The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-22
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UNION DESIRED IN
HOSPITAL PLANS
TWO INSTITUTIONS PLANNED BY
NORWEGIAN RESIDENTS.
Division in Lutheran Church Prevents
Consolidation Of the Two Enterprises,
Both Of Which Are Being Pushed
Deaconess Hospital to Enlarge Other
Plan Is Organized.

Hereafter this department will appear
as regular feature of T h e Journ rs
Sunday edition, the first Issue of which
Will appear Oct. L.
Two new Norwegian. hospitals are I'M
der consideration in the city. Last
summer 1T was decided to enlarge the
Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess insti-
tute. A number of influential people
were added to the board, plans were
secured for a large modern hospital,
and an active movement to secure new
members. and a building fund of $780,
900 was begun.
The Deaconess' institute and hos
pital has been maintained for fifteen
years or more at Fifteenth avenue S
and Twenty third street, and altho the
accommodation were not modern, the
hospital has had the confidence of the
medical profession on account of the
careful and intelligent nursing by the
deaconesses. The work Of the institu-
OF means and the need for a larger
and more approved hospital has long
been recognized. ). Until recently it has
been under the control of members of
the Norwegian Lutheran Free church.
Membership is now thrown open to any
person and it has been planned to make
it a general Norwegian hospital.
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United Norwegian Lutheran church
have discussed plan Of organizing a
hospital association. This. movement
took concrete form this week, when the
Norwegian Lutheran Hospital associa-
ton was formally organized at a meet
ing held Wednesday evening at the
Bethlehem church. Sixty names have
been signed to the incorporation move
ment, and in response to this a board
| of trustees was elected and instructed
| to proceed with the work Of incorpora-
| ton at once and to take steps to Sc
| cure funds for establishing a hospital
| It is understood that an effort will be
| made to secure not less than 100000
Voted Against Cooperation.
At this meeting many encouraging
letters were received from various PEG
pie thruout the northwest, giving assur
ance of hearty. support. The question
of cooperation with the association
supporting the Norwegian Deacones
institute was considered at some length
but it was deemed that the desired co
operation was impossible under pres
ent conditions.
The proposed articles of incorpora
tion provide for nine trustees, Of whom
six shall be members of the Unitet
church. The first board, which will
Of DR.. Knut Hoegh, President T. H
Dahl Of the United church, DR.. A. N
Bessesen, Professor E.. Kr. johnson
Professor M. O. Bockman, James A
Peterson, J. G. Hallum, Rev. Chr. E
+ Sybilrud, st. Paul., and Rev. G. 6
Bjelland: = '.:-.--,..-..
It is the desire of many Norwegian
in this city that the two movement
could be merged into one. That Their
are two movements is due to the fac
tional differences between two branche
Of the Norwegian Lutheran church. I
correspondent in the Minneapolis Dali
Tidenqe urges the hospital builders t
get together and erect one institution
which would be credit to the cit
and the Norwegian people.