Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-06-14
N0RWEC|ANS
SAVE COLLEGES
DECISION MADE AT FARGO TO
CONDUCT PACIFIC COAST
INSTITUTIONS.
SLUM WORK CONTINUED
schools Were in Private Hands and
were Running Rehind.-Home
for Aged Contem.
plated.

Fargo, June 1.-THE national con
Vention OF the United Norwegian Luth.
eran Church of America has decided
TO nave two colleges in the state of
washington, Spokane and Columbia.
which are not connected officially with
this church body 1t also decided to
have slum mission in BROOKLYN. N
Y, and erect large new home for
the aged to be located in DEBORAH. Ia.
provided certain conditions are full.
filed
One OF the most important actions
was that concerning Spokane college
at Spokane, Wash, and Columbia col
lege at Everett, Wash.
These colleges are not owned direct
ly by this church body but are owned
by private concerns, composed of pas
tors and laymen of this church body.
Both institutions have been in finan.
clal straits and have been in danger
OF going to the wall An effort has
been made to save them by means of
popular subscriptions. Those in charge
OF the institutions have sought to get
the United Norwegian church to take
charge of the institution.
Previous conventions have declined
to take this step, feeling that the
obligation would be too great. Now,
however, the convention finally de-
cided that the United Norwegian
church would conduct the institutions
until further notice. This move
brought great joy to the home mis-
sionary pastors in the Western states
and the delegations which had come
from that section in order to further
this cause.
The United Norwegian Lutheran
church will in all probability erect a
home for the aged near DEBORAH, Iowa,
in addition to the home for the aged
which it already operates in Wilton
berg, Wash. Some time ago, Mrs.
Aase Haugen left property valued at
$4,000, consisting of farm near De-
corah, to this church body, express
ing a wish that home for the aged be
erected.
st. Ansgar, Iowa, and DEBORAH both
made bids for this proposed institu.
ton. There has been considerable dis
cussion about the advantages of the
respective sites. The DEBORAH district
of the United Church, which COM
prises large number of pastors con-
nected with this church body in Iowa,
have proposed to raise So, 600 to-
wards the erection of the proposed
new institution if DEBORAH is elected.
The convention decided to author
ize it's board of trustees to build the
home in DEBORAH as soon as $4,000
had been subscribed and of this
amount $4,000 has been paid in cash
1t is believed that no difficulty will
be experienced in making the states
requirements. One of the most heated
debates which has taken place thus
far took place when motion
hold up appropriations not approved
by the board of trustees was passed.
The motion made it obligatory for
the convention to have a two-thirds
vote in favor of appropriations not
authorized by the board.
Finally a compromise was reached
and after this no appropriation can be
made except by two-thirds vote of
the convention. Just before the close
Rev. Hans Nelson Hauge, one of the
two official representatives of the
Lutheran State Church of Norway,
who has been present at the conven-
ticn ever since last Friday, made a
farewell address, thanking the con-
vention for all the favors which had
been extended to the representative
from Norway and expressing the
pleasure and surprise which they had
experienced in meeting with such an
unusually large gathering of people
who were engaged in the upbuilding
Of the Christian church.