# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1911_S235
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be sold. The heirs promised to comply with the father's wish, and
so some friends of the school — which certainly deserves to be
acknowledged with thanks — bought the house at the price of
$3000.00 in order to preserve it for the Synod. The General Board
of Control advised the local board to find ways and means of
securing the dwelling for the Synod, if possible. The board of
control therefore asks the Reverend Synod to purchase the house.
The sum is $3000.00. 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 school only advanced
the purchase money until May 1.

The board further asks the Reverend Synod to approve the sum
needed to provide space for the care of the sick. Already in 1908
the board had submitted a petition for this. Since the city of
Concordia has no hospital, we must, when cases of illness occur,
provide the necessary space for care ourselves. We have an old
wooden building with two rooms, which we use as a hospital. How
little this meets requirements when several fall ill at the same time
became apparent when, as mentioned above, we were visited by
scarlet fever last fall. The space was inadequate. We could not
even hire a nurse, since there was no room for her. We had to place
the nursing care in the hands of a student, who most willingly
offered himself for this service and devotedly attended to the sick as
well. A sum of $2500.00 would suffice for erecting a hospital.

We further ask the Reverend Synod to grant us the means for a
gasoline or oil engine, which, in the warm months when our steam
heating is idle, would handle the water pumping and drive the
machine for the electric light. Since this would let us leave the
steam boiler and steam engine idle for nearly five months of the
school year, a saving in fuel would result, through which the cost of
a gasoline or oil engine would be recovered again in a relatively
short time. The sum needed for this would be $850.00.

Finally, we ask the Reverend Synod to approve an expenditure
of $400.00 which we made, under the synodical constitution (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
particular costs through his wife's long illness and the operation and
hospital costs connected with it. In this connection, we would like
to recommend to the Reverend Synod that, as far as salary is
concerned, the professors here be placed on the same footing as the
teachers at the corresponding schools of our Synod. We further
join in the memorial of the board of control of our school at
Milwaukee, in asking the Reverend