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Congregational Meeting Minutes: 1920-1929
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Norwegian Transcription
13 December 1920
The congregation held its annual meeting in the church on December 13
1920.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Grimsrud with hymn song and prayer. Thereafter
he informed that there had been held twenty-two services during the past
year and that a dozen families had joined the congregation, and that there
were three who wished to be admitted; namely Mr. Martin
Matheson and wife and Mrs.
Bennie Odegaard. They were unanimously admitted.
The school committee reported that there had been held 2 months of religion
school in the western and 1 month in the eastern school house and that
the Ladies Aid had paid for the same.
Thereafter was decided to hold two months of school in the church and
as school committee were elected Ole
Valsvik, O.
Odegaard and Nils
Nilson.
The building committee reported that there now was a basement under the
church and that other repairs had been performed, and as the invoice not
was complete, there were elected two auditors, namely Paul
Borgie and Tobias
Stene who would report later.
The cemetery committee reported that the county had built a bridge by
the cemetery, and also there was decided to have a day for the ornamentation
of graves.
Thereafter the following was elected as trustee for three years: K.
Finstad, secretary 1 year O.
Odegaard; treasurer one year, C.
Oien; lignings committee Ole
Valsvik, P.
Borgie and L.
Netteland. Building committee the same as before, and sexton J.
Torstveit and salary for the same sixteen dollars for one year.
As delegates to the district meeting were elected Lars
Netteland and H.
Johnson and as substitutes A.
Odegaard and K.
Finstad. As responsible for the cemetery was elected B.
Odegaard.
Thereafter the report of the treasurer was read but was shelved because
it was not complete.
Proposed and supported to allow $400.00 to the expenses of the congregation.
It was proposed and supported that the congregation shall express its
gratitude to the Ladies Aid and the youths’ club for the help they
had proffered at the building of the basement and that the congregation
likewise expresses its gratitude to Agnes
Odegaard for the altar-cloth that she had donated to the congregation.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Ole
Odegaard, secr.
12 December 1921
The congregation held its annual meeting in the church on December
12th, 1921.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Grimsrud with hymn song and prayer, then
the report of the secretary was read and accepted and thereafter the report
of the treasurer was read and accepted.
The school committee reported that they had had one and one-half months
of school. T.
Stene reported on behalf of the building committee that they had not
done anything during the past year and that he wished that it should be
dissolved. He also reported that the auditors accepted the report of the
committee that was read.
Then the following officials were elected: as trustee for three years
was elected John
Kval, Secretary O.
Odegaard one year; treasurer T.
Stene one year.
The building committee was dissolved and C.
Oien expressed his wish that the congregation should thank it for
the work they had performed. As responsible for the cemetery was elected
Bennie
Odegaard and then it was decided to have a day for ornamentation of
graves. The time was to be decided on later.
The lignings committee the same as before: Netteland,
Borgie
and Valsvik.
As sexton the same as before Joe
Torstveit.
Delegates to the district meetings: O.
Peterson and Olaf
Snetting; subst. Ed.
Viken and K.
Finstad.
It was proposed and supported to hold two months of religion school and
that it should be held in the church.
Then was decided to allow two hundred dollars for the expenses of the
congregation.
Thereafter was elected a committee of three to collect to the different
cash accounts, namely Emil
Thune, Carl
Alberg and B.
Odegaard.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
O.
Odegaard, secr.
11 December 1922
St. Pauli congregation held its annual meeting in the church
on Dec. 11, 1922.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Grimsrud with hymn song and prayer. Thereafter
the report of the secretary was read and accepted.
And then the school committee reported that they had had a month of school.
It was proposed and supported to request that the Ladies Aid should consider
the matter of the religion school and if possible arrange for a term in
the summer.
Thereafter the report of the treasurer was read and accepted. Then the
following were elected: as secretary Olaf
Snetting for one year, as treasurer Tobias
Stene one year, as trustee Carl
Alberg 3 years. As sexton the same as before Joe
Torstveit. As lignings committee were elected: Ole
Odegaard, Martin
Mathson, Edward
Vigen.
Then it was decided to allow four hundred dollars for the expenses of
the congregation. Then a committee of three men was elected for the different
accounts, namely: Ole
Pederson, Emil
Thune and Alfred
Helgeson.
Then is was decided to have a day for ornamentation of graves. The time
was to be decided on later.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
10 December 1923
St. Pauli congregation held its annual meeting in the church on Dec. 10,
1923.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Grimsrud with hymn song and prayer. Thereafter
the report of the secretary was read and accepted and then was the report
of the treasurer read and accepted. After that the following officials
were elected: As secretary, O.
J. Snetting one year. As treasurer T.
Stene one year. As trustee Martin
Mathson three years. As Lignings Committee the following
were elected: Ole
Odegaard, Paul
Borgie, Ed
Viken. As sexton the same as before Joe
Torstveit.
Then was proposed and supported to elect a committee to discuss the matter
of religion school with the Ladies Aid, namely Ole
Odegaard, Ole
Valsvig and Nels
Nelson.
Then was elected a committee of three men to collect to the different
accounts: namely Ole
Pederson, Emil
Thune and Ole
Helgeson. After this it was decided to allow four hundred dollars
for the expenses of the congregation.
Then it was proposed and supported to authorize the trustees to alter
the loan and if possible to borrow the money at a lower interest.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr
7 July 1924
St. Pauli congregation held a special meeting in the church on July 7,
1924.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Grimsrud with hymn song and prayer. Then
he informed about the reason for this meeting, namely to discuss what
there ought to be done about the church building. It was proposed and
supported that the secretary should look up the Storm and Fire Insurance
policies.
Kermit
Finstad said that the old Hamar Ladies Aid had one hundred dollars
that they wanted to give to have the church interior repaired. Chairman
Pastor Grimstad suggested that we should accept this offer with gratitude.
Then it was proposed and supported to paint the church twice and to put
a handrail on the entrance stairs and put new panes of glass in the windows,
where necessary, and to buy screens for the basement windows.
It was proposed and supported that the trustees should see to it that
this work was done.
Proposed and supported to apply to the youths’ club to ask if they
would help to pay for this work.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
8 December 1924
St. Pauli congregation held its annual meeting in the church on Dec. 8,
1924.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Grimsrud with hymn song and prayer. Then
the report of the secretary was read and accepted. Thereafter the report
of the treasurer was read and accepted.
Then the following officials were elected:
As secretary O.
J. Snetting one year
As treasurer T.
Stene one year
As trustee Ed
Vigen three years
As lignings committee the following were elected: Ole Pederson,
Kornelius
Oien, Joe
Torstveit
As sexton the same as before Joe
Torstveit
As school committee the same as before, namely: Ole
Odegaard, Ole
Valsvig and Nils
Nelson.
Thereafter a committee of three men was elected to collect to the different
accounts, namely Ole
Pederson, Emil
Thune, Helge Helgeson.
Then was proposed and supported that Martin
Knutson was free from paying his share in the pastor’s salary
as long as he is away. And that Mrs.
Austad was free from paying her share the next year. And that Martin
Helgeson and family had their share reduced by half.
Regarding that the following members of the congregation have not paid
towards the pastor’s salary for three years, namely Peter Nelson,
Oscar Seeland, Tollef
Erickson and Hans
Fredrikson. It was decided as follows: they pay the same part of the
pastor’s salary as before for the coming year. What they owe is
cancelled; but if they do not pay in the following year, they will be
regarded as removed from the list of members.
Then was proposed and supported to allow $375.00 for the expenses of the
congregation.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
14 December 1925
St. Pauli congregation held its annual meeting in the church on
Dec. 14, 1925.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Grimsrud with hymn song and prayer.
Then he informed that there had been held services as before and that
the Ladies Aid had had a good year, and that the youth’s club had
held more meetings this year than before.
After this the report of the secretary was read and accepted. Then the
report of the treasurer was read and accepted. Then the following officials
were elected: As Secretary O.
J. Snetting one year; as treasurer T.
Stene one year; as treasurer Martin
Helgeson three years. As sexton Joe
Torstveit.
It was proposed and supported that the salary of the sexton was raised
from sixteen dollars a year to twenty-five dollars a year. As lignings
committee the same as before, namely Ole
Pederson, Joe
Torstveit and Kornelius
Oien.
As school committee the following were elected: Ole
Odegaard, Ole
Valsvig and Nils
Nelson. Then Ole
Pederson, Emil
Thune and Helge Helgeson volunteered to collect to the different accounts.
The chairman Pastor Grimsrud expressed his wish that the congregation
should express its gratitude to the Ladies Aid and the youths’ club
for loyal work to take care of having the debt of the church paid.
It was left to the trustees to buy wood for the church.
Then Ole
Valsvig, Ed.
Vigen, Emil
Thune and O.
J. Snetting volunteered to clear away the brush by the church.
Proposed and accepted to allow $375.00 for the expenses of the congregation.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
5 April 1926
St. Pauli congregation held a special congregation meeting in
the church on April 5th, 1926 to discuss if there should be held services
in the English language. It was proposed and supported to hold every third
service in the English language. Then it was proposed and supported to
apply to the youths’ club if they wanted to buy English hymn books
to use at the English services.
After which the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
14 June 1926
There was held a special congregation meeting in the church on June 14
1926. The meeting was opened by the chairman Pastor Grimsrud with reading
from the Bible and prayer.
Thereafter Martin
Mathson informed about the reason for this meeting, namely to discuss
what should be done to the church.
Then it was proposed and supported that Helmer
Finstad with wife and 4 children were admitted as members of the congregation.
It was proposed and supported to strengthen [literally "grace"]
the church with three iron bars on the west side and two on the east side,
and three on the inside of the basement and two on the inside of the church
if it is necessary. Proposed and supported to repair the church on the
inside with a steel ceiling and paint the inside and outside and put handrails
on the entrance stairs.
Proposed and supported to leave it to the trustees to hire a carpenter
to superintend this work and to borrow money to perform this work.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
25 July 1926
St. Pauli congregation held a special congregation meeting in
the church on July 25 1926.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Grimsrud with hymn song and reading from
the Bible. Thereafter it was proposed and supported to accept Pastor Grimsrud’s
resignation. It was proposed and supported to accept the resignation for
two months instead of for three.
Proposed and supported to elect a committee of three men to appoint a
pastor again.
Namely: Joe
Torstveit, Lars
Lokken, O.
J. Snetting.
Then Iver
Iversen was elected to be grave keeper and Tobias
Stene elected to be chairman until we have a pastor again.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
O.
J. Snetting, Secr.
13 December 1926
St. Pauli congregation held its annual meeting in the church
on Dec 13th, 1926.
The meeting was opened by the chairman Pastor Jacobson with reading from
the Bible and prayer. Then was read the report of the secretary and accepted
as read. The report of the treasurer was read and accepted as read.
The following officials were elected.
Ole
Pederson trustee 3 years
Olaf
Snetting Secr. 1 year
Tobias
Stene treasurer 1 year
Nils
Nelson sexton 1 year
The school committee as before, namely Ole
Odegaard, Ole
Valsvig, Nils
Nelson
Lignings Committee Martin
Mathson, Helmer
Finstad, Ole
Pederson
Thereafter a committee of three men was elected to collect to the congregation
funds, namely: Otto
Netteland, Helge Helgeson, Emil
Thune.
It was proposed and supported to invite the district to hold its district
meeting in the church once in April or May, and to have the church consecrated
at the same time.
Proposed and supported to make use of the envelope system to demand the
payment of the pastor’s salary.
Proposed and supported to allow $375.00 for the expenses of the congregation.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
14 April 1927
A special congregation meeting was held in the church on April
14 1927. Ole
Pederson was elected to be temporary chairman.
There was elected a delegate to the district meeting that was held in
Thief River Falls in June, namely Ole
Valsvig and Ole
Pederson as substitute.
Ed
Vigen informed about the purpose of this meeting, namely to raise
the pastor’s salary for the whole parish from $1,240.00 to $1,500.00
per year. That would mean $65.00 per congregation.
Proposed and supported that St. Pauli raises the pastor’s salary
the $65.00 in case the other congregations in the parish raise their pastor’s
salary with a similar sum.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
9 October 1927
A special congregational meeting was held on Oct 9th, 1927.
Pastor Jacobson informed about the purpose of this meeting. Namely to
elect two delegates to the district meeting in Bethania congregation in
Pastor Ranum’s district which will be held October 26 and 27 1927.
And to elect a new member of the parish committee instead of Lars
Lokken, deceased.
The following was elected - Emil
Thune - to the parish committee.
Ed
Vigen and Ole
Pederson were elected to be delegates at the district meeting.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
14 December 1927
St. Pauli congregation held its annual meeting in the church
on Dec 14th. 1927.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Jacobson with reading from the Bible
and prayer. Thereafter Pastor Jacobson reported that he had held nine
English, one hundred and twenty-one Norwegian and seven Norwegian-English
services, three funerals, two communion services, eight baptisms and twenty-two
meetings with confirmation classes.
Pastor Jacobson expressed his gratitude to the congregation for having
paid the pastor’s salary on time. Proposed and supported that the
gift of twenty-five dollars from Mrs.
John Magnuson would be used for the basement. Accepted.
Thereafter the report of the secretary was read and accepted as read.
And the report of the treasurer was read and accepted. The following officials
were elected: O.
J. Snetting Secretary 1 year; Tobias
Stene treasurer 1 year; Emil
Thune trustee 3 years.
Lignings committee: Ole
Pederson, Helmer
Finstad, Ed
Vigen.
A committee of three men was elected to collect for the congregation funds
namely, Joe
Torstveit, Carl
Alberg, Hjalmar
Valsvig.
School committee Ole
Odegaard, Ole
Valsvig, Nils
Nelson.
Sexton, Nils
Nelson.
28 May 1928
A special Congregational meeting was held in the Church on May
28, 1928.
Pastor Dahle informed that the purpose of this meeting was to elect a
delegate and a substitute to the common Norwegian Lutheran church meeting
that is to be held in Minneapolis from May 31 to June 7, 1928.
It was proposed and supported that the Clearwater and the St. Pauli congregations
together elect a delegate. This was accepted. The following were elected:
Tobias
Stene as delegate and Ole
Pederson as substitute.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, secr.
28 October 1928
St. Pauli congregation held a special congregational meeting in the Church
on Oct 28, 1928.
Pastor Dahle informed that the purpose of this meeting was to change the
annual meeting of the congregation. It was proposed and supported to change
the annual meeting of the congregation from the second Monday in December
to November 15.
Accepted.
Olaf
Snetting, secr.
15 November 1928
St. Pauli congregation held its annual meeting in the Church
on November 15, 1928.
The meeting was opened by chairman Pastor Dahle with reading from the
Bible and prayer.
Pastor Dahle said that he did not have much to report as he had not served
the congregation more than 6 months but that he had worked to his heart’s
delight, and that he had held divine services every second week and had
meetings with the confirmation class once a week.
The report of the secretary was read and accepted as it was read. The
report of the treasurer was read and accepted. The following officials
were elected:
Secr. O.
J. Snetting 1 year;
Treasurer Tobias
Stene 1 year;
Trustee Helmer
Finstad 3 years.
Assessment committee: Ole
Pederson, Helmer
Finstad, Ed
Vigen
To collect for the congregational funds: Joe
Torstveit, Carl
Alberg, Hjalmar
Valsvig.
School committee: Ole
Odegaard, Ole
Valsvig, Nels
Nelson.
Sexton: Nels
Nelson
Then it was proposed and supported that the women should be accepted as
voting members of the congregation. Accepted. Proposed and supported to
turn to the women’s club and the youth club to see if they would
pay a certain sum of their annual income towards the expenses of the congregation.
This was accepted.
It was decided that the gift of $5.00 from Mrs.
Magnuson shall be used for a communion set.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, Secr.
28 April 1929
There was held a special congregation meeting in the Church on
April 28, 1929.
Pastor Dahle informed about the purpose of this meeting, namely to elect
two delegates to the district meeting that is to be held in Viking on
May 29 and 30, 1929.
The following delegates were elected: Ole
Pederson and Tobias
Stene.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
Olaf
Snetting, secr.
15 November 1929
St. Pauli congregation held its annual meeting in the Church on
Nov 15, 1929.
The meeting was opened with reading from the Bible by Ole
Valsvig and prayer by Pastor Dahle. The report of the secretary was
read and accepted as it was read. It was proposed and supported that the
women are accepted as voting members of the congregation. Accepted. The
report of the treasurer was read and accepted as it was read.
Pastor Dahle reported that during the year he had held 22 divine services
in the congregation, twelve in the Norwegian language and ten in the English,
and that he had baptized 6 children and confirmed a confirmation class
on June 30.
The following officials were elected:
Secr. O.
J. Snetting 1 year;
Treasurer Tobias
Stene 1 year;
Trustee Ole
Pederson 3 years.
School committee: Mrs.
Martin Mathson, Mrs.
Nels Nelson, O.
J. Snetting
Sexton: Nels
Nelson
Assessment committee: Ole
Pederson, Helmer
Finstad, Ed
Vigen
It was proposed and supported to pay the treasurer $10.00 a year for his
work. Accepted.
Proposed and supported to collect for the congregation funds by offering.
Accepted.
Proposed and supported that Pastor Dahle shall purchase the altar wine.
Accepted.
On proposal the meeting was ended.