# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1905_S102
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102 Proceedings of the 26th General or

...who was already confirmed, to continue running the school and to give her another Indian woman as help, who would do the necessary housework, until God should let us find a person suited for this mission post. With the help of this woman and other Indian women, the school was kept going, as well as could be managed, throughout the school year with about 12 children. After overcoming extraordinary difficulties, a separate teacher's residence was also built for about $1,000.00, and the commission once again searched the whole Synod for a missionary or teacher for Zoar.

"And the Lord God let us find one again. Teacher Aug. Krenke of St. Louis answered our call and entered upon his duties on September 1 of last year. Since he needed a team of horses to bring in the necessary supplies for his family and the Indian children, and to be able to stay in touch with the outside world, the commission obtained one and built a barn — which, however, is not yet quite finished — for about $200.00.

"Teacher Krenke, together with his wife and parents-in-law, worked at his post through the fall and winter and certainly made every effort, not only in the school, where he built up attendance to as many as 14 children; but he too complained bitterly about the vermin and the great uncleanliness of the children. At the meeting on March 6 of this year, however, he reported that, because of his wife's poor health, he would have to give up his call at Zoar and move away in the very near future. As a result, the commission resolved that missionary Kretzmann, as in the previous year, should again carry on the school with the help of Indian women until we have laid the situation at Zoar before the Synod, or until a different and better solution presents itself to us. It should be noted here that, at the request of the Menominee Indians living there, we receive for the Zoar station support from their timber fund, which is administered by the government, amounting annually to $108.00 for every Menominee child who regularly attends our school. The contract we had to conclude with the government in this regard is for 40 children. But since we are nowhere near having 40 children, and since, above all, attendance so far has still been very irregular and payment is made only for average attendance, the assistance we have received from this quarter so far has been very small. So far we have received $58.50 for the first quarter, $82.46 for the second, and $91.18 for the third. Once the children have learned to attend regularly