two Norse-American two-cent stamps, two Norse-American five-cent stamps, two regular one-half cent stam,Ps, and one Waldoon Ter-Centen ary two-cent stamp. Two persons sent 300 self-addressed envelopes and it cost one of them $21 to have his envelopes returned to him. The stamp collectors included men in every walk of life, according to the return addresses. Ministers and edi tots were not excepted. • One package of envelopes came in an envelope that bore the return of the Federal Reserve bank at Kansas City. One man was evidently afraid that his letter woulcl not reach here in time from Bath, Me.. so he sent it by airplane mail, the 1,t� ter coming through in 48 hours. Orders From Many Cities. A few towns from which requests were received will give an idea of the extent of stam collectin : I Army . of 300 Purchases 200,000 of Special Issue Opening Day of Sale. Stamp collectors-a small army o f /them-waited at the stamp windows of r the Minneapolis posloffice Monday for the opening of the sale of Norse-Ameri can centennial celebr,1tion stamps. Some of the 300 collectorS' purchased their stamps and hurriedly placed them in their albums. Others made purchases for collector , friends in olher cities. Jt was estimated by C . .W. Kerr, as sista n t postmaster, that 200,000 of the ' special stamps were so1d du ring the day. SevPral orders fpr 10,000 stamps were recei veil. The stamps are issueil i n 2 :a nd 5-cenl denominations. The M inneapolis post office received 1,000,000 stamps in lhe first lot. OAKLA- . \ D \.NCE Ma..1. 21, !92.1 NORSE-AMERICAN Pt,5tAG£•9PAMP SUPPL Y RUNS OUT WASHINGTON, May 2 1 .-<A') -Heavy demand for the Norse America.11 postage stamps, issued to commemorate the centennial of t he arrival of the first Nor in this wegian imm igrants coun try and for ,use i n connec tion with the celebration in M i n n esota has forced the post office department to restrict their sales to dealers as far as possible. As o n ly 1 2 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 of the stamps of two and five-cent printed, denominations were postmasters in Min nesota, Iowa and North and South Dakota have received the largest quan tities. Most of the Norwegian descendants in. this country live in those states. OA V!llNPnf/'r ! O W !Ii I ) !r,1\1 WEDNESI;A, UT,,t; ., rn2r.; (rNewA reu.ons. Display Stamps I in Davenport I I I I The No Ameri'can titenn ial � t11!i rm, �innesota will be hel State Fair Grounds. St. Paul-Min The neapolis, June 6, 7, 8, 9. J)urpose of the Centennial is to com memorate the beginning of the Norse emigration to this continent. Th e United Stat.es government has issued a series of postage stamps to commemorate the arrival in New I York, Oct. 9, 1825, of the sloop 1 Restaurationer with the first group of immigrants to the U. S. ·These stamps are of two denominations, The 2 cent 2 cents and 5 cents. stamp has for its central design a ship representing the slpop Restau rationer. At the top of the stamp apl)ear the words Norse-American and below this is the word Cen tennial. The central design is printed in design black with the border printed in red. The 5 cent stamJJ h,i.s .for its central design a Viking ship printed in black with the bor As d,er designs printed in blue. the issue of these is limited they will J)robably not be p)aced on sale at the t>;i.venJ)ort office. , W. C. McA!ister, 1711 Grand 1 avenue, leading stamp collector, is in receipt of the first of the new stamps to reach Davenport and has J)laced them on display at the Mar tin Cigar store, Third and Brady streets and at White's book store. MONTROS!li!. COLO., ENTETII'nISI<' - ~ - _llJfE �2� . r l• .., c.�STAGE ·S TAM PS rv� R E B E I N G DISTRII BlJTED .COLORA.J¥) SPRLNGS, J.une 1-Tlle t d epartment has . just issued a -· . ct� series of poata�e stamps to · . co !i orate the arrival . in New � Yo , . October, 18-25, ot the sloop ' R nen with the first group of : imm a s to .the Unlted s4tes !t� ' Norway, according to ;wo� t�ffled [ �yesterday .by Edmun'd .All postmaster. A stock of �- e ' probably wiH be rec4'fed he or early .next Wt 3k. The stamps have been issued in two denominations-2 cents and . 5 cents. The 2-cent stamp has. for its central design a · shtp representing the sloop Restaurationen, with a smaller vessel in the baekground. At , the top of t'he stamp in a straight pane'l appear the words, "Norse-��rican,'' in white R�le s, na e . . is, on a ' curved rihbon, is the word •icenten nial" in dark letters: Ribbon scrolls I appear in <the upper portion on ea.eh i side of the stamp with the years 1825 I at the left and 1925 at the right. The I central design is printed in black with ! the border desi,gn in red. i The 5-cent stamp for its central design a Viking ship. At the top of : the stamp, in white gothic letters, ap• ! pears the words "Norse-American," 'bbfflt and below this on a curve the w'ord •1�� l¼Jlial" in dark letters. ; ' At the left of t'fte stamp is a shield of Norway, with the year 1825 above, and at the right of the stamp is a shield of 1Jhe United States w'it'h the year ' 1925 above. The central .design is 1 printed in , black wlth the ,border design printed in Mue. I The stamps were issued to eight 1 postoffices in the east on Monday. I Another recent -commemorate staml) is the "Con cord-Lexington" 2-cent I1 stamp, wh'ioh was received at the local I postoffice some time ago. .J DtmAWJ O. C OIL JIE'P.. 1\.I,D JU ND �I J.�j, �al Woman Has Centennial Stamps I ;,It's s imply a matter of senti� ment," he said, wnen asked w�J DVBUQTTE IOWA TTWTES-.rJUJUIIJ he p urchased $ 5 0 worth of tne c :c::itennial po stage s tamps. FRIDAY; JUNT;J 1)1 l.9 2",5. NEW CENTENNIAL STAMP IS SEEN N�can Centennial stamps are making their appearance here in conJ·unction with a celebration that i to be staged at the St. Paul-MinS neapolis state fair grounds, June 6, 7, 8 and 9. The purpose of the cenI tennial is to commemor ate th e beginning of the Norse emigration to the continent. The United States government has issued a series of postage stamps to commemorate the arrival in New York, Oct. 9, 1825, of th e sloop Restaurationer with the first group of immigrants to the U. S. T hese stamps are of two denominations. The 2 cent 2 cents and 5 cents. stamp has for its central de s ign a Restaurepresenting the sloop ship At the top of the stamp rationer. appear the words Norse-American and below this is the word C ente ;�!\entral design is printed in black with the border design printed in red. The 5 cent stamp has for I its central design a Viking ship printed in black with the border designs printed blue. As the issue of these · S r 't d they will probably not be lPla�� n sale at the Dubuque office . GA RV T!\TT) TRTBTTNR F!ill2AY,_ .TUNE 5, 192'6, Moe Gets Large Sup ly of Norse� erican Stamps Jaap centennial ee is in recei1)t of some ed stamps issued by the govb hiile+1t 1 postage of the United States in commeme mora"non of di3 fQOi Ovegian cen d States iI e tenniaL.c.el.ebU,tJ.o.n to be held i n m ,�can Cen.te-n• Minneapolis, Minn;, four days be!1wo c nt s amps, ther gi:. ,1lng tomorrow and ending next the ship that bore rthe Tuesday, were ceen for the . first J\fowregians to the shores time yest erday in Gary when lngwald Moe, a lineal descendant of oontinent. The pictur e of Vikings, received 2 , 5 0 0 two the son who reached the new world 9 0 0 cent stamps which he had ordered �ea;· s ago , appears on the fiv e cent from the postoff!ce department a t Washington through Postmaster stamp s . The Norse Americ an Centen nial A. S. Hess of this city. The stamps cost Mr. Moe :,, � O c e le,b ration has attracted wide spre ad and he was giving them away to evnotice, as one of the most unique his friends yesterday and today. er h e ld. In Minneapolis where the The stamps bear on their !ace the of picture sailing ship which conventi on took place on May 2 7th, bore the firthe st Norwegian colonist !, an u nusual program was arran ge d . to this country in 1 8 2 5. Fifty Norwe gian singel's who made Whea Mr. Moe heard several the trip to Am erica especially for weeks ago U,at the government issued a series of Norsehad the celebration were the chief at- American }Jostage stamps, he ap traction . In addition a h uge pag·e - plied at the Gary postoi'fice only ant in which 1 5 00 Minneapolis men t, learn that none of the new and women took part portrayed the , stam ps had been received ther e. ' Mr. Moe then called at the Chi• • life of Norweg1ans from the t·ime cago p o stoffice, only to be told of Lief the Lucky down to the day th�t no s tamps of that nature ha.d been shipped to Chica.go. Mr. Moe of the Centennial 9 0 0 years later. _________,. thon asked Postmaster Hes11 to write to W ashington for $ 6 0 worth of th .i memorial issue and receivef the stamps yesterday. Ingwald Moe was born in the extreme northern part of Norway within the Arctic circle and in t he Land of the Midnight Sun." He came to America when a boy and while he Is an lntensr, Amerlcan, he never forgets the land of his nativity, 1v!khi �an, N. D., A rena FRIDAY, JU.NE !2, 1925 has on es � 'Postm aster• H entg ., - 1 a+�=,na, • 2,-eenlt tle sale Qent.enm= _.... sta_m ps 'have ,b ee� These on. ati nom:in oif the lan� . d in commem orat10n :ssue gran ts m fi t r _immi se No rs mg of th e 1825 • The c enten the New W•oirld fa s cele:brate d ' mal ••. of . wh i' ch landing wa 1 �art 0f the fore the apolis n e ·in Min pi ece •of the nt e r ce h e T• a st week. of me raving eng an Pnew stamp is 1 n (The Norwe g � "R,estaur a:tion en. " d er is done m b or yfl ) h T e ower. Ma \ red and white_. ctllAltl lf'lrBJ!, BD _ _ _ JUNE 15, 1925, Nor � �,en f:'e n n i a l S ta m p s Ar ' Pla ced on Sal e Herc Pos t s te • Cha ·les E. B!ack ano : u n ce a n w 8!>� le stamp i n 2 a nd Jl nalions , was placed on ,{-cen t de non� • sa;e Monclay. . \ _ .r.he new sta mp ls 111 honor o f the ti , 1md is �oise-A mer smaile1�an the regulation on_es. It bas a rect border with a design of 1 .No rse vessel In • the re n ter I "There ls only a l i m i ted. amount of t h e sh,mp� a nrl no morP <'n n bP l s�rm·l'rl whrn these are solo," sa i<l I TI�� orse Stamps in Demand 'l'he NQµe-Amgipan commemor& tive stamps found a ready sale ill Milwaukee. Only 60,000 were re ceiyed here. After post offices else where in the state had been sup. plied from this batch, the few r� mai n ing were snatched up by stamp collectors. More of the stamps ma.y be obtained, but if Postm aster P. F, Pia secki is unsuccessful in ob1ainin-g anoth,er allotment, philat elists w!1l bave to apply to the philatelic agency: 11t "'iVashington for specimens. � !'P�mr,o. COT..i.. CIDE!l'TAtlf J:QN,E 20, 1�22, Norse�American h )� ,, a:�:,,R: ��,?� �ii: co�#:n,l'n t &f the, new A merlcan e11J.E'p�$\@iliif l\l . ' , "l'ffi'!e!'r w'f11'Fif% Wffew 1%d&ri\,,uations. are qu ite unlqu<!- In their pic tuTesquenese. 'l'hese Sitamps a re smal ler than th e u s ual run of stantps for letter use . parti<'ularlY' those received in April called thf'I Lexington-Co n cord sta mps which are red in three d•enomlnatlon� -two, one and live cernt s-th.e twn of which are red, the ohes green, and the fives· blue. Norse-American C'ente,nnlal S'tamp.� a.r!il t,ros. ewi �; .t.hft •vs .are re,d and bl.aeik, and the, five s are blue and black. �f collections. Come to headquarters when I n need of advice or assistance 1 and we will b e helpfu\. 1 J S[ HONOR STAMPS 1ssurn First Commemorative Prints D gn Are n City C . M. Glover yeste rday received from h is cousin, W . Irv ing Glover, first a3�i.stan�aster general, copies o�e new t,r,o-cent FLnd flve-ceqt' Norse commemorative posta 6 stamps. The tamps IJltl'!'..J�ed in com memora tne landing of the fi rst Norwegian colonists In the United States and are to be placed on sale in only a few cities of the count:y. Santa Barbara 1.s not one of these cities, according to Postmaster James B. Rickard. The two-cent stamp l>'! �"d with a black center, and tne tive Is blue with a black center. The stamps a re not s o large as the usual commemoratives, being smaller than the Lexington - C o n c o r d stamps recently issued and placed on sale In Santa Barbara among other cities o f the country. Mr. Gl over's cousin, who has just been promoted trom second asisstant postm<1ster general to first m,si.stan t, is thi:, tl:J.an who originated the idea of establish ing a government philatelic bu reau for the sale of postage stamps to collectors. J!JLGTN TT,T, l\TJ!rW 51 sues Furnish Many ' y and Delightful Study Hours. We hope to present each week a bit of stamp lntorma tion writ � en which Co mmissio ner Conley, by should b e of i n terest, as many scout,i are collecto rs. Most o f the stamps which will b e describe d will be on display at scout headqua rters-and seeing is beli eving. Some of our St. Louis teacher A 8ay the i r pupils absorb United States history from stamps with out feeling it i s work. Therefo re, they can learn fron, stamps both history and geogrn 1' 1 1 Y tn a. real scoutin g manner . Headq uarter s wlll be using some o of these special stamp s on mail t troops, 80 see t h a t t h e y are saved fo {v � f1 this ts the outdoo r time o! �· the year, the fellow s have more tree time when school ls over, and can take opportu n i ty to look after their r i'.; 1'� 1" STAMP ISS UE E lgi� s.tVn p c o l l e ctors wili b i e n l t ere_ste d. in the an nou nc e m e nt that ' an issu e o f stam ps com mem orati ' h e �oi;se-A n meri can cent enni � prm al Wil� � 1 par toffi ce detm e nt. The sta mps wm e in tw I a1;1- a five o cents d e nom ina I tion s a.d will co m1;1e m ora te the o ne�hun r e dth_ anm versar �. y of t h e arrival .n f Am erica of the sloop Rcsta ura tion e� I October_ 9, 8 2 5 , in whtch the _J No r w:e g1an unm first igrat1 ts WC're br t ought o t• lllS COUI) try . , � ;�-�:? -- ' ·-== l.onectors l.an learn •story of America B .Y J. H, CONLEY. Deputy Commissi oner of t he Soutll District, st. Louis Counc i l , Doy Scouts of America and on Ardent Collector ot All Kb1ds of Stumpf, tamp. A�-1.l.L_c a rm i n e and bl stamp on whicn'"""!!"' Restaura tionen, whic h ]R nded at New York September 8, 1 825. Rarely are bicol o red stamps I ssued, hence the espe cial attractiveness of this and Its companion-a 5-cent blue and black. which Is A. delight. It shows the Viking ship i n which Lief E ricson -a n d his Sea Scouts make the very first voyage of all to America, land ing n e ar 200 Fifth avenue, New York, on February 8, 100.l, as nearly a� our records can be developed. Anyhow, we know the Norsemen were here 500 years ahead of Colum bus. A scout's grandmother, upon see i n g this stamp, exp la i n e d , "Why, t saw a e.h i p just l i k e that at the Columbian Exposition in C h icago in 1 803, afte r It had been sailed fro m No rway to p l 'Ove that t h e original Sea Scouts were capabl e . " Alld, rare honor, . t h is stamp shows the Norwegian shield along with Uncle " :m ' s . T!!!!R�DAY, JUNE 251 1925. t.� MO. GLO:S:S ::,mmn ..u J LN1G 21, U/25. N Nurse-American Centennia1 .) St. P�ul, Mmn . N' ," TH URS DA • JUN E 4. l<1 :; Officia l S011veriirs for the Norse Cerite11riial Th e N orse rioan ente n n a l co e e h a s a uthori zed vario us Norw egian societ ies to sell souv-e n i rs o n the street d u r i n g the conve ntion . Offici al badge s have been is sued and the comm ittee has m a d e a reque st that p u rchas es on the street be made o n ly from those havin g badge s. Oscar A rneson , chairm an of the p u b l icity c o m m ittee, w i l l have gener al charg e of sales of souve nirs, and the variou s so• cietie s w i ll benefit from the profits. �.., �.r.- , r. '1 :ftn r,-r. MONDAY, '1\'I" _ ' 1'.f E 8, l!:125 ? Norwegia� History ' Dates 'in Connection With America's Discovery by Leif, Fighting Minnesota Indians in 1362, Colonization in Gopher State SAILORS' FEAT S�URSI CENTENNIAL STAFF 1 to b e rem mb r d in con Important historical dat es e e e nection wlith the Norw egian di s cov e ry of North America Norse Centennial Will Pay T,rib and Norw e gian immigration are as fol lows : 1 000 A. D.-Li e f, s on of Eric th e Red, land s in Am e rute to Sloop Crew That ica, giving the continent a name, Wineland. Braved Atlantic l 13 62-A b an d of Norse men, as re co unt e d in a runeston e in scription, p ush into the int<:rior of North Am e rica, 1 Beca use 53 few ·lc�s Nurwegtans da1 ed coming to what is now Minnesota ' wh ere th ey are attacked travel over the .,, ua u i tc 1 00 ye,H1c< ago m I a. tin y sloop, A 111eriea 110w has 1n o re b Y I n d ians. · , th· n ., ooo oon Nurwegi•ms :-;u puoi-ting I 1 825-Th e Norwegian " Mayflow e r" ship, 1 'R estaura- 3 ,5�0 �.'h ur�heN, GO Not·�veg\an 1 i'ewspa tion e n," sails for Am e rica, arriving safe ly at New York pers, a.n u giving $4, 0 00, 000 a :vea r t o , . 1 82 5-Th e first Norwegia n settl e m e nt m th e United States i s e stabli shed in K e ndall , Orl e ans county, N. Y . , by m e mbers of " Mayflow e r" e xp edition • . . . , 1 8 3 5-Th e s e cond Norw e gia n settlem e nt m Am e rica IS established near Ottawa, La Sal l e co unty, Il l . , by a group of Kendall se ttl e rs. l e d we st by C leng P e erson. . . 1 8 3 6-Th e third s ettl e m e nt 1s found e d at Adrian, 1 Mich . , by Ingbret Ingbr e ts on Narvig and oth e rs . 1 8 3 7-A band of Norw egian immigrants proc e e d south from C h 1cago • to I roquo1s • coun tY, Ill'1no1• s , es ta b l IS ' h 1ng ' th e s o -call e d B e av e r Cr ee k settl e m e nt, w hich is th e fourth to b e found e d in Am erica . . . 1 8 38- 01 e N a ttes ta d I ea d s th e a dvance guar d o f· 1mm1grants to th e northw e st, s e ttling in Rock county, n e ar • B e loit' Wis. ' in 1 8 3 8 . . . . 1 83 9-Th e M us k e go s ettl e ment, the s ixth m Am e rica, is establish e d by 30 immigrants in Racin e county, Wis. 1 840-Kosh konong, th e seventh s ettjl e m e nt, is foµnd e d in Dan e co unty, Wi s . 1 85 1 -First Norw egian s e ttiers in Minne s ota come to Fillmor e co unty. 1 8 6 9-Paul Hj e lm-Han se n e xplores northw es tern Minn esota, and urg e s � or� e gi 3: ns t� se ttl e n e w t e �ritory . 1 882-Norwegian 1mm1gration re ach e s high es t stag e wh e n 2 9 , 1 0 1 • s com e to Am e rica in a singl e y ear. 1 925 ousands Norw+?2:ian A cdCTns throng 1 es in c e l e bration H · ennial of start of immiTwin larg e scal e . 'Ni�sli� C l' tY • . . - chnrcb aml c;hari t � . These are some of the reason:,; Norw egian s a re pr �waring frn · a great cen tennial c:elebra�ion at the State F,ail' �rounds � une 6 to 9 , R e v•. �- B. 1...1 1 dahl, cha1nnan of the publ!c1ty bureau of the N t, rwegian Lutheran Church or A merica, said l!�t nigM . The c� urc h is o n e o f 50 or,,anlzat1ons co-ope, aun g I 1n the centenmaL Mr. Klldahl quoted from the New l' orlc Dai ly Advertiser for ? etober 1 2 , 825, which toI � of the arrival of t he !, restauratrnnen. , "A n enterprise like t hls argues a great deal of boldness in t he master of t h? _ ve_ssel, as well as a,f; advent � t:o� s sp1nt 111 the passengers, the new:s1>a pe r- said . Those first Norwegians 8eilled in Orc;ounty, New Yoi:k , but soon spread I leans westward to W1scons111, t hen to Mmne· s ota . The 1 9 :l O census showed 2,233 ,503 ! Norwegians in America. - - - ".'Nest Uni on, !a., Union TH UR SD� MARCH 5 I Will rELEBRATE lJ -' 1o75 CENTENNIAL Y£AR Present Year Marks Begin• ' ning Of Norweigan Im migration 1825 was a significant year for America as it marked the beginning of Norwegian immigration to this coun try. This is therefore the Centennial year and will be observed by a Na tional Celebration in M in� .Tune 7th, 8th, and WJa--when Nor wegian-khiericans will gather by 1:!he �hundreds of tllousanus from a �parts anil Uharity inst1 u 10ns. ave arrival tlie Torweg1ans of the country to celebrate the event. over 3,500 churches, 1500 clergymen, taken an honored positio n in the ,ooo $4, aoout annually contribute and conbe Local celebrations will also making of American history. Great ducted throughout tlle country. In con- 000 . 00 to Church, Cllarity, Mission and festivals will be celebrated all over ColSO have They education. nection with this event the following religious the United States the first one, also clipping frorµ the New York Daily leges; Academies, Normal Schools, and c:Jled the official' one, will be held Ohildren's �\.dvertiser for October 12, 1825 may be Theological Seminaries, 38 in Minneapolis, June 6th, 7th, 8t� ,: Homes, Old People's HomeS, Rescue an<l• 9th, in which the stat� of Ilhof interest. It was headed i Homes for Girls, Kindergartens, and n�� . i a sked to take a Jeadmg part. A Novel Sight s � They have over 300 . 4-lnN to know • teres\u.Ul5 "A vessel has ar rrved It wouId be rn at thi. s port I Day· Nurseries. . l\x· , · oned i·n the stat 1 H :i.1ss,onn.r1es ome ,, . l T . . • what were tlie circumstll,nces that wit� enngrants from N or_way. T 1e vesfields, logging, mining, and sel is veTY smnll, measuring, as we un- pioneer camps ancl the laro-e cities Be- led to the sailing of the famous sloop party. In 1807, La°'«;J&rson, . derstand only ,about 3 0 Norwegian fishin oranks" very high who was born at Stavanger, Septem• I i�"' last or f? rty-fi e Ame icai tonS, nd ; i� pthatnatiNo�·way o11s in Foreign :\1 ission i n� . !. \ � � a o g 2 7 7 and served as a Ship 1 u rou ht fif,t:r-thie 'f passe �,,,��% _ m ale \ terests, it is only reasonable that hose \ ber 3rd, 1 8 , carpenter in the Danish navy during · and ":female, all bound for Orleans wb o migrated to AmPrica arri dt hi c e t s , the Napoleanic wars, was captured • countr, whe�e an agent who came interest ·with them . · As there is prac. oYer so_me tu1'.? smce, purchased a l tically no illiteracy in Norway, the im- by the British and confined in a London Pri;:;on until 1814. After tract of land. The appear �nce of such migrants and their def'eendants have employ: of a party of strangers, c�mmg f rom so ,; been specially interested in establish- his release he entered the _ nt a country nd m a vessel of Margaret Allen, a 'prominent Quaker dist � j ing and maintaining schools and pubken an interest in a �1zc apparently 111 calc_t1la ,ced for a Ushing houses and publishing papers lady who had ta imprisonment, and . vo� age � cross the, Atlantic, could � ot I and periodicals in both languages for hlm during his him to the Quaker bu� ex:t te an t:m:�ual _ �egr�e 0� m- I the general enlig,h ten,tuent of them- had converted he returned to Nor• In 1816 terest. An enterprise like th1s argues selves and the rest of the Americans. faith. way where he, with others who had a good cleal of boldness in the master Th�ir• first pastor, Elling Eielsen, was been captives in London and had of the vessel, as well as an adventu� ordained in 1843. They l,lui1t their first embraced the Quaker faith, began ous spirit in the pa s�engers, most _of clffi.rc/1 in J.844 in Racine county, Wis- proselyting among their neighbors _ whom •belong to fam1hes from the vie- consin. 6rganixed their first Synod i n 1 with the result that a Society of inity of a little town at the southwest- 18f51. The fir st American newspaper l Friends was organized in Stavanger. ern extremity of Nor'way, near the dty in the Norwegia n language appea red l This Society never grew large but of ·Stavanger. Thoi;e who came from Ji1t, 29, 1847. . Jt was called "Nordly- still exists, with a membership of the farms are dTessed in coarse cloth set'; ( The No rthern Li g,h t ) , an d was I some two hundred. Some of thE\se of domestic manufacture of a fashlon published in the town of Norway, I Quaker s and other common people different from the Americans, but I Racine coun ty, Wisconsin. Since that along the fjords became dissatisfied. t,bose who inhabited the town wear 1 time over 400 . papers have been pub- TheJ" had heard favofable reports calicos, ginghams, ancl gay shawls, im- 1 lishecl i n , the 'Norwegian language in about conditions in the New World we pres�1me, !rom England. 89 cities in America. A t present there and they believed that in the young \ I po ;;ted, _ The vessel _is bmlt on the model i are 50 papeTS of which 2 are daily and republic of the west, they might en' common to fisbmg ,b oats on thaJ coast, two semi-weekly. The rest are week- joy gi-eater opportunities, and no I w i t h a single top-sail , sloop-rigged. ly or monthly doubt the old roving spirit of the . \ She n.rriYe<l with the addition of one T>he fi rst Norwegian A cademy of ' Norsemen also asserted itself. 1 passenger born on the way. " '!.' he name And so a number of Quakers and higher learnino- was founc1ed in 1853. of the nssel was "Restaurationen. " t I n · 1 920 there"' were 2,233,503 Norwe- other residents of Stavanger county left .Sta,- anger, Norway, July 4, 1825 , gian s in A merica, an cl when we bear laid plans to immigrate and sent tw@ and a rri,·ed at Kew York, October 9bh, in mind. that the good ship "Resta ura- ' men t o America to investigate con • the same yen.r, EYery one of the pas- tionen" brought the original 53 NOT· ditions. One of t'hese was �Geng �cngers randed in good health a i wegians to this eouutry in 1825, we ! Persen. And thus was brought into spiri ts. A cll ilcl was_ born t o Ur. and realize that there has been some de- ' the Saga of the Norsemen in Ameri1\frs. Lars La rson on the voyage., She velopment botJh here and in Norway. ' -ca a man who for forty years was ,Yas given the name :\f argaret A"Iien A nd when their descendants gather ,to th3 • pathfinder of his people in the I i u houor of )Ir:'<. Al len in Lonclou who � celebrate the event, they can do so New World Kleng Persen� It is a ' . .ieurled :\fr. Lm·son. ' l h n d befr t with the 8n tisfaction of having con- genuine Norse name. It s a name 'l' he:.;e Kor8e "pilgrim fa ther,,; n ml -tri h uted some of the fine that, Io:ng ago, sho11ld have been offl'lffif carved 011 an impressive monument motl1ers" who came oYer in this ·')la y reared in his honor at some ;1pp,rotlo,YN' of the Xortll" settled in Orpriate place in the West. He helple1rn:-; Couu ty, Xew York, and the huned to build an e mpire. cln·<l:,, a u(! t housa nds of lhl'ir country- ' mi>11 who followed them during this WA UKEGAN ILL NEWS IGeng Persen was a remarkable ('(>lJ tm.v Jurre settled u n(l <ln·clopecl §t.3'l}B.nA_Y; :"!::A t%,1B' H; 1e3o, Jnan, seemingly endowed by nature l,1 rge pa rtfi of llliuois. '\fisc·om;in. Minfor the work he was destined to do. � -1 H•sota. Iowa, the Dalrnta8, a nd •be- . ,With but little schooling in his yoncl to l lw T'acific Ocean and way up yo1c'th, ho learned the English, _French and German languages, be, iu ( ' 1t11ada. ThPy Wl'l'C •hard working, 'sides llis own, so that wherever ha frngal, aucl iuclu;-;trious, and blazed the went h e could talk with everybody \ \n1 y in clen'lopillg' the American wildand secure information as to condicnll'f.18 into t he mo,;t prosperous ancl ft tions. And he possessed a peculiar ]lt<lgre;:sing- reg•iom: of the WoTfrl . They gift of expression. W]{erever he I en rtw wt•U prepnn•d to do t lieir part went, people listened to him, believfor Amerie,t . TJ10y came from a free Coming Qf First Immigr an t cd in him and many followed him. c·o nntry to a free cou n t ry. from an Vessel to This Country is to His faith in America was boundless. educated country to an edu To him it was the promised land 1'1f r. be 'i' arl\.ed. try. They represented a c ilization for his p�ople. One night, in 1823,' and culture of a -thousand y rs de1 after a long weary tramp over the - --..:,:. velopment. They were better meri• r--4.'his y�ar w ill go down in history 1 trackless prairies west of Chicago, cans before they lef� Norway tha some ,. 3 onp of great importance . to the J he slept out in the open and had a who have been trymg to Amen�nize Norwegian Americans and dream or vision. He dreamt , says also to them after they eame here. An,erican history., for thi s year WE) l Professor Rasmus B . Andersen in . :; . As a rule the Norse 1mm1grants. crl�rate the coming of the first j his work on "Norwegian Inimigracame here empty ha nded, ·but they imm igrant vessel :ti om Norway to tion" that he saw the wild prairie changed into a cultivated region, were not empty headed or empty , America. IJ.'hat does not mean that teeming with all kinds of grain and hearted. Pre-eminently, they were a re- these were the first Norwegians, but fruit, most beautiful , to behold; that ligious people and wherever they set- the first immigrant boat and since ' splendid houses and barns stood all tlecl they built churches, educational -rrs ? I ! ��::�:��m'.�G��t ' 1l1,I ORWE "'UD ANS IND :::;;z;::; escI OBSERV I 11!U CE p l �('l'OSs('(I t !w Atlautk to tbtc> ht 11d clis- I over the Jand , occupfod by a rich and on Jefi'erson- "P1�frie, near . Beloit, in prosperous people. Alongside thel 1838; the fifth at Muskego, west of , - . co , en�d liy LPif- I<Jrickscn. whkb startfields of waving grain, large herds Racine in 1839, and the sixth at � ed fill exoclm: to the broa<l, ferti ll' of cattle were feeding. l{leng in- Kashkonong, east of. Madison, in ' 11J ai:11s of Amerktt . The 1in�t wa s a mi terpreted this as a vision and as a 1840. gration of Norse d1iefta i n1-s, proud. token from Almighty God that his The Muskego settlement is of wea lt l1�· and powerful. but because of countrymen should come there and : �pecial interest because here was the nnfH Y()rahle eondi-� ions tha t await 1 built the settle. first Norwegian Lutheran ed tliem, th(':V had a haru struggle to Kleng Persen spent three years in Church in America, a little log maintain tb('IDSPlves. The -second was America, investigating conditions , church begun in 1843 and dedeicated tt mi&'ration of -N;orway's common peo returning to Stavanger in 1824. He in 1845 by Rev. C. L. Clausen, who ple, plain a:r,i d, difuple, without wor\dlv gave glowing accounts of conditions had been preaching in the commun ,--·we�fi' but_ Who because of favorahle in the New World and advised his ity since 1843. The little house of country111en to immigrate . . Great worship is still in existence an d has cQ�ions and fa ith ful work. soon ac interest .and enthusiasm was arous- been removed from Muskego t.o St. qnired n eompet ence a nd a re now num ed, but how to get to the land of Ant1rony- Park, Minnesota, where it bered among the most prosperous 'peo promi_;.'3, with the limited means at stands on the grounds of the Luther ple of <!: he earth. In this settle t heir command was a big proble m Seminary campus. Now comes into history a man, for most of the people. Lars Lar- mel'lt also appeared the first Nor "'Oleng Pearson," wbo witb hut little sen solve d the problem. He had ac- wegian newspaper published in Am- ! twhool ing in bis :v()utb had learned the quired some property, which •he now erica. It was a four page sl1eet 1!'rem•h, Germa n an<l Englii,h lan sold and with some assistance fro m called "Nordlyset" (The Northern five others, bought a little sloop for Light) and made its appearance in I guages. He was in 1822 sent b;v quak eighteen hundred dollars in Nor- 1 847. In 1849 it was removed to ers in Stavanger county t-0 America to wegian money. Racine where its name was changed invefitigate congit ions. A!ter a s:o The Captain,,. Lars Olsen, and the to "Demokraten" and where it sus- 1 journ of two years around New York :m ate Erick,;en were enga.p"etl by pended publication a few months / be retumed to Norway in 1824. His later. him. report was so favorable that quakers After the arrival of the sloop at Koshkonong became the richest and some other people laid pln ns t.o New York, Lars Larsen did not ac- i and most famous Norwegian set company the party to Kendall, but tlem�mt in America. It was the Jlligrate hense. The sloop "Restaurli located at Rochester, New York, j Mecca to which most of the immi tionen, " the Mayflower of the north, · where he became a prosperous build- grants of the forties, the fifties and 2a1led out of Stavanger harbor on er of canal boats. He died as the sixties directed their ships and Americas Independence Day, July 4th, l'esult of an accident in 1845. He whence they went forth in after 1 825. Whether the party selec:('d that was a most worthy man, whose years to found new settlements. ! day for their departure by chance or memory should be reversed bv all Kashkonong indeed may be called I with a full realization of its signifi• his people in America. His home the Mother Colony of the numerous 1 we haYe not been told. After ll , ca,nce at Rochester "was always open to Norwegian settlements of the : Norwegian immgirants, hundreds of Northwest and was the starting periloUs and romantic Toyage through whom stopped there and received ;point of a goodly number of Nor the British channel and by tbe way of l1elp and advice. wegian Americans who have attaint.be Maderia Islan,ds they reached New IGeng Persen may be called the I ed distinction in public life or as York on OctOlber 9th, 1825. Every one founder of Kendall Settlement, and , writers and •scholars. of t h e passengers that went on board -· -·-he later founded four other settle- ' at Stavanger lan d ed in good . health. mcnts i n the West. He died in Bos, , J1pirits, and their number had b-een: • que County, . Texas, in 1865, eighty • · ' • • creased on the way by the arrival of the t�ree Y:ars of age, and is buried at �:r n11in� (Ia.) Times • Norse, m the very heart of one <-f • )\ .. '· "sloop baby"-a daughter born to Hi; T-RURS . JtAY,. MAY 7. l9Z� the settlements he last founded. A • • . • and Mrs. Lars Larsen. She was naro� · -� · '-::. · _ ..:,;,.. --=---'-...::.:. ---· monument graces his resting place, ·. Margaret Allen in honer of a quaker upon which is engraved an expres d h a y sion of gratitude and inscribed "To h t0�:1�� : ;ri:::er i:r:�: :: f: e! � the memory of the father of Nor England fo'r yearR. Mr. Larsen sewed wegian Immigr�tion to America." -' in the Dannif<h navy durin,g the NoHe had traveled over a larg·e part <Tf Europe, had crossed the Atlantia NORSE-AMERICANS TO GATHER -poleonic wars of 1 812. Margaret AlAT ML"INEAPOLJS seven time,; and had tramped thous I ten developed into 11 • women of rare ands of miles over the western • heauty, culture and retin'Pmen t. � 1857 she ma rried .John Atwater, of wilderness before his restless spirit 1 9 6 JUNE �• DAY FOUR A h este.r, N. Y., who became a promi Roc found peace. He lived to see his nent publisher at Ch ic-ago. She died wonderful dream or vision come respect I true, for already in 1865 his people Many Big Features Are Lbtecl Ill The at an advanced age, loved and hn. y knew who b all ed Progra.m For The Four Day had estai..Iishcd many large settle The residents of New York externl Celetn-ation ments in the fertile West, where ed a cordial welcome to these Norse they lived in prosperity and content• pilgram fa·thers, quakPrs in particul ar ment. From 1825 to 1836 only a I At The M;w1ffiota State Fair Grolmds befriend ing them in more ways then small number of immigrants arriv• Sat�·day, Sumfa.y, Monday, and one. Enou gh money was raised among ed, some of whom wen t to Kendall, i Tue ' ', June 6-7-8-9th. the quakers to pay the expenses of the some obtained employment in var• New 1 immilgrants to Orleans county, ious placed in the East and others Th('re haf: l,l'C'll two impor:ant rnigra - York , on the southeastern shore went to the Fox River settlement in Illinois, which Kleng Persen started iions from Xnrway. The first l.Jegan a of J ake Ontario. There in the town .of in 1834. Quite a number came in t hon"an<l yt•a rs a;;o, wht•n many of the Kenda ll tbPse brave. single folk , 1836 arid during that year the third Non;e warlords. elirl:,; an<l p1;•t t y ruler:s founded the fi rst Norwegian settlement permanen t settlement was founded refuRPd to lit->n<l tlw krn'e to Hamill the in Ameri ca. Each family secured 40 1 at Chicago. 1 fa ir hai rE'd, who had mmle h im,..elf acres of land , covered with dence, In 1837 two Norse ihips, "Enighe 1·11lr1· of all :',orwa y, ::rnd sa i.led away hardwood timber. To clear this land den" and "Aegir" came direct from 1 to Jee-land ·w ith all their wt•alth and meant years of bard work and suffer _ homeseekers, 1 Norway loaded with retain<'r,;. nwny wh ich was endure d by these pioing most of whom went to Illinois. The I eHI'S neers for some time, were pi tiful in y h e ;:pcou<l be>gn n a hnndre> <l T fourth permanent settlement and > the first in W isconsin was started ago. wl,en t he i,Joop "H<'»tanrn tionen" 1 deed . Twenty-four of them includ ing I .TO HOlO A CENTEN NIAf I I I ,, I �their children, combined and put up a log cabin in which they spent the first , wintf:'r. After a few years, howe·: er ' the settlers became fairly prosperous, learned to speak the English langnnge and were respected by their American neighbors. The little community did not flourish'like most of the Norwegian settlements later founded in the west, because conditions were not so favor able for agriculture as in those set tlements and because the Norwe;rlans of Kendall, like thousands of other New Yorkers, felt the irresistable call of the west. Never-the-less this first of all Norwegi an settlementR did not nie out. From time to time emigrants from Norway located there and helped to kf'ep alive the language and the ' this ndred years ago the Norwegians have sp�ead over the . , whole of the U. R. There are now in the TJnited States 2,500,00 . Norwegians aud their descendents. They have be comf' United senators, congreRsmen aml governors. Th<' followii1i.1, progra m will be car ried out at. thiR national gathering, Saturday June Hth, Natio.nal Conven tiun of Bygdelags and other organiza- 1 tions. Addresses and mu,sic Sundav. June the 7th, forenoon-four or mo;·e religious services. Sermons by well kuown ministers. Music by choirs and hands. from A fternoon-RepreSf'ntathes Norwa y and others will bring greet ir�s, University choir from Norway wlll sing. Evening-M usic festival . short ad dreRses. Monday, June the 8th, forenoon and ev-ening-Short adresses concerning ac tivities of. Norsemen in America. Af ternoon address by the president of the United States. Tuesday, June 9th, forenoon and af ternoon, addresses concerning Nor- e A merican institutions : evening, hi ori cal pagents. Special features during the fou days will include athletics, lectures, ex ibits and entertainments of an character. Everybody welcome. ln behalf of. the Norse-American Centennial. Bart Strand, Peter Jdso. \lf,-, f� (M inn .) Com. 'Rul ietit, . SATURDAY. 1'/rAY 23. ; 925 CR WHICH HOUSED 53 PASSENGERS 13 WEEKS WOULD NOT FILL BULLETIN OFFICE An interesting feature of the Ncrrn·As ican Centennial which is to be celebrate in the "rWJh'iP-;ities June 6 to 9, is the repro duction of the sloop "Restaurationen'' {Res toration) in which the first considerable group of Norwegian emigrants came to A merica. The illustration on this 12age shows how far the construction of the mod el had progressed early last week. Like the original 45-ton sloop, this model is 50 j feet long, 20 feet wide and 8 feet deep. Pocket Edition of Real S h i p Some idea of the limited character of \ these dimensions may be gathered from the fact that if the sloop were placed in the main office of the Northwest Commer cial Bulletin, one-third of the length and 1leigbth and considerably more than onethird of the breadth of the office would re main unoccupied, while the entire building would house quite a fleet of such sloops. Though small according to the ideas of today it was a staunch little craft which set sail from the port of Stavanger July 4, 1825, and arrived in New York October 9, after a hazardous v_oyage of 13 weeks. It bettered the record of carrying every soul on board safely to its destination since it left Norway with 52 passengers and arrived • with 53. "Sloop Baby'' Com p l e,t ely "A meri ca nized" The 53rd passenger was a girl born to Mr. and Mrs. John Larson and known as "the sloop baby." This sloop baby, Margaret Allen Larson, grown to womanhood, married John Atwater, who a short while after be came superintendent of schools at Roches- ter, N. Y. The colony bought land and set tled at Kendall, N. Y. The Atwaters later moved to Chicago where their two chil dren, John Larson Atwater fn� his sister, Jane Sarah Atwater, live _Jt /he present � time. The latter was born in Chicago in 1858 and bas taught in the public schools of that city since she was 20 years old. She is now principal of the Parkside school of Chicago. Her C h i l d ren to Speak at Centen n i a l Both the children of the "sloop baby" are to be present at the coming centennial cele bration and will give talks at the "slooper session" Monda y morning, June 8. The 10 other children of "slooper children" now to attend the centen several are expected to be present. �I \ ,• l SONS OF LIEF CELEBRATE SECOND • COMING �F NORS�MEN to AMERICA / ( C The President Has Gone to the Northwest to Add His Tribute of Honor To the Little Band Th�t Brave.c1 th� Ocean a Century Ago m Search of Freedom The GY'J!I o f the Nation have fol N i nth century, when dlssenting n.;b!e-' men put off for Iceland. • '1'he second lowed the President these past few · exodus was one of peasants and com days as he traveled Northwest moners and i t was brought a·b out by ' to pay his, tribute to a people religious and economic pressure. 'l'he chronicle o-f the secon d period of which has thrown its staunch chara..: em igration had Its beginnings In the ter into the building of the Amer Napoleonic wa,rs, ·a nd most of those ican race. Tomorrow he s p eaks at who organized the first colony came the Minnesota State fai r gro1.mds at from the little, -town of Stavanger, o n the big centennial exhibition of the the southwest coast o• f Norway. Here, In September :L787, was born Lars LarNorwegians. J 1,0n, "dark and eager-eyed,' ' who be The descendants of Lief the Lucky, came a ship's carpenter and served who touched the shores of "Vinland" aboard a Norwegian vel!Sel In the centuries before Christopher Colum Napoleonic wars. bus was born , are celebration In their country. making joyous corner of the Persecuted for Their Religion In 1807 hi s ship was captured by the The celebration, known as the British and he was taken to London Norse-American Centennial, i s being and imprisoned until the'ti(eaty at Kiel held in the Twin Cities of Minne- had been signed,_ Whea he wa.i; re apolis and St Paul June 6 to 9. I t is leased in 1814 he remained in London a year as a servant t, o a Quaker worn attended by Secretary of State K el - a n , Margaret A1len. Her mfluence up l ogg, dip ).i:nnatic delegates of a d ozen 1 on him was so great ,t hat he embraced Nations, :nembers of the Shorthini;;, the Quaker tenets and when, In 1815, - he returned to his native Stavanger h e of centn,1 law-making body of Nor preached the doctrines he had learned . way, and perhaps 50 ,000 Norwegians In England. .::: the U:iited States. The Adminis-� -�- --. W'ithin a year he had founded a sotration at Washington has agreed to I ciety of Friends. It n e\ier •became large send the giant dirigible Los Angeles and i t never extended beyond Stavanger to Minnesota for the festival. It but i t still ex ists. The established c h urch looked w i th will be . the first appearance of the l i ttle favor upon these d i ssenters. Tliere airship in the Nor; hwest. . were fines for fajlure to attend communion serv�ces, forcible baptisms i n the Lutheran Church of Quaker ch il1 Second Great IIIigration The l ittle band of Norwegians who dren and, in a few i n str,nce s, bodies !formed the first permanent settlement were exhumed lh;,tt they ,,-ight be re• of their countrymen in the United buried according t•o the orthodox ritISta.tes, sailed from their homeland, ual. I n addltion, there wa� a great deal singularl y enough, on July 4, 1825. They of poverty and a widespread distrust arrived in New York 14 weel,s later and of public officials . T h e Friends · endured t\iese conditions lr. Nov'embe r established themselves a t \ntil 1821, whe n they call,,d Kleng PeerK endall, Orleans County, N Y. These, of course, were not the first Iron from his farm at Hesthammer and :Norwegians ' to adopt America as their commissioned him to go to America to homeland, but they were the first of ' investigate the conditions under which their country to retain thei r national coJ.onizaUon might take place. He spent three years in the U nited complexion i n a sizeable group. The first Norsemen to settle perman- States and his reports were so enently in the Unlted S>tates are presumed thusiastic that little �ther persuasion ·:o have been sailors who shipped was neecretl to form a colonilzing party. aboard Dutch vesse ls and I droppea off : The threatened difficulties· of finan iing in what then was New Amsterdam. the vent1;1i<e were overco11.1 e by Lars some Norwegian historians contend Larson who, with. five otter Quakers, that the 11-r st whit;e child born I n New solrl his scanty possessio11s and pl1r• Amsterdam bore a Scandinavian name. c hased The Resta urationcn tTh e Rest<.The em igration to the United States 10'1 years ago marked the second time l n ---�� ll i stor y that Norway released a stream of its culture to a foreign country. The ! fi rs t major movement came !� the REV OMMUND NIELSEN Ejast Boston Pastor Going to the Norse Centennial raUon). ' rigged. It was a 41>-ton vessel , sloop• " Wine Given by tile Waves When the sloop weighed anchor there and 52 passengers aboard we n, a capgo o f iron for delivery I n N ew York. Th e. passage to America was not without its ha rdships-or hu mor. The Restaurationen was so small that less , hardy nav igators would have considered lt wholly unsu ited for the voyage; that it .crossed the A tlantic with Its lieavy eargo without mishap m a y b e interpreted a s extraordinarily good fortune or· extraordinarily good seamanship. Crnising along the coast of Great Britain, the sloop drew into the harbor of Lisett, which even then had fell the restrictions of liquor prohibition. The Norsemen, failing to understand the restrictions, peddled so'me of their,Jown supply. When their offense becau8e ap parent they with drew to the ship an/I put out to sea. For several weeks the sloop drifted along the coast and then, near the Ma deira Islands, the passengers had the ir second encounter with ,1 ohn Barleycorn. Here a wine casl,, heavily covered with barnacles, floated out to them and almost begged to be taken aboard. �Lars Larson put out in a �ory, fou�ht I tion, -found everythin g -in goodord er ),. I away a shark while he slipped a lme 1 The party was invited to land an:d wa.<;l around the cask, and pulled the l lquor foted by the jnhabitants of the island . back to the VC'ssel. It may have been / .-�------.:-.;:..-...;.,;...;.;.�:...;;=c:::::..- The American consul extended a hearty because of this piece of good luck that welcome to the band of cmlg.ran�•. and the Restaurationen, a few days 1 was host at a large dinner . On the drifted Into the harbor of Funchal clevarture ol' the party from Madeira out col ors and without command. three days later, the consul ordered a The townspeople feared there was , [ 1-Jountiful 11upply of,-vra.p,es placed on some sort of pestllential d�sease a,board bow-fl +be Rest.,,:u a.ti on en. ned the sloop and the mil itary threateij Restaurationen Riea es- Ne,v Yorlc to fire a brottdside unless -.colors wer • ·A salute was fired from the fortres!'S hoisted immediately. · , a.� the vessel sa!led out of the harbor The sloopers recovered in time to u -four weelrn after the departure from furl a Norwegian flag, and not o y Stavanger. There followed 10 more were they permitted to land, but t Y weeks of voyagi ng th rough perilous were entertained lavishly for three da s. waters, and then, early i n October, the . sloop anchored in tho harbor .of New J<'irst WJnter a Hard One York. The slopo left Funchal on July 31 and. A1Tival of the :party aroused much was brought into tl1,e harbor of New interest in New York. Residents of York about the middle of !October. The city marvelled that a safe passage the troubles of the passage were not at an · merican Observance of t ever the Atla,ntlc had been effected In end, however, for the port authorities this considered the Restauratio nen too s mall ,, e-: e-hundredth anni - New York Quakers extended a warm marks t h e to carry both_ pa{sengers' and cargo. greet·mg to The skipper was arrested and t he sloop versary of t he arriva on American soil supplying members of the expedition, them with shelter and funds;l was detained for a day or two until of a party of 53 Norwegians whose the Quakers of New York brought their voyage on a little sloop called RflS - ofThe party later p roceeded to the town Kendall, Orleans county, New York, ) e 1 mar k , d on taurationen• (the Restorat Influence to b�ar ' 111 tl,e case . of and founded the first Norwegian set. ' 1 • The Norwegians, with their blue eyes tho beginnmg of a genera exo(lus <: con- t lement in America. I an d sandy hair, caused no l t tt le sur- Norwegian_s to America that ha. Sloop Sold For $400 prise in New York. The New York t:inucd on an extensive scale for the Daily Advertiser professed amazement past lOO years . 'Lar,son, leader of the expedition, re'!. ' of emi he b rave litt l e compan y t)1at a party could' arrive In "good • n 1ained several weeks in New York, health and spirits" from so dista nt a �rants comprising the Norwegian disposing of the Res ta urationen and land "in a vessel of a size 111-calculateu "Mayfl ower" expedition sailed out of its cargo for $400.. He then removed for a· voy age ac ro.ss the Atlanti c . " 1-he harbor of Stavan g·er, Norway, on t" Rochester, N. Y., wi th his wife and Kleng Peerson was in New Y ork J uly 4 , 18 25, embarking on a perilous ' c!aughter, and became a builder of awaiting the party. He had declined to journ ey of 14 weeks' du ration a c ross canal boats. He l eft a large fortune sail with t)le main body of emigrants the ocean. upon his death in 1 8 4 5. lu, i n the case of the sailing of the 1 and had reached New York ,in time to Members of the heroic expedition tnmake arrangements for the settlement Puritans i n the Mayflower in 1 620, the eluded the following people; at Kendall, Orleans County. The land .sloop Restaurationen left Norway in Lars Larson, M r. Erikson, the mate, was distributed equally, 40 acres to • 1 8 2 5 becau!'S e Q uakers liv i ng i n Sta- Captain Lars Olson, Johannes Stene, every head of a family or - a dult man. Vang-er county were not permitted, un- w ife. and two children; Thomas Ma The price was $5 an acre, but \slnce the ' �olested, to wors�i p God acc o rcti �g to land, wife, and three children; Cor settlers were almost penniless ?:the ' the d i ctates o f t li®t r own conscience. , nellus Nelson Her�:dal, wife , an d four owner o f the tract agreed to take h is ) i �conomic reasons als� were involved, I children; Oyen Thorson, wife and three l p-ayments in 10 a n nual installmentt.' for t.he cm 1_ g rants believed t hat pros- <'hildren ; Daniel Stenson Rossadal, The first W inter was one of extreme , J) erity a waited them in America. wife and five children; Simon Lima, privation. The colonists arrived so late Lars Larson Organizer wife, and three children; Jacob Anderin the Year that it was impossible to T he x pedition was organiz ed by son , Knud Anderson, Nels Nelson plant a crop or build s ubstantial homes, , L r L e I w ersdal , and wife, Bertha; Sara La r, ose fi H house the rst a s arson, n h Food was scarce and the first shelters , u ak er meet i ng i n Stavanger county son, sister of Lars Larson; Henrik were of the rudest sort. Twenty.four ' Q b 1 0 yea rs 'o efore. The Christopherson Hervig and wife; mem bers of the colony hastily con- I bad been held s ix fami lies joined with Lar- George J'ohns()ll, Andrew Dahl, Andrew structed a cabin 12x12 and somehow 1 ; eads eof! i mr a n worldly posses- Sta g·eland, Nels Thorson, Ole John' managed to live In it du ing the Win- j 8011, s l - l l their � sions, and purchas ing the " Restaura- son, Thorstein Olson Bjodland, Ole O1ter. In the following Sprmg, land was : tionen" from a N o rwegian ship-owner son Het !etvedt, and Halvor Iverson. cleared, wheat was planted and the f -for $1, 800. Lars QLqon was appointed next _Winter was passed in somethin i n, and when the sloop set sail , capta aldn to c'omfort. I it carried i2 emi-grants and a cargo of i ron. '!.'be party numbered 53 when it landed in New Yorlc the second Sun Expect 30,000 Visti_prs For the decade following 1825 there day in October, Mrs. Lars Larson hav. was a temporary lull in Norwegian i ng g iven birth to a daughter on Sept. emigration to the United States. The , 2 while the vesse\ was i n mid-o(;ean. Following the departure from the next boatload sailed 'from Stavanger in d with reports that prompted a 1836 and was followed by another In harbor of Stavanger, the Norwegian nd of emigrants to embark iu 1815 1837. From that time, except for negli "Mayflower" passed through the Brit , the sloop "Restaurationen" in what gible lapses, the nun�ber of Norsemen I fah channel, and anchored, after a few coming to the United States increased days, in a small harbor on the coast is known as the Norwegian Mayflower I annuall y until the peak was reached in ) of England. expedition. the '80s, Either unfavo:rnble winds or a lack , Moved Into West Only a few of those who came tol of the knowledge of navigation by the Peerson mingled with the Quakers America in 1836 stoppe d at Kendall. captain forced the sloop off its course in New York for several years, but The remainder traveled to Mission, La I after the journey was resumed, and 1 dn 18 34, being seized with the wander , Salle County, Ill, where the so-called the "Restaurationen " drifted far south / /Just, and believing that greater opporFox River Settlement wa-s· established. to the island of Maderia.. The third permanent settlement was Enters Madeira Harbor _____,, made. in Chicago and the fourth In Rock The sloop entered the harbor of Ma tunity for Norwegians lay fn the -va.stl County, Wis. Somewhat later came the deira without colors. Cannon were regions to the ·west. he set out on a Muskego colony in Waukesha. and Ra aimed at the vessel from the fortres,s, long journey that brought him to La cine Counties, Wis, During the '40s the military officials of the island be Salle county, lllinois, where two year11 an dearly '50s the Norwegians crossed lieving that some contagious disease later the second Norwegian settlement the Mississippi for the first time and on board must have , occasioned the lowThe man who has gone down in in America was established, the first settled e x tensively in Iow/1., the Dakotas ering of the ship's colors. A man on history _as the pathfin(ier and father of having been founded in Kendall, N. Y. and .Mi nnesota. wharf cried out a wa rning, however, Norwegian immigration is Cleng Peer It was while on a journey west of Preparations for the celebration of the and one of the party, Thorstein Ol son son, - from Tysver parish, Skjold dis Chicago that Peerson experienced what Norse-A merican C,entennial have been Bjodland, who settled seve ye a. rs j tri ct, Stavenger, Norway, who in the r.al he claimed was a m iraculous vision. going on for almost a year. A tremen• l ater in \Visconsln, hunted u the Nordous attendance Is assured by the fact �1 egian flag·, hoisted It to thep asthe d , Year 1821 made an Investigation of con- Weary and hungry he lay down o n a m a ditlons and opportunit i n America. ies hill to rest, and saw in his fancy fields that 36 ''bydelags," or Norwegian a nd thus averted the danger that lm1 After spending three years in Amer." of waving grain and large hera<i of "clans," will meet during the celebra- ' pended. ica in company with a comrade named cattle feeding. Interpreting this a.s a tlon. These conventions alone are ex Som e customs ol'f!clal.s then board ed Olson Eide, Peerson returned to Nor token from G od that his countrymen pected to attract more _than 30.000 Vis the slooo. and after maldng an ir)spec, itors to the Twin Cities during the three SlO D NORWE GIANS ON U S. SHORES l1 l .Marked Beginni�g of Gen eral Immigration,..to America :::�-Wi�•�� PEERS.ON,C ALLEO PATHF1NDER ,OF NORSE SETTLERS Started Norwegian May flower Expedition in 1825 -Led Opening of West l �here should conie and settle, he forgot his pain and hunger, and on bended knees thanked God that he had been permitted a glimpse of what the future held. Led New Settlemerlt Peerson returned to the Kendall set tlement, and in 1835 led a oand of set tlers baclc to lllln<>!s, where the so- · C'.alled Fox River settlement, near Ottawa, was founded. Although Peerson bought land with the others in _La. Salle county, he dt:: , 1 not settle on 1t. The urge to explore new regions was strong upon him, and he continued on over the we.stern '-'""'Ce._,,,,, plains. I He finally went to Texas, where h e died, a n old and feeble man, ln 1868near!y 50 yea.rs after his initial explor ations In America. His countrymen have placed a monument upon his grave. I n"lt11 V•nn., F.-L. Adv(,s•.• VvElJNESDAY, JUNE 10, I�S NORSE-AMERICAN CENTENNIAL HONORS SCANDlNAVlAN TRlK LEO WEST BY KLENG PEERSON Kleng Peerson's name will remain in American history along with the names of such men as Zebulon Pike, Lewis and Clarke, Daniel Boone, Sibley and, Ramsey. He was the first Norwegian who made a detailed investigation of the opportunities of the United States and sought to induce a large immigration from his native land to the new found home of religious liberty and econ omic opportunity. After the controversies which have raged about Kleng Peerson and his character have subsided into a universal chorus of acknowledged fact-and that time has now arrived-it will / remain for the following generations to honor him and record the ' historic truth of his great service to his own people and to his adopted land. It is the immigration which Kleng Peerson stimulated in 1825 that is being celebrated this week in St. Paul. The first cen tury of conscious, deliberate Scandinavian immigration is ended and a new century begun. In honor of the occasion, the president 0f the United States is visitmg the state which boasts more $candinavian blood than any other in the Union, and the greatest airship of the skies, which saJed through the clouds above the Atlantic in five days will swing above the celebration grounds to mark the centenary of the tiny sloop "Restoration" that drifted for 14 weeks hither and yon over the Atlantic waves with its freight pf 52 Norwegian immigrants. First Not'se-American Kieng Peerson was the firi:,;t " Norse-American." He pioneered this first boat load of the Sea ndinavian race who ,came over to become a permanent part of our composite nationality ; he ar ranged for the purchase of their land in northern New York ; met $hem on arrival ; guided t uem to their homes, and then later set. out on foot and trudged 2,000 miles to locate the site for the second settlement, the Fox River settlement j ust west of Chica go. Then he walked to Milwaukee (as is believed) , and later searched out the glories of Missouri, Iowa and Texas and made j several return trips to Norway preaching of the opportunities to be had in various parts of America. B1azed the Trails • In all the early ScaJidinavian settlements, Kleng Peerson was either the pioneer who sought out the new place or arrived among the early settlers, but he himself never settled down, though he bought and, owned land at some of the settlements. In his declining years he lived with friends of earlier days in Texas and was honored .by having 300 acres of fine Texas land given to him by the Texas legislature, and the people of that far-off state honor him ·�vith a statue and inscription as the legislature of Minnesota last winter authorized the honoring of Col. Sibley. He used to be called by some a vagabond, but a truer estimate has classed him as a "Viking 1 several centuries too late." He had I a spirit for adventure, a dislike of the settled, staid way of doing l thi,1g�, and when one frontier began to yield to the softening in fluences of modern life, Kleng Peerson hunted for a new frontier. 1 ·His life work was to launch th e movement of close to a million Scandinavians from their home to the United States, and through the movement thus begun Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Montana and Washington have been deeply tinged with the Scandinavian race, which undoubtedly will leave its imprint on all the populations that will follow. I �Sou CAN CENTENNIAL IN JU ( BACKGROUND OF EVENTS BY PAUL V, COLLINS. ,J. Theo. Bm•sett, Pastor utheran l'I1urch, South T N se-American Centennial. that ? What Every true American ought to know Congress has been invited and in a rising vote thanked for the invitation . President Coolidge and Secretary of State Mr. Kellogg hav€' promised to attend. For the lirst time in our his tory special 2 and 5 cent stamps have been printed to commem orate an event of this nature. Not only that, but the U. S. m i n t has struck off a speci&l medal for the occasion. But what is i t ? A l l ri1;ht. July 4 , 1 8 2 5 , a little sloop, '' Restaurationen ' ', carrying 52 em igrants, sailed from Stavanger, Norway, for the U. S. This started an immigration from Norwi, y to the United States that bas continued ever since, so that th ere are now in our country as many Norse-Americans as there , are people in the little kingdom of Norway. They have always proved themselves to be among the most loy�.l. industrious and dependable citizens. Much of the growth and pros perity of th e North Mi ddle states are due to the strength and in tegrity of these people. There �vas a Lief Erikson as you know. He took out the orig inal citizenship papers. You re member Knute Nelson. Now WE can mention six governors of si:x d ifferent states who boast of be • , ing Norse-Americans, besides ever so many men of congress and other prominent places. At M innea polis. Minn., in June 7 to 9 there will be a celebri. tion commemorating the coming of the "Restarationen" and the 1 0 O years of history, growth and i nfluence o f these people. Minneapolis and St. Paul are prepared to entertain u p to 3 0 0,000 people at this celebration . I I the n in etee nth ce ntury. As a reward ,veSt rivali ng- those of M a rco Pc;lo of I es to the gr eat allia nce of the vaSt "Cathay ." Pre sident <.:oolidg� has go ne ct o· foi· servic J 836 he had j fel! l I powers fighting Napoleon , the crown tra nspla nted nearly By Mi n n esota to spealc words o f all or the NeW are prince of Sweden , Charles John, ln tatlo n t o the Americans who :ork Settlers in the rich b u t untam d n ivel'· 1814, was given t he thron e of Norway. regio n now know n as celebratin g th e centennial anIn Illino is Ml e l the Th e No rwegians refuse d t o recog-n ize sary of Norwegian settlement �ina, ·w isc �msin and th e two Dako��:: u s g· iv e n "withou t nea o s now has _ He will not-cannot-· the co n vention th Northwest . p h mor e S can di- 1 the consen t of the go verned , " and, vians tha n has an y address his r emarks t o an y assem· ci ty i n S r;andi• n t fighti ng, the coR· �:via. conseque fo the in ·r s" n -Ame1·ica n egia w r o "N blage of nectlon wi t h Den mark was sever ed * •� * there are no such people and n eve r and the Norwegian Parliamen t elected V ha\'e b ee n. the reigning Ki ng o f S weden as also : ! liile th e pagean t will h th A Norwegian has never been t o Ki n g u f• No l' way , and drew &n a cl of o ri gin al cru de mill st o nes w ·� h"w h " : hyphenated. vVhen he left Norwaythe ': IQ rway and S w ede n, the �arly pi onee rs starte d th� g-/.ateSt bet To union een n i fte,:therea e hom make hi s 7 milhn g ce nter In th e wo rld ar.ld will I . Great R epublic h e became In spirit t par· ,hlch conti n ue d" u ntil 1 9.0 5, when it show the original oxcart ' i n wh ich and in deed an Americ an-no many a pi o neer brid e rod e i�'/6ta d n a bloodshed, without d e •as dissolv tta.Jly b u t absolut ely. For a c en tury her nu pt ials, H will <1,lso sho•i 1 � t o • as Norway b ecam e Independen t. e n, he w ith oth er Scandinavians, .h achiev ements in art as we l , a� ? r ,:, * * �' e st and pio·'l hw r o N e t th ted a do�ln du try. are ' displa ys ofm devel· Undo ubtedly the forced u nion of tor�ial weaThere neered it s vast enterprises, ed ving which e "X<"al any _P the Norway with Sweden in 1814 had _ u <ti oped its resources, an d mark More '"'.eavmg in th e world. There ,vu� � character or Its i nst1tut 101;1s. of the much to do with the stimulatio n of d a marve e a lou d i p "llvl s n y l g s on No/ t a :-_ America, tos popul n i emigrat i o n of Norwegia than a third of the wegiu n tt_a g, ,, co mposed uf 500 chil which assumed Importan t proportio ns c en Northwest ls Scandinavia n . a t tra . ed d n colorf _ a l, u a and l: within th e decade f o llowing. The cele• *. * - . * e marching li ving flag wil l 1 n l t l�m h bratlon now In progress c ommemo- s:g u Th e ScandmaVJan s included tthee rates the arrival I n New York Har- d i ssol ve mto a livi ng reprodu ctio n of Ol r d S e th y/' truly symbolical of the s Glo d " sloop gi the of 1825, orw 12, e �� , s d "'{� :�e � co un· bor, Oct ober es e N orwegian Norwegian heart of patri ot is m and / n s l 1 ar;!1y u pon agriculture , �stauratlo ne n , with 53 � � � i n pe tr . loyalty. the imm i grants. 1 atio n , h eld m 1,d the Norwegians are the Viki n gs, th e Presiden t a nd Mrs. Coolidge, t oThe p'!'es. ent celebr st ' get he r with S ecretary of" State Kellogg nd n e P 01 8 Mi hard adventurers upon th e sea, et ween wa de• n th e � n ot m erery toca n fea- -from Mi nnesota-and Pri nce Olaf of thihe�s and trad ers. ,v heto vast raK1 • ss a t dep�c ti ng Norway, are guests of ho n or. scendants of Vikin gs came s the Am on � the 1 ure i t t great p agean in gras of . a e s d n -boun n o ·horiz c pea.ken;, be sid�s t h e Presi dent, th ers ; ;��: i �e two � orweg1a n wome n-Kri ��01-r:o;t:i�� a Northwest, t hey, too , became farm 1 i!t S ome b ecam e gov- have assembled from ' all parts of the me Bonnev1e , th e only woman tso and stock raisers. ernors of their States . i tes , Ca nad a , a nd even N or• hold th e rank of professoi· i n the Uniis Unite d Sta O ne little boy acco mpan i edbanh way. Al 9can dinav1ans are mus ic versity of O sl o ' and Ast rup Larsen, orp st&. ially lovers of v ocal a N lovers--espec moth er fro m Norway-a n hicago to music . orwe n woma n edJtor . in C I S candi navian choruses are a nd sold newspapers (!!oi,7rtr1it, !D!li, .l>,- Paul V. Colhn•. J I help bear th e 01o�her's burde n; later tamlli�r i nstitu t ions in the N orth. esota n n ev er has there been a but •vest he became Governor of Min n ited e r c horus th an that which will and from that po sitio n became U e Nel great Stat es Senator-th e late Knut ; sing th e spirit of Viking achie veme nt e rath r an--o g e w r l during th e prese nt ce lebratio n son. A nother No n of N o rwegian Th e Uni ted States Gover nme nt has a native American bor parentage-H enrik Sh l p stead-becam � rec ogni zed th e importance ot the . ' �inn oe, c Glen In st _ denti event, for it has i ss ued a special 2a country fe� ce n t postage stamp beari ng a picture b ut, whil e pr acticing his apro avon as ce fina1;1 of the sloop Restau i·atione n , an d a 5sion, h e took up Unit- cent stamp d ecorated with a Viking catlo n, thereby p repanng for a in is h even and ship, printed in two co lors-a n u n ed States senatorsh ip, emonflrst year In th e S e nate s.he � rm er precedented printi n g in co lor s , except li� , !or the S5 stamp. Also, from th e 11trat ed hi s preparedn es_ e· united States Mi nt comes a comm em Represent ative Vol stead 1s aJ. Norw Kval e , 1 orat lve gold m e dal to celebrate this gian , as I s his successor, O. m o fr s member ce ntennial-the first of the kind ever a n d as ar e many other Issued from the Mint. th e Northwest. * * ;,:< * * * * �:c J t is no t thro ugh t h e accide nt of It was due to the exploring e nt er or · prise o f Klong Peerson, also k nown as i nd ivid u al character tllat the N the traits of IGeng Pederson and Person Hestham. we�ians have developed 1 darl n "" a nd achievemen t, such as mer, th at the Norwegian colonization Amu m'l se_n, was started. It is not unusual for a c reat ;d a Nansen ,and an the ice -bou nd p olar Scan din av ian thus t o have several cso n qu erors of names, for, jn the old days and in the Away baek in the ei:; ht h cueneas. conq er· old country the eld,;ist son did not tury Scand i navia n e xploryers nds b e- carry th e s urnam e of the father. For isla man of s terie mys ed the and I relan d • example, "Martin Peterson" indicates tw ee n the A rct ic Circle l OOO they that th e man know n as "Peterson" a nd i t is be lieved t hat in or N<;>rt h was the s on of Peter, whos e s urnam,::i lan d landed on th e main obj ect i_ves might have been Jacobson , if he, i n e th of ne America. lt is o n , wi th • turn , was the so n of a m an n ame d of the pola r explorer , M acMilla seek out Jacob. S o Kl en g Pe derso n , or Ped er in the n ext few weeks, ito n Labrador sen. was probably the son of Mr. the st on e houses built Nor· Ped,;ir , who was th e son of Mr. Hestby th e 1·epu ted set tl ei·s from ago. s hammer. year way a thousand I n tho se early ce nt uries Norway , Kleng came to America i n 1821 a nd e n betwe e g stru g l saw that th e land was good. I n 1 824 was i n co n stant From 1 299 to he ret. urned t o Norway and spread rivals to h e r t hro n e. ect to Swe den , the good news, a nd i n the fo llowing 1 3 1 3 Norway was subj much larger . year brought forth the first ban d of w hose populatio n was N?i· - <imlgr« nts, locati ng them in New York Late i n t he fourteenth ce ndteury Jomt Htate-not i n the city. After he had a, r n u d u11;ite way and Sweden was, th u s eHtablished his co lonists Kleng I gov ernm ent, to w h ich Denmark Sca!ldinav lan scouted around the Mississippi Valley added later, and_ this beg n ni ng 0 ! and re turneu with tales of the Middle I he until i t l a sted u n ion I '� t: * it� I f t sf��::r;:.;� i t I 0 I �Fergus Falls, Mir TUESDAY_. J1..rNE . T iTHE CENTENNIAL • AND ITS MEAN! 1 I Norsem en, a Race o f Pionetrs, , an<l WhHt They Have Accompfo,;hed in 1 merica ,: ( B y Dr. Carl G . 0. 1Ta nflrn ) Elcl i lo r M i n n e apolis Ti tlenrle ( W ritten for the U n i t ed PresR) St. 1:-' a u l , M i n n . , .T n ne 8 .-'l'hf' N"on,e-- •-•-a.. Centen n i : i l • har; a n i t s purpose t o rev irw t h e rr n i t s o t the l a b01'R performed by imrn igra ntR from Norway on A m er i c a n so i l rln r i n g t h e p a st 1 0 0 years. '1'!1e Norsr co11L i 1 1gr11 L or our no11u la ti o n has been u m o n g t h e foremost ]liune rs in m a n y RtalPs, rspN· t a l ly t h e rn i rl d l e wro:;t. J'io nrer i 1 1i:,; iR a r a c i al C< hara cteri�l i c. Nor w u y t : t 1 1ght i ts R011S a : l ll a :i ngh t 0rs to ])(> hardy . 1 Tlw first emjgrn n 1 s h i p , " ltn1l an1 n t io1w n , " ldt Srn v:1111�r1·, Norwn y . . J u l y 4 , 1 8 2 5 , w i lll n :& 11eople o n lJoanl , a nd arrive,! a t N e w Y o 1· k , Odober l) , 1-8 2 !i , w i t h !i � persons, one h av i n g been born o n t h e voyage. !D l even yean1 el:i pf'ed lwfore n n nt11n e m i g ra n t s h i p l r,ft NnrW,tY for A m er i ca, but s i H ce Urn l t irn e, Nor way has sent to t h is eoLmt.ry a sl e::i1 cly st rea m o f i m m i g rn n tf;. A l most I one m i l l io n o r U1 r• m h a v e a niverl r l n r i ng the centu1·y ; one-h a l f o f t h e m h a ve g o n e t o lll e grea t bPYOlHl 1ml t h ey sti l l n umber. t ogeLher ·w i t h t he i r LWscen cl e n ts, a t l e11st t w o m il· l i o n s. T h r (' P JlC!l ll i ::i l is :111 cv1•11t w h i c h many o t h e r i m rn igTa n t rrwc•s m i ght d ll )l l i c a l e. I t lll' ()SCll l K ()Jl(' o f t h o pot e n t l i n ks in t h a t gre:i f t'h a i n o f t• v e n ls wh i c h h � s 1 1 w cil' Arncl"ir-n n imm igra n l s The h isl ury. h a H• playrd an i rn norla nt part in t l1 0 11 1>- \ lrn i l tl i ng- of o u r <·oH n t ry . 'l' l t e N or- I wog i H n - A nwricm1f1 w i s h l i y 111 0:1 1rn o f ! l h P c P 1 1 t en n i ::i l t o r• 111 ph:1sizr th P i l' I p a r t i n 1\ m e r i c a ' s m a k i ng. .. i ThPy do n o l wish to forgrL :'-Jnr way. T h e y c a 11 1 1 o l l'o t";cet t h P stnrP l eissons shP taught liH' l l l . O fli c i a l re<:ug n i l i o n is gi vf' n t h r, ('.f'll { R ll ll i a l ]Jy ( ]J,, gnV!' l' ll lllP lll o f N or w a y a n d i t i:; r • l)J"Pse n l a t iv Ps :n-e p l' ese n t , b r i n gi n g grrP l i ng.1. [ P i l i n g o r t h e gre a t p r i d e 1 11 1' 1wo pl,� o r Nor w n y t a ke in the :1 reo m p l islrn1P11ts of U i e l r k i n folk h A mn r ic a . ;v1.a11 y have Ha i d t h a t N o 1·\1'1"d a w, are more ensi l y a,.:-; i m i l n l H I i u t0 t il e . s c h e m e o f t ll i n gs i n A IH r r i l'' t l h :rn ::m y o t h e r i m m i g ra n ts. The sous a n cl tla ngh 1 ers o f No rway .-.ltd t lJPi i' u !I�pr i u g 1·t• t 1•I)] a l l' tlt i. e •11t, and sirnply w i sh t u Ra y : // . , are our co;1 lrilrn t io11 ,t'o t.hr " Fargo, "'". SUNDAY, NORSEMEN · OF AMERICA SET FOR MONSTER\ CEL EBRAT ION Scope of Event Is Great ; History of Race in Am erica Rmd r.wed CENTENNIAL IDEA IS SEVEN YEARS OLD Aasgaard, Holvik and Ylvi sak er, Local Men, Among Speakers vited to speak, Rev. J: A. Aasgaard, 1 p resident of Concordia college, Pro fessor J. A. Holvik, head of the Norse department of Concordia. and Rt. Rev. I. 0. Ylvisaker, president of the North Dakota District of the Luth� ei· an church. The Concordia coHege choir will sing two anthems in t he Sunday programs. Others from North Dakota on the program are Rev. H. B. Thorgrimson of Grand Forks w ho is to sing, and Alma Mebus of Fessenden who will play the piano. Programs have b een arranged for men, women, and children. There will be religious, musical, sports, and a presidential session. Prorn·am s of general and special interest will be g·iven simultaneously so that every day will be crowded with interest for everyone. F o u r N a t i o n s R e p resented, l◄'our nations will be officially repre• • ,iented-the United States, Canada, N orway and Iceland. Besides Presi dent Coolidge, the United States wlll be represented by Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of state and by the Los An geles, giant navy dirigible. Norway will be represented by H. H. Bryn, Norwegian minister to the United States and personal representative of Klug Haakon. Canada will send 'l'homas H. Johnson. forme1· minister of labor and attorney general of the province of Manitoba. Iceland will be represented by Ungfru Holmfrid Arnadottlr and Ungfru --Inga Larns dottir. Besides a number of Nor wegian international and national or ganizations will have representatives. Six Governors . BY V E R A K E L S EY. Proud alike of their des c ent from the V ikings of old and their citizen ship in the United States of the pres ent the No rse -Americans of the cot;n lrY have set aside June 6. 7. 8, and 9 "to celebrate the Norse-Ameri can Centennial. For 1925 marks the hundredth an niversary of the an-iva1 of the first Norse settlers to form a permanent colony in the Un ited States. It also completes the first century of the N orwegian imm igrants' contribution to the making of America. The event is to be observed ·trr every community in the U nited States where the Inco ming Norwegians have I establ i shed themselves and w here their descendants are to be found In I numbers. New Yo ri, and Chic� go are preparing for special observation o f the days, but as is fitting, the celebration to be held at the Minne sota State J;'air Grounds is the largest and most sign ificant of all. For Minnesota lies i n the · heart of the M iddle West whose fertile prairies and sparkling climate were most like home to the Norse imm.igrants and the twin Cities, in p'ropo rtion t o their population, have the greatest number of Norse-American citizens. I dea 7 Years O l d . T h e idea o f a s_pec..: lal observance of 1935 originated in 1 9 18 and modestly. 'l 'he '·Stavangerlaget,'' one o f the 30o dd Norse clans proposed to the other clans to joi n with it i n a celeb1:ation. They agreed and the council of the j clans chose six men t o form a board of directors to prepare for the e ven t. _ Professor Glsle Bothne, of the U 111versity of Minnesota. was made chairman, and Professor J. A. Holvik, of Concordia college, secretary. To the "Big Six'' most of the credit for the development of a clan celebration into an international event is clue. President Coolidge speaking June 8 on "America" day is the high ligh t o f the p rogram. Dr. N. G. Stub. head of the Lutheran church in the United States. Bishop Johan. P. Lunde of Oslo, Governor .J. A. 0. Preus . Sena tor Henrik Shipstead, Consul-general R. Baumann of Denmark a_re a few o f the large group of dlstmgulshed men to appear. Local M e n S peak. Fargo and Moorhead are honored ln having had three of their citizens ln- Six states w!ll be represented b y governors of Norse ancestry-Theo dore Christianson, M i nnesota ; .T . J. Blaine , Wisconsin ; A. G. Sorlie, North Dakota; Carl Gunderson, Sou t h Dakota ; John Erikson. Mon tana; and H. • S. Whitfield. Missis s ippi. ln all it is estimated that between 300,000 and 500,000; people will be i n attendance at the centennial. Another indication of the sign ifi cance of the occasion lies in the fact that the United States government established two precedents In connec tion with the event. For the first time in history congress authorized a commemmorative medal and the postofflce department Issued a spe cial two- color stamp. The story of the history leading up to the centennial and the accomplish ment it represents are sufficient evi dence that such a celebration ls ap propriate. Leif The Lucky. Leif Erickson, many historians now grant, was the first whit e man to fit out an expedition for the purpose of settling in th is country. He and his men lived three years among the "Skinlings" a s they called the In dians. But the increasing h ost!lity of the red men finally drove them b ack to their own shores. Nor wegians were active in everv phase of America's early colonial life. But it was not until Kleng Peerson arrived ln the United States in 1821 that the tdea of a permanent Norse settlement In this country developed. Kleng, it is said, s hould be ranked with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett as one of the forerunners in the mak ing of the great west. A rover, im provident and adventurous. he tra veled the middle west fat· and wi,de, generally on foot . Impressed wlth Its agricultural possibilities he re turned three times to :Norway be• twe� 1824 and 1842 _ to write a :1d talk America. Now he 1s l,nown 1n his tory as the founder of two remarl, able settlements-l◄'ox RiYer, Illinois, and Dallas county, Texas. The Restaurat i o n en. On October 9 , 1825, the forty-five ton sloop, Restau rationen. slipped in _ to .Kew York harbor witb the first group of settlers-:-53 in all-and all but one from t:;tavanger District, I No nvay. �'.rhey inau�ated the period of the ' the na tional health is evidenced 1:n forma tion of settlements by settling �he fac t that Nonh Dakota. where down on the shores of Lake Ontario forty P<'rcent of the people are of in .New Y o rk, and calling their n e V,: Norse ex trac tion, had the ,m1allest home Kendall. I ncoming immigrants percent age of rejection at camps o f sought them there but by that t ime any stn te in t he u n ion. A t colleges m ost of the original arrivals were a nd u n iver s ities, Norweg·ian studeµ.'t s ran k h igh among football and track (;Stablished in l•'ox River, Illinois. Fox River and Dallas county, s t ars. Their work in politics is evidenced Texas, beca me the gateways through wh ich the incoming tide of N orsemen l n this section of the countrv where en te1 ed the U nited States. Lesser , ma ny governors, national an d state P�_th!'i11de1·s than he led them o n into · s e n_a.1 ors a nd _ legislators. and other _ , off1cPrs are cn osen from among men v\ :sconsrn. And a greater · pa th f inder than he-t he free homestead act o f of Norse extraction. 1863-urged them on to Minnesota Iowa, and the Dakotas. e year n wegians to America. 1821 he and a comrade, Knud Olson Eide, f rom the, small islanc1 of Fogn, near S�avanger, left Norway to make an invei;;tigation of conditions a,nd opportunities· in .America. "After a sojourn of th1.· ee years in America, all that tim e spe�t in a nd uound New York City, where they did such work•as they could find, Cleng Pee1.·son being a carpente1· by trade, they returne d to Norway in t82'!. Here their- reports of social, political and religious conditions in t�merica anc1 their discussion of op- ' portuni ties in the New , W01° ld -awak me d the greatest i nterest and culmi nated in a resoluti on to emigrate. M a n y F o l l owe d .' "Lars Larson, th e same man at 'l'he arrival of the Restaura tionen whose house the first Quaker m eet Ing had been held in 1861, at once ma.rked the beginn i ng of a steady and undertoo k to organize a party of emi swelling strea.m of immigration from gr,l.l1 t s, being successful in finding a �01·way. I n 1 9 1 0, according to t he number of persons who were ready l'ecte1 al census, the Norse owned 60,Six h eads vessel anchoi-ed .in the harbor, shoutand willing tQ join him. 000 farn1s in the United States with wish of families converted their scanty ed to them that if they did not a t otal val u e of over a bil lion. T o dav worldlv p·osisessions into mowy and t o be greeted by the cannon already the est ima ted populat ion of Norse·th ey _t9rt.re,;s e th by them -, at pufohased a sloop which had been aimed I A m ericans lies between four and five - ; at once. built il1 the Ha,rdanger E'jor d , and 1had heter hoist their C<?lors m illions. u].:) hunted d which they loaded with a cargo of Thorstein Olson BSaadlan Tne share these Norse-Americans stor ed i ron. Fo1· this sloop of forty-five the Norwegian flag, which was have taken in r.he making or the it tons burdexi an d cargo they paid the away with 0th.er baggage , and ranthe country is not so sim ple a story. sum of 1,800 Norwegian dolla:i-s. up the mast, thus a"lertingshown They have woven their contributions '\Vhile . six of the party owned some danger. Much attention was Am er inextricably into t he development of stock in the vessel, th e largest share to the party ll,t Funchai. The al most every phase of o·u r life. Far was held by Lars Larson, who wa1;1 ican Consul increased their sto.·e. of m ers in Norway, they continued a'3 in an respects th e leadet· of the en- "provisions and before their departure farmers In their new home. and today terprise. He hlil.d acquired a pretty invited the whole sloop to a dinner. ove1· 4 ,000.000 people of Norwegian "Four weeks had passed since they thorough knowledge of the English bloud are engaged in agriculture in _ years' so• • left Stavanger and for ten 111ore language during h is eight the United States. As they helped gr weeks the sloop had to contend weary journ in England, and the general !ay the groun d work for the settle bUpervision of the preparati�ns ar(tl I with t_he angry waves of !he roug·h m e n t o f a large part o f the upper Atlantic. In New York qmte a sen ot the voyage naturally fell mto !us . I M 1ssisslppi Yalley, they have con tin intelligent l1ands. 'rhe captain, L�"s sation was · awalrnned by the fact ued through their progressiveness in 1 Olson Helland, ani:1 the, mate, Erik- that these Norwe�lans had ventured 1.h e use o f new machinery and farm U across th e ocean m so small a craft. son, were engaged by I1irn. ing methods to susta in its develop''This little Norwegian Mayflower I' Such a thing had not been heard of ment and prosperity . ln the same the 1 9th century receive d th e before. Her e they also got in trou The Norse- American Centen nial a t 1 of way t heir- contribution t o American name Rest,auratio nen (Th e 'Restora - ble with the authorities on account industry has been largely in thfl the. Mhm�sota State Fair Groun ds tion) and o n the .A.merfoan Day of of having a larger cargo and a larg the manufacture of agricultural !nstru- • and Presid ent Independence, July 4 1 825, the brave er numbe1· of passengers than the Calvin Coolid , 1 men ts an d farm Yehicles. ,e!erences to the small sloop Restat�. s little company of �migrants sailed American law s permitted a ship in and carry, to sloop In adc;!Uon t o agriculture, the 11aat10ne n as the Norse of the harbor of the ancien t d ty siz e of the Mayf! Captain - out Stavange th·e i ndustries of Nonvay ar.e l u m r. They were 52 whe n Gonsequence of this violation th have turned pnblic attent ion too of ship e and Lerlng and fishing. So in the U n ited hazard ous voyage V(hich began the they left Stava11ger, but when they Helland was arr es t ed author S tates, the Norse became an impor - , . No1·weg!an emig1·at!on to this co;,nreached New York in Octobe 1· th ey seized by th e Custom Housethe sloop tant factor In 1.he development of our ry. The Postoffice Departmeat 1·;as I numbere d 53, . Mrs. Martha Lars o u , ities. He v;.:3:s released and later. i owners its to re�.tored lumber indus try, shipbuilding, and ssued a _111emori�l stamp and Conwife o f the leade1·, having given b irth Cleng Peerson yvas In New York 1 all the wood working trades, and );'ress has authon ze d a silver medal to a baby girl in Septembet·. the sloop a:i:ny ed there. H e ha d more than any other group perhaps In comme moratio n "Theil· 14 weeks' journey ac ross , when Quakers In New York ':' ho , found have contributed to bring American Rasmu s B. . Anderson who has had 1 the .Atlantic Ocean was a; roma,itic our :Nor,veg·1au fisheries to their present magnit ude. a, p sonal _ 13,cqqa intanc'e with sevei'.a:;J f an d perilou s one. The stories of that were _ prep ared to giv e and �uch help , ?ilgnms a welcome � 0 f t e passengers of the sloop on hie' r They have laken pa.rt in every phase voyage tol d m e by one of the party as he t y_ m ost needed . E110u., h money voyage . to �merlea, tells the story· 'of were tlhe delight of my childho od. of shipping· from the ol d fashione d e Q_u ak�1·s to pay , raised th y was b th e . trip 1i1 The American - Scar)l<l i sa!llng vessel to the modern steam They passed through the British the expens_es o f tl1e 1 1'.1 �1.1 rants, $6 n'.1-v1c1;n Review. Clen g Peerson w f. . ·bo ship and a1·e to be found on our Channel an d a f,ew days later they for each, from Ne� York city to the d1e d m Texas i_n 1865, was th e fatclwr freshwater ferries and our ocean lin anchore d i n ,a small harbor name d town of Ken dall m Oi-leans County, of the Norwegian emigra tion to ers and warships. oas O ngth t f E "Th Lizard . e , on e � w here f an'ns were obtained for l th Y., . s N. countr�. He came here in 1 8� ·· ,: Stro n g on ,E d ucation. 1 and, where th:ey remamed un tn _ the them. Here, then, was foi:med Ute emissary of a Quaker societ '; 'f� I next day, Here t)1ey began_ to sell firs T h e Norwegians themselves con Norwegian settlement in Amer thteavan ger, N orway, and reti{r .·n ed , .llwl,Q.r.......J:o_Jhe res1deEts" w h i c h Wll,.S ica j,<Q modern times." sider their greatest copt-ribution. to th ree years later with a favo1'•1bl America to be ln education. They e against the law, and when theyp errepor t, which induc e d the exped i£i have established abou t seventy-five ceived the danger in which they had t�e t�·ip the succee ding ypi� schools of h igher education, of which �/1�'6derso thus pl:.ced themselves they made • n s story of the voyl• ge St. Ola f's a n d Concordia college are has :1: te to steer the little craft o u t on fol iow representative. At lea st S,000 teach th e boundless ocean. They either1 "J-�istory repeats itself in !\'or'W ,a. ers have been employed in these must hav e lost their reckoning by f-n the early years of the ninete schools and more than 1 50.000 stu � looking for the ti·ade winds or the centu ry, and the sloop Rest auraten dents have at tended them. I n addi io�� captain must have been somewhat en left Nor way in 18 �5 be c , , tion the Lu theran church alone main deficient i n his knowledge o f navi Q�akers were not perm itted to tains m6re than 2 0 orphanages, 9 !;�;:� gation, or, to take a more charitable 11? Go d accor ding to the dictate s hospitals and seamen'<; homes, 2 res -�f ��-�Jr own view of the · case, th e wind must have consc ience . Th e ator o cue homes for girls, and 8 home find been against them, for whei1 we 111 Penn is repeated in Nor'fva../. in g societi0s. 'l'hcir fraternal on;-anl next hear of them we find them course e were econo rni� I drifting into the harbor of Funchal, zations such a s the Sons of Norway .tea.sons also, ther and the emigr support similar institutitms. on the Islan d of Madeira. h.ope-d t<;> better their mater ial as ants Norse- A. m erican papers an d maga W i n e N early Causes D i saster as then· religio us conditions well it zines pu blished 1. n this country run "Near the Madeira Islands they should a!so be r�membered that close to 400 in number. Of the work found a pipe of win e floating on the was a._ wi_despread feelir,t g of suspithere in t he novel itnd histot·y field little water. It must have been very old and d1stt ust am_on g the comm on cion folk is known, because the Norse writers wine, !or the cask l11 which it was 0 �or ay agamst th e office holdin ;'I g . ,:i i·e t oo unfamiliar with English to ; here contained was entirely covere d with• were many unpri n0ipled write in anything but Norse, and barnacles. Lars Larson got out in a rcia 1s Who exacte d exorbitant and �f�:5�:, yawl boat to fish it up ancl while he A mericans are too unfamiliar with even un!aw ful fees for their servi� Norse to read anything but English. was putting a rope around the pipe a with such offici als ordiri;;"s .Y ��gt . shark came near biting his han d off. In art they have taken a small hut s to the_ comm on rnan To celebrate this piece of good growing part ; in music, particularl y out �� e quest ion. Thul'! povewa·s rty fortune both the officers an d the in church music, a well recognized oppre !s\on on the part of official� • passengers had to taste of tlie place. h1. all branches of science '.1-11 l e�1gious persecution th� coop erate d � d elicious contents of the pipe of wine they are active. urnmg tl'.e minds of e peop le in and the result was that most of the11{ • avanger City and couth A t h l etic P•rest ige,, n tY toward got more or less under its influence. the Ia11d of freed om Norwegians have fought for the . and abun danc e In conseq1.1ence they neglected their United States in every w:i.r from the i11 the Far West. duties. ',)'hey came drifting into the I nves tigat ed A m erica n Cond Revolution to the World War. And 't•ions 1 Harbor • o f Funchai without colors "Clen"' ., peer.son, from the Farn in a more congenial f.ield, they have i and without command. Here it was � 1ammer won vktories for her in sk iing, sail H�stl in T ysver Pari s11, fe,3,red they had some kind of ing and skating. Their love of out Skjo ld Dist;·ict 8.tavanger <;J6u'.1ty, contagibus d isease on board , and _ door life has given them exceptional was the ma11 who �ave1 the first 1mone of the officers of the Bre1n_en, a petu s to physiq ue, and their contribution to ti1e em1gradon of Nor - ;-:;::-�:;:��=:2!=�=====�= 11orsemen Braved ·. Sea-Perils On Tr1i. ·1 Friend of Early Immi ants Tells of Hazardous .Voy'." age Here on 45-Ton Sloop I I 7i�� , I I I w.�1J}f f if �l I ' J �m ay be stat ed, wi t hou t e xagge ra1io n l that many of th e gove rnment official� of that time , not only those who had ch arge of se cular affairs, bu t also t he l s<irvants of th e church, were incli n ed to ! b.e a rbi t rary and overbearin g. 'I'h ere is not a shadow of doubt that t�i:'l i n�olerance on th e par t of the of• f1 e1als m Nor way, as in th e case of the ;, rted H ugu e nots in Fra nce and the Puri tans i t \f : Band of Fifty-two Persons Seeking Religious F reedom Sta and I ndep endents in England, was one , Fi ., · Settlemen t-Cent,enn,iei-ls Bein,gi-.wleorated in &i ne eapolis and of t he main cause s of the fir s£ large . , St. • au l. ':· exodus f r om No r way to th e United I . �� . , a s bo r n m Stav anger , Sta tes of Ame r i ca. • The ver y fact th at w He e e. ilan T HE c ente nnial of the coming to 24, 17 8 7. H e be- Norweg i an e migra t idn began in Stava n Am e r ica of th e N orwegian Ma.r• or.way, S �ptembe rnter and s erved ?n g� r County, and tha t the em igrant s were cam e a ship carp� flower, carrying a li ttl e ba nd of f ship. ? isse n ters_ fr om the establ ish e d chu r ch, Qu akers seeking· r eligious fre e• oar_d a . Norwegi an m e rchanetr ted is co n clus ive proof of t he corr ectn ess of dom , is being c e lebrated in Minnea pol is Du nng_.Ws trav �l � he was conv h e rto H er e i t was that Lar s Lar e- th is vi e w. il'.ker religion . I n 1 81 6 and St. Paul. Rep resentatives of t he 2 he ed to Norway, and at once b e gan so n , Elias Tastad , and Thom as a n d t million Norwegian s and childr en of Nor- � tta e Hille fou n ded the Quake r so• wegians in the Unite d S tate s today ar°' o make pr opaganda for Quaker ism and Mtety I thhad . � e city of Stava n ger a nd in p aying tribute to the dau n tle ss spirit of to organize a little Society of Fri ends. �i s vi•c m1ty many had been conve rted to those fifty-two pionee rs who braved a In Stavanger he and Elis Tastad and t ------.-------- fou r te en weeks' ocean jou r ne y to carr y ' Tomas an d Matta Hille b e cam e the ·--== th� Quak�r d� ctnne , and _ ther e were no ou t th e ir ide als unmolest ed by an in• founde rs of the Soci e ty of Friends i n Quakers m Nor way outs ide of StavanNorway. This soci e ty nev er be came ger Coun ty. toleran t gover nm ent. The meeting began Ju n e 6 and will \arge and n e ver spr ead be yo n d t he . lfISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. i mits of S tavanger Amt or count r y, \ cont inue u n til June 1 0 . On July 4, 1825, beg an the Norwe gian • ",It it still exists, a n d today n uml:Jer s j In all lands and climes, the beginni ng emigrati on to this cou nt ry; write s Ras• )ou t two hundred adult m embe rs. Th e of emigration often ca n be traced to mus B. Anderson i n the American Sca n rst Quake r m eeting in Norway w as religious i n tol eran ce an d p erse cution. di navia n Review. The first e migr,ints >.Id in th e hom e of Lars Larson in the His tory r ep eats itse lf n Norway in the l e ft Stavanger , a quaint old town on ar 1816. He -was n ot marrie d at th e ne, but his deaf and dumb sis ter, early years of the n in eteen th century, the wes t coast of Norway in a sr.1all r a , kept house for him. A t Chtist- and the sloop Restauration en l e ft Nor• sloop named Restauratione n. The . offiway n 182 5 because Quake rs w e re n ot ce rs and passe ngers number ed, counting 1fr{ i n 1824, he m arri ed �l[ar tha Ge ort- p e rmi� tte d to worship God accor di ng to Ln a Peerson, who wa,s b or n Octob e me n, women and ch ild r en , fifty-two 1 803, on Fogn, a small island n ear - th e d i ctates of th e i r own conscience. souls, and wh en they reach ed N ew Yor k ivange r. Miss Pe e r son w as in no ' Lars L�r so1;1 u ndertook to organize a October 9, t� e y were fifty-three , a l i ttle �ar�.Y o_f nnm1grants an d wa(! successful :Y related to Cl en g Peerson. gi rl ·having be en born Septem b e r 2 , m·id• ,rJng th e time we are now discuss- m t m d mg a _n 1:1mber of people who w ere A tlantic. The pos tofflce d epartm ent is ready nd w 1ll mg to join him. Six heads issuing a memorial stamp, and con"-r ess ing, 1,�or way, and particular ly the sou t h-: o am�il ies converted their scanty worl d. ,· f has autho rized a silve r medal in "'com- wEst boast d istricts, con tained a large lyf poss e ssions i n to money a n d purch a sec( numb e of se mi-dissen ters from th e me moration of th e e vent . had been built i n Hardan a sloop I n co nn ect ion with this cen t en nial it est,ab}l�d church-the followe rs of er Fjor which , nd which they loaded with � is emin en tly prope r t o r e view the h is- Hana :N,el sen Hauge, a refor m er , bo rn in cargo of� i_aron. For this sloop of fo rty tory of the moveme n t that bega·o. a 1771. Though _ he had only a common frve to ns ,burde n a nd ca rgo th ey pa id the 1 pea�nt educa t ion, h e bega n 50 p re�ch h undred y ears ago. s 1m of 1 ,8 0 0 Norwegia n dollars. Whil e T he fathe r an d promote r of Norwe- i n 17 9 5. He protes ted against . the s: of th e pa r ty own e d some stock in i� gian e mi gration in 1825 was Clen g Peer- · liber alism and secul ar ization then prev- ', thrs V esse l, th e largest share w as held way. son , who was bor n i n Norway May 17 , 'a len t amon oO th e cl e rgy of Nor by Lars La r so n , who was in all resp ects -� th e le ade r of the e nterpr ise . He h ad ac quir e d a pre tty tho rough knowle dg e of th e Engl ish lanpuage du r ing his tra vels, and the ge n eral supe rvision of the prepa rat ions an d of the voyage n aturally' fell into his. i ntelligent ba nds. Th e cap ta in, Lars Olson He'll a nd, and the mate, E riJrnon, we re e ngaged by him . This little Nor wegian Mayflow er of the ninet eenth ce ntu r y receive d the name R ei:taurat ionen ( The Restoration ) and on th e American day of I nd epe nde n ce, July 4, 1825, th e b rave little company of emigrants sail ed out of the ha r bor of the ancient city of S tavanger . In New Yo rk fourteen weeks later quit e a sensation was cre ated • by t he fact tha t these Nor we gians h ad ven t::i:re d_across the ocean in• so small a, cra ft. Cl en g Pee rso n was i n N ew York, whe n the sloop arriv e d the re . H e again ::.__..._..;.:_�.::;:i�:..::, - ha<'!· gone b,Y way of Got he nburg, Sw e den, 1 ar:d was Ill N·ew Yor k to recei ve his THE FIRST NOP.�E _ nce SAILING ou r OF ; friends and . to give them such assista SrAVANGER HARBOR, 182S. l!' HO\[ .; I'A!J\ITING BY BEJ':1 BLESSml. -as he was able . H e had fQund Quake rs �-- . l 782 , and di• e d m Te xas, D ecembe r 16, - Hauge 's z eal s ecured h im man y fol- i n N ew York who w e re r e ared to Ive l86� . He, as th e e missary of a Quak e r \ l Jwers, particularly among the pe asant s , the Nor wegi�n pilgrim/a �elcome �n d howe ve r, as d id the 9uak- such help as th ey most ne e de d. Th ese ;oc 1 e ty i n Stavange r and vicini ty, came who di� n ot,aw from th e estabhshed frie n ds gave m any of them she lter under "o Am?ri,ca i n 1 � 21, re m�i.ne d for t hr ee I ers, wrthdr_ t·e loo � ed upon their ow n roofs an d supplied them wi th : ears mvest!gat m g_ con_d 1t10_ns and p ro- c11;u rc h.. Still, they wegove rn i n g class, mo ne y to r eli eve their mos t press · ng ,pe cts fo r Norwe gian i mmigran ts, and w i th disfavor by the ret1;1 r �ed, to Norway i n 1 824 with a m ost 1¥1? their leade r , Haug e , was sent to n eeds. Enough mon e y was raise d by �he pr1son for seve n ye a r s. The Hauge ans Quak e rs to pay the expe nses of the i • opt11n1stlc r e port. look ed _upon th�ir l e��er as a m a� tyr, migra nts, $6 for each , from N ew Yo�� LARS LARSON THE LEADER. and this fac t mtensified t he stramed City to the tow n of Kendall in Orl eans . The l eader of the Restaurat1011e � r ? l�tions exi� ting be tween th e m an d the County, New York, wher e farms were party 9f e m igrants was Lars La rson 1 c1v1l an d r ehgious rul e rs of Nor way. It obtained by them. rNo �wegian Mayflow er S ailed Jfbr Amer ica 100 Years Ag o T 1 ' �s n 1·ecorct ol. t11u accomplishment or their descend ants. He declare d _ that thern is a wealth of data available for such an undertaking an�� that much interest is being shown m the \1roposal. . .. • The success of the> centenm al 1s as tiured declare d Profess or Bothne, the )>rosp�ctR being for one of . the largb1t gatherings of Norse-Amencans rn the history of the country . _Former mt• d· rti\•es of Norway and their desecenare ants in every part of America said. he ion, celebrat boosting for this Mr. ]3othne arrived in l�argo _frpm Grand Faries yesterday. He . will ue tn Duluth today. Here, then, was formed the first Nor• we g ian settlement i n America in modern times. fl county, w ere an agent who had come over some time since, purchased a tract of land. "The appearance of such a party of strangers, coming from so distant a country and in a vessel of a size ap pa1·ently ill calculated for a voyage across the Atlantic, cou"d not but ex cite an unusual degree of interest. "An enterprise like this argues a good deal of boldness in the master of the vesi:;el, as well as an adveu- ; tu rous spirit in the passengers, most : of whom belong to families from the ' vicinity of a little town at the souih- I western extremity of Norway, near ' the city of Stavanger. Those who i came from the farms are dressed in • coarse cloth of domestic manufacture 1 of a fashion different from the Americans, but those who inhabited the town wear calicoes, ginghams, . and I gay shawls, imported, we prei:;ume, r E · T�� e e!!:cl\s built on the model · ommon to fishing boats on that oast, with a single top-sail, sloopigged. She arrived with the addi [on of one passenger born on the •ay." Thus began the mighty tide of orwegian immigration to which the ate of North Dakota especially res so much, and it is this event 1ich the Centennial observance to held in the "'?'wi Cities will comimorate. In the pion eer history of Orleans County, New York, written by Arad Tomas, we find the followin g interest• i n g notice of this first Norwe gian settle. ment. in America : "About the year 1824 a compan y of w b t f u i g n :1��=� �� ih! 1°:k e ��r;� fn rh: ��:�'. � east part of town . They came from Nor. way together and took up land in a body. They were an industrious, prudent and worthy people, held in good repute by people in that vici n ity. After a few years they be gan to move away to join D., 'Republican their countrymen who had settled i n Illi· Langdon, N. AFRIL 9, 1925 Y. SDA.. UR TH nois, and but a few of that colony are still in Ken dall. They thought it very important that each family should have ---------------�--== land an d a home of their own. A neigh• FI RST N ORSE IMMIGRANTS ••• bor once asked a Norwegian boy, whose PRESENTED NOVEL SITE fa ther had happened to be too poor tc, --· own Janel. where his father lived, an d . . . Prof. G1sle B�·othne who 1s . 111 was a n swered : 'Oh, we don't live no• charge of the big Norse celebration where. We hal n't got no home." �o be held in Minneapolis in ::fune, '"'.as This is to uchingly prophetic of tht m Grand Forl�;; last wee� m the 1_11ract that so lar ge a perce nta ge of thE terests of tlus celebration. Wlule Norwegian immi grants settled on farm! there he gave the_ Grand Forks Hei-ald : and became owners of land. In thi• the �toi-� of �he fnst boat load of No�·manner then b egan the great Scandini> wegian unm1grants that came to this 1 vian exodus of the ni neteenth centm country. The story that he told is ·as I which has brought 1¼ million imr follows. grants. and thus was founded the fh . "The first contingent of Norwegian e:ettlement which has been followed so many large and thrifty ones throug immigrants to America consisted. of out the United States. • 'orwegian Quakers. Among Norwegian prisoners of war taken by c Finland in her attack on Denmark in Far8:o, N. Dal,.,, Tribime 1807, there wai:; one sailor by the name of Lars Larson. He remained TUES DAY, M RCH 31, 1925 a prisoner of war for a pe liotl of ' _:____'.Ll:i!.llil:ill2......;,._...!�.'....!...!:.c__l.::..___:�'/u2:.'.:'i'----------seven years, during which time he had learned to speak the English language quite well. He had also 1 NO . EN I N AM ERIC AN HIST OR been brought under the influence of I the English Quakers ,and upon his · release he entered the employ of a N. Grevsfad in National Re prominent Quaker lady by the name of Margaret Allen, with whom he re WJ'blican : This month of June mained abount a year. Upon his re '11.arks the hundredth anniversary turn to Norway in 1816 he founded of Norwegian immigration to the the first Society of Friends in Norway United States, and elaborate pre in his home city, Stavanger. The parations have been made for the 1 �\-�:;.�;!}J.��:\rl··� I Quakers were naturally enough not regarded very favorably by the Lu- I appropriate celebration Qf,.J;.ltlis theran State church clergy, and were important annivetSaty, especially Uelebratiou 's Suecess As more or lesi:; i:;ubject to peri:;ecution. In , in Minnesota. � 9riginal Amer 1821 the little society sent out two ,mm h!cffl oF e"' beginning of sured, President of Or emif'sa1ies to Ame1ica to investigate I this Norse current of people is guuization Says whether it would be advisable to emi found in the New York Advertiser grate to, that land of religious free for October 12th, 1825. Under dom." The-se emi�saries were Kleng the heading, "A Novel Sight," the The Xorse•Americnn cenlc•nnial tc Peerson Hestehanuner and Knud 01- Advertiser of that date published ':,e held in Minneapolis early in June f'On Eitle. They spent about three ls attracting- nationwide 1nlere"'t as yeari:; in New York and vicinity, and, · the following report : " e ll as of tl.1e mot.her eountry, Prof. "A vessel has arrived at this having made arrangements for the Gble Hothne of the U niversity of Minn esota told a gaLIJering of former foundrng of a colony in Kendall and port with immigrants from Nor I . orweg-ians in Suns of 1 orway hall Orleans counties, New York, returned way. The vessel is very small, last evening. Professor Bothne gave to Norway in 1824 to give their re• measuring, as we understand it, a short 1·eview of the bisto1·y of the port. The . result was that a little only forty-five American tons, and Korsemcn in the United States and sloop was bought and reconditioned brought fifty-three passengers, their accomplishments here since they and made ready to sail the following began to settle in this country in summer. With fifty-two on board the male and female, all bound for 1 825, not forgetting those who came here in eai·Jy colonial times. i:;loop, renamed "Restaurationen/' left Orleans County, New York, where Professor Bothne who is president Sta,·anger on the fourth dav of July, an agent, who came over some of the centennial, said that the pur 1825, and arrived at New Ydrk harbor 1 time • since, purchased a tract of pose of the celebration is to visualize on the ninth of October the same year, land. this history in song, story aml the after an eventful voyage via England exhibition of relics connected with the "The appearance of such a and the Madeira ii:;lands. early settlements in this country. The 1 1i1·ograms will include Norse -Ameri• "The arrival of this little vessel and I party of strangers, coming from ,·n n talent along vari ous Jines. Per the little band of Norsemen which it so distant a country and in a ves isons of prominence will bring grnet, carried was chronicled as as in "The sel of a size apparently ill calcu lngs from ,N'orway and n. mix·ea New York Daily Advertiser," one of lated for a voyage across the At <· horus from the Uniyersity of Oslo the contemporary newspapers, as fol lantic, could not but excite an un will .,iug. President Coolidge and lows : usual degree of interest. :Seceetary of Slate Kellogg will be "A vessel has arrived at this port bonor guests. "An enterprise like this ar• • , The speaker urged that a move with emigrants from Norway. The gues a good deal of boldness in ment be started for the organization vessel is very small, measuring, as we the master of the vessel, as well of a Nonw-Ameriean historical so understand, only about 360 Norwegian as an adventurous spirit in the ciety for the preservation for futunJ lasts, or forty-five American tons, and �-cnerations of the wealth of interest brought fifty-three passengers, male passengers, most of whom belong ing data connected with the early and femalei:;, all bound for Orleans to families fro.m the . yicinity of a . pioneers of N�nyeg ian descent as well THE FffiST SET'rU;l\IE:l"T. ·1l' · NORSE-A-MERI.CA CENTENNIAL Al TOLD BY I I �little tow naf Tfie southwestern ex- present states of New York an c! soi1 a re stil1 in a large m aj ority tremity of Norway, ne ar the city New Jersey, and h ave left their among those who le ave for of Stavan ger. Those who came marks i n names of people and America. They h ave come re a dy from the farms are d r essed in places. In their dea lings with fo r any s ac rifice to still thei r hun . ge r fo r • fertile soil. The Middle coa rse cloth of domestic ma.nu- --- . -f actu re of a fashion different the. Ind1ans the J?utch �ehed West and Northwest h ave ap te as n ans upo a Norwegi m r- pe a led to them with i rresistible I from the America n, but those who m m ly _rr of No The t�e na me pret� s. force. Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa l ived i n the town we ar ca licos, weg i an , J3: mes B ronck, 18 • st111 gra dually became dotted with gingh ams, gay shawls, imported, p se th at the Boro_ugh settlements of Norwegia ns, an d re :ved m we presum e, from E n gland. "The vessel is built on the of Bton-i:c, The . fi rSt Ame ri � an they kept o n marching i n the front i lt ma rried a_ No�wegi ah line of the great army of lan d model common to fishing bo ats on Va nderb Norwegi_a !l wo� seeke rs in Mi n nesota , the D akotas, th at coa st, with a single top-s a il, woman , �� d o�her ' sloop-rigge d. S he a rrived with men m arri ed m to the fam i lies Oii Monta n a , an d fa rthe r West clear 1 rt the additio n of o n e p a ssenger Stuyvesant, P utnam, Van Co the coa st of Al a ska. They I andt, Van Reneselaer, and 0th to born o n the way." we re peculi a rly fitted fo r pio neer- , ers. Th e vessel c a rried a lso a shiping in the h arder climate of the se . m e nt of iron bars. The first ex- . ;A nother cu rre nt of Norwegi an s parts of the country an d h ave sett�ed who the s Ge!man perie nce of the immigrants in the � o m ed braved with matchless fortitude bit discon - m P e nn sylvan i a . . A Norwe_gia n and dogged pe rsiste ncy the d an n ew coun try wa s a certin g. At the request of the wa s t� e fi�st �res i dent of_ S oc iet� ge rs and tri a ls of hostile I n di an s, orga m zed . m blizzards, gra sshoppers, drouths, customs authorities the m aster I Sc a;nd m a vi� n s_i s, was a rrested for c arryi n g more P h i la delphi a m 1769 an d wh1c . an d othe r a dve rse circumstan ces. pa ssen gers a nd ca rgo th an per- still e�ists_ u nde r �he name of �he The No rwegi an h as stuck to mitted by law for a craft of th at Scan �m a vi a n Soc i ety of Ph i la his l and when m any others would size. But he an d others a mong delph ia . become discouraged and le ave, A Norwegi an se a captain by the and h as been the ga iner i n the his followers were Quakers a nd found friends i n New York who n a me of Ive rso n settled in Geo rgia end . No other group of people in helped them out of the scrape in the la tter part of the eighteenth this country, native o r fo reign a n d more-over, furnished the century, an d a grandson of his bo rn, shows as great a percent n ewcomers with tra velin g money c ame to represent the state i n the a ge of farm own e rs as the N or to their destin ation in Orle ans United States Sena te. wcgi a ns. Accor ding to a c a re cou nty. But the "sloop pa rty" of 1825 ful speci a l investigatio n m ade ln a ppr oxim a tely Norwegi ans h a d been coming to is the begi nning of the di r ect North D akota this coun try long before that time cu rre nt of Norwegi an immigra- 8 000 000 a c res in tha t state in ships "ill calculated for voy- tion. Its small vessel, the Res- alon� are owned by people of Nor ages across the Atlantic." The ta u ration en, is the No rwegian wegian bi rth o r blood. Thei r to first to l an d i n America were Leir M ayflowe r . Like the P ilgrim tal holdings of farming la nd In E rikkson and his men, who Wf:i"e F ather s, the sloop people sought the country _p rob a bly exceeds d riven out of their course to these sho res to be free to wo r- 30,000,000 a cres. And vi rtu a lly "Vi nlan d" i n the ye a r 1,000. Tid- ship God acco rdin g to their faith all of this vast a nd valu able do ings of this accident al discovery a nd build n ew homes on land of main h as been cleared o r broken of a n ew wo r ld sp read all over thei r own. I n deed, they h a d a c- transformed from a wilderness no rthern Europe a nd aroused quired the l and befor e they sailed. into p rod ucti ve farms by their much i n terest. Thre_e years af- It h ad been bought for them by own toil, and nea r ly a ll of them ter the return of Le i f to Iceland an a gent they had sent to Ameri- began with empty hands. They Tho rofinn Karlsevne headed a new ca three years befo re to i nvesti- h ave m ade good use of the ge n er expedition with th ree ships and a gate conditio n s he re a nd report. ous gifts of l and most of them hu n dred and sixty men. They Thei r intention to become Joya received. also h a d with them "a ll kinds of citizen s of the la nd of liperty is livestock, for they meant to set- symbolized py the fa ct th::tt they tie in the n ew country, if possi- [ set sail on American In depenctble." They did settle in New ence Day July 4th, l anding in Fou n dla nd, but must h a ve met f New York a fte r an eventful voy- MARTNETTF, � s fll A i;f disappointments ; a ge some three months l ater, on MO T)�Yi A!'lLL fj, lt .:.i�. with ser ious for after a l apse of three years I October 9th, 1825. they we re b ack i n Iceland. In A t first Norwegian emigration the course of the following cen- ' to the United States wa s comp ar- f turies there were intermittant atively light. About the middle I voya ges back a nd forth between of the la st ce n tury it began to Norway, Iceland, Greenl and and swell an d since the n ha s bee n America. The last s a iling of hea vy . The tota l Norwegi an imwhich reliab le reco rds h ave been migra tion to this country �i n ce . preserved occur r ed in 1347, when 1825 exceeds 700,000, the g re at WJ fl a ship bou n d fo r Ame rica left I majority of them young people. Bergen , No rw ay-just before the I The census of 1920 records " black death" struck the country, 363,862 of our populati o n as na- P RO F. J U L I U S O LSON R E LATES F cut dow n two-thirds of the popu- tives of Norway, while the n um N O RW E G I A N P lation, kill ed its e n terprise and he r of natives born of Norwegi an broke its power fo r a hundred paren ts is given as 658,598. Three· million, mo re or less, is an apyears or more. The Dutch colonists who es- proximate e�timate of the n umeri (ASSOCIATED PR SS) tablished New Netherl a nd co11- ca l strength of the people of Nor Madison, Wis.-Large forests in tained a libe ra l sprinkling of wegian stock in the Unied States, Wisconsin, now practically extinct, were the direc,t caus,e of the first Norwe gi an s. Holl and w as the unmixed an d mixed. For some fifty ye a r o r mo re Norwegian immigrants settling ill leading sea power at th at time, Illinois rather than Wis a nd thousa nds of Norwegi ans No rwegi an emigratio n to the northern consin, according to Juliml Olson, had emigra ted to the Netherlands United States wai.i made up a l professor of Norse at the Universi• to take se rvice o n Dutch ships. most exclusi vely of people from ty of Wisconsin, who has studied The records of New Nether l a nd the rura l districts, small farm the details of the fi rst Nors,e immi- : show th at many of the e arly col- owne rs, renters, crofte rs, a nd gration in connection with t}ie com- · I n recent ye ars ing N��;urnrjqgp �'ltennial . onists w ere Norwegi ans with farm hands. Dutchified n ames. Not a few the re has bee n a growing emigra c-elebration to be held in M'. nneapo- • rose to prominence i n the official tion from the cities, of e11gineers, I i � . .Tune � to 9. or busi n ess life of New Amster- mechanics, sailors, shipping peo dam and other localities in the p i e, and othe rs, bu_t tillers of the TELLS STO-cR-v· 'O F N,O RSE COMING, yn NORJUU n IEST j / �The Pathfi nder. Struggled Bravely, !Geng Pe·eTson, the advance "The Norwegian pioneers in Oragen t and pathfinder of the Nor e8 leans county struggled bravely to immig rants, came to Milwaukee iu clear the heavily wood•e d lan d on 1 833, the early histol'ical r epo rts which they settled. It meant yea1· ii found by l?roll. Olson indicate. of Joii and privation. Some became There he met Solomon Juneau, w ho discouraged and -sought new homes said that to the north and west lay in the West under the .guidance ot great forests. Kleng had seen IUeng Peerson, who, a restless enough of heavy forests in New roamer, had ·s elected a new :;ilace York state, and therefore retu rn ed or a settlement in northern llll• to Illinois wll.ere he found Jana nois . Norwegian settlements in mo1'e to his liking, on which he es- Wisconsin soon followed, some or tablished the first Norwegian set- which was the Koshkonong settl& tlement in the Middle We&t . ment, in Dane oounty. "The first Norse emigration to "In the Muskego ·settl ement in ' thi.s country came partly as t h e re- Racine county, the firnt Norwegian , sult of religious persecution, an cl Lutheran church in this country was linke d with Quakerism," prof. was built. in 1844. Here the first Olson said. "DU!l'ing the Napol e- Norwc.gian newspaper was s tart.:,cl onio wars, England blookadecl the in H,46, an d here lived Rans C. Norwegian harbors. l\Iany Norwe- Heg, who was the· first Norwegian gian ship0 sailed the seas nevert,he- to be elected to a state office in less, and some crews were ea ptured this country, which, after a reeleo an d imprison•ed. Among the cap- I tlon , he resigned - to form a Scan di· tives was Lars Larson, who later navian regiment, the 15th '\Viscon became the leader of the first ex- sin, during the Civil war. pedition to the new republic in th� Since those daye a century ago, West. approximately 1,000,000 NorewgHDuring his prison life in EU<!· · ians have come to this country and land and Englieh Quakere&s, Mar- ! in proportion to population Norway garet All-en, converted Larson to has given more of her people tu Quakerism through lrnr kin dness t u I thi1: country than any other exc, him. Returning to, bis home m \ Ireland.'' southwestern Norway, he proclaim e d the virtues of the new religion and found some 'followers, where upon a society of Quakers was St Pauf. 'M'inn Di<\ : t, 1started. MONDAY. JUl>IE �. 1925 Church Offended. , : "The st�te church toolt offem1e I anu some rather drastic persecu ' tion of the Quakers ensued . Quak1 ers thereupon discussed th·e mat ' ter of seeking homes in America anu finally sent a trusty man t o look the ground over, and report l•ll the prospects. The man cho:leu for this task w'it s ' Kleng Pe·e rs•m, new generally known among No, r w egians as the Pathfinder of Nor wegian emigration to this couu:ry. He startea out on his mission in 1821. with a o:impanion namil(l Tradition Plays Tricks With Trailblazer 's Knut O l son Eide. Professor T. C. r N AS ECTED FIRST COLON. 'S FROM STA 11ANGER IN 1 Retu rns to N o rway, "As I<ieng Peerson was in tho s-e rvice of the Norwegian Quaken;, he naturally sought the assistance of American Quake· r s in New York city, who prove:i both willing ftl.lll generous , 'l'hru their advice 1 and assistance, a. tract of Janel fo1· the prospective emigrants was se lecteu in Orl•e ans county, N0w I York, near Rochester. • "Peerson x·eturned to Norway in 1824 with a favorable report on conditions and opportunities lll America, and as � result active preparations for emigration were b-egun . . Lara Larson, the leading Quaker, took the initiative and pur chased, in cooperation with others, a emall sloop of forty-five tons, wh'ich. was baptized _ The Restora tion, and on July· 4, 1825, with 52 passengers, including two offic,ers , , set out upon their voyage from the I city of Stavanger. I "After some unusual expeTiences l they finally reached New York harbor, Octobeir 9, with fifty-three pas sengers, a baby giri having been born during the voyage to the lead er of the exp-edition, Lars Larson, ' who pTomptly named her Margaret I Allen , in honor of his benefact · esJ . l This girl later married a Mr. John Dextcr or Roche ster, N. Y., and ; . ] settle d with him in Ohi-cago, wher r •e 1 he becam e a publis�er. . . NORWEGIAN EM RATIO Story, but He Stands Blegen of Hainline Test of Investigation, Declares ; Baffling •rraveler Often Called Vagabond. An ouLline or lhe hislory of Cleng Peerson, "falher of Norwcgi:m emi gration" and pathfinder of the first grauv of Norse immigrants lllat land� d , iu America in J 8 25, was given by •rheodore C. Blegen, :issistant supenn tendent of the Minnesota HistoTical society r,ncl professor of history at et Ham l ine. U niversity, in an adclress to visitors at the None-American , C�pie nn ial celebration at the State Fair grounds this 1fioruwg. · Mi :r]; iEllffl' has pl ayed __ many tricks ,vith the travels and ris- (' \\'Pst. His constant travels, his -re1.ory of Peerson, Profl:! SSO!' Blegen ports of conditions, and hls personal sa.id, the famous pioneer ha:, stood influence a ffectecl the cour�e, and ga•'e i mpetus t o _the pro g ress_ of the wh?l c .e hin"' w ell tile se:.>.r " ligh t o [ d e tail eu movement . . rn the first 3a years of :t� . .cst1gat1on. 111\ history. He may with trut h be called "The mosL picl u resquP and im - t he tra,ilblazer of the earlier Korwe portant figure." Professor RIPgen · gian i m mi g ration. At this Norse sa id, "connected- with thee beginnin;:;s American Centennial the name of or Xorwcgian immigration in t he ' Cleng Peerson is on everybody's l ips, N ineteenth \Century was Clcng Pee1 · - for he personi fies the beginnings o f :;;o n. Pathfinde1· an<l trail blazer, res(- l h at movement which has brQl.lght t o Jei;s fron tiersman i n search o r fertile A1nerican shores some three - quarters lancls, he slanc:s out a m o11 g h is con - of a million Norwegians. t emporaries as a unique :person a lity. St.-.. "" u l a ti on t ° H isto r i c a l St u d y . 'rraclit10n has played many tn c '., s "It js the fashion oe r,.any to stud y wit h the facts a bout h i m and he , ,a s heen en twinecl bY meshes o f legend. A merican immigration in terms o r Original docu ments · are gradually re- stat istics and :mrface facts '.lnerch', ,·eating the trut l1, howe,· er, and t.h'J without probing i n t o i ! 1- back g round � islm' )' t ra nsm ittect h y the pioneers is a n ct bringin.; o u t t he ahsorbiT'\� , human story i nvolved and. ils Y i 1 rl l being revised. "On the ,Yhole, ('Jeng rcerson \s � istorica� _beari ngs._ To�ay i n , Amer :sl a ncli ng wel l t h e scarrhing test of 1ea the 11stor1cal appr? ach '" w m t he document . TJ1e evid ence proves n mg g round a ncl 1s call.mg a �alt , tc t� mk1ng ]1P. was t he pathfinder . o r 1 be fii•st much . ?f the superfici a l subJect of g-roup emigration from Xorway to tbe , w h i ch 1s current. on the tl1e Unit.erl Slates and tha t he wa � t h e i mmi g ration. I t 1 s to b e hoped �1 be will Centenmal rse-American l radci· of t he vang uard oC t lrn gt(Jat N? ; :N orwegian migratio n t o u,c Americe1 I'.\ st1n:iuius _t0 ,a. ,mo,r� _,_:,�:1:��1_ :;g _ � 1;:p - ,7 I I �nr.n1sement. cJr rne o,u.:x;,, uunu,; or rnc America n people. The story of such 1• man as Cleng Peerson i s worth tel l lng, for it tra nslates statisti cs lntu reali ties, and throws a revealing ray of Jio-ht on the movement to wh 1 c ll the :uentioR of America is directed by this cel ebrn.tion. t Ji,, \'\�<>st t he i m m i grants w h o came tenets o f QuaRefTsm, lJUt aTexa11 de- J 3cribes him n s the most 'pronounced from So rwa y i n that yea r. Pcerson I frcet hinl,cr' h e 11 a d ever known. has bPen descrihe d as a 'Viking who 1 "That the Nm· wC'gians would have � , s born a. few centuries a fter the come to t ile l:nited States and to the ,I V i king period .' New lands a.n new West bad there ben no Cleng· Peer- , a d vent u r0s l u rca ni m fi'om est lish- son to lead t h e wa y 1i;, of course, true, I but such an h ypothesis cannot dimined settlemen ts. "ln 18 37 Pcerson w as cngag·e by i:sh the importance of the actual Jeader. in igrant 'l'he. h istoric position of Clcng m m i n. group or dissatisfied r Pcerson 1s :sare. He was he trail Illinois t o senrc:h out a, new place se1 tlemen t . Curiously, i nstead o f ,,, - blazer of a grea t m ovement. He was :i, Je,lder and guide who exerted much in;; north lie went southwest nnd s lect1> d as the new 'B,l Dorado 1� spo in fl uence on the heginnings of Nor · 1an i m mig'l'ati011 a n d settlement. we� i n Northeas;tern M issouri . The M isson l'i settlemen 1' was established in It 1s a.Hogethe r fitti ng t hat at this 18�,, ancl 1 hough i t was <lisadvan- g rea t N o rsc>-Amel'ican Centen n i ll l the the n ame and th e ac11ie,·e men1 s of. C!e 11 g ' taf;eom, ! y located and • outside 1Y estward I 11011ored. '' m,t i n h i,;-hways of the. 1novcment, Peerson endeavored val i ll11tl v t o recruit settlers for i t. · In 1838 he ,,·e11t t o New Yo1·k a n d by ·chance m<lt R • emig'l'ation party j ust arrived. ' H fl encouraged us to accompan:v h im.' w rot e Pet e r 'l'e11tman, ·an d be I' ss · ·i bed the st ate o C i\Hssouri, where he l ives, a"1 remarkably beautiful and glorious. We agreed to accompany l him to that place.' I � :>. --1 t on M isso u r i Colony U nsu ccessfu l. , TllU "The .Missouri settlement was un- ,I 4 Yea rs o n F i rst Stu dy. "Fl'om 18�1 to 18�4. reerso n , a nath0 of southwC'stern Norway, was i n t he r nite<.l �tates in\'estigating American C'o n clitions as an age n t of a group of QunkC'l'R in t h e, c i t ·v o f f\t11 vnnger whfl, � c·tun1 rrl in part h.v r0l1'gious and in p,i , · t. hi· <'Conon1ic rn o t ivPs, were c.011 s1de 1 ing· the prospect or emigrat 10n. How fa r lJl"erson's traYP.ls carri.ed him is not kno.wn, but a :Kew York newEpaper i n 1825 wrote t h a t he 'proceedc,d on foot to examine the country, th e character of the different soils, our mode of agriculture, engaging with out any hesitation at any kind of employrnent to meet the current expenses of the clay, by which means he obtained a knowledge of our cust oms, Jaw s, language and agricultu ,� . ' At all events, in 1824 he made a 'tlying visit to Norway and reported on the New World. It is believed he waited in Norway until 1825 and then ul, and about 1840 a new setcame again to America, reaching New · shed in SoutheastYork shortly before the famous sloop "Restaurationen" in October. Contem- ern Iowa. Peerson •s porary evidence proves, however, that rincipal founder, at any rate he h im Cleng Peerson returned to Amenca P in 1824 ancl went to Western New sel f moved to Iowa. But he did not York, where he made prel iminary ar- settle down to the career of a farm rn11 gements for the purch a se o e lan d . er. ln 1842 he set off o n another jom· N e x t summer a group o f. emigr fl n t s ney to Norway. In a letter published sa 1le d from Sta' au ge r Ir\ 8; l i t l le in a Norwegian newspaper in 1848 s loo 1), and after a rema r ka h lP .1° 11 1·ne .r Peerson declared h is trip was merely of H weeks 1 eachec\ Ne w Y o r k, wh ere to visit friends and relatives. Never t hey we 1 ·e met by· Cleng Pe e.1·son. 'Ihe theless, a contemporary description "En e c �na� had � u�t bee:t :milt, �nd 11 I pictures h i m holding· spell-bound a as i:iatm <1 l J�1 t he part � to Ptoceecl ·oup of NorwegiQ,;11 peasants to to � estern ;'\e,1· York. Here the , om he was recounting his experibought Janel. ences, and he himself publicly de"By virtue of his connection wit h cla red th a t t he published p a stora l of the Norwegian Bisho p Neu the 1825 migration Peerson is de� l ' ! y letter philippic against entitled to the honor of being con- m a,nn-a v iolent ,;idered the 'Fathe1· of Norwegian emigration-wa s not based on fa ct, emigration,' as he has often been ancl that Ole . Ry,uning's ''.!'rue Ac called. In a da.y when Norway was I count of A me n ca, a favorable work remark ably isolated and the Nor- publishecl by an i m migran t in 18 38, wegians in almost total ignorance ' w� s real l y true. ln May, 1843, P e e 1 ·so n ahout the New World, Pee1·;;011 1ar- sa iled from Bergen for N.e w York eel forth to see what the L n itecl with a, party of 80 emigrants whom1 States offered. He carried , back a he guided to the West. report of his observations and .ex "An interlude , in Cleng Peerson ' s p01·iences, and then ha$tened to I adventures occurred in t11e late For Amel' ica again to prepare the w.a y ties, when he joined the famous com for .1he immigrant s of 182'?. Hi:; .ov.n I munistic settlement i n Henry county, motwes have been <tucst1oned, lt 111 Illinois, the Swedish Bishop Hill col t rue , bnt hi:s histo,1c.1l <.'nn aecti<'>,1 ony. He is reported to have contrib w i1.h the immigration oe 1 8�5 i:s com- uted to this society .t he money from the sale of his farm lands. His wife pletely substantia•ec1 by , he records. "The second ch:ipt,11· i n t h e sagl\ in Norway, from whom he had been sep arat ed since •· 1821, had recently of Cleng Peeqion is conce1·n1,ct wich t!w establishment uf the lirst N or- died , and Peerson n1arried a young wegian settlement l n t.he �hsstssir,- Swedish woman, a, member of the pi v al ley. The experiences of tlw colony. Sho 1·tly thereafter he left both settle!'s of 1825 convinced him the the colony and his new wlt:e and de West offered better possibi lities than clared he had been 'robbed of all he tlie East for Norwegian immigrants. posse15sed,' ancl was 'sick in body and I n 1833 he started from the New mind. ' He ret urned to tbe settlement York settlement on a walking jour- o f his fi rs t choice in the ·west, t h e n e y t o t h e West in search of suit- t h "'. n .t l1 riving. F o x River colony i n able lands. His travels took him 1 1 1 1 n 01 s . into Oh io, across Michigan . and Sta rted for Texa.s. t hrough Northern Indiana to Illinois. "In 184n, a ma n of 67 yeal's, Peerson He selected a site for the first Nor wegian settlement west of New York set off for 'l'exa s, a n d wh e n he re I which gave great impetus to the turned in 1850 to Tllinois he expressed westward migration of the Nor his regret t ha t t ile stream of immi wegians. '.!.' his was the Fox river gration was flfflv ing· i nto the Uppee 1·egion in La Salle county, Illinois. M.ississippi val lr>y. He returned to "Peerson trudged back to New Te x:a.l< w i 1 h a ;;-rou p of. settlers, n· Yorl, ; he had walked more than �.- m a i n ed in Dc1 l l a s i:,011J1 t v u n t il 18�4, 000 miles since he started on h is and from that date i61til his death in pilgriniage to the West. 1865 l ived in Bosque oounty. Peerson F a i l ed as F ,v m er. "'.1.'rac1ition represents Peerson a a "ln '1834 the first contingent of marvelous story teller, to whom . me out to Illi -ol ' wegian settlers c-a hospitali ty of the pioneer homes no1�. '.!.' he settlement grew rapidly always gladly extended. Peorson ha :a.ncl became a center from which ra sometimes been described as a vaga dia.tecl many of the later settlements bond, but lie had a definite and phil of �onvegians in the Middle vVest anthropic puxpose. He presents many e,·n stutes. baffl ing problems a s a study in per "Peerson settled in Illinois, but h e sonality, and his eccentricities have a ppearn never to have become a suc produced not a few amusing legends. f'cssful fa r mer, I n 1836 he probably In h is early years he seems to have joumeyecl to New Y'orlc to guide to been a pious _ man, a_ttractccl by the I PRES. COOUDGt IS hiSTORICAl � SPEECH TO NORWEGIANS FULL OF REFERENCES HONORS THE EXPL ORERS IM MENSE THRONG OF PEOPLE LISTENED TO THE PRESI DENT MONDAY At the state fair grounds, St. Paul, on l\Ionday President Coolidge had come clear from Washington in his special train to address the centen n i al anniversary of the landing of tll.e Non�en A'"'iliiv t l11 the sa1lrng craft, Restorationen, on American shcres. An· immense throng was on hand to hear him and the c1·0\wl was 1 large enough :ro that the outet ter 1 ritory of the amplifying speech 1 equi m1ent was none to large for the l crowd to hear him properly. ADDRESS IS REMINISCE'l''T I The president's address wa� rcple;;e with highly interesting histol.'ic re111ini scences, und brought home hi� heare:·s the evidence that world must be much oldeT tha1 cepted history gives it credit One or two extract:c, of hi follow : How often in the afl'airs o thi,;,.., world a small and apparently i1. ig- i nificant occurrence turns out to e , an event of great i mportance, carr� ing in its train a mighty inflnence , for good or evil. Such i mp,w tance • a lwa;'S flows from the character of , those concemed. The generations of , the earth treasure the rude h ut that sheltered the infancy of Abraham Lincoln., seek out the birthplace of . Shakespeare, and give to the uni n viting s o i l o f Palestine t h e title o.E , the Holy Land, all because crertain obcure ha_ppenings in tho.q'3 pla�es prcdu C'.ed these who left a broad 111ark uvon the future course of hu manity. The character of the par ticipa11t� brought future fame. It i J such an ever:t that we meet to com mem0rate today. �i fliclro1ing out. We ha ve long7rnown .JUS'r NORSE IMMIGRA l TS of the nob le foelandic literatu e Almost without m on ey o r su pplie s, O ne hundred years •ago 2 1-\� tle I which was produced d uring th rse o , the little company of immigrants b ark saile d from N o�wa y to Ainc�wa . generati ons of t he ii n te l l e_ct u al It was almo st unnoticed at the time. , twilight ; b ut w e know t oo l tt e o f were taken in charge by the New i York Qua�ers who ra'ised funds to save for the daring an d hardih•>O'i. _ of the p art which Iceliand perfo i ed rm as send them to Kendall, Orleans cou nty, its navigators, b ut i t brought with an outpost of th e s turdy no r t he rn I N Y. There the y secured Iands a nd . it the repre sentati ves of a stalwart culture in bridging over the gu lf of race men a nd women of fixed de - darkne ss betw e en tI1e an i e t n e stabli s hed the fi rs t Norwegian s et c n a d men t tle in this c ountry. It i s a c uri tern{inatio n. en during c ourage a-r:-d m od ern eras of history. • o u s circu mstance th at the h igh characte,:-, who Wer� to draw m These sons of Thor and O d i n ard N orwegian s are among_although the greatest their retinue a long . lme of thelr , the g reat free north shape th seafiaring people s, this party was fe l low countrymen deS'tmed to ch ange s elve s in the mind's eye as em• very compos ed almost entirely of farmers , the face of an area_ bro �d as an em- princes of high and hardy adventure. pire, direct the h 1 stonc ,_ ?,Curse �f From Norway to Iceland, from ce so that their first i�terest was to get sov ereign Rtates , and con a! .bute to land to Greenland , from Gre enlIan - I la nd. A nd e ver . smce, the gre at�r the salYatio n of a great na trnn. '\_h esr-: to the mai nland, step by step the d I share of N orwegi an s have com e rn y I search of homes on t�e land. �he s e mighty works h ave b�en ':'rou?h � be-: worked th eir way acro s S' th e n o::th cause those N orwegian 1mm,r1ants Atlantic. They fou nd the w este n first immigrants h avmg practically r , no mo ney, bought a tract on the were well worthy to follow :11 the ocea n ,a nd it was a N orseman who shore of Lake Ontario for $5 per wake of the Pi lgrim and Cavalier. first ' traverse d Bering stra it and acre to be paid for in ten small in* * * * emo d n strat ed t hat t h ere wa s n o iand stallme nts. It i s hard to realize that REGININGS OF HISTORY connection between A s i a and N rt h western New York so late as 1 82 5 No country has a history whi_ch America. On e won ders wh ither tho e se s1lart.s w ith its discovery or . a t _ it:; Northmen would turn for adventure ,w'a S' s o far on the frontier. Their boundaries. For the real begrnmng s if the e arth should eve1' b e so com- land was heavi ly timbered , and th�y 1 were c o mpeile d no t only to clear it , of a ny pe ople we must go back to �rie pletely cha rted that exploration b e ginnings of all peoples. F rom 011e fered n o more chall enges. Withinof-a but to build their own s helter. The fi rst hou se is said to have b een a i tombs of Egypt an d th e sand:s' of very few years one of them "frst log cabin twe�ve feet squa re, with a Mesopotamia m e n are now unearth- traversed the n orthwe st passage .crom r et . In thi s twenty-four of th_em ing the records of civilizations S'O an - A tla ntic to Pa cific; and the same gar cie nt that by co1npaTison we think one . Amu ndsen, can-ied th e fl ag o l ived for a tim e the men seekr ng scanty employme nt as wa s t o of the recovered won ders of Carth - N orway to the South Pole ; an d now,f. 1 .s uch be found in the n eighborhood to S'up a a- e a s a lm o s t m o dern. But all tha t within · a few d ays past, he h a s b "'� shall learn fro m the _glyphs of Ur, the first t<? make lmge explora_t oeen port them through the ¥tinter. Th e only ?DC in the party who could speak the tombs of th e Ph ar,a ohS', and t�e in the re,g-wn of the North o lei i:i-s . m E nghsh wa ;:, Capt. Lars O lson and he mon ument s of Crete an d 9art�age_ 1 8 a n airpla ne , tempting a fate Pwh h 1c, bad remaine d in New York. · part of our own history, 1llummation as I write, is unkno wn. COLON Y THRIVES fo r o ur to days, guid epoSts on the :vay STORY OF THE REST.AU R A De �nite poYerty and ha rdshir;c::, the t o our tomo rrows . All the pa� t hves TIONEN in the present. AU the w ori,s a nd colong thrived, and it& memb,ers O ne likes to linger over thes e tal es were shortly writing l etters back to tho ughts of thos-e who ha.ve gone b entur e and of adv e xpl e On o ratio n. e N orway describing the oppo rtu ni tieS' fore h ave left their mark o n wh a;; we of them has ,a speci al signific an ce in o f A rne;•ica and urging friends to think an d do. • • connec t l o n thi with s c e lebration . ccme. From this beginni ng the The se Nors emen whos e b egmnmp:s in the U ni ted States we here . c �e - which entitles it to rrio're p articular stre am of Norwegian immigration brate have exercised a great m u- reference . This, of course, is the .-·d i n , but most of the later c om ers ence upo n our m odern hi_S.to_ry r voyage of the little S']..oop R estau ra - ,, e nt much farther we st. A few :3- ,i_d- tio nen, which in 1 825 br,oug�t th7 fir�t year� after the settlement at Kendall we stern civiliza tio n w hich it i s diff cult to m atch am ong any o ther like organized p arty of Nol'weg1 an 1 mm1 - , an othe1 pa1:ty went to LaSalle �ou�ty, n umber of p eo ple . In many ways grants to this cou ntry. 9:n e reared I Ill. Alrci:dy the we st was _f1:scmatmg t heir influe nce upo n northern a nd on the New Englan d trad 1t10n of the them anct many of the -ongrnal Ken we stern Europ e may b e compared to Ma yflower will find all the materi als d all colony sold out a:nd w:ent on to that of th e G re ek stateS' up on th e for a new legend of pi on eering i n the lllin ois. Thence the m1gra�1on spread civiliza ti on of th e Me di terra nea�i. voyage of the Re staurationen. She to o ther ,;tates of the nnddl� we st They were the !i,r st deep sea �1av,- was a sloop of forty-fiv·e tons , and northwest . Even b efore 1t was gators . They pio neere d the mig ra- where:,s the Mayflower was rated as fo rmed into a te rritory, Iowa h ad re ti ons which b oldly struck acro ss the 180 tons. The Restaumtio nen S'ailed ccived it::i first N orwegians, a nd from western w ate rs. They were a t once from .Stavanger, Norway, on Ju ly 4, about 1835 thay spread rapi d ly into empire a nd the guardians of the ea S't- 1 825, w ith a de sperately heavy carg o W isconsin. MinneS'Ota , the Dakotas, ern. The m edievial • Mediterranea n of i ron and p party of fifty -two an d other states. the terro1·s of the we Ste rn Rom an people. She came into the port of was a happy h u nting gTound for New York afte1; a voyage of fo urteen t h e m. • Th. e y bran ded thei r na�e we eks which c omp ares with nine upon French Nor�an�y, _ a nd fro m it weeks' required for th e hi storic passage of th e Mayfl ower . de ce nde d up o n Bntam m the Nor. Th e a rrival of the Resta urat1011en man conquest from which ti:t�re w_as created a sensation among thoso the beginning of m o de rn Engh s h Insinm·e d ' to th e sea. It was .claimed tory. the •small est vessel that ! DISCO VERED NE�. WOR r....D . I, th at she was m ade the tra ns-A tlantic 1' ha But even before W ilham of ��r -�� d ievger . oss n T h e N ew Yor__l:: auth o rities mandy had conq u �red at Hastr n,,, s , Lief, the s on of Erik, near 500 yem· s th ·e'lttened to deny her th e. privilege 0/ the • port on the groupti that s he before Col umbus a ppea s t �v e found the ne w worl d . \ndee� , t e re carried too many passngers an d too see�n s little doubt_! mt several �� n- much carg o . She was ultimately tunes before Columbu s �aw the l,ght relea s e d , a pparently throu gh the in� e�1 flue nc e o f th e Society of Frie nds. of <la� there was born ,l? . ; Most of her pass engers seemed . to can s01l , of Norse P'arent$, a ho I Yl'W h v been memb.ers of a Norwegian afterward became s o gr,;at a m ath�- a e m ati_c ian and a stronome� that h is religious community intimately re late d to the Quakers, and i t appe�rS' s tu di e s may have c ontnbut e d m�ch to the fund of knowledge_ �h'.ch that o ne of th ei r reasons for comrng helped C olumbus form ulat� his v1s 10n to this country was that the� _ha d of the �orl� a s we Imo".' 1t. A_mong not enjoy·ed entire lib erty of r ehg10us the fa�cmatmg chapters m the h1�ory I opinio n at home·. Thus· the p ar,allel of the d ark a �es is the story p-£ Ic�- betwere n the vo yag"' s of th e May fl we and of the, .Re st�ur ationen, . land. � a little No rs e republic 1t de,ospite that they were :se�arated _by I cen tu r · s e vera l ned nt it s el f m for - m ore than 200 y•ears , 1s unpregs1ve· r a1 • ai . . ies ,a s on e of the rea 1 repo S'I'tor1 e,s o £ in severa1 ways . a n cient culture in a world who se near to l amp of learning seem e d ·r------- I �:'.11.. �(l� � #� 11_ 22 1 o;2..57' ✓ TI WASHINGTON. DE SCENDANT O F N O R S E K IN G S l lI a E N E O L O G I S T TR A C E S A N C E S T R Y E VE N TO A NC I E N T O D I N , rather than submit to the First U. S. President Quoted as Mention Norway reign of 1-!arald. They settled on the Faroe, Orkney, Shetland and Hebride islands and even the Isle of Man. ing His Norwegian Forefathers From these retreats they would fre quently sally forth and hany the in . A ddress coast of Norway much to the annoy ance of King Harald and his subject . s . D r. G u stav M a ri u s Bruce, w h o ha1 w r i t t e n t h i s a rticle for th• Sunday P i o n e e r Press, i s a pro • fessor at the L u t h e r Theological sem i na ry, Como ave n u e and Pierce street, w h ere he teaches ethic s, Greek, soc i o l ogy a n d other 11tatement should cari-y considera.bfe weight. Odin Was Conqueror, He, therefore, determined to put a stop to these piratic expeditions and oi·ganized an expedition ag·ainst �hem. He drove many of the most powerful men off the isl and groups named an d annexed the island s to h i s own domain. In this manner these island groups came into the posses sion or Norwa.y: 'l'hey remained Nor wegian possessions until they were pawned away by the Danish King to raise a. dowry for his daughter, who marr.i ed J ames III. o! Scotland i!.1 1468. 'l'he islands were never re deemed and thus passed out ot the possession o! Norw ay. though in lan guage, custom and culture they have remained essentially Nor'Vlr egian to this day, Od in is one of the chief ch aracte�;s Norse mythology, but is by some subjects, regarded a11 being an historic person. He was king or the Scythian11 in As".Way back in 1769 there existed In land or Asa.helm between the Ca � Philadelphia a, soC'iety by the n 11 m fl or pian and the Black . seas. Lea. vinr, Asa.helm he went on an expedition Societas Scandinav iensis (Sc;i n di na - through E urope northwa rd conque ,·• vi a n Society) composed of f ,edes, ing 1:1-any peoples and placin g his, so . ., Norwegians and Danes, 'l'he :r,·es ent as kmg·s over the conquered. territr , . of m e society was a man by the name ies. Arriving in Scandinavia in t 1 e year B. C. he first conquered De,io ! Abraham l\!arkoe (Marko',.. ,1 Nor- mark.70Over this country he placed l- is Wl'li;·i:m. On Deccmb{'\r 11 , J 7�' t h ! ,q s,,n, Skjold, 3-nd hiR de11cendiants, 1 .' "' Tol·1l nn Jtuled Yorkshire. society g·ave a f:uewe! l Tecepti,,n to . Skjoldunger, ruled Denmark tor ma• 1 y Ha ra.In. placed SigUt·d, a. brother 01' Baron Axel Ferson, a hero o 1 , the gen ez·a tionR. Then he conquered swe1:attle of Yorktown. Genel'a l vVash- den a nd placed h i 1=1 son, Yngve, "ts his cl1 ief counselor and friend, Rang vald Jar]·, hetter known as Morejarl, ington wag present on this ocr,asion k ing over the Swedes. The Ynglir,,; paid trib ute to h is forme r o fficer and'. P.l\ bis descendants, r1tled in Swec1 °,, over t h e Orkney isla nds. Rangvald according to t h e chronicler of. this in- for a Jon;;- time. Finally hp a lso co 1 1 - Jar! wait a half brother of the famou s tPrei:ting event, expt·essed his " r,>Jeas- quered Norwa y, pla cin:s hi,:i s o n , s11,,. Gange-Rolf, founder o! Normandy. u 1·e a,t being presr-,nt among- th') pco- min g, as king over the Norwegia , � Sig·urcl was succeeded by his nephew, ple o! his forefathrs' blood, 11s he Sae rning became the founder o f . a Einar Rangv:ildson, son of the More claimed descent from the family famil y of kings that ruled in Norway jarl. He was nicknamed Torv-Einar Wass, who emigrated from Denmark for a considerable period, Odin dlr,d because he taught the people to use in the year A. D. no and settled in in 50 B. C. He is rega rderl as the peat (Norwegian torv) ·tor fuel. He the county Durham, England , where ancesto r or many ot the titled tam was succeeded by his son, Torfinn, they h n i l L a small town, cal j i ng i L ill es o f the North, among them He t1- and his descendants, as e arl of the Wris1< i ngntun ('rown or \.Vass)." A t gcst and Horsa, who conquered Eng. Orlmeys. Hifl gTe a t-grandson, Sig urd Lodv('rson, married the daughter the following Js,nuary meeting, Gen� la nd l n the year 449 A. D. Pas11lng down 1he genealolnglr·al or King Malcolm II. of Scotland. She eTal Wa11hington was dected 'h onorSigurd had ary m ember of this society because 01' , lini!, omitting m any generations, w e was his second w ife. three sons bv a former m arriage. h i s Scandinaviim descent. :ome to '.Chrond .Haraldson, king or '!'hey divided the domain ainong According ta the reported word s o f Throndh elm, Norway, (Welles gives Washington a t this reception he tra c- i t Frondheim, Denmark), the first thenwelves but did not long eurvive ed his descent from the Was s family Norwegian ancestor of the Washing- their father. Sigul·d's fourth son Torfinn, whose from Denmark who settled ill Di.; r- t on family. He was born ::i.'·-out 6!il ham, England, in the year 970. A n A, D . From him descended foo,r gen. mother was Thora, daughter of King Malcolm , succeeued them as jarl of all America n gen ealogist, Albert Wel les, erations of kings who ruled in who styles h imself president o! the 'l'hrondheim, Oistein Throndson, the Orlmeys. According to Welles he America College fo1· Genealogica l Halvd an Oistei�son, and Oist< in left the Orkney islands about l!X!5 and Registry, goes w ay beyond the year Halvdanson Glumra, and Olstein became ruler i n Yorkshire, England. 970, however, and shows that Wash :. Ivarson Glumra, who was the fa ther He c alls h i m "Torfinn the D ane" and ington descended :t'ro•n no less a per- o r Sigurd, the first Norwegian e·ul shows him to have been thirty-two sonage than Odin l1imself, th e fi r st <J arl ) o:r the Orkney islands, wh•ch generations removed from Odin. Tor king- o r Scandinavia, B. C. 7o . T h e l1ad been colonized by the Norwe finn is the founder of the Washing data upon which this remarkable l!nd gians. ton :t'amily in England. Hi s son B a r comprehensive genealogiC'al t n hie is W h en Harald the Fair-hai red c, n rlolf was born near Yori,, or 'Yorvik as huilt are dei·i VC'd fl'om l\,f r. Welles ' qne red the petty ldngs or Nor" ay the Norwegians call it . He took the London correspondent, him,se t r u and brought about the uni fication of name of Vlassing-etun, the name o f niemh,a,r of t h e Washington family, th "' country under thf' rule of him · a nearby country town. From hlm who cl_;iitni; t o h a ve sp ent 30 yt>a r s i n / self as k i ng of the Ninth centm'Y, descended Robert de Washington, gatheri ng 1 he dta and procuri n g evi- r the1·P, were many men who had for- born In 1195. From that time on the dence in their s upport. He declares I mer!y been powerful 11.nd influen1 ! a l family name Is vVashlngton. Colonel .John Washing-ton 111 the I "thP 1>ecligt·r-e J 1101\" !lend r r·a n es- 1 lear!erq and rulers in Norway "t\;ho tablish by legal evidence.'' \\ h1ch . 11ad fled wit h their followers t1-..� m American ancestor of the Washington or ·family. �e was born in 1627-and- aie in 1677. He migrated to Virginia ill 1659 and his son Lauremce, the grand father of George Washing-ton, ,vas born at Bridges Creek, Va., 1661. Au gustine Wshington, George Washing• ton's father, wa s the son of Laurence,, and was bo1·n in 1694. He died In J 743. George Washington, first president. of the United States, according · to Welles the lineal descendant of Odl!:, tho kings of Trondll'Jim, Norway, anrl the earls of the Orkneys, was bor1, February 22 (February 11 old style), 1732, and died December 14, 17P�. Evidence Plausible. Alfred T. Story, in his boolc en• titled "American Shrines i n Eng land," refers t o Welles as "an imag inative American genealogist who !Ja,=; gone beyond his Durham origin an' derived the family from no less l1ero than Odin, King of Scandinavb but into this large pedigree we nee, not enter here." A 1'omparison ot the genealogies, as given by Stor·r and. Welles, :t'rom the ancestors of tht'> family in England will, however, r0 veiJl m:>ny correspondences, thong·!l Story does not go beyond the Dur ham ancestry. Wh•atever ma.y be sa.ld of Well � · deriving the Washington family fro, Odin, it must. be admitted tha.t his d riva. tion o:t' the family :from the kin of Throndhelm, Norway, and the car o:r tl1e Orkneys is, to sa,y the lea.fit very plausible, ,tor they are histori , per§onages and it is a, well kno'ln� fact that a, large number ot the lead ing tamilies o t England, Scotland and Ireland have Norwegian blood cours ing in their velns from the time of th· Norwegian settlements a.aid the r11J, of the Norman kings. Green, in hi "History o:r the English People," i::ny,, of the rapi d ass imilation of the Eni; lish and the Northmen in the eleventii century, "The two peoples soon he. came contounded. In a. few years .1, Northman in blood· was archbis hop of Canterbury and another Northman o! blood was archbtshop, of York. This year is the 100th anniversary ot Norwegian immigration to the United States, a, movement wl1lch be gan with the arriv!tl ot the sloo, "Restaurationen" in New York hat· bor in 1825. The Norwegian Jmmi grants and their descendants look back upc-n their 100 years stiuggle and achievement wit h ,,, small degree of just pride and t 1 : • fact that George Washington, t ·, greatest American patriot and t , first President of the United Stat ot America, was in al1 probability Norweglan royal descent adds ma1 ' rlally to the d!stlnctlon of being Norwegian American. �fr , I I St. Paul Man 's Ancestor Was First Head of Scandinavian Body in U. S. Dr. James Cox: Markoe is Descendant of Abram Markoe in Whose Society Georg·e Washington Was Made an Honorary Member, h e sold this tract of 1a:ml to tbe gov- ' ernment as building ground for a resi dence for th& newly elected president of the young American Republic and stat of government. The fo l l ow i n g article was writ ten for the P i o n eer Press by G. M . B ruce, profe ssor at Luther Theo • log i cal Se m i na ry. In m y a rttcle on Wa Rhlngton 11� a · F i rst Stars a n d St r i p es. >io rweg·i� n in the 8und 11 y Pioner>r In ;l774, Abram Markoe organized PreM, F'Pbrna ry 22, m.ention "'' � ,; the Philadelphia City Troop or Light made of. A hrn.m :Ma rkoe a s presi dent Horse Troop, a!! it was also called, or t l1P :a;ociet a s :a;candim1 v iem,ls or and became its captain. This organi l 'h i l a rl<>l nh i,i, of '1','hich Genr>ra l Vlr a:sh :r.ation lHt d previously bt·en a. :l'ox i o g·1 on w:1s rnacl P 11n honorary mcm h11 11 t i n g t roop. 'l'h e follow i n g year, her. On t he a u1.borit;- of Dr. Georl;\·P <'a.pta i n Ma rkoe presented h is t r- op o 't'. Fl om . profPai;ot· of. :-lnmdina,v i a n w i t h a. fi n e si l l{en fl a.g·, fort y inclleR l a n g-uag-e a n d Ji t e rn l ure a t t h e ll n l long an<l t l1 iry-ro11r i nches w i d e, de V<'rsit v o f J l l i n o i:,, a n d oth Prs, I �lat rig·nctl l))-" hi msfl r. lt waR a ve1·y ed t ha t AbPam J,,fa r)rne wa..s a Nor pretty de!lig·n, a nd sa id t-o be the \\'�gi an. 'first flag IJe,ning the t h i rteen red and Some time ago I re<:e ived a tele wlJ\t e , Btripe , symbol izing the th i r phone cal l fro1n a., person who stated teen col o11. ies a11d tbe!r yf},1 rn i n gs for that h e h ad read my article on i ncl.-pendence. The doctor has a very Washing·ton with a great deal o! in beaut lfnl framed picture or this flag, terest, e�pecia lly si nce mention ha.cl wl1 ich, wit h a portrn it or Ahra m #' been made of one or h i s ancestors. koe w i l l b.- on exhibit at 1 h Owi n g to injm·ies recei.ved in an auto g·,·o n n d " <l uring 1 he Norse-A acciden t on Feb ruary 23, he ha.a. not CPn t enn ial ce),obration. been able to call up sooner. He in- 1 .A br;i m Ma,,koe w.a.1'1 VEl t' , much in vited me to come to his home to learn symp;i ( b y �-i t h 1 hP- A mer · ;i n C8 llSP , more about A bram Markoe, the p resi 1 a s was evid Pnce/1 in his ganizaii on dent or t he fi t ·st Scandinavian society of. the City 'l'l"oop, which articipated in Am erica. in m11,ny of the most i ortant en Natura l l s,, T wa,i very much inter ga geme nts 01'. the :Revol ionary w-a r, f'!li ed . a n cl f'a l l Nl t h e o1 ber eve n i n g' a n d the <1 esign i n g of the rst Ameri at t h e home or A hra m ' s St. Pa 1 1 l can flag, but h e was a D nish citizen, de.•ren d a n l , ]) ,·. .J a m el'! C o x M a rko�, and was obliged to res! as captain who 1'P�icle� at l 9i7 :'lf' lby 11.Vf lt lle. I of t h e City '.l'roop in J 6, when he was very r·.onl i a l i y re.<'0f ved bo t h l>)' leanled of the neutralit declaration I lie clod ot· and his good w i re an cl 11,;d o r. Denmark, which was sued in Oc a n espef" i a l l y del ig-l1 trul and i n struc tober 4, J 775, '!.'hough e had then t i ve visit w i th t h em. been 1·esiding in A meri fo1· aib out five years, he still had 1 ·g·e holding·s N a t i v e of St. P a u l . Croix, which be sited every 1 Dr. J\T,i l')rne is a )'.l a t i ve of fl t- . P,i nl, yi neaSt. !'. The penalty for isregarding , J r n,ving h<>Pn 1,orn. 1,ere i n t h �- y.-i,· ____ I Sfi�, 1<hort Iv a ff Pr hi'I nare11 Is RPI t krl hPJ•e, com i n g f1·om Wiscomsin. -W hP r{I Denmark' s neutrality proclamati, u h i s :r a1 h e r w;,_� fo e �ix �- ,,,a 1·s ,i n FDpi� was confiscation of property own-cl co p,i l rect0r. nr. M a rkoe h,i� pr,, c- within Da.n ish jurii,diction. 1 icPcl med ic- i n e In t his city since 1 8�2. B o r n in W est I n d i e s. Mri;. Markoe is the da ughter or th" Abram Markee wa s born c___ tbe la te Colonel J. S. Prince, for man �terms a mayor of St. P,i uJ. Tbe doc- i;;land of 1St. C roix, Dnnish West Jn Lor has two hrothers, Jo h n A. a n.cl d ies on July 2, 1727, and di ell in Phila Ralston ,T. , liYing in St. Paul. A n - de l p 11 i a on August 28·, 1 806. His snn other brother, Vl'illiarn J. , l i ves at Jolln was th e father or W i l l i.fiM n'\. Mar '\Vhite Bear, and a fourth b ro th er i F- • kc>e , t he- fat h e r or Dr. ,f. C. . arkoe o r. a member of t h e Bened ic tin e O rde r S t. Pa11 l. Vv hile A bram Ma rkoe un do ubtectJ y was a L11tl1er.a.n, t ae fa mand J ives a t CoJlegeville, M o. The doctor is veTy much intereste.d ily hi story sbol'.' i n g that t he hap _ ti sms and ma1Tlag·es were performed in h is c JPct family tree and has ompi 1 . quite a fam i l y history in co-opei·a.- by cl ergymen h avi ng distinctly Dan t ion wi t h otl1er members of the ish names and the Lutheran chur ch fam ily. Tb e family were orig·inal ly being the State ch n rch of Den mark, French Hugeuots;- who l eft ]'ranee it . e.,-:>ears th_at he became affiliated w1th the Episcopal church . he . g the persec tions durm of t l1 e Hn ge- 1 ca me to Philadelp hia, for after u his son enth ent e nots in France duru;ig the s v e John, the gran dfath"'r of Dr. Markoe, century. The Markoe ramilY settled �11 a.n Episcopalia n, and his son , W i ! l i a m, t h e doctor'11 fa1 h 0 r, w <1 s an on. the island o ! St. Croix ' Danish I Episcopa l rector at Delafield, Wis. . time beca.m e DanWest Ind i. e s, and m Upon hi" rnt i rement from the rE'Ctorshrp, Wil l i a m jolner'l t h <'> C,i tho l i c ish sub.1ech•. A s a Da n i sh s11bje c t Abram M;i rlrnfl, cbn rch, o f wh ich chu rch the doctor 1 he g1 0a t gra nd fa th n of the fl oc1 o r and his family are mr,,mbe rs. ;i n il. t he pi e,ndent of t h e Soci et '11,:S ,. • - -Sc1<ndwa 1 e ns1s, came to Arner11.Jt '] :, bo ut t he ye;i r J.770, se t t l m g ln Ph 1laclel pi1 i a. Hel'e he purchased a parcel or l a n d, "mbra cing a ·whole block, lying betw.,en H ie pn,sent Chestnut an<l. Market st reeti; and Ninth and Tenth street· s . Being a person al friend and great ad mirer ot General '\Vashington, I I I vv scomitn �I I D e s c e n d a 11 t s o f V i k i � Quakers Predominated In Initial Contingent or\,· cgian Pioneers Were Pernecutccl for Religious ]3c Jicfs-rr ablet Ma1'k:s Grave of ]1irst Settler in Texas. " T h e fo l l owi ng a rt i c l e was written e x c l u s i v e l y for th e P i o n e e r P,•ess bv Gustav M a rius Bruce, professor a t Luther T h e o l og i cal S e m i n ary, St. Paul. R O M t h e fnry or t he Northmen Lord God deliver us" was a regular ·part or I lle church praye1' offered up by many a priest iu the coun tries exposed to the raids and terrors of the Norsemen during the Age of the Vikings. And well might they thus pray, for wherever the Vikings landed with their fleets and their arms were somewhat successful, they cruelly killed, pl undered and destroyed. A hundred years ago, however, began a new type of Norse invasion. It caused neither trembling nor fear, but rather a mingled feeling of sur prise, amusement and admiration. 'fhe advance guard of this new type of Norse invasion, an invasion which has continued for the space of an -entire century, consisted of a small band of only fifty-three, the youngest a little baby girl born in mid-ocean. 1'here was nothing formidable about either ship or crew. Nor was there anything about the make-up of the J)arty, their manner of landing, looks or numbers that in any way fore shadowed the stream of Norse invasion which has been directed to the American shores and was to increase immensely in volume and momentum nntil the expiration of a hundred years a population of Norse blood had been transplanted to a new and far away continent more than eq_ual to the population of the native land from which they a'!ld their descendants came. F Story Told in N ew s p a p e r s. 'l'h i s sign i ficant eve n t i n the h !R to1·y of the Un ited States, the land i ng- of the little sloop "Il. estauratiouen," was very te rsel y and ra t,,., ,. inaccurately chron icled by t he N e w Yori, Evening Post und e r date o( October 10 , 1825, thus: "Arrived LasL Evening- Danish sloo p R estau 1·a1 ion, Hol lnncl, 98 clays from Nor1Ya y, vht Long Islancl Sound, with i rc• n i o Boorman & J ohnson, �2 p c s srngers." 'l'h e . ·ew York Daily Advertiser o C Octobe1· 12, the same year, g·ives a more complete and accurate, as wel.[ RS a very interesting accou n t, which reacts as follows: "A vessel lias arrived at this port '\Vith em igrants from No,·way. I he vessel is very small, meururing, as we 1;1-ndersta11-l, only about 360 NnrWC6gian lasts, or 45 AmP.rican tons, a nil brought 53 passengers, mflle and female, all boun d for Orleans co unt y, where an agent who came over some time �\nee, purch ased a tract o f land. "Eg-ir'' and "Enigheden/' carrying 170 passe n gers, From now on the stream of immigraf,lo n grows rapidly from yea.r lo year, as the people of Norway l earn more and more of the o p portunities in A merica. One .o! th .. most po te n t fa ctors in sUmulatmg t.l1fJ emigration from Norway was • the publical ion of Ole Rynning' s l itlle gu id e-book for emig-rants, e n titled : ''A 'l'r u'3 Accou n t o f America for the In struct io n and Use of Peasants and Common People, ·w ritten by a �or wegian Who Arrived Here, in the Month of J une, 1837." This book was written by Rynning, who was one of the ill-fated settlers of the Beaver Creek Settlement i n Illinois, while h e was laid u p during· the winter following his arrival, nurs ing hls feet, which had become severel y frozen on one of his ex ploration tours. It was taken to Nor way by .Ansten Nattestad in 1838 and published during that ye�,r at Christiania (Oslo), A s far a s I have been A r r i val Cau ses C o m m e n t . able to learn the only \'olume of this "'l' he appearance of such a party b c,ok in the original in America is of stran gers, c oming ,from so dis- now in the l ibrary of the University BarrJll ., w It has recently been M rs. to be rta n t a cou n try an d in a vessel of a of Illino'is. ,size apparently • ill calculated for a. translated for the Minnesota Histori- righ tmade Society by Processor 'T heodore card!' . Afi cal voyage a.cross •the Atlantic, could n legen . not but excite an u n usual degree of B girl \;;1 \� int erest. L ife in A m e r i c a E x p l a i n ed. hes a, to t c " A n e n terprise l i ke th1" argues a In hi s introduction , Rynning says : ls Ivt the good deal of boldness in the master "I Jni ve now bee n in America eight l was o r t he vf,ssel , as well as an ad ventur�umm 011 8 spirit in t he pa ssengers, most of months and in t hat time I. h ave had from th e oppo r t u ni t y oC fin d ing out much i n a� "t\Oke o n w hom belong to Famil ies 1own a t 1 he regard to w h i e h 1 in vain so g· h t I n ,\,::ri qa !:).01li, · u ,·iC'ipiJv or D jjl ( I P . r iso1tl hweslern ext rem i t y of Norw a y, r11 n1 af!mr � 1 , .l , �01�a� . 1 mi-;'.'T,cludin ,,car ill c city of Stava nger. 'L'hose l l ,en felt how disagreeable lt i s ·r:or ;,;ilQW Rynn w ho came from the farms are clress- U: osE; w ho wisl1 lo emigrat P 10 Amei·i - ,;;l;wrlhe l<'o, NI in coarse dot ti of domestic man- c.i , l o be in want of rel iable and fores account or: the ulun1>ment1 cliffCt'en t fro m t ci(:,t� bly complete of n fashion 11 ract11re __ ....___,.....,;._;,;,..,;.; ___-'-_--,..:.,._ _ ,{,Qt,..6� r.i/; c':li·!f_'!.; ' •��T�a�l .� •-�,-• �l;. f'-ri,l'.;.'"\AS �>·:;;;!,1�J'.� U'�t:l�&A� �� \•?1 ·'-''--'---... :: ---------------------------...J �M, of lin Jo a Brings Pioneers in a 55 Fo Quakers Seeking Religious Free dom Just as the Pilgrims Did Led the Way From Stavanger� Nor way-And the Norse Centen nial Here in June Will Bring More v· sitors T h a n Twice the Entire Population of the City of 46,000 That Gave A1'"l1erica Its First Norse Settlers By LEIF GILSTAD UAKERS who fled from Norway, seeking religious free dom, just as the Puritans had fled from England 200 years before, crowded 52 into their little Mayflower-a tiny 55-foot sloop-to sail 14 weeks across the Atlantic ecein and become American citizens. That was 100 years ago. Because those 52 dared to sail in that crowded, tiny boat, following the trail of Kleng Peerson ,' carpenter, there are 2,000,000 Norwegians and children of Norwegians in the United States today. And because Ncrnemsn a1·e proud of their 100 years' his tory as Americans; the %in Cities in June will have the greatest convention the Northwest has ever seen, counting noses. Tt wul nave Ehe glt!atest 'gatK;-ring of 1925 any place in the world. It will havf! the largest assemblage of Norwe gians that ever came together for one celebration or meeting. Picture that town of Stavanger, from which the sloop "Restaurationen" sailed, in 1825-a seaport town of no great dimensions, of no great fame, that would brook no Quaker beliefs and practises. Stavanger today is a city of 46,000. If every man, woman and child in Stavanger came to Min neapolis June 6, and each brought with him one other person, you might get some idea of the crowd here. Not counting. some 150,000 or more folk of Norse descent in the Twin Cities, there will be 100,000 visiting Norsemen here for the four- day celebration. So they will make up a great party, those four days in the Twin Cities, when the two cities become more Norwegian than ever, and become truly the American capital of 1-{orway, Q It All Started With a Seafi.ght It is worth celebrating, that co__1ing to the United States in 1825 of a little shipload of Norse pioneers. • Their own historians have told the �\ I first preside nt of Societas Sc amlinaviu1sis, organized in Philadelp hia in , 'i69 and which still exists unde r the name of the Scandin avian Socie_ ty or RhH 16,1,,:phia. A Norwegian sea cap tain by the rnrn,e of Iverson se ttled in Geo;·gi a in . � t h e latter part of th e eightee nth cen. tury, and a grandso n of h is cnme to BY N. A. GREV STAD, :;;crape and, moreover, furnishecl the "represent the sta te i n · th e United newcomers with travel ing money le Stat Senat es e. Former United States Minister 1 o their cle::-tination in Orleans county. g:1 t �he "sloop p8 rty " of 1 825 is th e Norwegians had been coming to th i , Urug,uay and Paraguay and eg-mmi�g �f tl� e di1:"ect current of t , in ip hat befo1·e t sh country time long \ Editor of Skandinav en "ill calculated for voyages across the- NJJ i"1 egia n ummgration. Its small ve:,;1 sel,_ th e Restaurationen, is the Nor I This month of June marks the Jrnn- Atlantic." The first to land in Arneric�, w an Mayflow er. Like the Pilgrim dredth anniversary of Norwe gian im- were Leif Erikkson and his men, whc 1I et:i Fathe rs, the sloop people soug·ht th ese m igration to the United States, and were driven out of their cour., e t< s el aborate preparations have b e e n ·�Vinland" in the y· Par 1 ,000. Ticlingi h ores to be free to worship Go<! ac cording t o their fai th and build new n,ade for th e appropriate celebration ,f' t11 is accidental clif;covery of a new h r i,-:is 011 l and of their o\\n. Indeed of this importan t anniversary, espec - ,, orld spread all over notthern Europe liey h ad acquire < l the Jan(\ bdorn th ey t r0c h T interest. much aroused anrl , igi ially in Mitt 110rte- � ai . I t hacl been boug·ht for thei; A merican recor<l of the beginning of 11 ears after the 1·eturn of Leif to Ice- :; ,cd by an agent th ey h acl sent to Americl'\ this Norse current of people is found iand Thorofinn Karlsevne hea<led :i three years before to investigate con i n th e New York Advertiser for Oc- new expedition with three sh i ps arn' rlitions h ere and report. Their inten tober 12th, 182 5. Under the h eading, ·t hundred and sixty men. They alsr ti on to become loyal citizens of th e " A Novel Si ght," th e Advertiser of !iad with them " all kinds of l ivestocl-:: land of liberty is symbol ized by the tli at date publish ed the followin g re - for they meant to settle i n th e ne,, fact that th ey set sail on American ·•01111try, i f possible." They di<l settlr p01·t : depe lence · Day, July 4th, landing "A ve ssel h as arrived at this port 1 , n New Fou ndland, but must havc fo A J1r in N w York after an eventful vov with immigrants from Norway. Th e 11et with serious disappointments; for age o f some th ree month s later' �n Vf',, sel is ve ry small, meas u ring, as we I ·1fter a lapse of th ree years th ev werr Octoher 9th , 1 825. th< h t un derstand it, only forty-five Ameri- 1'iack in Icelarnl. In e course of At first Norwegian emi..�ration to can tons, and brough t fi fty-three pas- i Coll owin g centuries there were inte r,,engers, male arn l fe male, all bound mitten t voyages back ancl fo1·th b e- th e United States was comparatively for Orlean s County, New York, w here " ween Norway, I celand, Greenland and l ight. Abou t the middle of th e last l.ln a gent, who cam e over f.Ome time Amer ica. The last sailing of which century i t began to swell and since eliable records have been preserve d t hen h as been heavy. The total Nor since, purchased a tract of l and. I "The appearance of such a party of 'l ccured i n 1347, wh en a s hip bound wegian i mm igration to th is country strangers, coming from so di stant a or America left Bergen, Norwn y- since 1 825 exceeds 700 ,000 , the majo; country and in a vesel of a si ze ap - · ust before the "black death " struck ity of them young people. T h e cenrarently ill calculate d for a voyage he co.un try, cut down two-th irds of s u , o f 1 920 records 3(33,862 of our a-cross the Atlantic, could not but ex- he population, killed i ts enterprise poJ .xlati,m as natives o f N{,rwa y m<l broke i ts power for a hundred w hile the number of n atives born �f rile an unusual cleg-1·ee o f interest. Norweg ian parents is given as 6 5 8,589 "An ente11Jrise like this argues a "ears or more. The Dutch colonists who .established Th ree million, more or less, is an apgn ocl deal of boldness in the mas ter o f 1.hc vessel , as well as an adventurou s New Netherland contained a liberal prnximate estimate o f the numerical sp irit in the pa:ssengcrs,most of whom prinkling of Norwegians. Holland :c: trength of the peopl e of Norwegian helong in families from tlie vicinity o f \\ flS th e leading sea power at that Hock in the United States, unmixed a little town at the south western ex- time, and thousands of No1·wegians a nd mixed. For some fi fty years or more Nor tremiey of Norway, near the city of 1ad emig rated to the Netherlands to �tavanger. Those who came from th C' take service on Dutch sh ips. The rec - weg i an emigrati on to th e United farms are dressed in coarse cloth of c,nls of New Netherland show that States was macle up almos t exclu domestic manufacture o r a fa ;;hion di f- many of the early colonists were Nor- sivel y of people from the rural clis ferent from th e Ame rican , but th os€ ,vegfans with D utchified names. Not a tricts, small farm owners, renters , ·who l ived in the town wear calicos few rose to prominence in the official c rofters, and fan,, hands. In recent ginghams, gay shawls, i1111portecl, we or business life of New Amsterdam ) ears there has been a growi ng emi und other localities in the present r,- ration . from �h e citie � , � f engineers, pres:ume , from England. "The vessel is built on th ':! moclf'l states of New Yo�k and Ne:" Jersey, I m echanics, sa1lor�, shipping people, �1,11.1" 1 .• 1,. ,tin g b oa1,.; on that co:.i;.,t. and have left then- marks m n aimes :rn cl o tl, ers, b ut tillers o f the soil are with a single top-sail , sloop-rigged of pe opl e ancl places. In th eir deal- st. ill in a l arge majority among tho i:;e !:,h e arrived with th e addition of one i11gs with the I nd ians th e Dutch re- who le a'ire for America. The M i rlr lle lied mainly upon Norwegian s as in- We :;;t and North we:;;t h ave · appealed passenger born on the way." The vessel carried also a shipment terpreters. The nam e of th e Norwe g- to them with irresistabl e force. Illi of iron bars. The fi rst expe1:ience o f i an , James Bronck, is still preserved nois, ·w isconsin, Iowa graduall y be the immigTants in the new coun tn i n that of the Borough &f Bronx. The •� o me dotted with se ttlements of Nor waR a bit diRconcerting . At the request fi�;;t American Vaniferbil t rnarriecta wegfans, and they kept on march i ng· of' the customs authorities the rma:=:te1 ,'lrweg ian woman, and oth n Nor- in th e front l ine of the great army was arre sted for carrying more pas- \Yegian women married into the fam- of l an d Reekers in Minnesota, the Da senge rs and cargo than pe1·mittecl b:i, i l iPs of Stuyvesan t , Putna�n, Van kotas, Montana, and farther west 1: w for a craft of that size. But h e Co1tlandt, Van Reneselaer, ai;id others. i clear to the coast of Alaska. They arnl oth ers among his followers were Another current of Norwe giam were pecu liarly fi tted for pio11e01·ing Qu akers antl found friend s in Ne w j o'necl the Germans wh o settled in in the h arder climate of these part:-: , Y ork who helped them out" of th e Pennsy lvania. p,_ Norwe ian was th e ei· the coun try and h ave bravf'd with g m atchless fortitude an·c l dogv�rl per- 1�==============================-' NORSEMEN IN AMERICAN H/S TOR Y I • �,istP ncy the dm1gers an d trials or l lliteiacy · f. virtualfy unknown am ong many years ihe u se of the bal lo t Jas hosti l e Indians, drouths, nn < l otlH'r ad- 'm m igrants fro m Norway. In the rural been pretty near 1 00 percent.i n Nor districts, as in the cities, their chi.l- way; to vote h as com e to bf> looked verse circu m stances. Accor,ling to a carefu l s1wcial in- d1e;n attend the public schools. They upo n as a duty ful ly as much as a vestig;atio n m ade in North Dakota np- lo not maintain any parochial schools, right. p rn.· im atel y 8,000, 000 acres i n t hat hu t h aYe providc t 1 liberall y fo:r schools Thus equipped for the 'duties oJ' ac state alone are owned by people o r ·or advancf>d education, colleges, acad- tive citizenship Norwegian i mm i N orwegian birth or blood . Tl 1 eir to- Pmies, sem i n arif>f-, etc., Ho me fifty i n grants have adapted them selves read tal ho l ding·s of farmi n g lant1 i n tlw al l and all co n l'orm in µ; to the Ameri- ily to conditions here and, as so m e country probabl y exceeds 3 0 ,000 ,000 ca n type of ins tiit1 t io n s of this kin d body h as said, " have taken to politics acres. And vfrtuall y al l of th is vast The tott• l a m ount of m oney raised :is a duck to water." The pri n ciples o f ::m d val u ab le dom ai n has been clea red among them for educational and re- govern m ent oLtai n ing here were farir broken, transform ed from a wild- ligious purposes, inc l uding- hospitals , m i l iar to them; they wern experi Pnced erness i n to productive farms by the ir homes for old people and for orphans, in the use of the b l lot, and, more own toil, and nearly all of them be- an d other forms of ;,ocial welfare over, the great m aj rity o f t hem work, approxim ates som ethin g l ike have been l and hal t! s .fro m the began with empty ha n ds. A very di fferent ki nt1 of fanning $40,000,000. ginning of their inm ·gration to this h as been conJucted by Norwegians Inl 757 aDutch ship was captured i n c l ay they havc 1,- I a suLst:,n t1 t u] " along our western co�sts . A lar�·e the channel by an English privateer percen tage of Norwegia n settl e rs rn 1 after a fierce battle. The victor took Ill 1 he"r cour try, 11 preciou, P rsun, • . those parts have been fL,henne n from , ti:; 1 •. z at Dove,-. •_rhc cap la, , o f the 111 t re st to be protected iy th ir l>al the we st coast Qf No rway, people wh o D utchman , an old salt, had been se- lots. In many localiCd t e "dv, l" knew all about fish an d fishin o· an d verely wou n ded duri ng· the strugg·le ; i r /.; l'ne of Norw i:;ur pione , we.re qu ick to see the possibilities of the E n g-l i-:;h capt ain a mere youth, was he r li•,: of O 1 the fishing i n dustry i n the waters of harel y scratched. A J'udge frorn Nortl'1it ' but i n th e Pacfic. Its rapid development i n way who happen ed t o h e i n Dover at . , goY recent years is due in n o smal l m eas- the ti m e learned tl1at bo th of these . ·d t[iio· up · t}1 e:i, J unty c 0r ure to their enterprise, and some men were Norwegians, and brought branches of it are sti l l l argely in th eir them together. They were gl ad to <'xperiences in hand s. The halibut fisheries ,far o ff meet, but did n ot seem to regret that th<'ir n ative bn I. Tt t r nu 1 )er of ,1 . ' the coasts of Washi n gto n an d A l a ska thev. ha<] tried their best to kill each that i n f.uite t1 1 tli, 1rst \1 er ,-. I gove ,1 m ay almo st be said to be a Norwegi :111 other. "Elflch of them," say;; the judge . · .c orw •"i 1i. '.l p " o , e �_· c.ame i ri'l c' <' e some 3 00, 000 Yes- "appeare< 1 to tlun i t1,;en tion. To,lay , • 1c th at ti1e_ fact tl1at co,itact w'th ,, .1 one laig I oI In. sel s of a special Norwegia n con stru e- b oth were son::: of Norway m n o way . tion are engaged in d eep a halihnt int� rfered with or wPakenerl the al - ow , nw.k:rw. Their IM tici,at on 1 1 . fishing, virtually al l owned and m a n- lep;iance they had taken to a n other the · 'n " t ::igtme'n or kc t! pul I i . 1 i f l� JJid r, thEi, ith ._,, pctce keJ,t fair., have e Tl . s Nonvegia11 by ikel ned count ry." �i,readincr " and gro\\ i n g settlemenb. ·wise been forem ost i n 1he deve lop· 1 of an l1 ·1s- Both as voters and loc<,1! officials th ey The incident is typ1ca m , ent of the herring fish_rie s of Alal::i - toric trai t of Norse character. Wher- have been a progressive element, p rnka, and any importan t improve m ents ever, 1· n t1· m e�'.' prst, th e Norsemen es" in prepa -ing fi sh products for_ the tab l iHhed the m selve s , by force or viding· mean.,, l'or pu blie sc J 100 I ;, roa, I s, ,, arket a.rt.I i n catching st�l m?� �n �h e , peacefu l i mm igratio n , in Norman d y Lridges and othe1· bPttf 1 nLri ,. A. . in their open sea re cl ue to thei r mitrntive. Enroi an<l, Scotla n d , Irel and, the Isle managers of publi c fu d theii· sen fiom cho cial off e, char i The n in rity of Norwegians who of Man, or els0,vhere, they assim ilated ranks have e."tauli. hed 811 em iable have suttlecl in our cities have been ')Uickly wit11 the native popu l ation . It J"ecord for trn�lwoithiness aPcl h on adive in m nufacturing and other ,va!': probably not tlrnt they loved th eir ty. As me m uers of stJ.te legi ] "' e formfl of J?r luc ion rather than i n native la n d l ess, hut that they loved they have npporterl �an , pro comniercf' MaJJy are employed as m e- thei r new ho m e, where they were l iv- tu re: gressi\'e policie,: and measur<' ;. Many h arvester shops, l anic in railway c ing a n d worki n g, and fighti ng for it have held positions as state o fficial ·, works am! other pl�nts of sim i lar kin d whenever necessary. e;;pec1a • 11 y as sta te treasurers, an< l The Iar�est phmt in the country f·or It would be strange if the same llot a few have served on tile bendi m aki1tg tool-making tools was estab- were n ot true of the Norwegians, who lished b,v a No1·wegian i m migrant and I h ::vc com e to the U nite,! States, pm·- 01 district or Hllpreme courb ot ihEir is n ow in charge of hi s sons . In the ticularl y_ i n Yiew of th e fact that, with re., pr ctive ,;tat0s. lt 1s general ly recogn ized tli,"� t tli ",� i\liddleW :,; t Norwegian s are extensive re spect to pri n ciples of government m , nt of our population is, 011 the ele In recent years makers or fttrniture. , n c l social conditions, thf>y h ave i n thi s tl1ere ha been a large i n flux of Nor- country found hut another, a larger wholf>, a :::et of law abiding, h ard work wegian e11g;i,1eers an l archi tects, many and fr�er , Norway. The Consti tutio n ing and thrifty wop l e. Near nf kin to of whon• h ave distinguished them- o f Norway is r-;ccoll(] to that of the the nrog-inal A merican stock in liiood elve s in Jhis country. A mong their United State s as the oldest wri tten rnd politic1.l ideals Non,e'11Cn A m cri achi evemPnts are the Wool worth buil - or ,.,n·anic law now i n force in the canizc readily and quickly. Tl e firs t ding i n Ne•w York Ci ty, th e ra1-1 way worl d, an d like its prototype, e stab- (immigrated ) generation shows a h1p·h t h e li P.h es a gov •-p1c11t of, by and for the perc<'lltage of n aturalization, and thei r • tunnel uncler the Detroit river, Harle 111 river :,;ubway tunnel s, the people. T "riain di ffe rence is that ('hi l dren ;ii·e (u l lfledg:ed An1<'ricam,. 'rhey an' a JJPopl e of home '�,\'·11er» n ew railway bridge acros s the N iag- Norway s O', ' forty year;; ,tg_o _adopted • • whether the, dwPI! in citie,., or m rur• e system of pm·l i me an. · a:ove ·ua riv<'r a n u m ber of brH• lges , partl Y th ., on new I ines of construction, i n Chi- lnent and that, co11seque11tl :1 , the e ;.l di tricts . Their perceningl'. o f' the P1 ace s, ecutive is dom i n ated by tli Ieg-isla- the J•OJlll l ation s of jails, pen ite1 1tiarI<•s ] cago, l\Iin neapolis an d otier other tive power. The systems of l oca l gov- an d poor house" ar,, low. k;·scrapcrs in m any citie>:, and • Jn war as i n Jieace tl1<'y h ave don° an(,, ernments obtai nin(),· i n ih f> two coun• out. t�ndi-1g work;; in eng-ineermg · 1rchi tect ire. The foremost m et a1 - tries are alike in princib le if some- their JJart as good citize n s. When thf> fell upon t he l urg i st in the cou n try, a n off•i cer a f · w ha t differen t i n matter;; of organiz- ;;hadow o f tlw C-1 i l War . the G ugg·enheim conc2rn , is an adopt- <1 tion. Suffraire i s general for ,m en country they were qu i ck to re;; pond t o and women there as hel'e. As a result thP cal l of Li ncol n. Tlwy h elped �1iat0 ed citizen o f Norwegia n birth. Ski-runn · ng: is a Norweg-ian contri- of keen popular i n tere st i n grippin g 1 ially to kN'IJ snch states as Wiscon bution to the list of om wi nter sports. issues which have divided pa rties for si n in l i ne_ and f�1 1·ni :,,hed rnorf' 'olt1t1ten1•s to the l niw1 ar n, t 1:m nn� I 0• I �othPr .e;rou p of people, native or for- JJrobah l y fajr to . ay tl :it i h r p<' ,plc 1 eign born, in p1·oportion to their m ea- \ of Nor8e blood in the- U n i te < 1 StatPs gre nu mbers at that time. The , Fif- have shown themselve s to be worthy teen th Wiscom:in regiment, made u p -; 1 � -;-:;· son,, -b-'11' an( (�Ug 1 e�s O f• a statem ( mgexclusively of. Nonv�gians, left ,mor0 1 t)ian one-hal f. of i ts rank ancl filf' on race. . the blood y field of Cl1ickamaug;a. The r "Rainbow Division," macle u p largely 0f Nol'wcgians an(l other Scandinavians, has written their record in the World war. On the sea they have been fi g·hting for America ever since the war of independence . One of Paul Jone s' strongest fighters was a boy he had picked u p in a Norwegian b ar- SIOUX CITY IOWA TRIB FRIDAY, .JUNE 91 l.ll•9• bor, an t! from that day to t h is a goo d I ly number of uncle Sam's salts h ave been chosen from among "the be st soldiers in the world." With bu t few and unimportant e.·e t a e h u �� :;w��ia:: ::;gu��;; [n :i11:: :�u �� I ,�:�t;::1 try have bee n, as f' 7 Honor Bestowed B.y Uncle Sam Upon Norweg1·ans , In Centenn1a• I Is ChaIIenge TO Norseme .,0 Keep �f •o Of Forefa hers, a e pastor DecIares R I n'bute ealisf=Jfh p t t t T emuTo R1allny Rev. 'w' they are, truly i1 r1 d g- l�� ;� !: • ·g-r!:si�: :�;; l ::� to rious battle fo r the common school . Since then th e y have stood with the great majority ·of their 1·eacler;., in ;.,up- l Around The Flag, poi-ting· progressive Republica n poliHoverstad Says cies on the lines of Lincoln and lfooscvelt. A few of them have ,e;iven their [The fo l l ow i n g article was p r e support to the variou s independent p ared by Rev . H elge H overs.tad, i f o e 0 movements that hav e sprung· up in th e t�fh ;,..� c ��-rc� �r;iou� �� ,� Northwest during the u nrest that lrns In» conne cti o n with t he N o rse O centen nial cel e bration �I d at 1,revailed in th at part of the country M i n n e apol i s, M i n n . , JJ'ne 1, a and a. J____ Ed itor's N ot�._ in recent years. Norwegian f:.irmcrs, who were arnon4· th e first to leave t l10 BY R EV. H E LG E H OV E RSTAD, reservation in su ch states as North Pastor of St. Peter's N o rweg i a n Dako ta, have also been among tl1f' Luthera n C h u rc h o·f Sioux City. first t o return to saner views. In the ago nex� One-hundred year s Northwest the Norse element and its F ourth of July a small sailing b oat, press, in common with the Swed ish, or so-called "sloop," a one masted has b een leading- in the war on intox i- boat of only 45 register tons, set . cants, at e very successive stage-h igh out from Stavanger, a seapo rt on license local option and general pro- I the southwester n coast of Norway, Aboard were • . • ' 1 heading for the west. h1b1t10n. , 63 men and women bound for the If any one man were to b e nan1 ed as new world-America. This was not the first Nor- zens ls a most thrilling cha1>ter th e ideal type of Norse character as it wo uld be weglan bo at po inting weSt• For the history of Norwegian Amer developed t;nder Old Glorv • . ' over 1 000 years the ol d Norsemen !cans. It will do their grand• th e late hnu te �elson. Lau cl,ng- here had piowed the waves over to children and decendants good to at the age of six he at once went to England and Ireland, Scotland an d read lt. · rhe pioneers laid a good work to h elp su pport hi;; widowed the islands n orth of it, to Icelend foundation. good I They were a I mother and af'.(JUlrc' an ed ucati on ; en- and Green land and about SOO years , stock, and generally speaking, had been here In th1s they have been who came after, This is the C o m m emorate M edal l l »ted during th e Civil w:n, a ho:,, of before, they But with them. country several times. Because of this fact al Described by Rev. M r. H overstad eightee n : settled on a h omeste ad m this boat begins a new c]l.a,p� centennial i s corning that will mark l\iinnesota, ,vhich ah,-ars ..renu1inecl h 1 .-; in the histor y �! nfr�Cy aod in , a new chapter in more than one trom our own church will preac� more 1 sermons. The best choirs from our h ome ; was dra fled into public serYicP the histors.Y of this _c ountry, f - j country. e.11pei::1ally of the prairie: and or I churches and schools will be ther e The C enten n i al hy his fel low citizen s, success fr el ) a . ests o f these midd l ewes ern s ta\es. I coun ty a ttorney, state senator, con- With t llis b oat begins the NorI do not kn ow wh o conce1ved the and also the best bands among our o ple. pe Sunday afternoon the official . g-ressman, p·overnor ancl United Stat.,_.., wegian immi gration to this country thought and first spoke o t a Norse representatives from Norway w111 r ican centennial but 1 know that Ame ; senator, filling- all positions with ern i- and it has · continued ever since, at our last year's church conferences br ing their greetings. For the kir.,g\ n ent .abili ty. As a member of th e sen- so today there are about 2, 5 0 0 ,000 it h " s been up and preliminary steps M inister Bryhn from Washington, or . less taken 1or a ceieb ration wo rthy of the D. C. ; for his cabinet, Hon. La::rs a te he won nation-w ide fame b y h i s people here with more k o rwegian bl ood In their veins. N occasion. The Idea and movement keen and sound jud::rement, his fnrnl, ry Those people left th e OId c o. untre has been growing all the time and has .__,, courao,·e, his tlwroug·h-going mel:hod to get m o re free_dom for gained the official recognition of this )1'tedahl ; for the starthin�Hon. Edof work, and his sturdy or even •;tern 1':tg.fO'i:ls' co vlctrefis, ""liri'd' N o rway and Ice - l·t or Ham bro, pres i dent of the for• country Canada , • e patrioti�m. He hacl --the goocl fortune to for their activities, a bett er futur • their land• The committee in Minneapolis eign relations committee ; for the for themSelves and must have had a tremendou s work to tti e with h is boot.� on, the second o l d · for en. • church, Bishop Lunde of Oslo, Nor• childr readiness. in e hing g veryt et e r est memhPr of the senate in service. we they Id 0 d l The centennial will be held 1n the way, and many others representing ur 'I There mav not he anothe r KnntP P0��' �� nf strength, coo,p sp acious fair the university, the press, the arts, State Minnesota . e h and 1 e� Nelson. Bu t h i ,; kmfolk m tlns conntry age and thr ift, h ..,1� ' grounds between Minneapolis and St. g eta. The Norwegian, so-called "Aca.• w they faith and piety, lool u11on him 'as• t he emho • ' linwnt • - o f' e-rei.�'t"" ; Paul June 7-9 inclusive. June 6 is . � . I they had h omes,i set a'.stde for the various "Bygdelags," demic Choir," a mixed organization t.l1e1r hec:t racial tr:uts, as an ex'1mp!P and rich. Sodp. of 60 hes, then schools,\ to follow i nsph·it i f his not.,,u hle then came chuic schools for highe that ts, organizations made up of pe o - B. A., voices, and each member a " will be there, and after the ple from the same dist:ricts In the o ld " elementary and achievements m·e with in the reach of learn lng. th crifices t sa centenni Whai al they will tour the countr;', country. There are 39 ''Bygdelags." 1 but a Jew. And on th e whol e it is pionee rs went to in order to br�ng � Sunday 1s for worship and c-Oncerts. On Monday, President Calvin C o ol • up th80i" children to Christian citl· The best preachers fro m Norway and I idge will spealc. Becreta ry of State I !� - I �:- B. kellogga1ill sfx governors-ot ' It ls the first time in the history of . orative Norse blood also will take part. TheJI United States t hat a commem Gunderson of South medal has been. ordered by our gov re Governors . Dakota, Christianson of Minnesota., I ernm ent. O ther medals have been � Blaine of Wisconsin, Sorlie of North ?01ned, but they have been for awards Dakota, Erickson or Montana and in case o f ex pos itions and sim ilar Whitfield of Mlss!13sippi . G overnor events. U n usual Disti nction General Byng of Canada will send a ' It is the first tirpe in the history of representative, as he can not come the United States that a two -colored himself, and there will be one official stamp has been issued, and as far as representative from Iceland. There now the first event honored by the will be a number of ex-governors ot I k issuance of two special postage Norse extraction and also unlversitJI stamps . presidents of the same trace. It is �he Tuesday will " be given to sports, th 0 United first time In tho history of States that U;ie president several meetings ..i.ud an elaborate w . ll have left the White House and i pageant lllusti atlng the different traveled halfway across this wide phases of th1a1 life of the Norse-Ame r• country of ours to deliver an address \can. It is built around the life ot In honor of foreign born citizens and 3-en. Ohr. Hegg of Civil war fame. thelr descendan ts, Without other en Not the least interostlng will be the ga ients of any kind. nuseum, where old rel!cs brought ftt:s well known that President 'rom the old countr11 .1Jamples of what Coolidge does not go out on speaking he Norse-American· has produced by tours as some of the former presi·,1� hands and brains, will be on ex• dents did. It is rather bard to secure 11b!t. him for an address, but he said he A Big Event was glad to go and speak at this cenThere is no doubt but that it will tennlal. When it became known that b e the biggest event and the greatest the president was to speak 'at that gathering of people in the h istory of centennial there came to the White the Twin Cities. They expect from House a flood of Invitations to speak 3 00, 000 to 6 0 0, 000 visitors . It is not In the cities he was to pass through, a little church event. It is not an but the president refused, saying: event that lhas its Inspiration and "I am glad t o speak at Minneapoliaa,. limit within the foreign born and for I regard that centennial, marking their descendants. Four nations are the organized immigrat i on from Norway to this country, of so great officiall y taking part. It has been recognized by our go v- national Importance that I will not ernment by the fact that congress lessen it by making another speech, ordered the Philadelphia mint to coin either going or coining." To my knowledge, a secretary of and 1ssue a commemorative medal, · of silver Identical with t� silver used state never before has gone so far Ir our coins. It is about the size of away from Washington to address the half dollar coin, but is octagonal. such a gathering. Incidentally both One one side abov e a Viking ship ls President Coolidge and 'Secretary the inscription : "Authorized ·by Con- Kellogg will be accompanied by their gress of the United States of Amer- Wives. It would be stupidity beyond de c!a," and under it ls tJhe Inscription : "A. D. 1 000 ." This date refers to the fense If Norwegians here did not discovery of America by Leif Erikson. realize the honor their adopted land On the other side ls the heroic figure ls ,showing our people and race. They of a Vikin g chieftain i n full regalia have a right to take a just and sen with the inscription, "Norse-American s!ble pride both in. the centennial and In the recognition it has received. Centennial, 1826- 1925." But they must not forget that it ls Forty thousand were made, and 1:f not already sold, they w!ll be sent a challenge. It calls them to thank by registered mall from the centen- God in heaven that the Norse pio n!al headquarters New Nicollet hotel, neers, those that came after them and Minneapolis, Minn., upon rec eipt of their descendants, have bee·n and are men and women of such character $1.25. Congress also ordered the post- and worth, that thi.s country could honor them. thus master general to Issue a commemorBut above all it calls them to be atlon etamp for the centennial. In fact, two stamps were issued, a 2 "true chips of! of the old block." They and a 6-cent deslgn. The 2 -cent must not only preserve the good rep atamp is red and black. In the black utation earned by their forefathers, space in the middle ls a remarkably but add to it. It calls them_ to rally clear engraving of tlli.e boat "Res - around their flag and liberty, around taurationen." Flanking lt on the bor - 1 thelr institutions and princ!ples an � ders on each side ave dep!ded the show that they are worthy sons figures that adorn the prows of the worthy sire.a. ancient Viking ships and the battle shields used by the old chieftains. The 6-cent stamp is par ticularly attractive. It is engraved In black and blue. A true picture of the now fa mous Viking ship which was sailed to the United States from Norway at the time of the Columbian expo sition In Cihicago, 1893, holds the cen ter of the stamp. The romantic ship •is flanked on the left by a shield with the colors fff the Norse fl,ag, and on the right by th e Stars and the Stripes. Both stamps are as fine pieces of engraving as the department ever issued. The inscription on both I stamps Is : "Norse-American Centen nial, 1825-1925," besides the regular inscription. I Summin g up the things done by tlhe United Statee governm ent In recogn!• tion of the centennial• w e find the following facts: II �IN O RW GIAN LUTHERAN CO N VEN' ea tes to �epresen t • TIO N W IL L F O L• Memb ership of 649,3 74 • . L O W CEN IAL Hisf o ry of: Chu rch ·in A merica ShowR First Sy.nod ! Org:=m i zed 111 1846 ; T11J'l.!C Branches Me rged Rt :Mcetiog Held in �"!. Pm 1 Auditorium. T h e f o l l ow i n g a r t i c l e wa s written e x c l u s i v e l y fo r the P i o n e e r Pre5s b y Rev. N . J . Loh r-e , secreta ry o f the N orw e g i a n Lut h e r a n ehurch of A m e ri ca. W This pecu l ia r i t y w it h Lile Norse t>m l- represen ted the sta t e c h u rch of l';or HJ.<-:11' 'l"te J!ilillPC-\WP • n · Cf'nlen n i fl l ee l hra tion closes 1 h f' N nr c; haract erist i c / way. Between 1 heRe , 1 wo _ extreme11 wegian Lutheran Church w i l t a5semnre rn St. I'aul A u d if-.orium for i 1 s gra n t is a naL ional it h t h e No rse people also i n the we find C, L. Clausen and J11s follow w i n lPmational conventi o n . T b i s OOd Y , wh ich w a s formed b y ;i, mergl'r com ple' . �,d in St. PauJ Auditorium on ,J lll1e 9, 1 91 7 , count s as it:, members h i p home land. ,vh e n in 1905 the chu rch ers. rlt>pa t·tmen t a ppointed a rationalist R i v a l Syn ods O rg a n i zed. I ;1 n d modern ist at leas t one-th ird of all A m ericans or. Norse extraction. a s pro fesimr i n t heolo 'l'he last report of the slatisLkirt n g ives the mf'mbershi p n s 3,HO con /!:y <1 t t he St.a t e Univeri;i t y, the Luth'J'hi11 situat ion creatPd a. rivall'Y gregations with a n actual m embersh i p o f 496,095 a n d an associate m em en1 n s of Norway e11t,i hJishecl their w h ich very cfl P n a m o u ntetl to int e nse own t h eol ng·ica l sem i n a ri' as a co m - compet i tio·n. 'J:he writer is convi nc;P•l bership of 1511,279, or a total or 649,374. The church is divided into nine distl''ict s , each w i th i ts ind ividual pel i t o1· �'H l'l the Di1· i n i t v 1<choo\ In the that t h e fact t h at so m any oC the organization. Only oue of these di stricts is in corporated, namel y, the 1'for :"! l a t e l l nivPrsitv. J n. �PM t h 11 n. :io descenda n t s of the Norwegian immi years t he s<>111 i nary or t hP congrf';:;a- gran ts have remained within the Lu- I wegian Lutheran Church o{ Canada. tion:s has ontrun the Di v i n i t y school t heran church is due to the fact t hat The i m migration from the nort h- A....------�--of t l1e st;1 t P. t h e immigra nt found i n America the f"rn S candinavian peninsnla froa i 1 h(' c,h nrch . Alfreil DeW i t t Mason, \\:'hen a pproxi m a t el y 1 , 000 Norwegian opportunit y of mal, ing- a. choice or t he y ear 1820-1868 was 78.528. P roral - l Pc t 1 1 rer on the h i1;1 ory o! Missions imm i;;rau t s had re;i ched America a church home. Ft1rlhermore, lie was 1 i n ;;- tlus between N orway and S wed � n i n 1 h e U n ion M i ssionary 'J'raini11g man appeared u po11 1 li e scene as ;i eage1· l y sou g h t by t l1 <>se w ho reprc t he re i s a possible immigration rron i J n ,a t i \ 1 1 t P, RrooJ, l yn, Kew York rrc- pl'eacller of the Gospe l . He came in sen t etl tl,e vM·ious 11ynotl s o rg·ani r.ed . lncl 1': o nvay during that period of :n,- o r(\s t h'3 follow i n g pert inent obed ience t o 1 he inner c;1 l l i ng wh i ch Com pariug t l ,e s t a 1 ist icf:i o C t ile g90_ The immigration from Norway c1 e n 1 : le d him into the service o r the Gosp el Da nes amt the Swc d cH, w lio tl iu Hot w i t h i t.\'< natural incre11.se d u e to 1 he l i ef t h e Lucky W a s C h ri st i a n . for th e benefit of his countrymen, have tho opport 1 111 i ( y o f t l l is ri v:l l l'Y, excPss or b i rths o ver death:;; \\ ill I "LJ e r l he Lucky was t he son o ! who were scattered from the western we fi nd tlrn l tlie No 1wPg'in 11 J,n t h e nrn t h e n stand as followsi : t llP Red, th P part of the state of New York to ehui·ch has . b0en mnt'11 1 11ol'e suCCl'HS l m m i grants N a tural Incrr a ,;<>. t b e Norseman, Erick reputed discoverer and colonizer o! north central Texas. He was a typ- · fol i n keeping its own than has t h e r n20-1 sG 9, s z3, 99o king of Nor- ica l Norwegian Jay preacher o f the Lu th eran chu rch a mong· the Swedes he t Visiting Greenland. J •'?.i 71;;�6 1 2 4 , 60? J �fi9-1880 w ay, who was a Christian, Lief was Han s Nielson Hauge type. He was and the J)anex. 4�'), flt6 easily J 8� 1.-l8DO 17 6, 636 The fi l'st book to be pnhl ished by led to embrace t he faith, a nd ordained to the ministry on Oct ober 6 41 • iol J Rfll- 1900 9s, 0 1 5 then determined to return to Green- 3, 1843, and became the first Nor- the Norwcgians was a book ot r<'li , 024 n,, land ,5o J901-J 9 10 l and Christianize the colonist wegian Lutheran pastor I n Am erica. gious i nst tuctio n [or t he c h i ltlrcn ;; l!lo 59, 954 1, 364 ,, 0 l r. from Iceland, J fll l - J 9 1 8 he second pastor was also a laym an written. by Pnntoppi d a u and cal l ed who had settled there. 60,00 ( E s t . ) 1, 535 , 21'> O n h is wa y, he was driven to the sout h 'J:·oming· from Denmark 1919-19 2 5 a nd being sen t "Trn t h Unto God l in e!'s." It WflS Blihave o by storms and i s presumed t F i rst Synod i n 1 8 4 6 , t he Haug·es a t Dra mmen prin c i - ing Eielson who undertook publishi ng on the coast o f New England. landed the for purpose o f gi v i n g t h e t h i s book i n 1 842. l n order to do so h e v The first synod a mong th e Nor - '.t'lrns, t hou g·h fo e 400 Y<'fll'S no use was · n igious i n 11 t rn, · t l on. 1-J e w a s j ourn e ye d from Ch ic,t g·o t o New Yori<, weg'ia ns was orga n ized in 1 8 46 ; th e made o f t h i s c1 i sC' o \·ery, t he con t i nt-ut o"11l'clai � ct rel t 1·avelin g t h e gTeater dist a nce on t o t hC' m i iii:a;t ry • a J i l l i e I n t e r foot. second i n 1853 and the third I n J 860 , or N ort h Am erica. wnR flnit v iRitetl by in t h � ell" 1 S 1 3 . "\\'hen the Norwegian Lutheran a C h l'isl ian Viking hound on an e 1·� ThP fl rl'<t 1· f.'l i g-i01rn p11bl i cil I ion w � si ch11rch was formed by t h e merger i n nu,ct fol' t he Jdng o r. N orway t o Will M i n is t e r A r r i ves. i ssuPd i n J 85 l a n cl was publ i RhPrl hy n 1 1 i t n umbered over 4 0 0 , 000 a n d t lie peopl e o f G reenland to Cln·ist. . L. CJ;i lll"en , A . C . I'reu11 anrl H. A , i C n irr a of c�� n · d n n i n h <'l d 11. common property est imat ;,d On reach i n g Ureenlnnd be establi sl1cd ( ' 11 ,·i�l i,rn i :i. t he ,·eg-1 rf y crl n - l'! t u h, fa_ ther o r PrPsident Stub of 1 hP. at ;�,000, 000 and the co11 grega t ion8 a C hrist ia n church in h i s father's col , ;1 f rrl 11 11< 1 ol't lR i P •st i n s 1\11 Nor e, /l i� h r w eg i an L ut heran church o! A me •· - 1 n i f · l'P et report ed a net propert y v alu a t ion or on v w h ic h con Unuect for 4 00 year,i or ,� m ,,ricn in '.E l l ing Eiel- / 1ca. These a1·e the early begl1;1ni ngs ?f ; t>. $fl,007,7ii8. 'J'he sta tist i cs for t lic 1m t il t he colony was fin:1.lly ahan son, s t a r t edJ � 4at . '.l'h work w Juch 1s now earned on in the con gr ega i n La. YP-11 1· 1 921 gives the foll owing n et d oned." (Outl ines of M i ssionary HisSE-Vera! larg-e establishments and by a I . . . Salle county, Illmo1s, where was bmlt large n u mber of papers and periodi v 11 l t1 P >< : tc,ry-page 33). Common property or Nor l n h i s search to establ ish the gen- the first common church property 111 cals. we;:-ian Lut h era n <'h\J r c h $7 , 849 , fi78 1 1 i n ness o r t h e Kensington rune ,;tone, 1841. 'l'he second, Pasbr C. L. ClauC o l l e g e Is F o u n ded. I'rn per(y of Congregations 22,094 , 7% Hja l me r :Ru el Holl and di scoYered a n se,1, organized the first congregation In 18o1 the Norwegi an� joi ned with N\ict iss t1Pd t,y King Mag-n us Eri k sson at Mlskego, Racine county, Wi�.. ,d 4 $29,944, u . . i . l . t . . . . in . . . . . . 'l'olal . . . . . . . . L1 1 t llf:'ra ns o r ol hrr 11ut ion a l i l.iel'! :1 ll([ 11t R!'1·gen on i he 28th d a y of. October, where t he first church w as b For a bout one-half. millio n descen 1 3ii4, from which we shall quot e : 1843. 'l"he third pastor, J. w. C. Die- fOl l lldl}d Nort herll J l l i nois l l ll i vPrsi t v. dants o{ the penniless immigrants " Re i t k n o w n t o 11 1 1 t h a t it. i 1; 01 1 r t richson, organir.ed a congregati o n a t T h i s " u n lve1·si ty" IR C'O n t in ned no'w who began coming some 76 years pu1 • posfl 1 0 send a n e x p<>di twn t o K oskonong, Dane cou n t y, W i s., i n 1rncler t ile n n m c· or Ca .. t lrnge collPge, a go a. com mon property o! $29,944.474 f,-ree nla n r\-ma y a l l k11ow t h,lt we n rP lSH, w h ere the se.conu chu1·cll was I ( ' u rt l1uge, I l l . In r nr,4 1,: 1 J 1 1 1g- Rielson gives a church valuation of a bout doin;:- t h i s n rit for t hP. sa ke or g11 1 n built t h e samr year. $60 per soul. 'l' urnlng to the finan b u t for Lhe honor of. Gorl a nil o r 011r These t h ree g·eographical locations c i a l sLalements covering receipts and ancestors who caused Chr-istia n i t y t o served as the startin g point for the C'U\ll'<Nl u. ''.� eml wny" lo J1e opeuecl on 1 d isbursements. duri ng the year 1 92- h e established i n Greenlan d a n d h;ne org·a n i za tion of synods. we h ave for the same constituency ID!il intained it u p to the pre.sPnt. t i m 'l 'J:he first synod to be o rg'an ized was a J)ropet"ty w h i t: h lie had IHl l'c hased hea l' Lisbon, l l l. '!'h e first i ustrnc t o r t he tollowing figures : 11 nd we shall not now pf'rm i t it t o f � 1 1 the Evangelical Luther a n Church of For the work in the local Into decay." Magnus Eriksson was A meri ca by Ell ing Eielson in. 1846. w a s P . A . Rasmu Rs•n, fathei· oc three congTegation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3, 2 5 2 , 2 1 :; ;al, 1 ha t time king of Norway and '!'he second to be orga n i zed was the pastors now serving in the Xorweg ian Lu thera Fo1· synodical purposes . . . . l , 2�6, 9H weden. synod for the Korwegi a n Lutheran semina ryn churc h of America . Thi8 not colltinu e very Jong church in 1853. In 1861) an. organiza but Eielsodid M is s i o n a ry T r i p Is F u t i l e , thoug·h t of establishi n g 'rota! con l ribu l lons trom Lion or Norweg·ians , Swedes and a semma l' n'srPm11 y i 1wd consta ntly w i t h In l il7 K i n g F1·ede rick f t 1 1 e IV o f Danes was formed, from w hich JO C' h U l'Ch memhPl'S . . . . . . . . . . $4,4i9, 1 :iC _ '!'he atiove ftg· u rcs baised upon of- Norway-Denmark s e n t .l: . P, )!)gecle years later developed t,vo independe nt h , m. T h e second e fCort w a s made i n 1 � 6:; w h e n 11 ,ic:hool w a s opened at tk lal stati1-l i cs t·a. refu l l y coll ected to preach the gospel for the rleseen synods. h oskonn nir, '\Vis. 1n 1 9 1 7 t he Lu t h e ,•a n ;a nd compiled reveals t h e fact tbat dents o r the Norw <'g·ian.s wh o Jmmi )!) J l ing E ielson represen t i n g th� 1 h<' N oi-we:rianss a 1·e making :sacrl gTated to C: recnlanrl. W h e n Ja;g•ectc u n iqne Jaymen'g moveme n t ,;tarted i n ch urch l� a il n,_e fol lo w i n g sem i n 11 ries : It ' L u t h P J Rem , na l'y i_ n �L A JJ l ho n y r flcrs for the ch u rch . l t is a proor anived i n G reen l a n d he .rnnn<l no Norway by t he great r<>former , .H 8 n s t h a t t he Norwegians have bro11gbt No1•wpgians. 'J'h<'y hnct e i t her emi N ielson Hauge, rep rese11ted 1 11 , � P11 ,· k, Lu t her �em i n a ry in H � rn l i n " wi t h t hem from t h ei r native land a� gra t ed or had been m n:ss/l <' l'Nl. 'l'IH'Se movC'men t in hh, mPt11oct o r work a nd cl 1,st 1· 1 ef_ . A 11irslrn rir ,:en, i n a ry i n :M in n noble> hcrit 11 !!'e deep de,·ot ion l o t h l'ee i nC' icl c n t s arn c luu·ad eristi c or organiza tion. .J. W. C. Diet ri.c h son 11 n d Red V\' ! n g Semi n a ry in 'orse co ilc. 1;t"'ei�'.r� _ th I I 0 ��'Ill ·r-:: ---! . I NATIONAL SECRETARY I I OF NORWEGIAN CHURCH I ♦- --------· . -· ♦ ., • , ..,.. .. t ' '� \[ ; � � �- . :� ('> Rev N. J. Lohre. T h r• a 1 1 t h o r nC t h<' /1 ('t:OnlJ>a 11 )· i n,: a ,., ic!P on 1 h <" N o ,·w,,.g·ia n C' h 1 1 rr· h o C A m r• r i r·a I� 1 t 11 n a t 10 n a l �Pc.1 ·1>t a 1·y, B ev. N. �- Loh r!II o\ Mayville, N. D. , I who ls shown a ho,Ei, J 924 it contrlbuled over -$10,000 to this ml�sion. (b). In lfa dag·asca r where 55 m l 11 siona freg operate 11 t J 6 d i ffpre n t :<l/\ t ions w i l h w h i c h Is connect Pd a mem f�� bersh i p o r 2,724 sou l s. 'J" he c h u rc h con t ri hu l e<l i n B 2 4 to this mission t h e sum of $07 ,801.7n. (c). C h i n a :M ission. The rn is11lon 1!1 ca rried on a t 17 s t a tions b.1• 106 mil! siona, ies. 'l'he nati ,·e co n greg·a t ions ,r "'/ n u m ber 6 , 6 77 soul s . F.' or t hi s mission th e churc h pai d out $191,723.95 in 1924. .....,. The total contributions from th e con gregations for foreign m i ssion in 1924 is $310, 824. In ·addition to these foreign mis sions owne d and operate d by t h e church t h e Norwegian Lutherans - S· ·· .·· · · · · fn 11r 1,;ol leges of the Norwegio:n Luth- one 1n :\[ i n nea pol i l'<, one ln Fargo, N give st rong support to the followin g e m 1 narl e 1 C o n s o l i d a t e d . D., ,r n d one i n S i o u x Fa l l s, S . D. If voluntary m issions: (1) Among th e eran c h nrch. I W i t h t h"> m erg·er i n 19.1 7 t h e follow - 'l'h " i':orwegi a n _ J,11t.he1·a n ch1 11·ch ;,.. d o i n g v('1·y P X t e n � i vP w ork i n horn, J ews ; (2) a m on g th e Santals of I n i ng seminaries were consolidated : h a .q one pro-,;em , n a ry, t v, o no1.�1a l fi llfl i n i:- 1 h rongh su hsidia ry corpo�·a• di a ; (3 ) among t h e M ohammedan -S<' hools, t welv e ;,cadem\P!I at. w hich lions clr n rt e1•p<l nn dPr the respectiYe K u rd:ai o r P ers ia . Lu tlrer Se� 1• nary in Hamline, Luther 151 t eac he r s gave i n 11t l'U ct l on t o l , R 1.7 � f a te,;, J n r nz< t h e congrega tions co n - By t h e m e rge 1· i n 1 9 17 the pnl11lsh in g Sem in ary 1n St . Anthony Pa rk a n d ,; ts durin "' the l ast schoo l yea r . t ri bu tcd to chari t y t h e sum o f $229 ,- h ou ses or. t h e t ln·Pe s y nods wP1·e <·<,11 Red W i n g Seminary in Red WJng. Jntuden 24 the c oi::'gregatlons contributed 08!'i . H 0d 1 9 t <'d. 'l'ile i nst i t u t ion 11 t a l < i l i<O '.1' h is se minary operates in � h e bui ld - f r education, Durin g t h e year 1 924, 3�4 pastors re- W i ng- w n il <'IM<'<i w hC' 1 ·eas l l , e -� 1 1 gs$273,952 . rngs of t h e Lut h e ran Semmary, St. o • . for d i aspora ceived work a tota l of 11eh \l rg P h l i l'l l i i n gH o use a l M 10 u · A n l hony Park, with a s t a ff ot n i ne In the F i el d o f C h a r i ty. · ; $20 3, 9 69 .77. I n a dd i tion to the dias pora. a po l i s a n rt t he Lut hera n P11hl i s h i n g· tcaeh e rs a mt had during· the Inst yeur '.l.'h e p ionee r i n t h i s a cti v it y w as wo rk the home m ission board a d - H o u se a t De,·ora h , J o w a <'on t , n u e u n 1 00 1<tndent s. h extension !11 ucls d<' r on e ma n a g·emen t. The t o t 11 I l>mn'l.'h e A 1 1g-Rl.> 11 rg l'le m i na ry i<'l the /l('ll1 i- Past or l,< . . T. Homme w h o fo11ncled m i nisters the churc t i Wittenl,crg, Wisconsin, ancl sl n rte(1 and superintends h e fol low n g l i nes n � .�"' no n P hy l h e P u hl i ss h i n,i;; H ot 1 1'(''n:t 1 · y of t h e L n t hcran li>ree c hu rc: l t. oE mission s : A mong 1 he J•:sk i m os of rt n ,· i ng 1 �24 i ,i $:ili,126.09 with a nrl 'J 'hc ftn1t L u t h era n boclv t o es t ab- the W i t t cm hn..: inslitl l t inul:! I n 1 &82•• A ln.ska, t h e A mericnn J ntlian"' or ga i n or $��.3/i/i,S<O, 1 1,.; h a sd1001 for h ig h er erti.1 ca t ion was W he n t he N o rweg ian Lnlh e ra n_ W i �c on >1 i n, the N eg roe11 or MinneThe N orw e g ian Luther11n c1rnrch I t he Xorwt-gian Sy nod a n d t he resu l t " c r h was forme<l by t he m e , g-e r ul a pol i s, t he R111lsians o r N'orn� Da- a J ,s o h /\ R a, pen11si ons'. I m m 1 gr� 11 t 80 pe nsionPrs were su pported dunng <· 1.1 1 1,:i; e . Lut her col lege started at ove r 1 1,e J ns t l l u t ,ons of chari t y o per - 111 ; 1 ,.; HI a Evang·e1 1 st 1c acL "· 11 1 es. t h P l a s ons 1 1-falrw a y C1·eek Pa rsonage, ne1u L:t at ed }Jy t h Pm . 'J 'h e N o t·weg l:.ill l ,1 1l ll- I 8 9U t yea r. t e c 1 ions ongTrg·at c•on t n ri lrn h T h e R n m , a l mPe l i n g w i ll OPPll l n 1 h e Cross e , Wi'1., i n 1862. '.!.' h e school wall era c h n re;h bas n i ne oltl p cop_l e s tc n 1 d t o 1 1,e e x pc n �e o( l id s depa rt - � t. Pl1 u l A 1H l i t o ri u m a t. 9 A . _ M . T11Pslocat e d at Deco t·ah , Iowa, i n 186,i, St. m , h v i ng a total n u m b e r o r m - me nt $�ii8,R::s . Ola! col l eg·e i n Northfiel d was open e d h o es ra 373, d a y w i t h rt i v i ne i;en· icess. i':o 1·eg u f ,i r va l u a- , . ou Ja nuary 8, 1875, and Concordia col - m al es f o 586 8 6 and ahaspl·operty p ro;::-ram Ji;i i; bern worked on t for t h e For e i g n M i ss i on . orpha n seven It $ . tion 9 , o con vention as ;, I f t h e t i m e_ w i l l he rl�leg·e was OJ,>ened in 1891. Sioux Fa l l s s , h a v i n g a to lal n u m be r ot ! n age '.!. ' l N(ll'Wf' i a I J,utl!era n n ch nrc,h e g L�t h ernn Normal school � as m e rged ot c d t o the regula r ro uti ne o f b us 1 te r , and a prope rty ,,a Junt 1 on carrif>s on l•'oreign �J.issiou activity Y c1<s. w i t h A ugns tana coll e ge 1 11 1918 a nd m a$ s ,.3o 58 2I n t h is i t o w ns as f l to add ion 8 i l n . of 750 o l ows: 'l'he preRldent v,JII read h i s rep�rt o pe rates u nd rr t h e n ame 0 t A ugus - 1 ra t w o deaconess home l'<- ( a ) . I n Z ul u , Natal, South Africa, 'l'uesday afternoon. The com�i t �� n a !J�i t h i;, ra n c'!l le ge l oc;itPd 11 t 1 ,1 a n d ope:,; ttes l s ; one in Brooklyn a n d ( ln connection with t h e Sch reud e r on a a n pi d ho teeR' to work d uri ng the convention 1 ,.,, o n x: J< 11 1 1 :,;, S . D . '1 h e:a e n re 1 he n t h ,c, o n e in C hicago ; three re scu e h om e", l\f issi onary Socie t y of Norway) . In w il l b e e l e l't�d and on W ed n e Ada v Ii�;,-__ ; �/ · ;., . � · --< � . I 1•. • �O l a ( Haf!, consulti n g engi neer, _l n - .;i-t h is press. M innea poJis 'Ticimoe , venlor or a new m ethod oi layr n� r ' found.er,. a veteran an_d . publisher, Thorv t i m ber, J i v Pd severnl yea rs ln M tnne- ' proprietor ald Gulterand t • sota and built a bridge across t he and present edit_or, Cari Hanse_n, ;? i e M i ssissi ppi. " 'l'idmde 1s the only No1w eg an Proceedl n � to the sl< illcd men ot . Dayti ;,est of Chicag·o. music it may be ::,aid, that t h� t r ad • - 1 daily There are and have been m'!-ny Oth�_ t J o n s c;f J\'orway ( Edward Gr•eg, Ol e er Norw egian paper s in .Mmn_es ot Bull etc, ) have been cani<?c'l. to the that have done good and fa1t.hfu1 f new• Norwegian, homel!, also the servic e i n promo ti n g 't h e wel r � � homes of Minnesota. rants an �, e r the Norw egian imm1;; P a • · 3 11 nslance Lut descen cfa nts, f'or· � · S t . O l af C h o i r W e l l K n o w n , " "' . ()11r N 01 t. .' Ron'.nin""s, the A n u m ber oi excellent choral an d g·ers, d 11 n d Fam1 1Lens · thB , n Magase 1 1• choir books have been issue?- a n d Frien egian Luthe ran church' new composers or fi n e music and Norwnerne " and Luther cbu�·c� ii.,.f,t songs have a r isen, J n stru.ct1on . In theraEdit or Lee, et�., e l c. music is given at every Norweg1a_n ded, many mo1 e, bu t �h! npl;ce scbool. 'l' he- performa n ce of the choir met1t ion allo w it. of one o E these schools, the St. )la( does not choir of Korthfleld, is world known. It h as sung before presidents and kings flnd the bellt musical criti cs._ Ch u rc h I s P r a i se d . A prom i n e n t M innesota mustctan St. Paul, Minn., Pioneer p,- - was Theodore S. R eimista d. J. Arndt A nd finall y- s houl d t h e Norwegian ____,,._ S= U= N=D,...A=Y.......l.I.INE...Ll.92 Be•"'h Erick O idee, Henrich M . Gun Luthe ran church per·haps have b een de;.;oi::, Oscar P. Hcrt�gaard, Osca1· offered the widest space for what it R. Oyerby, Harry Anderson are oth- hall laid down of ceaseless work anrl er unbending energ·y, of love and care l"mong the J\orweg'ian.-A mer!can for t he Norwegian-American people p& i nters, the most pr? m ment 15 a o r Minneso l a. Names as: Preus, M inncisola man, HerbJorn Gansta, Stub Laur Larson, Koren, Holme, that studied h is art in Italy, Germany etc., 'come to the front, JI.Ien that have Xorway. But several more could Jived and labored for the holy caU!'R I and be mentio n ed. . o f erec-ting temples for Christendorn 1 ptor, Jacob F.ielde, h t s a n d education -omong their landsmen. As I 11 1 1 n i 0p;n-rn t s ·w ho Scttlc<l i n :Min nesot a Roo r1 Bcc:arnc s tu d i oa insculthe '.f.'win Cities, takes the Minnesota and its large populatwn ra nk. B i g Ji'a e t o r i n G rowth o r Gopher �t aleI front . . ot Nor w egian descent for all tJ111e" Of lea din� men ln the m ed i cal s ci - w ill be i n d ebt to these educators and ence i t is snl'fici:3 n t. to put for ti, nnm rs men of the church for the manner in Many PTominent .e·ames List ed . m a n , . 1 IH� ct!lc. which they have partaken in every s n c l, all Bclw:nd Roecl< brated St. T'a1 1 l doctor. A n o t her ol_<t I event concerning their fellow men. i so mon i:r .I\U n ne r :i. doct o rs .18 J oy and luck, sono w and skkness 1 mer a Th .. fo l l ll w i ng :i rt i c l e was writ• • tion an d claspe d hands long an <l vl g- K nut o. K oe 1' h , Ot he r i,pl e n d ,d f fir st pioneer times until n o w. n mnc ii e n,·. J-I PTi r'k H. l\"l$,sen , Dr . Lromi< the s r te,, for the P i o neer P re ss by A. oro n i, l y. around all Minnesota tod 1< y. oo rncrP, rin Dr. Schelcle M a l m i n , ;\ N o rwegil'l n editor, g and C arl M. What ast onishing frnits of their "· or " ' Ro you are a Norwegian,' .says ·, , noan. who i, atten d i n g t h " Centen n i a l . '.I �� i e . • , . . of their prayers and above all or the Jn den tal sci ence Mm nPso l a ma) he grace of God we behold ! ChurchP ,1 M r. M a lm i n has spent c o n s i d e r • , S YP�, si r, ,, a:1 s w� J.e d, H o l m P. .,/l11d , eg a b l P. t i m e i n t n e U n ited S tates. it l_ook s a s i t Vi e Nn1 V1 eg 1a11� are go. [ r 1> a rded a s l ea ding,_ ow i n g to _ such and sch ools a n d hospit als an d c h a r m n as GP o rg·El R. l\1 011s011, s 1 . P au l, ity homes by the hundred call o u t 1 n 1 11f. , t o r n l e the _ la n d :i t l a s t ._ , e Jn 11 0 sla t e haY the Korwc;:;-ian W:h a_t do . ) ou m : a n , s1.1 . , a sked Al f rccl Ow r p , d ea n o E t he c1"!1 l a l cn l - the w hole worl d : Happy is the lanrl . e ge of the Universi ty o f Mmn e so l a. a n d a p y js l r t a imrn ign:i n1 !I nd t heil· descendaAfs he PL eside n t in su m ISP . t hfl sta-te of Minneso t :a , h p ti1a t, J/as s11c 11 1 a borers in it s v 111e • made themselves more conspicuous '"M e a n ? I m P:i. n t h a t WP Norw<'• I M a n y J u d g es L i s t e d . i � n s a l'P. b 1 1y_in� up tlie ln 11cl :r nd 1 m a . g than i n Minnesota. From the earl i - I 1�11 1srng t he _ch1lch A o n :N'orwegian-Am erica n .indg-Ps . e�, and t he f 1 1 t u 1 e _ i n this st ate w e have Albel' t w. ,J ohn - y '.l,:�1:· Norwegian Centennial is nn est days of the Norwegian i rnm!gra- 1 of A rne, 1ca 1s ours. of. the Unite[] son p 1Yr Olso n , G. E . Orvale, LPIVJ S irn rl ihf> . President e S tion thes hardy sons of the Vikings, ., ' ll a k e a gain, ' sai d Roosevelt." . id . e s ll e h d . d _ S. N e iso i� .A n d1·e w Gruitlelancl, �or- � ��nct�'.l •;:o/ ; f ,t n;1:i11�� ! �t.r l going West to conquer the innumere t F o l l o w M a n y L i n es. man '.I.'. Pederson and Gunnar N. Nor. 'tll the civilized world will turn able dl fflculties e.nd dangers threat,._. ' ',"h e 1\lf mneso • ns i n e l n b y. Of ccimt y an c1 cit y j ud g i> s t h e least t·a ,,orweg t s p;• e s l o ward s .Mmne sota, rn i u x t he a wnh t can be ci ted b ening the newcomer s , have shown alm o st a l l k inds of cultu rn l and p 1 ·0- n mber. e ceeds ' y heart h or t he Nor'll'egian -Amenca:na themselves, industrious, clever and f i'�s io nal pursuits, a s i n v P ntors, a rcJ1 - nam es m th i s 0 0I t n n • and the fertile sotl of Let the Vi-est. O E N or w egian ba nl, e rs the r e l s ci;: us h 11 u i t ects, e n g i n eers, m usicians, an d , o f. t e resourceful. in clo mg the onl y righ t. cours e-a s shortly mentioned aboYe- ! alnl y a great au d e S L eem <" d num , t he on l y nile w o r thy thin<>'; Let us fe l Here today they are a great part ai. preachers , teacher s, "v ri t e r s , pu b- lhroughout t h e sti1te. rl ' h eod ore W old prnua oi: these, our ;ood Amer1ca11 of the prosperous population of the li�hers, chari t y w orke rs, p u blic se n· - ls pr?m i n en t a m ong. tlH'm. iti zens, the Norwe g ians, that are en It is not . necessaiy. lo u s e manv cgaged state, Among t hem a re farmers, ice me n , etc. But the most of t he m, i n every k i n d o f honorabl" d ied :i_ words on hn u t e �ts � . b usiness men, politicians and slates - 1 n q uot e an e steemed autho1·itv on ,:en • 1 S t.� t es WO l'k i n nur gJorio 11s cou n try a n d ou r 1 o r Sena tor 0 � 1 t he q u estion "stay ed u pon t he an ; .�c � men. ' hi ;sl ea.ct' 01'v n great i:;ta t e and are making good f• Pst 1 fd home�tead o r m a d e a n ew o n e ' .A nol lter �en a i t � 1 _ e n ll_ decP n t 1:vll along 1 he l i n P ! n 1 e 8 0 1/ r o r � M innesota has profited by their l'ot' h i m se l f a n d h i s c h ilrl rPn o u t or ------: . § � g �:, � Pr en s a n d e o =• " 01·k In tlle l c·glslatures . churches l h e p u hl i c dom a i n in t he W est, re- are h n 1 1 e i t s�:iar ·so� ·a ntl Liem - , 1 1 1 a i n ; n g t b l'Oug· h lliR l i fe, a pla in a n d Th eod or� (', h �a n d schools, i n solving social e v ils by h:ur � and l - \\'01·k i n g fa rmer." te ua nt G o v e r nors • J•,' . !'ice " -MIN NES OTA NOR WEG IAN S o ffering th e i r best men a ll j ud g· es , A n il to i m prove 1 he possihll l t iel'I or Frank s on. Secretaries o_.f ti� preachers a nd doctors, ln the P_ro - ra ,·m i n g t ile NorwE'g ians a nd thC' i r . 'f homas : rede nc r: fess ion� s u c h a s Jaw a n d eng meer m g tlP,scentl an l x, a l so t hose or Jl,I i n neso t a , state John , S. Irgens, :B' TOTAL ABOU T 400,.J OO Bro w n. state auditors , Adolf Bie a nd ot her vocations. I n short i t m ay bcea me inven t or:-:. A s one o r. t hese 1 .________________ ♦ 0 [ . G rso:n, . �J Ive . · uel Sam ma , n who ns, i orw that the K . be ,:;aid, c'!· a ni1me Jolu1 P. Johnson, . Lichtfte l d, l? reus ; railroad comm1ss1one r., , � P. The Norwegian-Ame rican popula Wf'nt i n to l'vl i n n esota, a nu the ir d- "\Il i o n .. w J 10 i nven tctl the :fi l'st tw me l\L Ri n gdal and o. P. B. Jac? b ,,, o n , tion of M i n nesota tod�,Y iR estimated l"cendants haYe b e en workers. bi nclr r or 8el fbinder, ln J 8 'i"/. :i.n d Congr essmen, K n ute ?\el so n , t � he a_bout 400,�00. .[ he numbe� of . M o st Are F a r m e rs. ;15- Ole Y G la·oe a r " tte l H alvorso n Baldor E . B oen , :Norwegian-Americans m o ihe U nited l .A no Lh e r or n e Lanesboro, • • Mnm. ", w • - ho · H�ld or Steenerso'n , A ndrew ,J . V o l · St a t es i s placed by differen t authoriJ\fost of the Norwegian s in Minne- blacksmitb Scorrey Anderson Carl Ches - t ie �. fl om as h i g·h as 4,00C.000 and by sota, a� in the Northwest a t l a rge, I inven ted th e first sul ky plow o f Lhe 51 �ad ' ter v an Dy l, e, Ha rold K t� utson , A lge,· others 11s abou� 2, 5 00,000. The pr� sen t are fa rmers. And they have the beSt wol'!d. . 8 . Biertness, Ole J. Yvale, Knut We- po pu l it.t1on or Nor1Vay ls considerably J anel, w h ich is in a con d 1 t10n to b e n eg A a o g s other Milmesola Nonv i 1'. m Iald. August H. Andersen. less than 3,000,000. pro1 i,ri of. It m a y be said that the N'orwegian farmers h ave been mak- that have made themsel ves 1 llust n- , Their record 111 the history o f Mtn�---------------- i n g Minn esota, as wel l as t h e rest or ous l'and done honor to their state is nesota, t o be written down by a great . E. Mohn, St. Pau l, an arc lll - historian to come, w ill show wJrat, N. t h e northwestern stat es. . tcct of grnat ubil l ty. men M innesota endeavored to ra1s" In h iR recent b oo!, Dr. O. Jl,I, Norlie Thorshow of the Long and and what honorable of Lu ther college tel l s the fol low m g 'l' Olaf rn how company, Minncap olls, has i n exchange for the work t hey gan, ho honor given untu story : I • "Rev. H. C. Holm, president of a e r ected many of the tallest b uildings them in representing this great state. that city. For obtaining thei1 o ffices and district o r the Norwegian church, ofFrederick w. Cappelen, Minneapo- streng·thening t hem in their officia l happened to be in ,Yaslungton_ once !is, civil engineer, city engineer f om while 'l' heodore Roosevelt was m of- 1886 to 19 21, is the constructo o r he tasks our politicians have bad the r f t gTeatest assistance fr•Jlll the Nor fice. He called on R o osevp Jt t o pa y city fi l tration plant, the Northern weg·ian-Ame rican press. But o f st1ll h i s respects. Now, Holm. ( st ll l l1 vrn g) ci fi c bri dge and the Cappelen bn_Padge gl'eater impor-tanc e, these newspape rs i s a very imposing l ookrng _man, llJX : crossing the Mississipp known for and magazines have been in the i, reet tall, large-boned, we1 gh m g easil y hav i n " the l onges t concrete o span f laudalJle cause of enlightening the 25 0 pounds, w i th open, l<indly f ac e , the w�r l cl . He furthermore b uilt the people at l arge and f,,rwardin g the deep expressive voice, that can ea rry b l' id g·e o f Third avenue, and: Ced_a r cultural standard. T he Minnesota. a hi11! m i le or more. Jn s ho 1·t, a man - ave n ue bridge, of wh i ch 1t 1s sa id, Norwegian press may !y m an, sure to delight th e R o u gh i t i s going to be o\1e of the fiJ_l - their Influence ill thesewell boast of that dlrections H i d e r Roosevelt. These two men look- e st in America, is to b? e re ct ed m good and solid ,ioneer work is theirs eel at e ach other in m ntu a l a cl m 1 ra·- acco r da n ce to Cappelen . s spe c 1fl ca • We mention only one representative • tion�. ]mo rn lll g i ,e report from Committee N o. 6, clN1 l i n g w i l l \ 1 he li nn nccs w i l l h f' 1 11 ke 1l u p !O f' c • onsid f'ra tion , 'l' his l C'Om m i t l ec 1·e port II i l l . l!:1 1·e prr..:cd e 11,·c. '!'he ol lH' t· rPports w i l l be co11 side rNl in 1 11c ort!P1' 1·ecei ved . J r we a re t o j uctge l i y l lrn- exp1·es iaion1-1 o e p. u bl i c opi n ion voi ce<l in t l i e c h11 1 ·c-lt pnpCJ '!l a rHl t h e Recu l n r Nor WPg i n n p1·1,ss, t ile q 1 1 e:,,l i•On of re - or g·u u ixn t.ion w i l l , n o do11 1,t, occupy con ,;idcrn ble t i m e ut' t he convention. 'J'he oflicers of thP Norwegian Luth era n church a re : President, 1-l . G. Sl!ub, D. D., Lilt . D.; v ice peesident, J. A. Aasgaard, D. D. ; secretary, N, J. Lohre. M. A. ; treasurer, :hlrick ·w o.ldcland. I I f lf I ,t Norweeians Play Heavy Parts Developing State 1 r� I I �MinneapoH �, 1,1inn., Mor, Tri'' -'nc NDAY MAV t, 19 of the Norsemen ·- Ill Ain erica tennial, to Be Cel-ebrated in Twin Ci,�ies J une � o 9,,, Recalls Summer ay 'm I'S215'"\'Vnett/�iny One-111:asted Restau�at10n Set Sail for America wirh 52 Norwegians ' Seekmg Home m . N.e WorJd.-Repo rt of Kleng Peerso n, · After Three 1ears ot Invest1g a,�10n in America, Persuaded Countrymen to Voyage to Promised Land. '-------------------�1derness----:rna 111------iieve1ornng t11e M ls• The Norse-Ame·rican Centen sisslppf valley into one of t)1e most nial, which will be observed in productive regions of ihe world. -They the Twin Cities Jime 6. to fJ, have played a memorable part itl the marks the one-hundredth an bu ildlng o! this gre1tt western empire. n-iversary of the arrival in Amer Eady Explorations all<l Iuunigration. ica of the sloop "Restaurationen" In "l'eality the saga of the Norsemen with its 52 Norweg•ian emigrants. tn America does 11ot begin with the In a series of articles which he coming o! the famous sfoop, for Norse has titled "The Saga of the men were the first of Europeans to set Norsemen in Ar.:erica," Martin ' toot on American soil, and at various W. Odland, of Robbinsdale, has times between the years 1000 and 1825 writ-ten tlie story of the Nor restless men from the north came to 1 _ wegian's migration to t:iis _ con our shores. That Leif ])rickson landed tinent, of his settlement here and in Vinland in the year 1000, 18 yeai·s of his contributions to the politi J&fter Erle the Red discovered Green cal, business and artistic l-ife of iland, and shortly after Bjarne Herjulf the country. Mr. Odland is a eon saned along thii coast of America, graduate of the University of ill now a well established fact, and reW-isconsin where h 0 held the 4:1ently qlscovered evidence indicates Henrik Wergeland s, lcirship in that in the year 14 72, King Christian I. Norse literature in 1 ,,99-90. He aent an expedition to Vinland with has written extensively on Norse Didrik Pining as commander and Jon and Norse-A?1ierican historical Skolp as pilot. It is also known that in and literary subjects luring the 1 121 Bishop El·ik Upse of Greenland past 20 years. "The Sa,ga of the led an expedition to Vinland, never to Norsemen in A merica" will ap r. 1·et'urn. peai· in several ins tallments in During the seventeenth century thou The SundfJl!j 1'ribune.-Editor's -.inds of Norsmen served in the Dutch Note. niarine and many of them accompanied the Dutch to their colony in New York. By Martin W; 0dland. Indeed, a tew Norsmen participated in It was the fourth day of Jul�-, 1825. tti,e establishment of New Amsterdam jn 1613, and it is maintained that the ;A little one-masted ship of 45 tons ca :first white child born in New York t>aclty was sailing out of Stavanger was a Norwegian named Jon V!nge. harbor, its prow pointed toward the I According to 'Torstein ,Tahr, a well North sea. On its deck slood a group known Norwegian-American scholar, �, ,;ien, women and children, most of I Anneke Jans, a native of Marstrand, tbetn dressed in the garb of Norwegian Norway, came with her husband to l)easants-the plain homespun so fa• ?-few Amsterda-q-i in 1632, and became millar in song and story. Some of the quite prominent, first as a nurse and -women were shedding tears as they later a;;i the wife of the Reverend Bo· waved farewells to friends and rela gardus. , Sh'e owned a rather large t!ves a.shore. The men were looking tract o! land on Manhattan island seaward, hope and determination on :and her descendants have referred to their faces. It was the sloop "Restaur her as· the ·" princess." It is also main• ationen" (The Restoratk,n) just starting ·tained that in 1704 a Norwegian church I cm a memorable voyage that was t_o 'Was built on Manhattan island and end 1 4 weeks later at the docks of New that service·s in the Norwegian lan ;York. guage were conducted there for many Though none at the time realized its years. l<'urthermore, it is said that a i!ignificance, the sailing of that little : number of Norwegians located In the S:hip is an epoch-making event in his Swedish colony of Delaware establish tory, for its 52 .passengers formed the I ·ed there in 1638. vanguard of a friendly army of invad It is well known that several Nor ers that took possession of a goodly · wegians fought on the side of the col• portion of this broad continent. They onies in their struggle fot• independ :were indeed, �nce, the foremost of whom was 'l'hom :as Johnson, who served under John "The pioneers Paul Jones ;mcl took part in the fa Of nati,o ns yet to bemous victory of the "Bonhomme Rich- : The first low wash of wayes ard" over the "Sei,apis" on the English I Where soon should roll a hu• coast. He died at the United States I n1an sea." naval asylum in Philadelphia, July 12, 'l'oday over 2,000, 000 N01·seme11 clwell ' 1851. i In tbe land of Leif the Lucky and are l{leng Pee1·son, the Pa-th.f nder. numbered among the most prosperous But there was no real migration from people of the earth. 'l'heir settlements Norway, to this continent before the and institutions are found in almost coming of the sloop "Restaurationen," every utate Of the u nion, in almost nor Were there in America any perma every province of the dominion. 'l'heir , nent settlements or colonies of a dis '1'\l orth as citizens and i he value of ' tinctively Norse character. The migra their services are recognized by c.11. tion responsible for the large Nonve They and their fathers before them glan :population of America began in li-ave been foremost in conquer_ing _ !�1e 1825; hence the appropriateness and aignificafice or- - i:ne Norse-American cen tennial. , Three men in particular played a. prominent part in the migration that began 100 years ago-Lars Larson, Kleng Peerson and Ole Ilynni11g. The first was the leader of tho sloop party. Born in Stavanger, September 23, 1787, he serv.ed in the Danish navy during the Napoleonic war until 1807, when l1e was captured by the British. l<'or seven years l1e was confined in a Lon don prison, where he learned the Eng lish language and was converted by the Quakers. Upon his return to Sta1'ange1· in 18 16, he, with others that had embraced the Quaker faith, began i>roselyting among the common people of Stavange1· county and formed a �ociety of Friends, which still exists �the only ene in Norway. - l!!!ome of th,ese Quakers and other dls iienters from tho state church '"iecame ciissatisfted. They felt out of syn-ipathy •Ith their neighbors on account of their irellglon, and their economic condition, llli!e that -of the eemmon peo..Qle...-J)C Nor- 1 way in general, was deplorable, largely as a result of the E uropean wars. 'J: hey had heard favorable reports about con ditions in America and looked to the new ,,,orld as their future home. It is also safe to assume that in their de sire to emigrate they wet·e influenced by the old roving spirit of the Vikings. 'l'hey were too cauUous and prudent, howe¥(ll', to emigrate without obtain ing moPe definite information as to act ual co11ditions in America, loo they sent two men rwross the Atlantic to make an investigation. One of these was Kleng Peerson. And thus there was brought into, the saga of the Norsemen in America this remarkablo man who,' for 10 years, 'was the pathfi nder -o-C his people in tbe new world and dedicated _his life to their prosperity and well- \ being with a zeal that k1,ows no paral lel. Kleng Peerson! It 's a genuine Norse nam e-a melodious name that rings lovingly in the ears of his countrymen in the new world. It's a name that, Jong ago, should have been carved on an impressive monument reared in his honor in the midst of this western em pire which he helped to build. A Genius and Dreamer. Ii::!eng Peerson was a genius, a dream er, a rnoclen1 knight errant, always helping others, u nmindful of himself. He had traveled extensively in Europe, had learned the English, German and :B"rench languages, in addition to his own, and haC: a rare faculty of ming ling with all sorts of people and gath ering information. And Ile had a pe culiar gift of expression. 'Where,'er he went, people listened to him, believed in him. 'His faith in AmeriGa was boundless. To him it was the prom ised land of his people. One night t 1833, after a long, weary tramp over the trackless prairies west of Chicago, he sank exhausted to the ground and had a vision. "He dreamt," says Pro - essor Rasmus B. Anderson , "that he �saw ffie wild pra1rTes changed into a cnltivated region , teeming with all sorts of grain and fruit most beautiful to behold; that splendid houses and barns , stood o.11 ovet· the ·1B 11d occupjerl by a rich ancl prosperous people." When IGeng awoke he felt that the Almighty had revealed to him the fu ture home of his people. He thought of Moses anti the Promised Land and believed that he, like Moses, had been commissioned to lead llls people from bondage-the bondage of poverty-to a • land of plenty. It was three years before Kleng Peer son reutrned to Norway. What places he visited is not known, but he saw and heard a great deal. He found in. New York quite a stron g and wealthy col ony of Quakers, .who encouraged him to bring his frien ds to .America, prom ising him their help �n. getting them settled. He went back to Norway filled with enthusiasm for America. Here his people could enj oy complete freedom of thought and worship, here there were no elass distinctions, here the poor .man could obtain a homestead almost for fue Bsking and be the master of his own· destiny. His reports created inteuse interest and enth usiasm among the common ,people of Stavanger county. They flood ed a1·ound him wherever he went, lis tening to his glowing accounts of the new promised land. But how to get to the promised land was a problem. Lars Larson solved it. He l1ad become a man of some • means, and, with the help of five others, bought a little sloop for 1,8 00 Norwegian oollars. He took the lead in all ihe preparations for tl1P expedition . It was he that engaged the j captain, Lars Olson, and the mate Erikson. Baby Bom on Board. rI a: L�rson wa s a passenger on the its memorable voyage in 1825. · nmoe1·. To crear tnis land meant years for some time th � 1 of ·11ar� work and pioneers endured actual want and pri vations. 'l'he surroun ding country was I then • but sparsely settled an(!, there was little chance to find employment or shelter. 'rhey made their first earn ings by thresh\¥ _!;ain with a hand · flail, threshin g�nes being at that The.kt- ye:-:::;; roke u p on an d, which they rst crop_ gave them support or 1e nt"xt winter. rse of time they became The voyage of the tiny shil) was both I perilous and romantic. Crossing the North sea, it passed through the Drit · fairly pro erous, for the soil was rich; 1 but the had acqu.ired too ish channel aml , foe some reason, went little Jand as far south as Funchal, Madeira isl and many of them longed for more and , where it came neat· being fired ' .room. The settlement did not grnw upon by the authorities, bec.am;e of the and flourl.s h, like most of the settle crews' failure to display the ship'$ col ments later founded in the west, but ors. lt reached New York on the ninth of October. All of the passengei· s land, ed safe and sound and their number never Jost its identity as a Norwegia r, had been increased on the way by the community, Immigrants located there birth of a daugh er to Mr. and Mrs. from time to time and helped to keep Lars Larson. Sh was· baptized Mar alive the language and the traditions garet Allen tn ho or of a prominent 1 of the honiela11d. � Margaret Allen Larson, wl10 later be Quaker lady who had befriended her father during his imprisonme nt in Lon• came Mrs. John. Atwater, �; Rocheste� : don She developed into a womdn 6f N. Y., was known as the sloop baby rar; beauty and refinement. In 1857 for she was horn on the "Restaura she married John Atwater of Roch- tionen" on its voyage to America. ester, wl;lo later became a prominent brou gITT: -a. mgge;r:--mrt'go ana 111ore pas Chicago publisher. She died at an acl - sengers than a vessel of that size was vanced age, loved and respected by her allowed to carry under the laws of the neighbors. She will live in history as United States; so the captain, tars O1the "Sloop Baby." One of her chfJ. son, was .arrested and the sloop, with dren, Miss Jane Atwater, is a promi - its cargo, was seized by the custom nent teacher in the public schools of house o fficials. But the Quakers, that Chicago. had befliended Lars Larson and others 'fhe arrival of the sloop party at- of the party in London, came to their tracted a great: deal of attention, not rescue now. Th.ey convinced the au• only in New York, but also in othet' tho1·l ties that the innocent homeseek places. The New Yorl, papers printed ers were ign orap.t of the American laws ex,ttindecl notices of ,the unique com- a11a should be treated wlt\1. mercy. The pany of immigrants, some of which ca ptai n wa 3 thetefore released and the I were• reprinted by papers in other cit- sloo p with its cargo resto1'ed to its cwn. !es. The New York Dally 'Advertiser ers, Treated \Vell by Qu:iJ,ers. for October 1 2 , 1825, announ·ced the coming of the sloopers in a very inter• •Too m ucl\ cannot be said i n praise esting article headed ''A Novel Sight," of the treatment accorded the immi • in which it said · that the "appearan ce grants by t he .Quakers: They gav e of sueh a party of strangers, corn ing them food, � helter, clothing and paid from so .distant a country and in a ves• their expensel! to Orleans county, New sel of a. size apparently ill-calculated York, on the ll0Utheaster n shore of for a Voyage .across the Atlanti c , could Lake Ontario, which Kleng Peerson not but excite an u nusual degree of had selected as theit- _h ome and where i interest. An enterprise like th is argues land had . )) een purchased for them at $5 a good deal of boldness in the mas t er per. a c re on very ea�y terms. of the vessel, as well as an adventuro1.1s There, in the town. of KendalJ, these 1 I spirit in the passengers." brave simple folk founded the first 1 Th e newcomers reached New York perm; nent Norwegian settlement in I 1 entirely destitute and found then1selves America. Each family secured 40 a.cres j I i n serious trouble. Thei l- little ship of l an d , covered with dense h,ariiwood 1 �Minneap olis, l\ SUNDA Sa ga of the No rse me n ill Am e ric a of Norw egian-America ns Have .Played Important Part in the Upbu ilding e Nors of Painting, Musi c and {. iterature i n Ame rica-War Reco rd Conflict Grou p in Unite d State s Shows Members Took Part in Every N atioµ Was Entered. the r S-cn6o ln:-wffinipeg, wliose~ specialty7s' served in tbe northern army_ duringWis 16th landscapes; Emil Bjorn, Sigurd Schow Civil war, one regimen t, the regi Christian Abrahamson, Joh n s. Wittr µ; consin , known as the "Norwegianentlre and John H. Carlsen, all painters of Chi•· ment," being composed almost their cago; Sigvald Asbjornson a nd Gilbert lj, of Norwegian immigrants and this regiment, P. Riswold, talen ted sculptors of Chica- 1 s,ms. The commander of a Nor go; and the late Jacob Fjelde, the sculp- Colonel Hans C. Reg, was also when a tor, who fashioned the Ole Bull statue wegian, who came to America settle in Loring park and the famous G ettys, boy. He lived in the Muskego figure0 ment, where he became a leading burg nw.nument. r and un The name of Ole Bull, the great Nor- because of his high characte the lead• of wegian violinist, is inoeparably co nnect- rsual ability. He was one a n party in Wis ed wi th Norse music in America. The ers of the n ew Republic on of being greater part of his mature .-ears were consin and has .the distincti rican to hold By Martin W. Odland. spent i n , this cou ntry. :)l'or some time the first Norwegian-Ame a t of state th office, HE craving !or bea uty is deeply he- lived at Madison, where his resi- an elective state imbedded in the Norse race, due, dence is now the executive mansion of prison commissioner. He served in that when he resigned to n o doubt, to tbe i n fluence of Nor Wisco m;in, and for a con sider.able period capacity till 1861, way's unriv alled natur al sc:enery-her h e also resided at Cambridge, Mass., form the 15th Wisconsin, which he matchless fjords, her mountains her where h e was an intimate friend of Long. commanded with sig nal ability and valor glaciers, her forests, her lakes ' a n d fellow a n d several other noted authors until he fell in the Battle of Chicka tarns, her streams and c ataracts her and scJl,olars. Ole Bull was the Idol mauga, September 20, 1863. A mo nu weird norther n lights, her glorious' mid of the American public, as was Jenny ment was reoently erected in his honor night sun. This craving or instinct has Lind, the famous Swedish singer, Both at Madison, by the state of Wisco n sin. found expression in some of. the most ot; these immortal artists rendered in- ' An other Norwegian that rose to the beautiful lyric poetry ever produced in valuable service to Scandinavian musi• rank: of colonel in the Civil war, was foll-: songs and melodies that have a cians in America; they prepared the Porter C. Olson, born in New York in wondrous charm, in paintings and way for them and helped th em to win 1831. He was a school teacher at Lis sculpture, in the splendid ornamenta• the popular ear. bo n , Ill., when the war broke out and , tlon and wood ·carvings in churches and There _h ave been a goodl y number· 0� ',eft his position to form a company stone monuments of early times, in Norse sin�rs in America who have largely composecl. ot Norwegian ilnmi needlework of the Hardangcr variety e.ttained national d lstl ncUon, forem ost I grants·. He was captain o f this com in the quaint stave churches of Nor of whom is the famous opera.tic star pany and later lieutenant-colonel of the way, and in the bright-hued flower _or Madame Olive Freznstad. Norse s!ngin; 3 6th Illinois regimen: • . He fell in b at• namentati � n on chests and ouseho\,Q, societies, choirs and bands have also tie at Franklin, Tenn:, November 30 ' utensils 1n the Norwegian armers' obtained wide popularity, as, for in- 186 4. Norwegians were well represented in homes. stan ce, the famous St. Olaf choir of Tllis i n stinct has asserted tself Northfield, Min n ., which leading critics. the battles of Santiago and Manila bay �mong the Norwegian people of � er- of New York, Boston and Chicago have where, it is said, the first shot was fired 1ca as well as in the mother coun pr�nounced _without a peer in Am erica. by a � odern Viking. It is impossible not as perfectly or beautifully as in th This pi;-e-emmence is due in large meas- to estimate the number of soldiers of works of the great masters of the home• F-. Norse lineage that fought in the World , land, but nevert h eless suggestive of ure to the_ exceptional ability of Melius Christiansen, the director of the war. Of the 78 America ns that received genius and latent powers. During the choir. Among Norse-American bands, the Congression al medal of honor, at past generation a, number of Norse that of Luther college, Decorah, Iowa lea st four are of Norse descent-Ser painters and sculptors, most of them d_oubtless ranks fi rst. What Mr. Chris'. gea nt Reidar Waaler, Corporal Birger trained in the art schools of Oslo have tiansen has done for the St. Olaf choir, Loman, Sergea nt Johannes S. Andersen w@n recognition on this side �f the Prof�ssor Carlo Sperati has achieved for and Private Nels Wold. Sergeant Wa aler Atlantic, Perhaps the best known is his band at Decorah. Its tour of Amer- was signally honored by the officers Jo nas Lie of New York, a painter !ca �n� of Norway in 1914 was from of bis division, the :!7th, upon the re• whose works have a. remll,l'kable va• be_glnn mg to end a series of musical turn of the army to America, when, as riety. He has p.i.lnted nature jn her triumphs. the most decorated man of the division primitive mood, rocks, hills, forests, Th Norse group in America has so he was commissioned to cut the silk rib'. streams, the angry clouds and snow-cov• far produced n o poet or author of the bon stretched across Fifth avenue, New ered hills. He has pictured great fn• firs York, and to be the first soldier to t 1.1agnitude, but dustriei;, gigantic workliJ of man , like have been published, a number of books march through the Arch of Victory. in both Norwegian the Panama canal and the city o! New an EngUsh, Roll Call of Norse In World War. which give evidence of real d York. Other prominent artists of the Amo ng the officers of Norwegian anNorse group i n the east are Olaf M. talent. A few of these books, like ces� ry tha t rendered distingulshed-5erv• Brauner, head of the art department of �alde1!'!ar A!5er 's · novel, "Krlstus for ice m the World war are General Alfred P1latus (Christ before Pilate) and o E Coi:nell university; Thomas Bull, an � ) W. • Bjornstad, recently commander of I emment decorative painter, whose Rolvaag's "I de Dage " ( n Those D ys Fort Snelling. who acted as chief of have been republished in Oslo after their • works appear in the homes of manv staff of the third army corps in France; appearance here. Colonel Cushman A. Rice, a s,:m of for• �ealthy Americans of New York; Bry� _ War Record of Norse. Julf Strandenes of New York; · Chris mer Lieute::i ant G_overnor A. E. Rice Norwegians have fought for America of Willmar, who was selected as co tian S. l\fidjo, who is an assistant under a in all the wars she has waged. Only Mr. Brauner at Cor n ell university· mander of the first American air squa � Alexander Grinager, a native of Minne'. few took part in the war of in.depend- ron; Colonel Jens Bugge, who was chie sota, bu t now of New York, a. painter ence and the War of 1812, as th a t was of the first army co rps; Commander landscapes, Paul Fjelde, Sigurd before immigration from No,jway had John A. Gade of New York, who had Neandros and Trygve Hammer, sculp- really set in, nor did many ,lartic!pa te char e of the American relief work in < ? in the war with Mexico, l ch was not tors. Sweni:/on of- Madison, t people of Be:grnm; Magnus generally approve by l Norse Artist in West who was Herbert Hoover's chief is., W war in the Among well-kn own artists • of· the the north, but in ie Ci of food supplies ar, and 1; the aide in the distribution Norse group in t:µe west a.re the late Spanish-American n northern Europe, and the following Herbjorn N. Gaustad, the late C<1-tl L. "\Vo rld war, the descendan t s o r t he JWh won the rank of lieutenant colonel: � B;1eckman, August Klagstad, Sverre Vikings fought in large n umbers with l P. Larson, kifled �n actio n ; W. A. S1?verts, Olaf H. Aalbu, all painters of a v alor ch aracteristic of their forefath• .Elim Hanson of Story City, Iowa; 'l'rygve A. Mmn eapol!s; Lars Haukaness formerly er3. Siquela n d a nd Emil Johnson, both of Between 6,000 and 7,000 Norsemen Chicago; Dr. R. M:. Pederson of Minof C!1i�ag_o, . now of the Royal Ar t . This is the concluding article of a series dealing with the Norwegian in America, writ:en by Martin W. Odland, a,;- au• thority on Norse-American li-is tory. He br� I ·s dJ CUL€ lb a close with a resume of Nor way's contribution to the artistic life of America and the part played by the Norwegians in the wars of America. - Editor's Note. "f of �neapolls, and Coionel --Johnson of Granite Falls. 7'he Norsemen in America have not lost their identity, still retaining· the ra cial characteristics of their ancestors, but have become thoroughly imbued with American ideals and the Ameri• can spirit; being a virile force for prog ress and a vital factor in the future development of their adopted· · cou11try. It is Interesting to note in conclu sion that there have - been two irppor tant migrations from Norway. • '.rhE first began in the ninth centm•y, wher. h undreds · of war lords and petty rulers refused to - be11d the ltnee to Ha1·old the Fair Haired and sailed away ·10 Iceland with all their wealth and many of their retainers. • The second began in 1825, when the tdoop Restaurationen crossed the Atlantic to the land of Leif Erickson and started an exodus to the fertile plans of the west. The first was a migration of Norway's aristocracy, which began :in pride and wealth, but ended in a stern struggle for existence in a hostne clime. The second was a • migration of Norway's common peo, pie, which began in lowliness and pov erty, but ended in prosperity and happi ness, in a land of plenty, under friend• Jy skies. Two "Important Migrations. The End. �!/ One Hundted Years of Im mi�raiian !a_ America relebrated in Twin Cities By J O H N O I C K I N SON S H E R M AN ,___lll l D Leif Ericsson land on American soil in A. D. 1000 ? Did Adam of Bremen write a book in 1 075, telling about Vinland, "the new land to the west" ? Was Eric Upsi in 1112 appointed by the Vatican bishop of I cela.nd, Green land and Vinland '/ Did King Christian of Norway and Denmark send an expedition to the mouth of the St. Lawrence In 1472 under Admiral Didrik Pining? Did Christopher Columbus v isit Icen 14i'7, there learn of the existence of the to the west and rediscover that land in 1492 "/ No s�ruen cross the American cont inent from on buy to Puget sound almost 500 y ears beCqJnmbus landed on San Salvador? .7o.r.nze.r S�tor , ..l:la.'i.nuS Johnson.' Very l i kely. Certainly a great many Norse-Amer- Immigration to the United States to have begun icans believe that the answer to the foregoing I with the arrival of the Norwegian slo1;p Restauratlo1wn in New York harbor Ot.:tol.Jer H, li:;15. h istorical questions is "Yes." Minnesota thinks well of her citizens of Norse 'l' hese Norse-Americans, h owever, for th e purposes of the Norse-American centennh1l to be held 1 blood, as may be seen by a concurrent resolution June 6 to 9 in the 'l'win Citie s, reckon the Norse adopted by !ts legislature. w11ich is in part : -�--------- �Whereas the year 1925 marks the one h undredth anniversary o r the real beginning of Norse Immi gration to this country and of the coming o f the Norwegian sloop Restauratlonen, which brought the first large group of Norwegian Immigrants to our shores; and Whereas In commemoration o f this event a cele bration of national und International scope Is now being arranged by the Norse - Americans of this country, to be held on the Minnesota State Fair grounds, June 6, 7, 8 and 9, this year ; and WherPas Min nesota has a larger n umber of ' people o f Norse descent than any other state, and I t Is recognized that these people braved the hard ships n f frontier settlements from our territorial days Rnd up through the first decades of our state hood and thus played an Important part in trans form ing this and other northwestern states from a wilderness to one of the best developed and most progressive si>ctions of our great country, and that they and - their descendants have ever disti n guished themselves as a frugal, Industrious and thrifty people ; have taken a deep Interest In our social, religious and polit ical activities; have been prominent in educational lines, in science, in art and literature, and in every branch of industry, but above all have shown themselves to be public spirited and most loyal American cit izens: Now, therefore, be It resolved, '.r hat we do hereby extend to the President and the people of the United States; the governor general, th e premier and the people of the Dominion of Canada ; his majesty the king, the govern ment, the storthlng and the people o f Norway ; the primate and the people of Iceland a most cordial Invitation to attend and participate In the said celebration. It appears that Secretary of State Hughes sent out invitations in conformity with this action of the 1\.linni>sota legislature. Anyway, the guest llst of the celebration <'arries at the i ts head the names of President Coolidge an d 1\lrs. Cooli dge, I_;rlnce I Olaf of Norway, Sec,retary of State 1rrank B. Ke!• logg and 1\frs. Kellogg, Lord Byng, goyernor gen eral of Canada. and Lady Byng ; MacKenzie King, premier of Cana da ; H. IL Brysn, Norwegian min ister to the United States ; Lauritz S. Swenson, A merican minister to Norway ; Bishop .T oban Lun de of Oslo, Kristine nonnevie, Norway's great est woman scientist, an(l dt'iegations from the Nor• wegian storthing and from both houses of the American congrpss . President C ooli dge has tentatively a c cepted the invitation antl hi:-, address has been scheduled as the feature of "A,,1Pril'a Day," June 8. That day , a l iving Nonregian flag, formeu by 500 chil dren of ' St. Paul , wil l at a signal transform itself into the Stars anti Strip<>s of A merica. The c<>ntenm·y will oven on Satul'day, .Tune G, with convt>ntions of the thirty-two Norwegian clans or "Bn?;<lelags. " Tl1ere will be a reception at the state capitol in St. Paul, wit h six Norse-Ame1;ican g(•vernors antl their wives in the receiving l ine. Ilel!gions spn•ices on .T une 7 will take on the as• pects of a great musiral fP!-'tival, when Norweginn choruses from Canada, Norway and the many Nor• wegian <'OI IPges and singing so<'ieties of the United States will rornhine in the singing of hymn,;, Repre,;entative 0. • .T rrnle of tlte Seventh 1\Iin nesota district dellver<>d the invitation to congress l n an addreRs in the last session. He's the man who tlefeatPd A. J. Yolstead for the Sixty-eigllth congress. He's un • ·tn depen<lent," a minister and an A. :\L of the UniYersity of Ch icago, He was "]'b orn in Iowa, as were his father and grandfather. He is a member of the board of education of th.i • Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. Here are some of the things he said about the celebra tion : The hundredth anniversary of the real beginning o f Norse Imm igration to th<> United States will this year be observed In many places; it will be cel ebra ted In every commun ity in the Uni ted States where the Incoming Norwegians have settled and l esta bllshed themselves and where their descend ants are now to be found in 11umbers, notably In Chicago a nd New Yori< city. The largest and the -principal one, however, Is the celebration which will be held at the Minnesota State Fair grounds, officially known as the ?!orse-Amerlcan centennial. Iilfu rmed and Impartial vbservers cJeciare It will be the greatest celebratl :m In the history of the Northwest. Representatives chosen from each Norwegian organization-ethnic, religious, fraternal, social, civic-organized the corporation wh ich has ar ranged for the event. It has gained In popularity and ap11eal a ay and beyond the original plans of its promoters and sponsors. Five neighboring states have also, through their executive depart ments, urged support" and co-operation o n the part o f their citi zens. Civic bodies stand solidly behind the even t ; church denominations are lndorslng I t ; Norwegian organizations I n foreign countries will participate and w ill send delegates and representa tives to the centenn ial. Notables In large numbers will address the as �embled gathe rlng1< ; prominent men will stress the Importan t achi evements of the Norse-Americans in all activities ; exh ibits and pageants will graph ically describe the m ; mu sical org;,.n lzatlons will at the same time exhibit and entertain . I am well aware that to some of you gentlemen the prefix "Norse," or any prefix, may seem to Indicate something not purely and truly Amer ican. If the prefix In this case implled anything even faintly suggesting such a possibility, I would be the first to repudiate it In the most emphatic nnd unqualified terms. And I know that in mak ing this statement I do so with the unanimous avproval of all the people here concerned. Amer icans who trace their ancestry to the Vikings of old are proud of their lln eage, but doubly proud o f their American citizenship; and they claim as pure and as unadulterated an American patriotism as that possessed by any other group of citizens of this country, it ma tters not what European land ls designated by them as the mother country. Without apologi zing, we are this year celebrating the Norse-Ame rican centennial. and we do so in grateful remembrance of our forefathers and in recognition of what these immigrants have done for us and for our country. The Restaurationen brou�ht 53 Norwegian Im• mi grants. This was the fi rst shipload of Norse people to emigrate to the new land of the free anoss t he Atlanti<>. The project was arranged by Kleng Peers.on-sometimPs known as Cleng Pear :;:on-that romantic frontier figure, the Daniel Boone of the Norweg · ·ms. Ile had been In the United States and hatl cowrecl the primeval Virest in his wanderi ,.. �s ; he returned to Norway with hifl wonderful tales of the possibilities and the oppo:ctunitles thnt awaited hi s fel low <'01mtrnnen in America, organized the expe(litlon, an d as�iste<l in t 1 1e purcha!<e of the little sail ing vessel . 'rhe sloop sailed from Stavanger harbor, Norway, July 4. 182(i;" and reached New York after a long and stormy passage. This single event marks the beginning of the :,teady and swelling stream of Immigration from N'orway. Norway has sent to America a larger proportion of her population than any other coun try with the exception of Ireland ; her sons and daughters here total in excess of 2,500,000. Thut is equal to the actual population of Norway, which, according to the last census, was 2,649,775. It was !Geng Peerson who arranged for the rP• ceptlon of the Restaurationen's passcn;;ers by pro vi ding for them the settlement nt Kendall, N. y ., the eolony which hp founded. His work in estah lishing colonies in the Northwest and the South west was interrupted by three return voyages t o Norway. He died at the ripe age o f eighty-three years, in Boisque <'0lmty, Texas, in 1 865 ; and he lies today in :--orse, the !1eart of the last Rettle• ment founded by him. The story of his life and his work Is a true epl<'. Others were read · begun . In the first years n e a r I y all incoming groups came first to the Kendall settlement and then vushed onward. or the1=,e one group Pstab lished themselves in the Fox River settlement in Illinoi;.:, founded i n 1834 by l'eerson. This was the first permanent Norse settlement in the Middle West. Another group set• tled in J 8RR on Jefferson prairie, near Bel0lt. From this time on, in ever inrreaslng numbers, these early Norwegian set tlers crossed the sea, tramped out through the strange <'onntry and founded their settlements, on Hoek prairie and Koshkonong in w·is<'onsln, in ·w 1nneshiek county in Iowa, und l ater in southern :M innesota and the two Dnkotas. IGeng I'ePrson antl his sturdy C'ountrymen will live again at the centennial celebration. Col. Hans C. Heg, <'ommander of the l<�ifteenth ,vis consin Regiment of Volunteers, a Civil wnr regi ment ma de up almost entirely of Norwegians, will once more carry Into battle the flag that bore on one side the Iled, White and Blue of America and oh t i,e "· her r!,e He,, "' hite and lllue of .N orway. For on '·�orse AmPl'ican Day," the closing dny of the gathering, the beloveu heroes and heroines of Norwegian pioneer days will take part in a great hlstorieal pageant in which the Norwegian Icve of the dramatic and the picturesque will em bellish the story of frontier days. Dr. Knut Gjerset of Luther collP!!e heads t he I exhibits committee and has planned to divide tlie exhibit Into twenty-two departments as follows : Pioneer life, chur<'h, school;;;, farming, press lit eruture, men in pull'lic service, art, charity and mutual aid, women' s department, societies and or ganization,;, music, engineering and architecture, tratle and commerce. Norwegian ski sport in Amerl<'a, men in the medical profession, labor, R<lllR of Norway, daughters of Norway, industries, bui lders and benefaetors an d Norse-Canadian ex hibits. In rPcognition of the nation-wide obs.ervance of thP centenary, the federal government has aulhor lzetl the issue of special stamps, to be printed in two colors, a 2-cent i:;tamp bearing the picture of the sloor, Ilestaurationen an d a 5-cent stamp dec orated with a Viking ship. A Norse-American cen tennial medal, the first commemorative medal to bp is1rned in the h!Rtory of the mint, ha s a lso been t1U thorizecl by the government. 'l'he Norse-Americans, because thei r large prop• erty hol dings and <·nmmon interests gave them the in centive for group action, have elected public officials of their choice in national as well as in state and local offi<'es. Of the large number of vubl i c servants-state I egisla tors, judges, gov er• nors, representatives, and senators-without ques tion the best known ls the late Knute Nelson of 1\llnnesota, that rugged, sincere, determinP<l, faith· ful figure whom everyone grew to love and a d• mire in h is mnny J·eurs of honeRt service in the , house and in the i:;enatP. He wa,; born in �or·,,·aJ· . Henrik Shipstea d, the Farmer-Labor senator from Minnesota is a "native son," having been horn in 1881 in Kandiyohi rounty. He wnR electPd In ]!)22, receiving 325,372 votes ugnl nst 241 ,83:1 for !<'ran k n. Ki>llogg, Hepnblican, now secretary of stnte. 1\I agnus Johnson, the l<' anuer-Lahor senntor from Minnesota, who was so often ln the limp light during h is short term of office, was born in Varrnland, Sweden. He wns elected in 1923 to fil l the vacancy C'aused b y the death o f Senator Knute Nel son, defeating Gov. J. A. 0. Preus. Theodore Christianson suc<'eeds Preus as governor. "I am not willing to concede even the suggestion of a superior brand of Americanism to him 1 who nrny trace his an<'estry t o the Eurapeans who tirst drove the Indians ba<'k from the Atlantic seaboard," said Representative Kvale. "At best, it is merely a question of a few generation s. And true AmerlcaniKm is no more a matter of years and centuries, nor ot la nguage and cu stoms, than is t rnf' C'hrii;;tim1ity a matter of latitude and lor::;.ttude. Both are a state of the heart and of the inmost i,oul . I clnim, without the slightest fear of successful contra di<'tion, that of all the peoples t hat have <'Ontribute<l their quota to the makina of this nation, no mo,·e l aw-abi ding men and worn� en have set foot 011 American soil than those who d �ring the past century emhflrke<l for these shores sula of Europe." �hy No� Will • The 1ooe.r sa11r Immig: the ltes II Two and One=Half Millions of This Sturdy - Race of Nordics, · with Leiv Eiriksson Leading the Way to America in the Year 1 000, Have Helped to Make This Nation the Greatest on Earth. \ ' / By FREDERICK BOYD STEVENSON The Norwegia ns in the United States a1·e about to celebrate the One Hun dredth Anniversary of thei?' first , collectfoe immigration to this country. Th e Norwegia.ns arc among the Foremost in th e ra nks of tli r - -r:mlic Race. It 'Wa, . J Nordics that rnade the United Sta tes vos:::i--i ble. '1 hey were the first to break the ground here ancl cleclare their Independence. It was th e continued irnrnigration of Nordics that strengthened the Hearts and the Hands of the Nordics I already here. Other rac.es carn.,6 1.,1) hen th e land was plowed in the country and the streets were paved in the cities. America is .Amen:cct Today Because of the Nordics. Let us Join in th e Norwegian Celebration. Honors are Evert! 1· -- YPICA LLY Nordic is th�' Rt. Rel'. Johann Lunde. Lutheran Bishop of Olso and pri mate of the Established Cllu rch of Norw::iy, w h o i s in tllis country to re p resent Lis Gon•rument at t h(, one hun dredth ann i versa ry of the coming of the first Norwegians tn the Uuited States , to be celrbrated in St. Paul and Minneapolis. June G t0 9 next. I met Bishop L unde a t tlle Dea - ' c011esses' Home of the Norwegian Hospita l in Brooklyn, where he wa s a guc:;t, arnl from him obtained Ms Yiews on the Church in, Norwa y and this country au<] tlle p1.oblems cou ueeted with the outside influen-ces Which are seeking to undermine Christianit3•. The Bishop wai, con fi dent that ,, IJilc these u)](Jerground influences ,,·ere at work in vat·ious T �left permanent impre:;:sions of tileir l the G r r a t Cbarl em a gur looked u pon la s, their cii'il o!ity, the �r social 1 t h eir adrn nee with disma y. ! p �� . _ a u a ngement, then· high spirit and I Th e E ngl ish r nl<>rs a rc cleseP n tl - 1 1 their positive character on the civil a u t s of t lrn Nor sl'mcn, ant1 . de spi te I ized communities of t hi s World to- t h e fa c-t t ha t J<J11 gl i:-l1 writers a n rl clay. Tliose two races wen) the Ro- t e a eb r r s in �i�t Urn t it ,Ta s t h e A nglo mans a n d tl10se Northern people from S a x on bra ll( h or t h i s �rPa t 'J'puton i ,· the countries beyond t he Elbe which rn <·c o r 11r•ople t h a t fmnH..d tlw ,1a l ' k1 had never submitted to the Roman bone of En!! l n n rl. it ,yn s t lic· i 1 1 fl a,•11, ·r • J'oke. but w!Jo. iseuing forth from <, f t h<'s<• No1 sp \'01 1q apro1s 1 l i a t :.::i 1·p \, t heir countries from the Fifth to the t n Engl a nll llf'l' pl,1cP i n world llis Tenth Century, under the names of , t ury. Danes, Saxons, Norsem en, Goths, Vieigoth s and. Franks, conquered and l settled on eYery European coast from t h e White Sea to Sicily. And they And remembr,r this-carried tbefr laws, their institutions During llle Crusades the Norse and their rel igions with them-and t hose laws and institutions and re men led the� ,an of the Chivalrj' of rescuing t he Holy in ' ligions are felt and followed in those Europe Sepulchrr ! countries today, They ruled o,er Autfoch u nder 'l'alk about the Kordics! Bringing Norway and They dominate the Laws and the G uiscarcl's �on, Bohemunrlt 'l'hry ruan·hed on ward to ,rnr beReligion a ucl the Civili za tion o f tb e Am erica Into Closer hwen the Pilla rs of Hereul es ! Modern Wol'ld ! Sympathy With Each Other. Th Py rlc�olated the Fields • of ,vho were the N orsemeu ? They were the descend ants of a GreN·e! During cur talk t he Re,·. Carl lJr:anch of I. be Teutonic raee tha t at They brnke through the ·w ans of 0. Pedersen . Rector of 1 he Norwe a very early period emigrated from Constan tino11IP! gian Home and Hospital. told me 1"lrn t A sia and then traveled westward a n d Bishop Lunde w a s a sturd? fig-lli'N Had i 1 not been for the Nordics ·w e ;iorthward, and finally settled in the Y.- ould ha Ye had no Chlistian Rel i • : for the Chu rch and tha t it was ,1ue western part of what is now Nor- g l on toda �·. n1tirely to his righ teousnt>ss and ,- ig-. . l • Pa ganism ,roulcl ha ,-e preclomwa:,. 1.,:-ous meth0ds of preach ing that I lle They spoke Ole! Norse, which lan- inated. lted element was kept down. In Nor guage has eome dow n for more than way, as in other par1 s of tbe worhl. And what. h[!re tho:;:c Northern a thousand years witl1 p ra ctically no c0nntr ies <lone for America ? t he efforts of _t he Sodets to sprea,l '. r. llanges or corruption s, which can be Atheism and the Materialistic doc, ! In 1860 t h e y sent a t rifl e o,er 1 :::a id of no ot her langua ge. This lan- p ercent of uw tota l im igra tion to tJ•iue are persistent. m i;ua ge i s still preservecl1 a nd spok e n ' th i s count r.v . but i n 1870 Bishop Luncle is grea tlr interested the>y &Pn t i n Iceland. a nd is the ba sis o f th r, ;; p rr cr n t /1 1 1 (1 i n 1880 n : OJ•p than 6 h1 the controversy betwe,'n the Fun m odrrn Norwegian, Danish a n t) l'(•r c ent. TlH'sP i m m igra n ts sdtlrd d:1 mental ists and the Modernists iu Swedish languages. t h is country a nd a lso i n t he fight i11 The_ a ncient Norsemen were abso - fd i d la r,:: rl y in M inn <'�r,ta , ,vise011 ,in Tennes:;:ee between the State and the Scientist!'. to keep the teachiilg of l,ri ngi,._Norway and the other Scandi lutely free and independ ent. They n m! t h <' D;: Jrn t a � . \\' hN,' ( hPy i1;n ,, EYolution out of the pul1 lic scho.ols. navian countries a nd America. in <,Jected t heir rulers in an open n s- 1 1 1 n r l c - np t 1 1a 1 �t iml y and i n llll�' l'i 1 1 11 , He has followed the r<'Ct'nt spi>cchP� <:loser relations and sympathy than scmbly of tLe people and a ll of their J :! ,p l l l i. l i i o ! ) or fa rnl<'J'� H l l t.1 prr 1dnr•c, r .'!. laws and public matters were de \I hi d1 i,; k<·t•1>in;; AnH·11 c11 un lh•r of Wil l iam Jennin gs Br:r an denouue t he.v ever haye been iu before. There a l-e two a nd a half millions cided in th ese public a ssemblies. lc•gs- and making it possible for the ill� the E,·o!ut ionists and adhering strictly t o t h e Biblica l accou.it of of Norwegians in the United States 'fhey were darfng ndYenturers and. O\'ercrowd.ecl cities of tl1e Ea tif to Creation ,v ith out a n .r 11ua l i fic,1 t io u today, i ncluding the descendan ts of PXplorers, c:ompet,mt sailors and I exist. t h e earlier immigrants a nd the more f:;;bt ers. and, as the Vikings, the�, be In 1880 when we were getting that or a mendmen t.s. "I believe," said t b13 Bishop, 'fl:iera r ecent ones, Tbe fi rst scattering ('a me known to every part of the then &J)lendid perrentage of immigration i::; a broad, iu tellige ut road 011 which Scandinavian immigrants of which C i yiJized World. They Yi.si t ed t:hc from the Scandinavian eountrie,-, Hw Christianity a nd Science can traYel. uny note wa s taken came here ln :,hores of Europe. conquering the peo - inrn. siom1 from Austria - Hungar .v . Bo1 Hadica lism may go t oo far both 1820 n nd they came with immigrants 1 •lc and pl a nting colonies. They sub- 11�,m ia . Italy a nd Poland.all told. made wa ys. There is, to my mind, no of other countries in <li fl'erent ships r!ued a large pa rt of gnglanrl a n rl up only 4 per cent of the total immiconflict between Religion and Sci- a nd n umbered only twenty-three a ll 1, eld one -·third of i t fo1· ma n y iren<'l'a- gration. and gaYe no eYiclence t ha t: t ; ou s : th1? took Noi·ma1 1(;y, thP fi n - t ,'. euty years la ter thr�· ,v,uld c? n ence. I belie-v-e absolutely in the together. But the coming celebration will tsl pronncL of Fn.w ce . f ro m � !. st:tute nearlr 2n_ perc-ent of t h e 1rn Bible a nd I belieYe in Nature. The Laws of Nature a 1·e the Laws of Goel. tort\nHm10rate the one hundt·cdth an• I•'rench, cooquered a Ia rgr portion of ; migrant;, to this country . Bui in t lHY decade end ing iu l l-/\0 The Bible il'l written i n a compre- uiversary of the nrst state<l immigra BE-lgium, i u va de<l Spa in. becll me th<> hensive • and far-reaching sense. tion from Norwa .v to I.he United inasters of Sicily a nd lower Ita l y as Scandina Yi:l.11s a nd Germans pre1 lom1 inat rrl a m op g the 1 .- immigra nt When man loses fa ith in the Bible Sta tes. Tha t took r>lace iu 18!?5 when early as the Eleventh Century. • • agriculTbfse bold flght0rs a11d. explorers he loses fai t h in all that he h a s on , Kleng Peer8on and fifty-two Norwe tlJ i s Earth. Science, on the other I ginns landed in the port of New York lnid thP foundations of the Russia11 hand, is Nature-and Nature is God. on the sloop Restoration. The ship E'mpire. sening a s leacleri- of th!' 1 urists. Dakota Tea all Sta tes in tl1e The words of the Bible are expressed sailed from StaYauger, Norway, on Grerk EmJ'lnor · s llo<l;r �uard . fighting increas<' of foreign-born m·er u a t i r<' · like the beautiful lines of a poem- July 4, 18!?5. and arrived liere in Oc. w i th their two-edgecl bat tle ax:Ps ill l•orn citizens and was followed by the streets of Const a n tinople a nt! 1 blending a l l thought toward the wou- 1 tober of that year. Oregon and Colorado. But. these for. sa ring bis tottering tllrour. l ders of the Godhead. <•ign-born people did not rema in for. men Were he Norse T ned <'a werl' runes ,tic n m; Their d nd a Worl '·God has put us in this 1 r•igners lcmg. Tlw:, bren me A nH'ri br them upon the ma rbl l' l i on in the he expects us to make the most of Explorer• and Leader• lmrbor of• Athen�. c-oin memora ting ' can citizen s i.n qnick (IJ'der. They i f . Every wonder that we w ork I • conquest of t h a t <'I• l y. They · l earnNl th0 w a y s and t h e man nrrs J the Holy Crusade. n I i I 1e1r lusil Science 'ancl 1 ent throug h study up urn Rhine. t h e Seh C'ldi'. 1110 n ncl the languagr of the ,•ountry arn1 I led sai Gor of l. l · These immigrants from Norway t rates and proves the w onder t l i es brcame cit i zens. TbPr r ,rn s trn 1 'l'll cre i s no reason for confl ict be- Y,ere of that purest stra in of Noruic 8dne and the Loire, C'onqueri.ng · Ea i:it Sidr ' ' wber 1' o np coulrl t l'llY l'l 1 ' m e h e E bl ood that has made the United States Cologne a n<! Aachen, w her t 1 1'wcen Religio n and Science ." I\ i t llor'· l1r•n ring uuc• 11·nrd . 1< oC'k l h tor peror's pala ce was usecl h�· t hem a s I Bi shop L unde sa ys th e celebration 1v hat it i s t oday. ' • I' Engl i :,h . There are two races onl,v tha t have a stable for their \\'Bl' lwrsPs. En, 11 i n M innesr,ta w ill clo much to �iations, Christianity was gai ning and would pre Ya i l . i "In Norway, ' ' �aid lw. '·98 percent i M the prople brlong to t he Lutheran Church , and h ence you c-an mulcr- , 10tancl that it is Yery difli.cnlt to brcat t hrough sncb a ba rrier-but thP l'f fort is bei 11g made a ucl that <•ffon. i� persistent a nd cleterm ined." Bishop Lunde belongs 't o a rrl i glous orga11 bm t ion t hat restl' upon u firm founda tion. It ha� a h istor,v rlating ba <:I, 400 years a11d. is repre �en tcll by 80,000.000 Luther;i ns: Bur "·hi)e the p;·edomi nating pen:entake of Norw egians in NonYa T are me111lwrs of the Church , the Bishop is in n• <·cnh'r of Bolsllevist iutrlHlcn; from Hussia . "·ho nre doing l lH>ir utmost to undermine his congregation. -T1 I Statue of LEIV EIRIKSSON m Humboldt Pa rk, Ch icago I I I �lni1tead, a fel low of fi n e I n tel le ct . ,h e lR simple- m in ded , If, i n d e ed, hie mind has not d eserted h i m a l t o !getber. He lives In conference with �- girl h e himself has create d, S h e lwlls t h e h eroi n e of o n e of h is first :plays, n ever prod uced . And he loves iher, converses with her, a l lows h ls �ays to b e m ad e hrlght by her gh ost ;ly presence. An d when her comp a n lt onshlp i s ta ken a way from h i m a s a :result of the fact that h i s play has �een fou n d i n a th eatrical ma nager's m orgu e: produced a n d bereft· of its rlgl n al significances, this old sa�•ant r "Cherry Pie" a n rl were i m pressed by Miss Star-b uck's abi l i t y. Ph ilip Loeb o f t h ,i Theater G ui l d was ,among the d i rectors p resent, - a n d Im m e d i at e l y engaged h e r f o r a part In t h e new G u i l d rev ue. \ Miss Starbuck's future on the m u sica l comedy stage h l d s fair t o b i a!! m eteo r - l i k e as Helen Gahagan's on th e l egitimate i;tage. M iss Gahagan , who is also a B rooklyn girl, a grad u a 1 e of Berkeley, stu n led w ith Miss Gii mball and was given a leading rol e i n the I n ter-Theatre Arts pro du ction of Harry Gri b b l e's "Shoot." Wi llia m A. Brady irn. w Miss Gahag1tn in this part and plac._e d her under contract. , snod'83UU!W pu-e {fl'8d "lS U! uop.-eJq3[3'.) 3l{l �:e AJlU n O :) 1 3l'BW!Jd pu-e os1 O JO doqsm: u-eJ3l[lfl 1 ll?l{J., lU �S 3.rd3 � m & oq& ' A'B&JON JO 1pmq'.) p3lJ S ![q'BlS 3 3tp. JO I £'1. 3 GNO 1 NNVH Of " A�� " l � �q.1 �' A 1 1rl n l ' t h P l i 111!' thl'�c Nnrl l i <' ! Jl The aceouu.l of this yo;rn gr of Lei \• I Sn, l r-t l l � rl n hon or tn t ha t. (;hris ! l': I < '"� "'<'I' !' n t l1 l i 11 g- tn I ll<' 1 n·n�Jh'J 'i f .' 1 1 s rccordetl i n a ski u docunwnt kno 1 , a n a nfl Br a ,·e Nor�t> q111 u· l u�1u11 1 1 y. I� l h i �· u rly PL'l'iu·! j n s the ''f"orli>X FlatcrC'nsis, • ,Yhi(;,r. ·B I S H OP JOHA N N LUN DE h,r C'11d 1-tuff1- 1 o the nllt1r L"lf �200.0tlO.- gin,s a rrcord of the 1'eign of King A l'," D LET US J OINPOO "'<'re !' x J 1nrt·0d from t he Un i l <'ll ma t Trygn•soi1 . a nd i1 was incor I N NOR\� A Y 'S CEL E BRA 'l'ION , Fla1Ps from a h a nf•Kt ( l trPr t i mr:,; t lw porn trd in the "Heim skringla" amount JLeP<lcd for home tnnsu 111p- (H ome C ircle) of Snorre Sturlaso11 , 1 i Pn. Ill inois a nil ImY11 ra iRP11 :: JG.- · who was born in 11 78. I t was writ000,000 lrn�·i !l'lR of Iml i � n <·orn n n il ( en in t he Icelandic, tra nsla ted by K a n�a� pro< lnc1•d 10:J.'HlO.OOO hn -hPl , Samuel Lang and red sf'd b:, Rasmus 1 · :" corn a 1 1<1 1 :;.onn.000 bu�IH'l,- of B. Audersun, former U11it ed Sta teg n·hra t . BPhrt'Pa J ;;,n nntl l i-i-0 tl H ' l\lin istC'I' (0 Denma rk. numlwr nf farm" i11 Kan>'a i< n n d Da The "Fl n t <':r ar Annal l" 'or "Corlex kotn hf\,! i U\'l'l'll S<'tl t Pn ti lllf'S. a n< l fin, 11' lateycnRi s'' is b,v far tllP most im tinlf'R i n NPIJrn ska , ,-,· h i l C' t hr:,v porta nt of Tc-dancl ic m11m1script'l. lt l ioubler! 11 11'1 trPh lp1J in l nuP-·Mb l a l, es its m1 ml' 1',rom tlw Isla nd o.E Flal·py, in BrPidafionl, Icela nd, where �onri S l /1 1 1',- ll lH [ TP1Tit nrie�. Tlwn thf' c·hara c·lct· of immign1 t io1t it had been long prf'S<'l'YPcl a nd whf'fe BiRIJOl) Br.v .i1•l f SYPinson of Ska lholt l•PgaH t o �hi fl. BPtW('('\l rnso anr l 1 :-no !l.000,000 pnrcllaser1 it iu rn:;o from tlw own('r, n l iPns la ndc•1l in ! hf' enit ecl S t a t e�. Jonas Torfasou . for King FrPd<',·10 hnt one-th ird o f t hP rn c·aml' f'• nm III. The un nals f'lld with thP :r ear A11stria -H unga 1·�·. nns�ii:i a nrl I l n l�·. 1:1n;;. a nd 1 hp time n t whkh t h e Norwn .Y a n , ] SWL'rkn inerPa R!'ll I I\Pir writings were concluded is defi n itrly q ,wta whil0 Gernlfl l l Y SPllt a hnnt t ile :iscert a i n ed. 1 1,ua . nn mlwr;:. Bnt f;·o m l hn t l i r n P I I n thi:; numuscript is gi YCll an ac• t h r Nor1hNn nH•P,.: d i min i ,-.lw1l i n i 11 1 - count 01' the discovery of America by migra tion n ml t l 1c oi lwr raer,; rn 1 1itl- \ Lr iv Eirikssun. It is stated that he , a nd l l i s t l l i ny-fh·e men sail eLI to i ,' ine1·Pa t,;P1 L Tlw Ita l iH n:::. tlH· Si a , � :; 11t l I I :• Npn· fnuuoll an<I and No,a Scotia arnl i ' 1 J i N, did 1w1 .!2:o 1, t ]H, f•i nn i n ;r ,;<,,•. ' t l 1C'n Ra i!Nl to Nf•W Engiand, whlei1 La'ke Mills, ta., Graphic -� , ?O n2-. t 1 11n,-:, 'Tll\•,1· 1T 1 1 1:1 i 1 < P1'. i: � · r-,y y. ,rJ, t lip�- (•al]('<! Vin land on account or � ( ' i f,1· nr \'.'<'lit t .. 11t !w1· i:i r�c 1 · i l ii •,; t he wild gTa]ll'i' wl1id1 they found l•k" C'l 1 ',·a •··, , Bu ffalo. s1 . L 1 , u i s a uLI there. � Tha t V i 1 1 lt1 n d W:1 1, kll l>Wll at thl' : :r,li.hnt uk1'\'. Our cities are growing larger. \· at il'a n is 1 ►1·on'd by tlw fact th'lt Om· farms are being d<•serted. l:'npp Pn sdia l I I a ppointe1l E i r i k Upsi c.:. Hence' the ca l l of Pi:esident Cool• Bishop o f lt<.•la ll(l. GrPC'nland ant'l ::::i�..525�""25'2.1'· ;,1.5c'..5'2 idg-e to man tbe farms. cf other V i n l a 1 11I in t h C' y1•ar 1 1 12, and Up:;i s tatemept just made e•s pe<i•aHy , celebrat ion, but ,slso those a In Hence tlle restrictiYe immigration '.l' l'l l t to V i n I n n cl i n 1 1 :.!1 . >011e _should tor publicat ion in the church pr,pers \ national ities. Tli ercfore, la1Ys. Atla rn of Br1'mr11. a e:a non n ml iu�0ther merican l'l'eS3, Dr. :ik. G. I not he..,it ate t o ask 1wo11le of Norse-A and So: xou sf'e, the . Nordics helped U8 1 ori11 11 of h ig-lJ antllol'it ,1·. who died takt o[ t he Norw/·gia.n \ natio1u lities to support the under in·esiden Stub to rnakP a n•r,v good America. i t, 107(i, p111Jl i sheLl a boo k i n wh ir-h an.d a L,o Ut l:(e tickets buying b:,· ing amonJ ca, ran f' Auel that is why all good Ameri- J.,, rn <'nti<>nnl tltf' tlisco,·pr�' of V i n • Lutl: 1 t hem to at tend. It is becau-,, e I nrns •w i l l hi>lp t o m a k e t h e o n e b un • l a m! and sta 1 r�-• · Tltis "." kn(nY. n ot other tllings says : veo1,1e in a keen desire to b ' ·of . '?; reatest pos eric,1.n orse-Am N the is "It dr<'dth anni Yersary of the com ing 1,J· fabulout eonjN·t mP. b ut fr<i!\\ in malnng t he Cen •;ts entirety which will ce l ebrat <" the sible assi:,tance of the Norwegians to this country a 1,osit i i' " �t a ( < menls of the Dil..Jn'· • · ss that "' succe a bi"' t ion · a · t b e ce 1 · e l tennial • p,•op our . of all 1 Centenn ial, and success. chut. ch His book wa ,.; publ i :,:l ird in U, ., our of ' Pmber3 m he t to a appe:il I be And one of the features of thi � :1. 1111 was n'afl b.v i n l c•ll igl'nt men should participate. It should ex· fullest the to ate particip :t-'orse . botly to . C'('lebration was held in New York. t h rou�ho u t .BJuropr. Th Ne · is ('n?r,'{ matter of pride for everyon e of wonder ful festival. Ilia in ible s . postent make to hims-cH exert to y In memory of the Centennial to be r1• a :,;ou to l),.JieYP t hat Col n mbus, "·b ,:, ancestr , conclu•, ion pern1it me to say that celebrated in Minnesota and in honor was :rn ('cl Lll·a t PC l man a n d iutercFl cil this celebration a re•aUy great a,rfair • In whether ·one can attend _or not'. he Norsethe of worthy way every in i' Bishop Lurnfo's o vi:;iit to this city in g-rogTa ph ica l stndieH. rrad t ha t his inter:st m the vit�l1 Y i tlle Beard o f A ldermen h a s nam ed J ,nok. In o w biogra pll ,v of Columbus, America ns and their inrl uence 011 j should show dertakrng by buymg uu 1t :nport. i3e lilni a.nd ent, �'. 1 h e district bet ween Sixty-sixth am! it i R «a i<l , h P st a t t'fl 1'lu1 l l1C' base•! America n developm � I ickets. t Sixty-seYcnth streets from Fourth l l i s lwl iP f on t he Pxistrucc· of lancl t r) worthy of the land and peopl e f r··r an;lllue to Fort Hamilton Parkway t l, P \\' Pst npo n th e a nt hority o r 'Which they yarµe. It is concede d that a grnat deal of ,m oney is necessaf y t? i n BrooklJ'll ''Leiv Eiriksson Squ11,rc." il'H l'll('tl ,,·rit 1- rs. with Mayor Hylan detlicatecl this Square F' rom the Liest of. a utnor; I )· \\"C' l l'a t';i defray the expense s connecte d . to the First Discoverer of Am!'ric-a t l rn l Col umlms Y i Sit<'d Ic-1 • l1:1 ncl in H"ii such a celebra tion. It is hoped tha t in the pr<'scnce of Bishop Lunde as :n'(I "· h i lt' t lwre i t i,:; mc,�r prol.Jalil e this large expendit ure will be �1ared the reprPsenta tive of Norway. for · thi·ough the sale of admissio n tickthn t lw ])('nrd of or saw thC' writ te11 In time t·here will bp erecti>d in acconn ts of Lei.\''s d i scun'r�• of Vin. ets ·. All the men's clubs, ladref'' aid that Square a statue of Leiv Ei riks l.t 111l . s·ocietie3, young peoples' ,a ssociati ons 1 son similar to the statue erected to and . organiz ations within the church All t h i s. 1 1 0 1,eYf'l'. dOC'<'i not 0('1 itU P. rower I him in Ch icago. t lil' aC' h ien·men1' , ,f Coi nmbus. Ir. · should · do .everyth ing in their . to a ssist in the sa le of tickets within 11 1 lu'-', lllOl"PO\'('l', to his 1n t<'ll igellCP, Leiv Eiriksson Discoverer their . respecti-;re organiza tions and l:i" ac· nmPn nnd hi, bra 1 err. congregations. It is a1so of import· But do Hot OYNlook the pro\'f•'1 Of America Nearly 500 fad tha t t ill' Norsemen disc·on•n11J. ance to the commit tee in charge that d Years Before Columbus. Am rric a fin•t ancl that t liP Nor�emen the tickets be ' isposed of a;, so_,•n ·as · money remitted _Jo the ll,::t dC' Anwrica possiblr !'or A m rrii:an1 possible a nd These statues of L.eil· Eirik ssou H ftPr ColurnLus 11is.:0Yered it srcontl the Centenn ial offices. I will bring Yisibl�· to our a ttention the 1,: md. "Neithe r r,;houlcl we forget thac th.e 1ong neglrtl l'cl fa r t thal this sturdy A rnl a l so rf'm<'mber that thP No1·se,. �oming celebration is of such n�t.ure , Norseman, son of E irik the Red, tlisnwn 11n I'<' lwen in thP fr,,n( rauk,-, a ft t.hat not only men and women of 1 r·o,erecl AmNica ill the yea r .1000 1 1 1 C' Dpfpnrk t·s o f Cltri:,;ti a n it;v and Norse blood may •attend and rec·e ive A.D.-492 �·ears befnre Col umbus t l , n 1 t h P .V ,H,· th ere toda y, pleasure and inspirat ion from the 1audccl on t h i s sidC' of ,t hP Atlantic. I t. NORSE-�CA� CENTEN NIAL ; �fonds-were subscribed for the future o- '" ':� ,. FRIDAY. jl,;J .., :. • _.:.. __ ,�omfort of the sturdy immi grants. �ed "rfi.t'1'" • 1i1e story of their early <;truggle� is pioneers in western New �oi'k and late-r in Illinoi.3, Iowa_, l\Iinneso A world outlook from the t;:. and othe1' ates is long and fas kitchen window. Comments dnating but what interests us mo,, on life and living from the -a.-; Americans is the contribution' of ' }'I- yd cal health, moral and physica_ vie\\ point of a housewife. �• 1rage, thrift, frugality, re,;ource.� W. Stageberg1 i<leali�m and spirituality thni '<'�'.J�ons and daughters of the noit!-> 'But there a•·e lofty spirit;. in :' · t'l� e' brought to. our beautiful land • g·uise, ,; * * I\, .., li.eroes in common garb, whos{, meeL Because of thi great contribution brows bear .l. e,c is more ti ar. orclinarv intt, e�t !'he thorny cro ,n of perfect s::tcri ·:t ruour the length and b1:eadth of '1cc, 1 try in the com_; ng Cent t bu1.- simple sou'.s are kingly u11 ,.his cou1! \1.ial cele 1�n·£).tio1 ..� . .r Y011 a\\ are ; "he nation',; cl ef ,-e�ogr ize" th:,t tl r • t ll ,. trCUll with u.-, the du·• � P<-t ,l)eor.le fl om t.. e mo cirtain,- am! y:;;,1 - •. time ' •y ' of the ;-{c t'. ·,,n l a e u 1 ...ce ' )r lie 111 uncor,1 memor iti\ e , \ l ccogn i zed, unho 1vred, yd , t l- otthy of !10n _;r and ,,ill cl,("( . foll· g'L\Cc the occa �ion "1 h his prot nee. b c, 'J ir i;reatne;,s w itnec; �ell only lJ\ The progn:.•1' a;;· nubli�l1ccl is a 1e 1 . Hm c---,t Lotin Hil 1 1 (; clt, . • m a 1 ka ile stuJ.rr ii1 the ac'1i e of t11e "0t'S a ,( dau gMc1,; of t .,0 ".:1. ln ·• • e . JO• itd the e;:,i • i'" o � d, the,.e LeDt t i • (,ol ::'.e nirg � L ait ...,p 1 u ·,; Ihl 'rectt i,a: tri bi.:. . e o t 0 nc patifoc1c peq le. 11 , tre.tt of ,t ukt he1 oism of tl t. iank ant' fle , a tho,e :o·· tunute tHi r. ·eR. Exqui:,;1L as the wol/b a l• lire t;me av, 't io, gh to 1 e 1bfo to att e.1J . l t;iink we will a� tPe th:·.t. Li :,, c 1 KITCHEN PHILOSOPHY ,tr"'s, __. 1 0 Hot 0 'i:::ip-ri:erate tl t simple c' •votetl 1.0b1l t oi sc9res o. friends ·mcl o·t '1f. h1" CYen in our own c:a:•, 1 tremen,locbly insp, rin,,· t , '11p .at tht shrine of lcftv l et (.; f'll \Ve are much the bPtt�-- arc g-1. eater . for it. But as we p..t, t, i 1ut& to the :sul)] 1 me greatness of ro:1 '.l.l make1 s of hi tory \\'C PIUS 1 t:o 1g·et to emu:,..te the poet who ,,�id . Al l he · ,_afo not counted yetU_t, t.here's 1 * * oubt that there ar l'here llieroe:s and h�roi,rns in all ag·es. All that is needed is an opportunity for <0ubtancling service and the hero of <eVeQ age appears as if by magic At this moment we are about t '-.!ommemorate the heroism of anxzftfl -ble Norwegian pioneer named Clem, Peerson and his doughty band of fi:f� J;y-two followers, all from the vicinity IOf Stavanger, Norway. This littl, band, inspired by the tale;; of a new :world of wealth and opportunity be yoml the great sea, set sail in a little lorip called ''Restaurationen" on July 1, 192,5 and landed in New York on :October 9, after 14 weeks of perilou� -�ailing on the great sea. * �- * The adYe11t of this little- craft bear ing- its cavgo of hardy Norsemen Teated universal enthusiasm anc ,,dmiration in New York City and a mo,·ement was soon started whereh :, �.. N, [i Y., TtMES-S :A.m._______________,,___,,...----------�---------�--., J U NE, u, 1;;21,, -�_J,_______ fNorse,Mci.;yTiower Reactl� J '" . menca 1 00 Years ¼'go B. A..NDEJlSO�. ! It should also 'b e remembered that there was a widf)spread feeling of On the fourth of July, 1825, began suspi<:i-on •and d�strust among the the Norwegian emigration to this common folk of Norway •against the office-holding -class. There were country. The first emigrants left i;n,any unprinC'iplecl officials wh o ex : Stavanger, a quaint old town on the it.cted exorbHant, and even unlawful, west coast of Norway, on our Na,- tees for their services, and with such • tional day of independence, in a Officials ordin·a ry politeness to the dJ¥all sl oop named Restaurationen. C·Ommon man was out of the que-s tion. Thus, poverty, oppression on The officers and passengers num the part of the officials, and re bered, counting men, women and ligious ·p ersecution -co-operated in chi ldren, 52 souls, and when the y turning the minds of the people i n reached New York on the ninth da y Stavanger city a n d county toward the of October they :were 53, a little girl land of freedom and abundance i n having, been born on the second of th e Far West. September in mid-Atlantic. The cen w114 1 e I am compelled to present tennial of the departure from Nor these gloomy pictures of conditions •• way of this No :fiQ �· j.s in Norway i n the early part or the . soon to be celebrated, an ..J;.fie ·event last century, I am happy to br; able has been fittingly recognized by our to state that things have changed Government. The Post-office depart radically since then. A broad re ment. is issuing a memorial stamp, ligious tolerance now exists th ere and Congress has authorized a sil and has a;ceelerated the tendency ver medal in con;im�moration of the which, since 1840., has been steadily event. toward more freedom and toward In connection with this centennial, more opportunities for all classes It is eminently proper to review the of citizens. history of the movement that. be Only Two Se amen gan 100 years ago. The fatheJ and promoter of Nor Aboard the Ve ssel wegian emigrati0n in 1825 was Cleng Four weeks had passed since they Peerson, who was born in Norway on May 17, 1782, and died in Texas left Stavanger, anr! for ten mo.re weeks the sloop had to con weary on December 16, 1865. The l eader of the Restaurationen p,arty of emi tend with the angry wav:es of the grants - as Lars Larson i Jeilti,ne. He rough Atlantic. It may be added was. born in Stavanger, Norway, here that only the captain and mate September 24, 1787. He became a were seamen in the strict sense of ship. carpenter afid served on board the word, but Lars Larson was by a, Nor:wegian m erchant ship . Cap trade a ship carpenter, and most o f h rea during the Napoleonic wan;, the adult m e n o n board, having been a prisoner ip England, he be- reared on the coast of Norway as ,1 J:elcl fishermen, were naturally familiar came ....,:1, Quaker. with the sea. I �tory of William Penn In New York qu ite a sensation was awakened by the fact that these Norway in eated Rep 1 Norwegians had ventured In all l ands ,and climes, the be ocean in so small a craft.across the a \ ginning of emigration can often be thing had not been heard of Such before. I traced to religious intolerance and Here they also got into trouble with i persecution. Did not Fl'ance lose the authoritie s, on of having half a mill ion of her m ost desirwble a larger cargo andaccount number citizens on account of the persec11- of passenge rs thana larger the American tion of th e Huguenobs ? Did not the laws permitte d a ship the size of the Huguenots flee to Switzerland, Hol sloop to carry, and in consequ ence land, England, and to America ? of this violation of Uncle Sam's Wherever they settled they br ought laws Capt. Lars Olson Helland was with them art and manufacture and arrested and the ship with its cargo the refinement of dvilization, and was seized by the custom -house so they enriched their adopted coun authoritie s of New York. tries. And what of the Pilgrim Fa Cleng Peerso n was in New York thers w ho landed in Plymouth in 1 620 when th e sloop arrived there. • He and founded th e first settlement in had again gone by the way of Goth New England? Were they not men enburg , Sweden , and was in New of strong minds, gqod judgment, and York ready to recive his friends sterling cb·aracter, and did they not to give them such assistan·c e asand rigidly conform their lives to their was able. H e had found Quakers hi ne ,--_,--pTinc!ples ? Persecution led them to N_ew York, who were prepared a, r t F iends 1 g�any of them shelter . e111igrate, and in New England they give our Norwegian Pil grims a wel- under th eir own roofs and supplied embodied their principles in a frame come and such help as they m ost 1 them with money to relieve th eir work of government, · on which a needed. I suppose the i n most pressing needs. The Quakers mo·st stable foundation of our Great New York, partly in authoritie111 consid eration showed themselves in this case, as _ American Republic has been built of the ignorantand chi ldish conduct everywhere in history to be friends up . History repeats itself in Nor- of the sloop immigrants and p artly indeed. Mrs. Atwater: the lady who by the powerful inte.rces- was born on the sloop has told me, way in the early ¥ears of the nine influenced sion of Quaker Friends, decid ed to on the authority of he1; parents, how teenth century and the sloop Res taur, ationen left Norway in 1825 be be merciful. The fact i� a t all kind the Quakers in New York were cause QuakeTs were not permitted events, that the captain was released to all the sloop people. Enough to worship God according to the dic from captivity, and the sloop an d its money was raised by the Quakers tates of their own conscience. 'I'he cargo WQre restored to their owners. to :pay th e expen·s es of th. e immiI have it from the lips of pass en- grants , - $6 .00 for each , from New story of William Penn is repeated gers who came in the sloop that the York city to the town of Kendall in in Norway. i n New (Yo,rk took a deep Orleans county, New York, where Quakers Of courne, there were e Norwegian new- farms were ·obtained by them . Hero interest in t reason s, also, ancl e comers, wh we e w ell-nigh destitute then was formccl the first Norwehoped to better th r m e u othin o food 11 a llei • reli ous ( From Am Scandinavian Review.) �� https://www.norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/files/original/66decde748a5245ab3edd24ed69f6006.pdf 673dfd674d970dbceb8a672393c24f10 PDF Text Text Title: Preparation for Centennial scrapbook, 1925 Date: 1925 Identifier: p0562_clippings_05 Front Page Table of Contents Page 1 Norwegians To Hold Centennial Function, 1925 April 29; Norse-American Festival To Be Held Next Month, 1925 May 7 Page 2 Centennial To Be Great Celebration, 1925 May 20; The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 4; Contributions Of Norsemen To American Shown At Centennial Now Being Held In Twin Cities, 1925 June 9 Page 3 The Norse Centennial, 1925 June 23; Full Text of President's Address; Pays Tribute to Norse in U.S., 1925 June 9 Page 5 House Resolution Extends Invitation to Centennial, 1925 May 28; Norse Centennial Gets State Backing, 1925; Leach Extends City's Invitation for Norse Fete, 1925 May 19; Nelson Greets Norse, 1925 June 7; World Invited to Norse Meeting by Mayor Nelson, 1925 May 19 Page 6 Radio Sends Call To Nation To Visit Norse Centennial, 1925 May 15 Page 7 Centennial Fete Reception To Be Mapped Feb, 23, 1925; Fair Grounds To Be Scene Of Big Centennial, 1925 February; Coolidge Plans Long Cruise On Mayflower for Summer, 1925 March 5 Page 8 Norse Festival Plans Are Made, 1925 March 13; Seek Price For Fair, 1925 May 13; Norse Centennial at St. Paul, 1925 March 21; Norse Yankee Centennial On June 6,7,8, 1925 March 25 Page 9 Norse Yankee Centennial On June 6,7,8, 1925 March 25 (continued); �Famous Norwegians Coming For Centennial Celebration, 1925 March 29; Coolidge Is Coming So Is King Haakon, 1925 April 17; Gimmestad Will Speak at Norse Centennial, 1925 April 2 Page 10 Little Stories From In And Out of Town, 1925 April 9; Minneapolis Celebration, 1925 April 10; Norsemen Caravans to Bring Thousands to Centenary at Minneapolis in June, 1925 April 19 Page 11 Norsemen Caravans to Bring Thousands to Centenary at Minneapolis in June, 1925 April 19 (continued); This Summer's Greatest Event, 1925 April 28 Page 12 This Summer's Greatest Event, 1925 April 28 (continued); Norse To Meet, 1925 April 29; The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 April 30; Norse Program Near Complete, 1925 May 1 Page 13 Norse Program Near Complete, 1925 May 1 (continued); Plans For Norse Centennial Meet Well Under Way, 1925 May 3; Centennial Board Maps 30 Features, 1925 May 3; Sec. Kellogg and Wife to Attend Norse Meet at Minneapolis in June, 1925 May 4; National Leaders Plan to Attend Norse Centennial, 1925 May 6 Page 14 Norse-American Centennial At Minnesota State Fair Ground June 6th to 9th, 1925 May 1 Page 15 Norse-American Centennial At Minnesota State Fair Ground June 6th to 9th, 1925 May 1 (continued); Norwegians Will Celebrate, 1925 May 7; Untitled, 1925 May 7; Grand Centennial Of Norsemen in America, 1925 May 13; Norse Program is Now Complete, 1925 May 14 Page 16 Norse Program is Now Complete, 1925 May 14 (continued); Norse Fete To Observe First Shipload Here, 1925 May 15; Centennial Bulletin Out, 1925 May 16; Swedes, Danes, Icelanders Send Norse Greetings, 1925 May 18 Page 17 Swedes, Danes, Icelanders Send Norse Greetings, 1925 May 18 (continued); The Norse Centennial, 1925 May 20; Should Attend Celebration, 1925 May 21; Pageantry Features St. Olaf Norse Play, 1925 May 21; Norse to Present Spectacular Event for All Continent, 1925 May 25 Page 18 Norwegians, Honoring the Centennial of First Group Immigrants, to Meet for Elaborate Celebration June 6, 1925 May 28; Crowds Will Start For Centennial, 1925 May 28 �Page 19 Auto Caravans To Twin Cities, 1925 May 28; Norse-American Centennial Celebration And Exposition, 1925 May 28; Centennial In Minneapolis, 1925 May 29 Page 20 Norsk Folk In This County Plan Great Hecira To Cities, 1925 May 29; Norwegian and English Services to Mark Norse Centennial Opening, 1925 May 30; The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 1; Coming Centennial, 1925 June 2 Page 21 Rebuild Norse "Mayflower", 1925 May 1; Workmen Busy On Norse Ship, 1925 June 8; Lag Reproduces Norse Boat For Centennial, 1925 April 26; Minneapolis Ready To Honor Norsemen Of Western Plains, 1925 June 3 Page 22 Minneapolis Ready To Honor Norsemen Of Western Plains, 1925 June 3 (continued) The Why, Where, What of Norse Centennial, 1925 June 3; Big Centennial To Be Attended By Norwegians, 1925 June 4; Centennial Headquarters, 1925 March 24 Page 23 Service Is Assured For 350,000 Guests, 1925 May 17; Norse-American Centennial, 1925 May 21; Norse American Centennial To Be Spectacular Affair, 1925 June 4 Page 24 Special Bulletin, 1925 June 5; Norse-American Centennial, 1925 June 5 Page 25 Nordic Centennial Celebration This Week, 1925 June 5; Norse-American Centennial June 8, 1925 June 5; Twin Cities Ready For Gala Occasion, 1925 June 5; To Honor Norwegian, 1925 June 6; A Good Week to Budgetize Time, 1925 June 6 Page 26 Many Have Part In Big Festival, 1925 June 7; Norwegians of U.S. To Hear Coolidge at Minneapolis in June, 1925 June 7 Page 27 Norse-American Centennial, 1925 March 26 Page 28 Norse-American Centennial, 1925 March 26 (continued); Norse-American Centennial News, 1925 April 16 Page 29 Great Preparations For The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 April 15 Page 30 Great Preparations For The Norse-American Centennial, 1925 April 15 (continued); �Norse Centennial Gaining Interest, 1925 April 24 Page 31 Norse Centennial Gaining Interest, 1925 April 24 (continued); Norse-American Centennial Celebration Held In Minneapolis June 6 to 9, 1925 April 30 Page 32 Norse-American Centennial Celebration Held In Minneapolis June 6 to 9, 1925 April 30 (continued); General Story On Norwegian Celebration, 1925 May 8 Page 33 General Story On Norwegian Celebration, 1925 May 8 (continued); Arrangements Made For Big Centennial At St. Fair Grounds, 1925 May 1 Page 34 Arrangements Made For Big Centennial At St. Fair Grounds, 1925 May 1 (continued) Page 35 Intensive Work Inaugurated For Success of Centennial June 6 to 9, 1925 May 7 Page 36 Intensive Work Inaugurated For Success of Centennial June 6 to 9, 1925 May 7 (continued); Coolidge Will Speak At Huge Norse Centennial, 1925 May 20 Page 37 The Centennial Near At Hand, 1925 June 4 Page 38 The Centennial Near At Hand, 1925 June 4 (continued); Keen Interest In Centennial, 1925 June 5 Page 39 Souvenir Medals Are to Be Minted by U.S. for Sale During Norse Centennial in St. Paul, 1925 March 1; Kvales Selects Medal Designer, 1925 March 19; U.S. Mint to Strike Off Medals for Norse-American Centennial, 1925 March 29 Page 40 Norse-American Centennial To Be Commemorated by Medal, 1925 April 24; U.S. Mint To Strike Off Viking Medals, 1925 April 30; News Of Norse-Centennial, 1925 May 14 Page 41 News Of Norse-Centennial, 1925 May 14 (continued); Norse Silver Piece Is Received By Local Man, 1925 June 4; Norse-American Coins Put On Sale In Benson, 1925 June 25; New Memorial Stamps Ready, 1925 May 7 Page 42 Norse-American Stamps in Demand, 1925 May 14; Algona One Of 7 Cities Recognized, 1925 May 14; Norse Stamps To Be Out Soon, 1925 May 14; Special Stamp Sold Here to Commemorate Norse Jubilee, 1925 May 19 Page 43 Ask Cancellation On First Day Of Sale, 1925 May 21; Collectors Rush to Buy Stamps of Norse Centennial, 1925 May 19; �Norse-American Postage Stamp Supply Runs Out, 1925 May 21; New U.S. Stamps Are on Display in Davenport, 1925 June 3; New Postage Stamps Are Being Distributed, 1925 June 5 Page 44 New Postage Stamps Are Being Distributed, 1925 June 5 (continued); Local Woman Has Centennial Stamps, 1925 June 5; New Centennial Stamp Is Seen, 1925 June 5; Moe Gets Large Supply of Norse-American Stamps, 1925 June 5; Untitled, 1925 June 12; Norse Centennial Stamps Are Places on Sale Here, 1925 June 15; Norse Stamps in Demand, 1925 June 15; Norse-American Stamps at the P.O., 1925 June 20 Page 45 Norse Honor Stamps Issued, 1925 June 20; Collectors Can Learn History of America, 1925 June 21; New Stamp Issue, 1925 June 25; Official Souvenirs for the Norse Centennial, 1925 June 4 Page 47 Norwegian History, 1925 June 8; Sailors' Feat Spurs Centennial Staff, 1925 February 15; Will Celebrate Centennial Year, 1925 March 5 Page 48 Will Celebrate Centennial Year, 1925 March 5 (continued); Norwegians In Big Observance, 1925 March 14 Page 49 Norwegians In Big Observance, 1925 March 14 (continued); To Hold A Centennial, 1925 May 7 Page 50 To Hold A Centennial, 1925 May 7 (continued); Craft Which Housed 53 Passengers 13 Weeks Would Not Fill Bulletin Office, 1925 May 23 Page 51 Songs Of Life Celebrate Second Coming Of Norsemen To America, 1925 June 7 Page 52 Songs Of Life Celebrate Second Coming Of Norsemen To America, 1925 June 7 (continued); Sloop Landed 53 Norwegians On U.S. Shores, 1925 June 8; Peerson Called Pathfinder Of Norse Settlers, 1925 June 8 Page 53 Peerson Called Pathfinder Of Norse Settlers, 1925 June 8 (continued); Norse-American Centennial Honors Scandinavian Trek Led West By Kleng Peerson, 1925 June 10 Page 54 Norse-American Centennial In June, 1925 June 5; Background Of Events, 1925 June 6 Page 55 The Centennial And Its Meaning, 1925 June 9; �Norsemen Of America Set For Monster Celebration, 1925 May 31 Page 56 Norsemen Of America Set For Monster Celebration, 1925 May 31 (continued); Norsemen Braved Sea Perils On Trip, 1925 Page 57 Norwegian Mayflower Sailed For America 100 Year Ago, 1925 June 8 Page 58 Norwegian Mayflower Sailed For America 100 Year Ago, 1925 June 8 (continued); Norse-American Centennial Aim Told By Bothne, 1925 March 31; First Norse Immigrants Presented Novel Site, 1925 April 9; Norsemen In American History, 1925 June 18 Page 59 Norsemen In American History, 1925 June 18 (continued); Tells Story Of Norse Coming To Northwest, 1925 April 6 Page 60 Tells Story Of Norse Coming To Northwest, 1925 April 6 (continued); History Confirms Cleng Peerson As "Father of Norwegian Emigration", 1925 June 8 Page 61 History Confirms Cleng Peerson As "Father of Norwegian Emigration", 1925 June 8 (continued); Pres. Coolidge Is Historical, 1925 June 11 Page 62 Pres. Coolidge Is Historical, 1925 June 11 (continued) Page 63 Washington Descendant Of Norse Kings, 1925 February 22 Page 65 St. Paul Man's Ancestor Was First Head of Scandinavian Body in U.S., 1925 June 7 Page 66 Norse In U.S., 1925 June 7 Page 67 Tiny Norse, 1925 May 31 Page 68 Norsemen In American History, 1925 June 18 Page 69 Norsemen In American History, 1925 June 18 (continued) Page 70 Norsemen In American History, 1925 June 18 (continued); Honor Bestowed By Uncle Sam Upon Norwegians In Centennial Is Challenge To Norsemen To Keep Reputation Of Forefathers, S.C. Pastor Declares, 1925 June 5 Page 71 Honor Bestowed By Uncle Sam Upon Norwegians In Centennial Is Challenge To Norsemen To Keep Reputation Of Forefathers, S.C. Pastor Declares, 1925 June 5 (continued) Page 72 �Norwegian Lutheran Convention Will Follow Centennial, 1925 June 7 Page 73 Norwegian Lutheran Convention Will Follow Centennial, 1925 June 7 (continued) Page 74 Norwegian Lutheran Convention Will Follow Centennial, 1925 June 7 (continued); Norwegian Play Heavy Parts Developing State, 1925 June 7 Page 75 Saga of the Norsemen in America, 1925 May 3 Page 76 Saga of the Norsemen in America, 1925 May 3 (continued) Page 77 Saga of the Norsemen in America, 1925 May 31 Page 78 Saga of the Norsemen in America, 1925 May 31 (continued) Page 79 Norse-American Centennial: One Hundred Years of Immigration to America Celebrated in Twin Cities, 1925 Page 80 Norse-American Centennial: One Hundred Years of Immigration to America Celebrated in Twin Cities, 1925 (continued) Page 81 Why Norwegians Will Celebrate The 100th Anniversary of Their Immigration to the United States, 1925 May 24 Page 82 Why Norwegians Will Celebrate The 100th Anniversary of Their Immigration to the United States, 1925 May 24 (continued) Page 83 Why Norwegians Will Celebrate The 100th Anniversary of Their Immigration to the United States, 1925 May 24 (continued) Page 84 Why Norwegians Will Celebrate The 100th Anniversary of Their Immigration to the United States, 1925 May 24 (continued); Norse-American Centennial, 1925 April 20 Page 85 Kitchen Philosophy, 1925 June 5 Page 86 Norse Mayflower Reached America 100 Years Ago, 1925 June 6 Back Cover � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Norse-American Centennial Papers (P0562) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context P0562 Description An account of the resource Correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, programs, clippings, pictures, pamphlets, and scrapbooks of an association incorporated in 1925 in St. Paul, Minnesota, to supervise the observance of the arrival of the first group of Norwegian immigrants in America. The collection describes in detail the management of the celebration and gives data on observances in Chicago, Canada, Boston, and Brooklyn. Letters and essays reveal the loyalty of Norwegian Americans to their cultural heritage and the rivalry among area groups of Norwegians in America. The celebration was initiated by the bygdelags. The chief officials were Gisle Bothne, S. H. Holstad, J. A. Holvik, Elisa P. Farseth, and Mrs. Wm. O. Storlie. Correspondents include Juul Dieserud, Knut Gjerset, Hanna Astrup Larsen, and O. M. Norlie. The centennial received nationwide press coverage. Funding: Funding to digitize the Norse-American Centennial papers provided to the Norwegian-American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newspapers Description An account of the resource Clippings scrapbook about the preparations for the Norse-American Centennial. Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. [Indicate the cited item here]. Norse-American Centennial Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota. Text