The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1932, Page 166

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER

The proposed chapel-school for Pensacola and
Maplesville has not yet been built. At Maplesville
all efforts to obtain the necessary lots have so far

been unsuccessful.
Teacherages.

1. Vredenburgh, Ala. The old parsonage was
dismantled and rebuilt for $600 from the Mr. and
Mrs. J. G. Zapf bequest.

2. Pine Hill, Ala. A three-room teacherage was
built in 1931 for $558.15.

Building Needs in Alabama.

Maplesville. For new chapel-school reappropriate $1,500
($1,500 on hand from Lutherland)

Selma. Fire escape for girls’ dormitory; removal
of day-school building to East Selma; auto-
matic stoker for central heating-plant; re-
modeling classrooms so that both the day-
school departments and the high-school classes
will be in one building; remodel spaces on

either side of altar in chapel (auditorium)
to provide vestry and choir spaces; pews for

chapel; landscape campus ................ 3,700
Kings Landing. Dismantle and rebuild parsonage 1,000
Oak Hill. Tear down and rebuild chapel-school ... 1,500
Rosebud. Tear down and rebuild teacherage .... 600
Atmore. Move building to front of lot, reroof, re-

model front, new sanitary toilets, and other

MOD AINS ceete tenets eels ere aor ol Nejrseiote ste kd ae el aceis’s'e) Ces 1,200
Montrose. New chapel-school .............-..-- 1,200
BOGhtmeLAYSONA LGW acawie vie leis le!s\ caso e)ayeleieve’c </a's' ee nye 1,000

Pastor Hunt intends to marry in September,

and since nothing suitable can be rented in

Thomasville, we shall have to build a house

for him.

Catherine. Parsonage .............-..2..00000- 1,200
Possum Bend. Reroof present chapel-school, other

repairs, and classroom ........-...seeee00e 1,000

PLU C6 aUL OG CRET GIES re -ivicjsrera'ase sos. cie's|a/e eis 6 e's:¢ee's 1,800

(To be continued.)

Lutheran Beginnings
in Washington County, Kansas.

At a recent visit to Kansas the Editor was pre-
sented with a copy of an anniversary booklet of
Emmanuel Church near Linn, Kansas. The booklet
commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of this con-
gregation and was written by Pastor P. Stolp. The
pamphlet contains some very interesting Home
Missions data that, we are sure, will gladly be read
by our readers.

Lutheran beginnings in Washington County,
Kansas, go back to the year 1872, when several
families moved into the county from Crete, Illinois.
Of course, they were all very poor. One of the
settlers had only $20, with which he bought a.

homesteader’s claim to a quarter-section. But
since he had no oxen, he was compelled to work
for a near-by Methodist preacher two days for one
day’s use of his team of oxen. In this way he
“broke up” a small portion of his homestead. And
while he worked two days for the neighbor for
a further day’s use of the oxen, his good wife
planted the corn with a hoe in the newly plowed
soil. Other settlers came with a few hundred dol-
lars in their pockets, but by the time they had
paid for their farms with a few acres of “broken-up”
soil, their money was all spent.

These early settlers had to walk a distance of
twenty-four miles to buy their provisions and sup-
plies.
and they had to carry the corn-meal and the bacon

Pastor F. J. Theo. Jungk.

on their backs twenty-four miles, from Waterville,
at that time the terminus of the railroad, to their
homes.

Very interesting is what Pastor Stolp tells us
about how one of these carly settlers succeeded in
getting a well. In the morning, before he went
to work, the brother-in-law would come over and
let the owner down into the well by means of a
rope attached to a windlass. While the brother-
in-law would go about his work on his own place,
the owner’s good wife would draw up the earth
out of the well. At noon the brother-in-law would
come and draw out the tired and hungry well-
digger, only to let him down again after the noon-
day meal. The program of the afternoon was a
repetition of that of the forenoon, and so on till
the well was finished. Money was very scarce, and
great was the poverty of these new settlers. Some
children never wore shoes till they were old enough

Their staple food was corn bread and bacon, *

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