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Congregational Meeting Minutes: 1895-1909
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Norwegian Transcription
3 January 1895
The annual meeting of the St. Pauli Norwegian-Lutheran congregation was
held in the school-house on January 3rd 1895. At the meeting Pastor Evensen
acted as chairman and Pete Paulson as secretary.
Mr. A.
A. Odegaard with wife and four children were admitted as members of
the congregation. The constitution was read by the chairman and accepted
by the congregation of St. Pauli congregation. Sponsors from Thief River
Falls congregation admitted.
As trustees the following were elected:
A.
A. Odegaard, trustee for 3 years
Gilbert Skjerva, trustee for 2 years
Pete Paulsen, secretary for 1 year
Ole
Pedersen, treasurer for 1 year
John Skjerva church singer [kirkesanger] for indeterminate time
proposed that the regular annual meeting shall be held in early December.
Before the end of December the pastor’s salary shall be paid to
the trustees and this was unanimously accepted. Proposed that every home-owning
member of the congregation, or family breadwinner shall pay annually $
3.00 towards the pastor’s salary. This was accepted.
A.
A. Odegaard is nominated to allot gravesites for the congregation,
unless the grave site is distributed in lots to families belonging to
the congregation. But for those not belonging to the congregation, who
wish to bury theirs, but demand 50 cents for every grave. This was unanimously
accepted.
Upon proposal the meeting was ended.
P. Paulsen, secretary
Copied by Pete Semonson
4 February 1896
The annual meeting of the St. Pauli Norwegian Evangelical-Lutheran congregation
was held in the school-house on February 4th 1896.
The meeting was opened with prayer and song by the pastor I. T. Aastad
as chairman. P. Semanson is put forward and supported as secretary for
one year. This was unanimously accepted.
Reported as members of the congregation on February 4th 1896:
Halvor
Johnson with wife and daughter
Peter
Thune with wife and 4 children
Lars
Lökken with wife and 5 children
Hans
Amundson with wife and son
Gunder Torgersen, Knut
Finstad, and Mikkel
Seland are appointed to be advisory members at the congregational
meeting. Tollef
Erikson is proposed and accepted as one of the trustees of the congregation
for three years.
Hans
Fredrikson is proposed and supported as treasurer of one year. The
proposition was supported and unanimously accepted to make a collection
at the next service to cover the costs for a congregational protocol and
a book for the treasurer. The proposition was supported and unanimously
accepted that a committee of three men is appointed to direct the work
on the graveyard of the congregation. The supervisor of the committee
is A.
Odegaard.
Alex Arveson, Hans
Amundson, and A.
Odegaard are put forward and supported as Sunday School teachers.
It was unanimously accepted, proposed and supported that every voting
member of the congregation shall pay for the past year, 1895, $2.00 as
the pastor’s salary. It was proposed and supported that every breadwinner
shall pay $ 3.00 and every bachelor $ 1.50 as the pastor’s salary
for the coming year 1896. This was unanimously accepted. It was proposed
and supported that the pastor’s salary shall be paid to the trustees
and handed over to the treasurer before the end of December 1896.
It was proposed, supported and unanimously accepted that our next annual
meeting shall be held in the first half of January 1897.
It was proposed, supported and unanimously accepted that the congregation
shall make use of [illegible] and of the Synod.
Upon proposal the meeting was ended.
Copied by P. Semonson, secretary
The officials of the congregation are, trustees:
Gilbert Skjerva until 1897
A.
Odegaard until 1898
Tollef
Erikson until 1899
Hans
Fredrikson, treasurer 1 year
Pete Simonson, secretary 1 year
P.S., secretary
1 January 1897
The annual meeting of the St. Pauli Norwegian Evangelical-Lutheran congregation
was held in the school-house on January 1st 1897.
The meeting was opened with song and prayer of Pastor I. T. Aastad as
chairman. Ole
Hestekind, Pete Sanders, and Charley Kron were appointed as consultant
members of the meeting. Thereafter the report of the secretary was read
and accepted without changes.
Election of officials. Pete
Nilson was proposed and supported as trustee of the congregation for
3 years – approved, Pete Simonson was proposed and supported as
the secretary of the congregation for 1 year – approved, Halvor
Thorstweth was proposed and supported as the treasurer of the congregation
for 1 year – approved. It was proposed and supported that all of
the pastor’s salary shall be paid to the trustees and handed over
to the treasurer before the middle of December.
It was proposed, supported and approved that a committee and man shall
be elected to oversee the work on the gravesite of the congregation.
The leader of the committee is:
I. A.
Odegaard,
II. Hans
Amundson,
III. Peter
Thune.
The proposition was supported and accepted that those not belonging to
the congregation, who apply for a grave-place shall pay $ 1.00. A. Odegaard
is put forward and supported to be the church singer of the congregation.
Accepted.
John Skjerva and A.
Odegaard are proposed as Sunday school teachers. Accepted.
Proposed, supported and accepted that the Pastor will decide whether the
services are to be held in the eastern or the western school-house.
Proposed, supported and accepted that the congregation of St. Pauli shall
apply to be admitted in the Norwegian Synod (general assembly) and that
the congregation will accept the Synodal statutes.
On proposal the meeting was ended.
The official, trustees:
A. A.
Odegaard until 1898
Tollef
Erickson until 1899
Pete
Nilson until 1900
Halvor
Thorstveit, treasurer for 1 year
Peter Simonson, secretary for 1 year
Peder Simonson, the secretary of the congregation
28 December 1898
The annual meeting of the St. Pauli Norwegian-Evangelical Lutheran congregation
was held in the Braaten schoolhouse on December 28th 1898.
The meeting was opened with song and prayer by Pastor I. T. Aastad as
chairman. Thereafter the report of the secretary was read and accepted
without changes.
Jorgen Thvetin and Ole
Hestekind were admitted as consultant members during the meeting.
Election of officials:
A. Odegaard was re-elected as trustee for the congregation for 3 years.
Halvor
Thortvet was re-elected as treasurer of the congregation for 1 year
Peder Simonson was re-elected as secretary of the congregation for 1 year
The grave-place committee:
Leader of the committee:
I. A. A.
Odegaard,
II. Hans
Amundson,
III. Peter
Thune
The proposition was supported that Halvor
Thorstveit shall take up a collection
to cover the expenses for the grave-place of the congregation.
Sunday school teachers. John Sjerva is put forward and supported as Sunday
school teacher. Ole
Hestekind is put forward and supported as assistant teacher. A.
Odegaard is put forward and supported as Sunday school teacher. Jacob
Amundson is put forward and supported as assistant teacher. Accepted.
It was proposed and supported that the secretary shall collect a subscription
towards the pastor’s salary. The subscription amounted to $ 46.00.
It was proposed and supported that the secretary shall write to the chairman
of the Mission’s committee and ask the Mission for support to the
pastor’s salary.
Upon proposal the meeting was ended.
Officials of the congregation, trustees:
Tollef
Erickson until 1899
Pete
Nilson until 1900
A. A.
Odegaard until 1901
Halvor
Thorstveit, treasurer 1 year
Peder Simonson, secretary 1 year
Peder Simonson, secretary of the congregation
Copied by Pete Semonson
21 January 1899
The annual meeting of St. Pauli Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran congregation
was held in Braaten schoolhouse on January 21st 1899.
The meeting was opened by Pastor Aastad as chairman with reading from
the Scriptures and prayer whereupon the chairman gave a summary over the
state of the congregation and of his activities within the same, followed
by the report of the secretary being read and unanimously accepted. Thereafter
an assistant secretary was elected, because the secretary of the congregation
was prevented from illness to be present.
Then the report of the treasurer was read and unanimously accepted. In
the same report it was stated that during the past year between thirty-eight
and forty dollars were received. At the same time the chairman announced
that he had a balance in his favour of forty-four dollars from the congregation,
that finally had been paid, and said that he would like to know what the
congregation intended to do with the same. Whereupon Mr.
Odegaard, as the chairman of the cemetery committee informed that
the grave places of the congregation in the cemetery now was recorded.
It was then discussed to build a church within the congregation and it
was decided to begin to work for the same. In this connection Hans
Amundson
offered to donate one and one-half acres of land to the congregation with
higher, dry land in the south-eastern corner of the south-eastern quarter
in Section. 25 – Township 158, Range 42, as building site for the
church. The same offer was [illegible].
After this a subscription was raised to which around a hundred dollars
was collected. These together with what the Ladies Aid in the western
part of the congregation had, if they were willing to give it, and what
else could be collected from subscriptions, were supposed largely to cover
what was missing in the congregation’s subscriptions.
A committee was elected: Ole
Pedersen, Johan Sjerva, Peter
Nilson.
After that a building committee of five men was elected, whose members
are the following: Pete
Nilson, Hans
Fredrikson, Jacob
Amundson, Ole
Pedersen, Andrew
Odegaard.
It was now imposed on the building committee to work out a plan that would
be the best to see to it that stones and foundation timbers were provided
to the building site. And each and everybody present promised to help
with all sorts of things. Thereafter a subscription was collected for
the pastor’s salary which gave about thirty-eight dollars.
Then officials were elected. The following were elected:
Halvor
Torstvet re-elected as treasurer for 1 year
Tollef
Erickson re-elected and trustee for 3 years
Jacob
Amundson elected as secretary for 1 year
After this it was decided to hold a special congregational meeting on
March 7 at 1 o’clock in the afternoon in order to further discuss
the various things. As proposed the meeting was ended by the chairman
with the Lord’s prayer.
Officials of the congregation, trustees:
Tollef
Erickson = 1902
Andrew
Odegaard = 1901
Peter
Nilson = 1900
Halvor
Torstvet, treasurer 1 year
Jacob
Amundson, secretary 1 year
Jacob
Amundson, secretary of the congregation
4 March 1899
The meeting of St. Pauli Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran congregation
was held in Braaten’s school house on March 4th 1899.
The meeting was opened with reading from the Scriptures and prayer by
Pastor Aastad as chairman, whereafter the meeting was declared opened
by the chairman and everyone was free to speak. He called the attention
of the congregation to the purpose of this meeting. The report of the
secretary was read by him and unanimously accepted without changes.
The proposition was supported and accepted to begin building the foundation
of the church as soon as possible.
The proposition was supported and accepted to build the church 26 x 44
feet.
The proposition was supported and unanimously accepted to leave it to
the building committee to settle when to start the building of the church.
Upon proposal the meeting was ended.
Jacob
Amundson, secretary of the congregation
P.S. The proposition was supported and unanimously accepted to receive
as member of the congregation Cornelius
Oien and wife.
9 July 1899
The St. Pauli Norwegian Evangelical congregation held a meeting in Braaten’s
school house on July 9th 1899.
The meeting was called to order by the chairman who read a communication
from the chairman of a meeting of Synod pastors that had been held in
Grand Forks, N.D. a while ago, in which was requested that the St. Pauli
congregation give its pastor leave of absence to take charge of an office
to which he had been elected by that meeting. After proposition the necessary
leave was unanimously accepted.
It was then proposed and supported that the building committee should
set about having the foundation wall started as soon as possible. Unanimously
accepted.
After proposal the meeting was ended
Jacob
Amundson, secretary of the congregation
9 December 1899
St. Pauli Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran congregation held its annual
meeting in Braaten’s school house on December 9th 1899.
The meeting was opened with song, reading from the Scripture and prayer
by Pastor I. T. Aastad as chairman. Then the report of the secretary from
the last meeting was read and accepted without changes. After that the
report of the treasurer was read and accepted unanimously.
Thereupon Mr. John Sjerva asked permission to speak and said that because
of change of residence he could no longer remain in the congregation,
and thanked for the time together so far and urged everybody to live a
true Christian life. And he informed that he had gathered about eleven
dollars for the church and that he would send it over as soon as the church
was started on. Finally he wished the congregation and its members a good
and prosperous future. Whereupon Pastor Aastad answered with a few and
well chosen words and thanked him for what he had performed for the congregation
and wished him the best in his new situation.
Thereafter were elected officials in the congregation: Mr. Peter
Nilson was re-elected as trustee for three years, Halvor
Torstvet re-elected
as treasurer for one year, likewise Jacob
Amundson as secretary, all unanimously
accepted.
It was proposed and supported to hold a discussion meeting about the Christian
brotherly punishment. It was unanimously accepted that the following committee
was instructed to negotiate with those who have turned out to be in debt
to the congregation: Pastor I. T. Aastad and Pete Simonsen. Unanimously
accepted.
It was proposed and supported that the subscriptions committee as soon
as possible shall begin its collection for the church. Unanimously accepted.
Thereafter Mr. Andrew
Odegaard informed on behalf of the trustees that
he had received the deed for the church lot, but that it had not yet been
put on record. To fill the vacancy in the subscription committee after
John Sjerva, was elected Pete Simonsen. On proposal the meeting was brought
to and end with the Lord’s prayer by the chairman.
The officials of the congregation are as follows:
Trustees were elected:
Andrew
Odegaard, 1901
Tollef
Erickson, 1902
Peter
Nilson, 1903
Halvor
Torstvet, treasurer 1 year
Jacob
Amundson, secretary 1 year
Jacob
Amundson, the secretary of the congregation
12 January 1901
St. Pauli Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran congregation held its 7th annual
meeting in Braaten’s school house on January 12th 1901.
The meeting was opened with reading from the scripture and prayer by Pastor
I. T. Aastad as chairman, whereafter the report of the secretary from
the last annual meeting was read and accepted without change. Then the
report of the treasurer was read and accepted.
Thereafter the report of the secretary of the building committee was read
and accepted by the congregation. This report informed that the church
was now erected and that there were no longer any debts due insofar as
the outstanding subscription covered this with surplus. Thereafter Mr.
A. Odegaard
reported on behalf of the trustees that the deed on the church site was
on record and in his possession, and that the church was erected and nearly
ready.
After which trustees were elected:
A. Odegaard re-elected as trustee for 3 years
H.
Torstvet re-elected as treasurer for 1 year
J.
Amundson re-elected as secretary for 1 year
Which was unanimously accepted.
Thereafter was collected a subscription for the pastor’s salary.
The subscription amounted to about fifty dollars. It was proposed and
supported that the trustees of the congregation shall negotiate with those
members of the congregation who have turned out to be in debt to the congregation
and find out their explanation about what they will do about it. This
will be discussed at a later meeting with the congregation.
It was proposed and supported to form a committee of three men to take
care of the religion school of the congregation. Accepted. Members of
the committee: A.
Odegaard, L.
Lökken, H.
Fredrikson
It was proposed and supported to elect Jacob
Amundson as sexton for one year. Accepted.
Thereafter the chairman announced that Mr. Ole
Helgesen and wife and adopted son wished to be accepted as members
of the congregation. And that they would be admitted at the next service.
Proposed and supported to give to St. Hilaire Synod congregation what
stones were left over in the church yard. Accepted.
It was proposed and supported that the building committee was reduced
from [illegible] to [illegible] members and that these
also will serve as a subscription committee. Unanimously accepted. Members
of the committee who were elected: Andrew
Odegaard, Jacob
Amundson, H.
Fredrikson.
On proposal the meeting was ended with the Lord’s prayer by the
chairman.
Jacob
Amundson, secretary of the congregation
Trustees of the congregation:
Tollef
Erickson, 1902,
Peter
Nilson, 1903,
Andrew
Odegaard, 1904
P.S. Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to incorporate the
congregation and that the chairman draws up the papers necessary.
9 June 1901
A special meeting was held in the church on June 9th 1901.
The chairman informed that the purpose of this meeting was to elect a
representative and substitute for the coming annual meeting of the Norwegian
Synod that was to be held in the Wild Rice congregation from the 20th
to the 26th of June. Thereafter was proposed, supported and unanimously
accepted to elect an representative and substitute and to this positions
were elected Andrew
Odegaard, Rep., Ole
Helgesen.
After this the meeting was ended by the chairman
20 September 1901
A special meeting was again held in the church on Sept 20th 1901.
The meeting was called to order by Mr. Andrew
Odegaard, who informed that the chairman was prevented from being
present, and he informed that the purpose of this extra meeting was to
find out what the congregation intended to do on account of that its pastor
had by letter been summoned from Grand Forks. A.
Odegaard was proposed, supported and unanimously accepted a chairman
of the meeting, after which each and every man expressed his opinion about
the matter which in all cases amounted to [an agreement] so that the present
Pastor I. T. Aastad would stay to serve St. Pauli congregation if he could.
After this was proposed and supported to elect a committee of three men
that would meet in Thief River Falls on the same day, and at a meeting
there express the decision of the congregation, and further to handle
matters on its behalf and with full authority. To form this committee
were elected A.
Odegaard, Pete
Nilson, Ole
Pederson.
After which the meeting was ended with the Lord’s prayer.
Jacob
H. Amundson, secretary
11 January 1902
St. Pauli Scandinavian Lutheran congregation held its 8th annual meeting
in Braaten’s school house on January 11th 1902. [Note: the church
has changed from a Norwegian Lutheran congregation to a Scandinavian Lutheran
congregation.]
The meeting was opened by the chairman I. T. Aastad with reading from
the Scriptures, prayer and hymn song after which the chairman declared
the meeting opened.
The Secretary’s report from the last annual meeting was thereafter
read by the Secretary and also two special reports. These were put together
into one, after which they were all unanimously accepted without changes.
After this the treasurer read his report, which was also unanimously accepted
without changes.
Then the secretary for the building committee of the congregation read
the last reports of the records of the building committee that showed
what actions had been taken to build the church, and also informed about
the financial status which was shown to be good. Thereafter it was unanimously
accepted without changes.
Then the meeting proceeded to discuss the incorporation of the congregation
and it was decided that the chairman should read the incorporation form
which he had brought. This was done after which it was proposed to accept
the incorporation articles one at a time. It was unanimously accepted
after the articles of incorporation had been read and accepted one at
a time. It was proposed and supported to accept the same as a whole, which
was unanimously done. These articles of incorporation say among other
things that a trustee shall be elected within the congregation for a certain
time, and that the congregation shall hold its annual meeting in December
every year.
After this officials were elected.
Members of Corporation: I T Aastad, president
Trustees, members of Incorporation, 1904: Andrew
A. Odegaard, Vice President
Trustees, members of Incorporation, 1905: Halvor
J. Hostvet
Trustees, members of Incorporation, 1903: Pete
Nilson
This was unanimously accepted.
Proposed and supported to elect Ole
Pederson as member of and chairman for the building committee instead
of Hans
Fredrickson who has resigned. Unanimously accepted.
Proposed and suppoorted to elect a religion school committee of three
men. As members were elected Halvor
Torstvet, Hans
Fredrickson, Ole
Pederson.
A.
Odegaard and J.
Amundson were elected to be Sunday school teachers.
Proposed and supported to settle for a sum of ca. sixty dollars as the
pastor’s salary for the year 1902. Unanimously accepted.
Proposed and supported that St. Pauli congregation will help to form a
group for arranging district meetings. Unanimously accepted.
Delegates were elected:
Ole
Pederson
J.
Amundson
After which the meeting was ended with the Lord’s prayer
Jacob
Amundson, secretary
8 December 1902
St. Pauli Scandinavian Lutheran congregation held its 9th annual meeting
in the church of the congregation on Dec. 8th 1902.
The meeting was opened with reading from the scriptures and prayer by
the chairman I. T. Aastad. After which the chairman declared the meeting
opened and everyone was free to speak.Then the secretary read his report
from the last annual meeting and likewise the treasurer gave his report
both of these were unanimously accepted without change.
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to elect Gilbert Sjerva
as trustee for a period of one year. Proposed and supported and unanimously
accepted to elect Ole
Viken as consulting member. Proposed and supported and unanimously
accepted to re-elect Jacob
Amundson as secretary for one year and Halvor Torstvet as treasurer
for one year. Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to elect
A.
A. Odegaard and Fredrik Sjerva as auditors of the accounts. Proposed
and supported and unanimously accepted to settle for a sum of ca. sixty
dollars and what more might come in for the same purpose as permanent
annual pastor’s salary during the following financial year 1903.
Accepted.
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to elect Jacob
Amundson
as sexton for one year.
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to elect a religion school
committee of three members. The following were elected:
A.
A. Odegaard,
Pete
Nilson and
Halvor
Torstvet
These were to see to it that there were held at least one one-month religion
school within the congregation and to collect as much as they could in
order to be able to meet the expenses of the same school.
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to leave to the trustees
of the congregation to carry on with the improvements and further maintain
the church and cemetery of the congregation, and have a steeple erected
by the church as soon as possible. Proposed and supported and unanimously
accepted that the reports of the building committee were added to the
report of the congregation.
Proposed and supported to admit Halvor
Viken as a member of the congregation. Unanimously accepted.
Trustees:
A.
A. Odegaard 1904, H.
J. Hostvet 1905, Gilbert Sjerva 1905
Halvor
Torstvet, treasurer one year
Jacob
Amundson, Secretary one year
Proposed and supported to consider Peter
Thune as excluded from the congregation owing to his own relations
to same. Accepted
After which the meeting was ended by the chairman with the Lord’s
prayer
Jacob
H. Amundson
Secretary of the congregation
14 December 1903
The St. Pauli Scandinavian Lutheran congregation held its 10th annual
meeting in the church of the congregation on December 14th 1903.
The meeting was opened with reading from the scriptures and prayer by
the chairman I. T. Aastad, after which the chairman declared the meeting
opened and everyone was free to speak. Whereupon the secretary and the
treasurer read their reports from the last annual meeting, both of which
were unanimously accepted without changes.
It was proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to elect Martin
Lökken as consulting member during the meeting. Whereupon Andrew
Odegaard in words reported on behalf of the trustees and the auditors,
which reports were unanimously accepted. Then the chairman re-appointed
A.
Odegaard and Fredric Sjerva as auditors of the accounts.
It was proposed and supported and accepted to re-elect A.
Odegaard as trustee for three years, and also to re-elect H.
Torstvet as treasurer for one year and J.
Amundson secretary for one year. This was accepted. It was proposed
and supported and unanimously accepted to elect Hans
Fredrikson as sexton for one year.
It was proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to accept the offer
of A.
Odegaard to build a stables by the church of the size of 12 x 16
ft. Half of the same belongs to the congregation and the other part to
Odegaard, on condition that the treasurer of the congregation pays Odegaard
a sum of ten dollars after it has been completed. Proposed and supported
to decide upon a sum of ca. seventy dollars as pastor’s salary for
the coming financial year. Accepted.
It was proposed and supported that the religion school committee will
see to it that as many religion school meetings as possible are held til
the coming year, if possible for two months, and that its members will
see to it that as much as possible is subscribed to the school. Accepted.
It was further proposed and supported and unanimously accepted that it
is left to the trustees of the congregation to arrange for some improvements
to the church, such as the building of a privy, and the arranging of steps
and other things. This was unanimously accepted.
Further that it is left to the same trustees to have the cemetery of the
congregation fenced in and also taken care of. Accepted.
Proposed and accepted that St. Pauli congregation will contribute to the
expenses to build a stables at the parsonage in Thief River Falls with
a subscription from its members, to be collected by the treasurer. After
which the meeting was ended by the chairman with the Lord’s prayer.
By Jacob
Amundson, secretary of the congregation
The trustees of the congregation: Halvor
J. Hostveit 1905, Gilbert Sjerva 1906, Andrew
A. Odegaard 1907
12 December 1904
St. Pauli Scandinavian Lutheran congregation held its 11th annual meeting
in the church on December 12th 1904.
The meeting was opened by the chairman I. T. Aastad with reading from
the scriptures and prayer. Whereafter the chairman declared the meeting
opened and everyone was free to speak. After which the secretary and the
treasurer read their reports and accounts. Both were found to be in order
and unanimously accepted without changes.
It was proposed, supported and unanimously accepted to elect Ole
Helgeson as trustee for three years. It was proposed and supported
to re-elect J.
Amundson and H.
Torstvet as secretary and treasurer. Unanimously accepted.
It was proposed and supported to settle on a sum of ca. seventy dollars
as pastor’s salary for the coming year. Unanimously accepted. Proposed
and supported to elect J. Amundson as sexton with a salary of ca. two
dollars for one year. Accepted. Proposed and suppported to elect A.
Odegaard,
John Sjerva, Ole
Helgeson who form the building committee for further repair of the
church. Accepted. After which the chairman appointed the re-elected A.
Odegaard and J. Sjerva as auditors of the accounts for the coming
year. Proposed and supported to re-elect the same as school committee
for the coming year. Accepted.
Proposed and supported to appoint a committee of three members: A.
Odegaard, O.
Pederson, J.
Amundson to negotiate about the move of the church to Hazel. Accepted.
After which the meeting was ended by the chairman with the Lord’s
prayer.
Jacob
Amundson, Congr. Secretary
The trustees of the congregation: Halvor
Hostvet 1905; Andrew
Odegaard 1906; Ole
Helgeson 1907
11 December 1905
St. Pauli Scandinavian Lutheran congregation held its 12th annual meeting
in the church on December 11th 1905.
The meeting was opened with reading from the scriptures and prayer by
chairman I. T. Aastad who thereafter declared the meeting opened and everyone
free to speak.
Whereupon the secretary and the treasurer read their reports. The report
of the secretary was unanimously accepted. That of the treasurer was unanimously
accepted with a formal correction.
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to elect Hans
Fredrikson
as trustee for three years. Proposed and supported and accepted to settle
for a sum of ca. eighty dollars as pastor’s salary for the coming
year.
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to elect a committee of
three men, which were A.
Odegaard and J.
Amundson and H.
Torstvet to oversee
the installation of a pulpit and communion table and altar rails, which
are made by Albert Angell at a cost of ca. seventy dollars. Also [illegible]
a subscription for improvements at the church. For this was collected
ca. ten dollars and fifty cents which, with a small contribution from
the funds of the congregation are used to wall up the privy and the installation
of stairs.
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to re-elect J.
Amundson
and H.
Torstvet as secretary and treasurer for one year, and J.
Amundson
as sexton for one year.
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to elect O.
Helgeson, A.
Odegaard, L.
Lökken as religion school committee and proposed and supported
and unanimously accepted to elect P.
Nilson, J.
Amundson and H.
Torstvet as cemetery committee for the coming year.
After which the meeting was ended by the chairman with the Lord’s
prayer.
Jacob
Amundson
Secretary of the congregation
To be the trustees of the congregation were elected: A.
A. Odegaard 1906, Ole
Helgeson 1907, Hans
Fredrikson 1908
10 December 1906
The St. Pauli Scandinavian Lutheran congregation held its 13th annual
meeting in the church on December 10th 1906.
The meeting was opened by the chairman I. T. Aastad with reading from
the scriptures and prayer. After which the chairman declared the meeting
opened and everyone free to speak. Whereupon the secretary read his report
from the last annual meeting, which report was accepted without change.
Thereafter Hans
Fredrikson reported on behalf of the trustees. Then the
treasurer read his report which was accepted without change.
After this A.
A. Odegaard spoke and said that as far as he could see it
was appropriate for the congregation to express its gratitude to the Girls’
Club [Pigeforeningen] for what it had contributed towards pulpit,
communion table, and altar rails. It was proposed and supported and unanimously
accepted that the chairman should express the gratitude of the congregation
after a service.
It was proposed and supported to re-elect H.
Torstvet as treasurer for
one year and J.
Amundson as secretary for one year. For appointment as
sexton it was accepted to re-elect J.
Amundson on the same conditions
as before. Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to elect H.
Fredrikson, A.
A. Odegaard, F. Erickson as religion school committee
for the coming year. Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to
re-elect the same cemetery committee and to commission it to perform [illegible].
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted that at least two months
of religion school are held, and if possible more, during the coming year.
Proposed and suppported and unanimously accepted to re-elect A.
A. Odegaard
as trustee for three years.
From the report of the treasurer it was evident that a remaining sum of
about seventeen dollars and fifty cents was still not paid for the pastor’s
salary, and was now underbalanced. And now Odegaard wanted to know what
the congregation wished to do about this. Proposed and supported and unanimously
accepted to collect a subscription to cover the deficit in the pastor’s
salary.
The secretary spoke and said that he regarded it as fair that the congregation
should pay him a compensation of ca. three dollars for extra work that
he had carried out. This was, however, not decided upon at once.
Proposed and supported to allow the same sum for the pastor’s salary
as last year. Unanimously accepted. Proposed and supported to elect a
committee of three men to settle the pastor’s salary. Unanimously
accepted to elect the members of the committee: J.
Amundson, H.
Torstvet, Cornelius
Oien.
Proposed and supported that the pastor raises a collection to the Synod
funds. Proposed and supported to elect as delegates to the district meeting
in St.Hilaire: L.
Lökken, and H.
Hostvet. It was unanimously accepted to elect Odegaard as [illegible].
Proposed and supported and accepted to pay the secretary a sum of ca.
one dollar and fifty cents for extra work performed on the church, such
as walling of the privy and building of stairs with materials brought
there, but the secretary finds that when the St. Pauli congregation finds
that it cannot afford to pay him the sum he asked for, then it cannot
afford anything, which is why the request is withdrawn.
After this the meeting was ended with the Lord’s prayer by the chairman.
J.
Amundson, secretary of the congregation
The trustees of the congregation elected: Ole
Helgeson 1908, Hans
Fredrikson
1909, A.
A. Odegaard 1910
9 December 1907
St. Pauli Scandinavian Lutheran congregation held its 14th annual meeting
in the church on December 9th 1907.
The meeting was opened by the chairman I. T. Aastad with reading from
the scriptures and prayer. Whereupon the chairman declared the meeting
opened and everyone free to speak. The secretary read his report from
the last annual meeting and the same was accepted unanimously without
change. After this the treasurer read his report which was accepted without
changes.
Then were re-elected the same officials as before: secretary, treasurer
and trustee, sexton with same salary as before were each re-elected. Unanimously
accepted.
Proposed and supported to elect A.
A. Odegaard, H.
Fredrikson, H.
Torstvet as religion school committee. The same committee
were instructed to hold as much school as possible. Unanimously accepted.
Proposed and supported that the St. Pauli congregation accept the resignation
of Pastor I. T. Aastad as he enters an association with the congregation
of St. Hilaire. This was accepted. Proposed and supported and unanimously
accepted to appoint Pastor S.
T. Palm to be the pastor of the congregation.
[The newspaper in Thief River Falls - The News
- reported on 16 January 1908 that "In the past, Rev. I. T. Aastad
has been in charge of the congregations at Red Lake Falls, St. Hilaire,
and Rocksbury [St. Pauli], as well as Thief River Falls and Silverton.
The meeting [of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod Church] decided, in order
that more services be held here [in Thief River Falls], that Rev. Aastad
give up the three first named congregations. Services will be held in
the local church [in Thief River Falls] every Sunday morning, services
being in Norwegian and the evening services in English. Rev. S. T. Palm
of Sandridge will in the future have charge of the Red Lake Falls, St.
Hilaire, and Rocksbury [St. Pauli] congregations and will reside at St.
Hilaire. It was also voted to increase the salary of Rev. Aastad."]
Proposed and supported to decide on a sum of ca. one hundred dollars as
the pastor’s salary for the coming year. Accepted. Proposed and
supported to elect a committee of three men: A.
A. Odegaard, Christ
Moe and Cornelius
Oien to decide the pastor’s salary which was accepted.
To be auditors of the accounts were re-elected A.
A. Odegaard and Ole
Pederson.
To be the cemetery committee were re-elected the same as before and to
build a bridge to the entrance.
After this the meeting was ended with the Lord’s prayer by the chairman.
Jacob
Amundson, congr. Secr.
The trustees of the congregation elected: Hans
Fredrickson 1909, A.
A. Odegaard 1910, Ole
Helgeson 1911
14 December 1908
The St. Pauli Scandinavial Lutheran congregation held its 15th annual
meeting in the church on December 14th 1908.
The meeting was opened by the new chairman of the congregation Pastor
S.
T. Palm with reading from the scriptures and prayer, after which the
chairman declared the meeting opened and everyone free to speak. The secretary
read his report from the last annual meeting and the same was unanimously
accepted without change. The treasurer then read his report, which was
also unanimously accepted.
From the report of the treasurer it was evident that during the past year
not all had been received for the pastor’s salary decided upon.
The cash balance turned out to be roughly ca. $200.00. Proposed and supported
and unanimously accepted to remit Hannah
Lökken what she owed. The chairman read his report and the same
was accepted to enter into the minutes.
Thereafter the congregation proceeded to elect officials. Christ
Moe was elected as trustee, as secretary the same, and treasurer,
and sexton also with the same salary as before. After this was elected
a religion school committee as follows: C.
Oien, A.
A. Odegaard and Ole
Helgeson.
It was proposed and supported and unanimously accepted to appoint Mr.
John Sjerva as advisory member. Proposed and supported and unanimously
accepted to elect Albert
Odegaard and principal of the Sunday School with his father as assistant.
Proposed and supported and unanimously accepted that the congregation
shall express its gratitude to its officials. Proposed and supported and
accepted to elect the same cemetery committee as before.
After which was discussed the religion school at length. Finally it was
proposed and supported and accepted that there would be held two months
religion school: one month in the church and one month in the schoolhouse
west of the church.
Proposed and supported and accepted to decide the same pastor’s
salary as last year with the same supervising committee.
Proposed and supported and accepted to leave to the trustees to see to
it that a privy was built and to find out what it will cost to build a
steeple on the church and other necessary repairs.
After which the meeting was ended by the chairman with the Lord’s
prayer.
Secretary Jacob
Amundson
Treasurer Halvor
Torstvet
Trustees of the congregation: A.
A. Odegaard 1910, Ole
Helgeson 1911,
H.
Hostvet 1912
1907, Hans
Fredrickson 1908
1909
There were later held three special congregational meetings. The first
took place in the church on April 12th and the item on the agenda was
to agree with the Ladies Aid who expressed a wish in connection with the
religion school, namely to hold it one month in the western school house
and one in the eastern. This wish was unanimously accepted.
A committee was appointed to get information concerning the building of
a steeple, and it was decided on to wait to the following service to settle
the matter.
The second meeting was held on April 25th and it was decided to build
a steeple as soon as possible and a committee of five: the trustees and
Ole
Peterson and C.
Oien was elected to serve as building and sub-committee.
The third meeting was held on May 23rd.
13 December 1909
The St. Pauli congregation held its 16th annual meeting in the church on
Dec. 13th 1909.
The meeting was opened with reading from the scriptures and prayer by
the chairman S.
T. Palm who thereafter declared the meeting opened and
everyone free to speak. Whereupon the secretary read his report from the
last annual meeting and the same was with after some corrections unanimously
accepted.
Whereupon Anfin
Torkelson and wife were admitted as members of the congregation and
also Martin
Lökken and wife and two children. Unanimously accepted.
Then the treasurer read his report, and the same showed an underbalance
in the pastor’s salary. Proposed and supported that Christ
Moe is
requested to pay half of the pastor’s salary allotted to him for
the past year. Proposed and suppported to accept the treasurer’s
report. Unanimously accepted. Then was discussed for awhile the deficit.
After this C.
Oien reported on behalf of the religion school committee that there
had been held two months school and that it was paid for. The building
committee reported through A.
Odegaard that nothing had happened, apart from an agreement with a
carpenter to build a steeple, but nothing came out of his building.
Proposed and supported and accepted to re-elect A.
Odegaard as trustee for three years. Proposed and supported to re-elect
J.
Amundson and H.
Torstvet as secretary and treasurer and as sexton. Proposed and accepted
to elect A.
Odegaard, A.
Hestekind, C.
Oien, O.
Helgeson, O.
Pederson as building committee. Proposed and accepted to elect as
cemetery committee: A.
A. Odegaard, A.
Hestekind, C.
Oien.
Proposed and accepted that external persons pay two dollars for a grave
and five dollars for a plot in the cemetery.
Proposed and accepted to elect A.
Hestekind, T.
Stene, A.
Odegaard, H.
Fredrickson as a committee to arrange to move the pastor’s [illegible]
in St. Hilaire.
Proposed and accepted to elect C.
Oien, O.
Pederson, T.
Stene as building committee.
Proposed and accepted the same pastor’s salary as before.
Proposed and accepted to hold two months school as before. The school
committee is L.
Lokken, O.
Torkelson, A.
Odegaard.
After which the meeting was ended by the chairman with the Lord’s
prayer.