The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1923-06-23
SAWLOC ARlSTOCRATS SEND
PASTOR TO ANOTHER FIELD
Cloquet Presbyterians Sec Their Pastor Follow
Anna Dickie Oleson Out of The White Pine
City-Young Folks Strong for Him.

basking in its shadow, declare that
their failure to espouse the cause Of
their pastor Is because they fear
an open declaration Of friendship
for him and his cause would mean
the loss OF their employment with
the Big Interests I'm Cloquet, Most
Of those prominent in church
leadership ana financial support
are high in authority in the Weysr-
haeuser companies.
Failing to get rid of Mr.. Tall
man by action OF the local congre-
cation, those opposed to him car
ried the fight to higher ecclesias-
tical courts, where the fact that the
sawlog aristocrats were prominent
socially and financially, even con-
tributing more than two-thirds Of
the money to support the church,
may have been highly responsible
for putting the skids under the un-
fortunate preacher.
The church government of the
Presbyterians is not wholly demoe-
ratio and their discipline Is severe.
Having made his good fight and
lost out, Mr.. Tallman now says:
II took oath to abide by the de-
cisions OF the Presbytery, therefore
I will abide by the decision"
This means that he will get out
of Cloquet by July /.
ALI this adds to the belief that
the First Presbyterian Church of
Cloquet Is not "a poor mans
church.
Cloquet seems to be a hard field
for Presbyterian preachers. Looking
over the record since 1888, you
| note that most OF the pastors have
| remained only one or two years.
A notable exception is that of Rev.
| C. W. Lowrie who stuck to his
post for ten long, weary years.
Pioneers viii tell you that, soon
after Mr.. Lowrie's arrival, he dis
covered that II he wished to abide
in favor, harmony and peace with
his flock, he would have, to SO
word his preachments as not to
offend the big pew-holders and to
give them a gospel that would not
disturb their minds and consciences
BY playing policy and putting on
the soft pedal, he got by for an
entire decade" In forty years, the
Cloquet Presbyterian church has
had twelve different pastors.
When Rev. Mr. Tallman came to
Cloquet, the church had 166 names
on the membership roll. Less than
100 were attending Sunday school
under IL teachers.
Today. there are s232 church
members. Thirty-two Sunday school
teachers instruct $50 scholars.
There is a cradle roll OF 35, a home
department OF 20. making a total
enrolment OF BAT.
The foregoing figures Indicate
that Rev. Mr.. Ta1lman has been
an excellent shepherd in gathering
the lambs into the fold, even IL
some OF the long wooded flock do
not like him and his work.
It takes about $1,000 a year for
the Presbyterian church to get by.
A debt Of $4,000 eats up about
$4,000, leaving $1,000 for other
purposes. The pastor now receives
the very modest salary Of $2,40O
a yea In public school work, he
! would be worth from two to three
times as much.
The Weyerhaeuser interests and
their employees are prominent in
the membership and are heavy con-
tributors. Mr.. r. M. Weyerhaeuser
once was member, but he took
out his church letter when he re-
moved to st. Paul.
The present members of the ses-
sion are, viz:
Rev. Dwight D. Tallman, pastor.
| Angus A. Cameron. time-keeper
for the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Lumber
}Co. -.
| w. K. MeNair, Superintendent of
the Northwestern Paper Co.
| E. s. Davis, a prominent official
of the local Y. NJ. C. A.
n. j. Hamann, mayor OF Cloquet
/ and office manager of the North
western Paper Co.
c. d. Gilman, vice-president of
the Reliable Investment Co., hand
ling real estate, mortgages and an
| suranee, one Of the Big Interests.
Edward Johnson, master meehan-
lie, Duluth & Northeastern Railway
John Parks, city clerk.
Mr.. Parks, by the way, tried to
play the high and mighty with
q Rip-saw inspector who call
ed on him for a statement as to
/ what was being done to Rev. Mr..
Tallman, the meek and lowly ser
want OF our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ. That interview, alone,
| will make an interesting story for
some future issue of the Great
Family Journal. Suffice it to say,
at this time and place, that Bro
Parks was compelled to admit that
he spoke falsely when first inter-
viewed by the discriminating in
spector:
! The board Of trustees Of the
Cloquet fertilization against incur
siQns of the Devil and his huge
host, tributary to the st. Louis
river, embraces the following, viz:
L. A. Fauley, chairman, G. n. R.
agent. .....
DR.. James Fleming, clerk.
r. M. Weyerhaeuser, lumber
baron, withdrawn and removed.
III. ]. Hamann, mayor OF CloQuet
and a prominent employe of the