# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S64
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64 Proceedings of the 28th General or

be sold. The heirs promised to comply with the father's wish, and so
some friends of the institution — which certainly deserves to be
acknowledged with thanks — bought the house for $3,000.00 in order to
preserve it for the synod. The General Board of Oversight advised the
local board to find ways and means to secure the dwelling for the
synod where possible. The board of oversight therefore asks the
Reverend Synod to purchase the house. The sum comes to $3,000.00. In
connection with this, the board asks the Reverend Synod to authorize
the General Treasurer to remit this purchase sum at once, since the
friends of the institution only advanced the purchase money until
May 1.

The board further asks the Reverend Synod to authorize the sum
needed to provide space for the care of the sick. As early as 1908
the board had submitted a petition for this. Since the city of
Concordia has no hospital, we must, when cases of illness occur,
create the necessary space for care ourselves. We have an old wooden
building with two rooms that we use as a hospital. How little this
meets the need when several fall ill at the same time became clear
when, as mentioned above, we were visited by scarlet fever in the
fall of last year. The space was inadequate. We could not even employ
a nurse, since there was no room for her. We had to place the care of
the sick in the hands of a student, who most willingly offered
himself for this service and also attended to the sick in a
self-sacrificing manner. A sum of $2,500.00 would suffice for the
building of a hospital.

We further ask the Reverend Synod to grant us the means for a
gasoline or oil engine that, in the warm months when our steam
heating is idle, would take care of pumping water and would drive the
machine for the electric light. Since we could let the steam boiler
and the steam engine rest for nearly five months of the school year,
this would achieve a saving in fuel by which the cost of a gasoline or
oil engine would be recovered again in a comparatively short time.
The sum needed for this would come to $850.00.

Finally we ask the Reverend Synod to approve an expenditure of
$400.00 that we made, in accordance with the synodical order (cf.
Synodical Handbook, p. 72), to grant Professors E. Pardieck and H.
Lobeck provisional assistance. Prof. Pardieck had especially large
expenses on account of his family, and Prof. Lobeck incurred special
costs from his wife's long illness and the operation and hospital
costs connected with it. In addition, we would like to recommend to
the Reverend Synod that it place the local professors, as far as
salary is concerned, on the same level as the teachers at the other
like institutions of our synod. Further, we join in the memorial of
the board of oversight of our institution at Milwaukee, in that we
ask the Reverend