The Winona Daily News from Winona, Minnesota • 7

Sunday, April 1. 1W WINONA SUNDAY NEWS Norwegian Baptist Pastor Founded Little Newburg or straight average. Twenty out of 72 seniors, or 28 percent; 15 out of 64 Juniors, or 23 percent; 15 out of 64 sophomores, or 23 percent, and 13 out of 5 freshmen, or 22 percent, receiv. ed honors. Osseo Honor Roll OSSEO, Wis.

(Special) J. A. Leadholm, Osseo High School principal, has released the third quarter honor roll. He commended Eileen Isom, a freshman, the only student earning a 3.0 ,1 CRAMPED for TIME? s7. NEWBURG STORE Standing in the 113-year-old Fillmore County settlement a few miles northwest of Mabel and west of Highway 43 is a store.

It was built at the crossroads in 1923; there has been a store here since the first settlement. The hamlet was platted but never incorporated. (Burr Griswold photos) SUNDAY 1 'W' 'if 1 1 Valder, clerk. A small log schoolhouse was built. Miss Prior to this time services had been held in Valder's barn, Preston Adopts Higher Teacher Salary Schedule PRESTON, Minn.

A revised salary schedule has been adopted by Preston School Board to provide the following starting salaries and increases: Two-year training, $3,600 to $4,500 in six steps of $150 increments. Three-year training, $4,100 to $5,500 in eight steps of $175 increments. Four-year training. $5,000 to $7,200 in 11 steps of $200 increases. Four-year training plus 30 quarter hours, $5,200 to $7,400 in 11 steps of $200 increments.

M. S. degree, $5,400 to $7,875 in 11 steps of $225 increases. For sick leave, one day per month worked each year will be allowed, accumulative up to 60 days. Up to five days of total accrued sick leave may be used annually for illness or death of spouse, child, brother, sister, parent, guardian, or parents-in-law.

The board discussed attempting to secure teachers for art education and speech-communications for next year. Anticipated increased enrollment poses the problem of using two empty rooms in the elementary building and one or two other classrooms that could be secured if necessary. Ever heat canned baked beans with a little sherry? Good when you are serving ham and beans on an evening party menu. APMl 15 IS Wl OMDMNI HCOCE Emily Seeyle was the first teach er. which still stands on the southeast comer of the crossroads in Newburg.

The present school, known as District 231, is maintained for grades 1-6. Seventh and eighth NOW THAT the congregation was organized, its next step BOTH FEDERAL AND STATI was to build a place of worship, Uovo tfioM tax worries to vs. Our service is prompt, accurate and complete and we viually save you mor than the nominal chargel See the BLOCK office In your neighborhood today. This was not an easy matter as railroads were not extensive and trucks and automobiles By BURR GRISWOLD Sunday News Correspondent MABEL, Minn. Special )-The founder of the hamlet of Newburg, Hans Valder, was the first Norwegian Baptist minister in the United States.

He came to this locality from La Salle County, 111., in 1853, accompanied by his and six other families. Valder built the first bouse in Newburg. It was 14 by 16 feet. Bark was peeled off basswood trees for the roof. Boards for the floor were obtained from Decorah, Iowa.

Later he built an addition in which he kept a few groceries for the settlers of the new locality. In 1858 he built a larger house, which was used as a hotel to accommodate weary travelers. A post office was established in 1854, with Mr. Valder as postmaster. On Dec.

18, 1855, the village was platted. VALDER was born in Stavan-ger, Norway in 1813. He married Bertha Guhlraug in 1835. Two years later they came to this country, settling first in Michigan and later in Illinois. Following the death of his wife he married Betsey Ager.

She, too, lived only a few years. His third wife was Ellen Olson. By his three marriages he was the father of 17 children. A granddaughter, Mrs. Leonard Nort-house, now lives at Mabel.

A son, Charles, was the founder of Valder's Business College at Decorah. Newburg's founder, who had been a teacher in Norway, was a follower of the Norwegian evangelist, Hans Nielsen Hauge. After his arrival in the Norwegian settlement of Fox River, he became a Baptist, having his home as a meeting place for those who sympathized with the Baptist faith. He became the first Norwegian Baptist minister in the U.S., joining the clergy in 1844. NEWBURG METHODIST CHURCH This edifice long ago replaced a log church whose finishing touches were hauled by train from La Crosse, some SO miles distant.

It followed a Baptist congregation established by Hans Valder, first Norwegian Baptist minister In the U.S. hadn't been developed. The ma grade students attend school in Mabel. Mrs. Reuben Elton of Harmony is the teacher for the nine pupils now enrolled.

They are: Christine Hover, Jolleeta Brenno, Marsha Garness, Cheryl Nelson, Ann Gerard, Mary Ann Nelson, Cheryse Brenno, Sandra Nelson and Kelly Brenno. Serving on the board of education are Dale Knudsen, Cleon Brenno, Ordell Garness, Joe Stortz, Milton Gerard and Clifton Hover. The oldest resident of the vil terial for a church had to be ftUAIAMTIir We guarantee occurote preparation ef every tax return. If are moke any arrars that cot ye any penalty or Into reft, we will pay the penalty er Iwtoroit. I inc.

0 U'R i i ui ii an hauled from La Crosse, by team, but to hearts set on fire for the Lord, nothing seemed impossible. Thus, with much struggling, trials and hardship, the first church was erected the same year. It was not fashionable, for it was made of logs hewn America's Largest Tax Service with Over 1,000 Offices lage is George Johnson, who celebrated his 80th birthday Feb. 22. Next oldest are Mr.

and 116 WALNUT STREET Mrs. Edwin Blagsvedt, the for Tel. 8-3097 mer reaching 80 in March. Mrs. Weekdays to Sat.

A Sun. to a NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY by hand, with the finished ma Blagsvedt will reach the four terial obtained from La Crosse. score mark in April. It was plain, but to those first members, it was the coziest ViJL 1 fJl church on earth and often those first families sought God's peace and comfort within its walls. The present church was built in 1922.

Walter D. Flesner is th nastor. Mrs. Orrin Peter son is suDerintendent of the Sun day school and Mrs. Margaret NEWBURG SCHOOL The district still is operating, with nine, students in grades 1-6.

Older children attend Mabel School. Choose Your New Suit NOW (or Tengesdanl heads the women's Society of Christian Service. A small nark is maintained lust to the southwest of the church, the land having been given Dy the late C. G. Austin.

THREE DAYS after the arrival of Valder in Newburg came Hans Arneson. He erected the first blacksmith shop of pop He organized the Norwegian Baptist Church at Indian Creek, 111., in 1848. IN WRITING a petition to the American Baptist home mission, asking for financial assistance for his church, he told of the trials of the Norwegian Baptist. He was regarded by many as a heretic and was not allowed to use a meeting house. A society was organized to oppose his church.

He was finally granted his application for financial assistance, being supported by 16 lar poles, 10 by 12 feet This was the only shop of its kind in an area of 15 miles. Very shortly 10 afterward came Gabriel Gab rielson, arriving in 1855. He con ducted a grocery store in Val seph Karakas, guidance director and counselor, and Roger Trax-ler, part-time counselor. Random teachers and students also cooperated. Purpose of the study is to find how the various aspects of guidance are related to the results they are intended to produce.

The study will help shape future policy regarding guidance and point the way to further research. Trempealeau Valley Cooperative to Meet WHITEHALL, Wis. (Special) Trempealeau Valley Dairy Cooperative will hold its annual meeting Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the city hall. Directors will be elected and checks for 20 percent of equity for 1965 will be distributed.

St. Charles High To Participate in Guidance Studies ST. CHARLES. Minn. St.

Charles Senior High School has been selected as one of 85 Minnesota schools to participate in a study of high school guidance programs. It is the first known study of its kind in the nation. The project is being conducted by Dr. A. W.

Tamminen of the University of Minnesota, Duluth, director, and G. Dean Miller, state Department of Education guidance consultant. Field workers associated with the project visited the St. Charles school recently to collect data on the guidance program here. Cooperating were Larry Blow, senior high principal, Jo der's building for a short time, then built the first mercantile establishment in the new vil Eersons, of whom seven joined pledging a total of $13 for the year.

He left the Baptist lage. church when he decided to move west, and for a number of years was inactive in religious mat He procured his first stock of goods from J. H. Smith at Brownsville. It consisted of 50 pounds of coffee, two pieces of cotton sheeting, two pieces of ters.

On May 20, 1860, Valder, along with 23 other persons, organized the present Newburg Methodist denim, several pieces of calico, and a few Yankee notions. He paid $100 for the entire stock, congregation, under the leader i Later he bought his goods in ship of the Rev. H. H. Haaland, Dubuque, Iowa.

E. L. Tollefson opened a store in Newburg in 1870, but remain TED MAIER DRUGS ed only a short time, moving to Riceford. With the coming of the narrow gauge railroad to Mabel in the fall of 1879, he moved his fit At A 9 mm building and goods there, be ill lMmi III iVxHliK'ii't i i ri, vM fj I 1 4 coming Mabel first merchant, Downtown Phone 7000 Miroclo Mall Phone 7100 I Go In new-found comfort go In style. Classic, contemporary and traditional styles that are guaranteed to please and keep you looking your best! These suits by Hart, Schaffner Marx, Kingsridge, or Wick-field look, feel and wear so well.

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chie Thompson of Rochester. Elmer Faa, Mabel, bought the new building from Thompson and added living quarters on to the north. Atfer operating the store four years, Faa sold to Casper Ladsten. He operated the business 27 years, selling in 1954 to Lyle Amdahl, the present storekeeper, and moving to Kushford. DISTRICT No.

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