The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-01-13
SKANEE.

| Evangelical Lutheran church of this
| place, was held at District school No.
| 1, on the Sd inst. The Rev. Il. A.
Johnson, of Marquette, having been
elected chairman pro TEN, gave brief
report of the progress of the congrega-
tion since its organization the eth of
December, 1892. The total number of
communicates was then thirty-six
Since then it has had n rapid increase,
| and now has membership of 1853,
There being 70 communicates and "A
under the age of 81 years At special
business meeting held last spring
Captain Walfrel Been had drawn up a
plan of n neat little country church
with seating capacity of about 400
persons. The style being of good taste
to all the plan WIS Immediately
adopted. At the same meeting Messrs.
lngebrigt Dust, G.. Il. Rosell, c. j. Carl
son and Peter Newman donated each
an acre of lanl ut crossrold between
their respective farms. The locality
being about the center of the Slxanee
settlement and Mt n crossway, the site
is no doubt n beautiful oa.. 1t was
also agreed upon at th. sans m setting
that each coinnunicant should devote
two days Labor in clearing of tae church
lot, Very few of the members have
complied with the agreement for this
reason that much work has been me-
elected that might have b,en dona in
spite of hard times" However. it is
sincerely hop2d that those who did not
comply with their obligations toward
the church during the plst year may
vet fulfill their ncgl,c duties. In
prler that the work my progress it is
absolutely nec>ss try tut every m.m-
Der fulfill his or her pom ses toward
che church especially s.nce some honest
work is contemplated this year. The
trustees reporG at ia. last IN ,et'nr
was left over to an aul.t:ng committee
consisting of Messrs. Charles Andcr-
son Peter Newman ana August Gar
berg. The following members were
~lSStSi dilNl ilihtdilHi 10 Ilelf rSSpSc-
tive Offices:
An lrew An lsrson to fll vacancy
secretary for on. year: deacons--to fill
vacancy-c!ectci for three years.
Anlrew Newmln and c. j. Carlson.
Trustees to fill vacancy-Andrew New
m9n and August Garb.rg for three
years and c. j. Carlson for two years
Miss Winifrei Been was reel scted
organist for the church and SUNDAY
school. In speaking OF the Sunday
school work the Rev. +. \. Johnson
lvelt on the manner in which tha sun
lay school work had becn carried on
OF late, especially thAt OF the summer
months when the con yragation had "a
catecaist in ca lrse of ti chr, "a work
The sad practic, was than introlu
To have Sunl,y school every oth,r sun
l.y instead of every Sunlly as had
been the custom, AMI rs th,s practice
bud proved dcter.or ttiny cfsct on
TIE religious work in the con sregltion.
Nr. Johnson dss.r,s Il r,torIa. The
church council agreed to follow the
plan susgcste1to have sunday school
on every slb5ith an ltilt at u certain
hour The time set was 1890 p. III.
since the Skanec settlement is very
extensive, and very inconvenient to
convene in the sun, school ho1s, IL
was founi exp, lent to have two Sun
day schools, one in district No. /, and
the other in district No. =. This was
the plan adopted year ago. For sun
day school superintcndents Messrs.
\xel Rylanler AMI Eritnd Elmhlld
were reelected. the former ut District
No and the latter at District No 1.
We earn nsstly hope that the Sunday
schools may revive again from tlsir
torpor.
On the third inst. Mr.. August Paul
son and Miss Annie Ohmon were united
| by the holy bon Is of m ltrimony. They
are permanently located in Skanee.
Many happy wishes are rendered by
the skenee correspondent.
DIR. Peter Scheffmann, of this place,
has been down with the grip for some
time, but is now recovering.
During the lst thr,, we,ks the la
gr ppe has been guest in almost
every home at Skanee.
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