Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-09
GRAND JUBILEE.
To be Held in st. Paurs Church Next
Sunday. Congregation TO Cele-
brate the Event of Having
Become Free From
Indebtedness.

Next Sunnay, January l4th, ST. Paul;
congregation will hold a grand jubilee
to fittlngly celebrate the event of it,
being now entirely free from debt
Services will be held both morning and
evening. The morning service vii
consist of preaching, conducted by diff
ferent pastors from abroad In the
evening program will be rendered
Following is list of 10 of the first mem
bers of the now large congregation
Jacob Paff, Carl Woessner, Casper
Seim, Conrad Anthem, Fr Haas, Conrad
Bernhard, George Werheim, Richard
Baumann, Ernest Schulz, John Dern,
Ernest Telling, Anton Langsdorf, Frank
Treibel, Mic. Steller, Henry Paff, Peter
Steltz, Fred Neu, Aug. Heppner. Only
three of these are at present members.
Twelve died, two are not members of
any church and others have moved to
some other place or became members
of some other church. The record
shows that the pastors, F. Mcneil, C.
Loeffier, A. Lemp, H. Waldman did
some pioneer work before Rev. Albert,
at present pastor in Appleton, in the
year 1866 became pastor of the congre-
cation. He was succeeded in 1869 by
Rev. 4. Kern, who was pastor of the
congregation until 1872, when Rev. f.
Reinecke, became his successor. In
the year of 1881 the present st. Steph-
ems congregation separated with Rev.
Reinicke and Rev. G. Under became
pastor of the st. Paurs congregation.
He was succeed by pastor, F. Kern,
in the next year, and Rev. Schaer
became his successor in 1885. In the
second year of his pastorate the new
church was built and in the year 1888,
his brother, F. Schaer, the present
pastor followed him. The jubilee which
will be held next Sunday has its cause
in paying of all the debts of the con-
gregation. When Rev. f. Schaer be-
came pastor the Indebtedness of the
congregation was between nine and
ten thousand dollars Besides this sum
the congregation has spent between
three and four thousand dollars for i'm
provements. In the last year the con-
gregation collected among the members
81, 975 the amount which she owed on
bonds. After this last share of her in
debtedness was paid, about $400 was
left in the treasury. The congregation
deemed it proper to have jubilee
next Sunday. The Revs. Albert,
Weisse, Ludwig, Neubauer and Wer-
nahn will participate, also the congre-
cations of all those except of Revs.
Albert and Weise, also those that were
confirmed in this church, who live in
the city and neighborhood and became
members of other churches are invited
to participate in the jubilee in the even
ing. The evening services will consist
of music and short addresses. f. w.
Kickbusch is president of the congre-
cation, F. Weisse secretary and G.
Quandt treasurer. The number of
families connected with the church are
few over 800 and 260 of those are real
members. The congregation has a
Ladies Society of SO members; Sewing
Society of 80; Young Peoples Society OF
So, parochial school of between so and
20 scholars, Sunday School of 325. The
church will be decorated for this oc-
casion. Two collections will be taken,
one for the Mission of the Evangelical
Synod of which Synod the congregation
is member.