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The brilliant Norwegian lecturer Frithjof Werenskjold will give three lectures on temperance next week in Humboldt Park Parish House, under the auspices of the I.O.G.T.

Last Sunday a childrens' lodge of the I.O.G.T. was formed, which will meet every Sunday afternoon in the hall at Wabansia Avenue and Ballou Street.

The building committee of the Knights of the White Cross held a successful summer festival yesterday. The purpose of the festival was to raise funds for a new building.....A few affairs like this, and the Order will soon be able to realize its dreams.

Famous are Polish weddings and christenings. Polish wedding celebrations are famous because beer and whiskey are not the only things that flow at these celebrations, but also Polish blood from the bodies of the celebrants. The people dance and drink, drink and dance, and when they g

The meeting of the Grand Lodge of the Knights of the White Cross opened today. P. C. Wold, of Chicago, was elected Archduke. C. Trones, of Chicago, was elected Arch-Treasurer.

A Temperance Group was established on the West Side last Wednesday. The meeting was held at the Our Lady of Vilna Parish Hall. Reverend Ambrozaitis and Dr. A. Rutkauskas are among the originators and propagators of this idea.

Another Cook County jury has acquitted a woman who murdered her husband. In accordance with our principle of not reporting details of murders, divorces, and other morality scandals, we will not review any phase of the case in question. We will simply recall that within a comparatively short t

The following newspapers were represented in the third Lithuanian newspapermen's conference: Vienybē Lietuvninku, Katalikas, Lietuva, Tevynē, Darbininku Viltis, Laisvoji Mintis, and Dagis. The conference was held in Chicago. The meetings began Friday, September 27, at the Bismarck H

According to dispatches from Washington, D. C., young society girls of that city are drinking like sailors in the fashionable saloons and night clubs. Temperance preachers are raging in vain against such disgraceful conditions, which will, of course, continue in one form or another,

The Norwegian National League, of Chicago, met in Kedzie Hall, Monday, Nov. 18. A communication protesting the use of Brand's Park for the May 17 festivities was read, but ignored because of its tone. The letter was written by some crank who stated that the greatest income of the festivities

In one of the larger Polish colonies a Polish woman, with a few children, would frequently get drunk. The woman had been arrested several times for excessive use of alcohol; the sheriff even prohibited the saloon keepers to sell whiskey to this woman. But the saloon keepers have whi

Sunday evening, Jan. 18th, was a gala occasion at the Kenrik Ibsen lodge of the I.O.G.T. The ladies entertained the male section, showing the chesty brothers what real entertainment was. Singing, instrumental music and recitations flowed from the cornucopia of enjoyable offerings. In addition

A new Norwegian Good Templar lodge has been organized on the South Side by Henry Weardahl. Because most of the members come from Farsund, Norway, the lodge has been given the name "Lindenaes". It is to be hoped that the new society will be successful, since the South Side has hitherto had no

There are at present quite a few Prussian Lithuanians in Chicago. They have their own mutual benefit society. Several men, who are great lovers of enlightenment, arranged a lecture last Sunday for the sole benefit of the Prussian Lithuanians. Even though they have their own society, they have

The Humboldt Park Parish House was the scene of the celebration of the sixth anniversary of Lodge No. 3 of the I.O.G.T., on February 17th. In spite of the fact that Captain Roald Amundsen was giving his final Chicago lecture at the same time, the I.O.G.T. festival was well-attended.

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Editor of Onze Toekomst: The American has progressed in many respects, but in others he is left wanting. For instance, in the large cities of the Netherlands and England comfort stations are provided to accommodate men and women. I must say that they were just as necessary as drinki

Chicago's prohibitionists, under the leadership of the I.O.G.T., are on the war-path. The enemy to be obliterated is the Chicago Norwegian National League. Their offense is serving liquor at the May 17th picnics they sponsor each year. The great struggle was scheduled for Sunday, March and, w

In answer to Mr. S. Bolt's article regarding comfort stations in the Netherlands and Chicago, I have this to say: In Chicago the toilets in the saloons are free to the ladies as well as the men. Mr. Bolt is of the opinion, that he has to buy something. That is up to him. In Chicago,

One week from today we again celebrate Norway's May 17, and, as usual, there are one or two groups which are too independent to co-operate in the observance of this day. The Norwegian National League is again sponsoring the parade and the folk festival to be held in Brand's Park during the af

Will someone kindly awaken the men of our Norwegian colony? About a year ago, we of the Norwegian Women's Federation of Chicago were asked to organize a committee to work in the interest of the Memorial Gift to Norway in 1914. We understand we were to be an auxiliary to the main committee and