# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1916_S87 # Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) The Lutheran Pioneer. 87 Pionrer, will be stationed at Oak Hill. Miss Dora Yancey, a normal graduate of Luther Col- lege, class 1915, will teach the school at Oak Hill. —At Vredenburgh, so named after Mr. Vreden- burgh, the owner of a large sawmill at that place, Rey. Otho Lynn will be in charge, and Miss Rosa Young will be at the head of the school. — We hope to be favored in our next numbers with in- teresting articles from our workers in the Ala- bama field. ApprtionaAL Nrws From ALABAMA. — Since his arrival in Alabama on September 25, Super- intendent Bakke has purchased ten acres of land at Oak Jill, and a two-story building to serve for church and school is to be erected at once. ‘The old schoolhouse is to be torn down, and a small parsonage will be built with such of the lumber as may be in a usable condition. — The prospects at Rose Hill are very promising. — '‘l'hree miles from Vredenburgh five acres of land have been purchased at $12.50 per acre, and a building to cost about $500 is to be erected in the near future. Gotp Hin, N. C.— Missionary Fred Foard writes that the condition of his health is still such that he cannot teach school this winter. The Board ‘intends to provide him with a teacher for each of his schools at Albemarle and Gold Hill. NAvoLrEonvILLE, La. — Missionary I. R. Ber- ger writes: “Though you do not often hear from us, we are still up and doing. The Lord is with us, and is graciously blessing our labors. On Sunday, October 8, we again rejoiced in the reception of two new members in the persons of George and Louis Nelson, sons of Dr. G. H. Nelson, a promi- nent physician of this place. May God give these new members grace, and keep them faithful to their Savior! — We expect to receive another adult cate- chumen in the near future.” Louistana.—Immanuel Mission at Alexandria will in future be served by Rey. W. Tervalon, our missionary in Mansura, since Alexandria is more easily reached from Mansura than from Napoleon- ville, whose missionary, Rev. E. R. Berger, served the station in the past. — The number of pupils attending Redeemer School in New Orleans has almost reached fifty, and still more are expected. — Teacher Peter Robinson of Zrinily Mission School reports an enrolment of 116 pupils, and about Conditions were such | twenty more are expected! at this station that either children had to be -re- fused admission, or Teacher Robinson had to be given an assistant. ‘The Board has wisely de- cided to do the latter. Twenty-one children and eleven adults are being prepared by the missionary for confirmation. — Concerning the attendance at St. Paul’s School, Rev. . H. Schmidt writes: “In spite of renewed opposition, St. Paul’s School is better attended than last year. If we only had the room and money, we could easily add another de- partment.” —In Carrollton we have at last suc- ceeded in finding a suitable place in which to house our mission. Missionary Kramer has found a house which can be bought for $1,200, and the Board has instructed him to buy it. It will be a happy day for our mission in Carrollton when it will be able to vacate the old dancing-hall and remove to re- spectable quarters. F. J. L. Oo s Now Get Busy. The Board for Colored Missions has been trying several methods to increase the circulation of our two papers (Tue Lurueran PIoNEeER and Die Mis- sionstaube) devoted particularly to the interests of our Colored Missions. Encouraged by the commit- tee of Synodical Conference at Toledo, the Board is now about to try a plan hitherto untried. We know that our papers, THE LuTHERAN P1o- NEER and Die Missionstaube, are serving a good cause; many of our subscribers tell us they are serving this cause well. We are sure they will serve the cause still better, at least in a greater measure, if our little papers reach more subscribers. ‘The experience of other publishers rather proves that subscribers are less likely to forget to recommend a paper they like if, by remembering to do this, _ they secure even a nominal advantage for them- selves. * This advantage we now purpose to offer. We offer } A PREMIvat to any of our subscribers or any of our agents who will secure for us four new subscriptions, and send them in together with the full subscription price (25 cents for each subscriber per annum; 39d cents per annum in St. Louis, and the post offices sup- plied from the St. Louis post office; also in Canada and other foreign countries). es The premium is a book that is selling for 50 cents, viz., Ocr CoLorep Misstons, Illustrated, a handsome paper-covered book of 94 pages, pro- fusely illustrated (167 pictures), describing and