Foreign Language Press Service

As a composer of popular songs and piano music, few musicians have won greater acclaim than Hans Christian Verner, a Chicago Norwegian. Mr. Verner came with his parents to Chicago from Skien, Norway, when he was a little boy. His father, Mr. Verner, Sr., who was engaged in the jewel

Olaf E. Ray, chairman of the Committee on Arrangements for the Seventeenth of May festival [Norway's Independence Day], has been in Chicago for about twenty years. During the first few years of this period he worked for the Amerika Line, studying law in his spare time. He graduated ten years

School Trustee Walleck's resolution concerning instruction in foreign languages in the public grammar schools is all right as far as it goes, but it is a halting, halfway measure. Under this resolution, instruction in foreign tongues would be limited to German, Bohemian, Irish, Hebrew, Italia

The Humboldt Park Branch of the Norwegian Society for the Home for the Aged held its regular monthly meeting last Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Jennie Thyr, 817 North Fairfield Avenue....The reports from the Home were favorable, with the exception that one of the inmates had left and Mrs

After a great deal of hard work and much trouble, I have at last succeeded....in arranging for a home for Scandinavian women who are seeking employment in this large city. These women frequently have no friends or homes to visit, especially during their first year in this country. The objecti

The Scandinavian Lutheran Cemetery Society held its annual meeting in the Stensland Building last Monday evening. The secretary and treasurer of the society, Mr. Paul O. Stensland, presented the following report on the society's activities during the past year: "In addition to the r

The Norwegian emigrant may go to Africa, Australia, or America, but no matter where he goes, he cannot rid himself of nostalgia, and the farther away he goes, the more strongly does he long to go back to the place where he passed his childhood years....The Norwegian immigrants in America, dis

The Danish Sharpshooters' Society has moved from Sharpshooters' Hall, having rented accommodations from Mr. Peter M. Lagoni, 690 West North Avenue.

The Danish Sharpshooters' Society has moved from Sharpshooters' Hall, having rented accommodations from Mr. Peter M. Lagoni, 690 West North Avenue.

P. 5- Harmony is the title of the new monthly periodical, of which the first number was issued yesterday. The aim of this magazine is to further every thing of interest to the Turner community. Functioning as editors of this monthly magazine are the following Turners: George A. Schmidt, John

As usual in the past few years, the Norwegian Independence Day will be celebrated in all localities where the Norwegians are numerous enough to hold some kind of social or festival. Even the lonely settler, on the prairie or in the forest, will remember the day and in his thoughts visit his f

The Lithuanians in this city are gaining reason daily. The parishioners took the parish treasury from the priest. Now the priest says that such attitude on the part of the parishioners is an act of infidelity. The priest says that the bishop sent him here to take care of the church and the tr

No matter whether you are rich or poor, if you are a freethinker from any of the American states, you should come to the Lithuanian freethinkers convention, which will be held June 3, 1900, at 213 Forsyth St., New York, N. Y. The Convention Committee.

As mentioned in our news columns, the inheritance-tax law has been declared constitutional by the United States Supreme Court. The premises to the decision cover all the constitutional objections raised against the law, and for this reason the decision gains so much significance. The law plac

On April 29, Sunday, the well known Evangelical pastor, M. Keturakaitis, held a sermon for the Lithuanian Protestants in the church at 14th and Union Avenue. On May 1st, the Lithuanian Protestants held their meeting and the pastor was present there. Some of the Protestants wanted to organize

P. 5 - The last meeting of the German Literary Society of Evanston, before the beginning of the summer vacation will be held tonight. The program is of extraordinary interest. Mr. Sigmund Zeisler will give a lecture, taking Hauptmann's the "Versunkene Glocke" (The Sunken Bell) for his subject

P. 3 - The Central Committee of the German-American Democrats, composed of representatives from every German-American club of Cook County, resolved at its last meeting, to indorse Frank Wenter for re-nomination. His ability as a public servant, in his present capacity as president of the drai

Yesterday's Seventeenth of May Festival at the Auditorium was not as well attended as had been expected and hoped, and the reason for the small attendance was attributed to the weather, which was unpleasant. The program was opened with "March Solemnelle," by Alfred Paulsen, played by the orch

Section No. 2 of the Socialist Labor Party, on the West Side, has recently been reorganized on an independent basis. Meetings are held every second and fourth Wednesday at P. Pedersen's Hall, at the corner of Campbell and West North Avenues.

The wrestling match between Bech Olsen, Champion of Denmark, and his opponent last Friday drew a crowd of thirty-five hundred to Tatter Hall. The fight was a great disappointment. Bech Olsen fought in a black tricot but Rooney was naked to the belt and had been rubbed with oil. Half an hour b