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another town, where paternal uncle lived. This paternal uncle was about to make war on Zamelcga, but was dissuaded from doing th.is hy his nephew, who probably took a simpler cour e and stole the canoe, which was the cause of the palaver. The case was still pending when we left Gaboon." (
Items of Missionary Interest. (By the
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Buffalo, N. Y. - The Lutheran Cliurch of Our Savior, our colored church in Buffalo, is now under construction ancl rapidly ncal'il1g completion. The new buHcling is to cost about $16,000 and will be of brick-veneer construction. It will have a seating capacity of approximately 150 persons. Cincinnati. - Our missionary among the colored of this city is preparing eight adults for confirmatio11. He w1·ites that four of these he found as patients in the hospital, two were gained as the r esult of a fun eral service, and two were brought t o his class t hrough the personal efforts of members. Two o.f these candidates were Masons, one even a t hirty- econd-degrce Mason. Piney Woods, Miss. - The Rev. H. Nitz has been called to Piney Woods as the successor of Pastor George A. Schmidt. Rockwell, N. C. - Pastor Foard has had his Wl'ist fractured recently. Several weeks prior to this painful accident a baby boy was born to Rev. and Mrs. Foard. Indian Mission at Red Springs, Wis. - President H. Daib writes in a recent number of the Messenger, the North Wisconsin District's paper: "While traveling from one laymen's meeting to another, my time permitted me to visit our Indian ~ission in Red Springs. On October 20, 1931,
Dormitory at Red Springs, Wis.
Indian Ladies' Society, Red Springs, Wis.
I drove wiih P astor Boettcher to Keshena to visit his catechetical class. About forty children assemble there of their own accord every Tuesday for religious instruction. On the following day I visited our Indian Mission station, particularly the three-room parochial school, which is attended by 130 children. How fortunate are our Indian children, in spite of material disadvantages, that they are instructed in the Word of God, which makes them wise unto salvation I - During the past summer our Indian congregation built an altar niche into its church, thus increasing the seating capacity to 160. Before this the church had been too small. - In September Pastor Boettcher confirmed five adults, one of whom was also baptized." · Work Among Indians. - At Lovelock, Nev., there is an Indian reservation, and our State missionary for Nevada, Pastor H. L. Maahs of Reno, Nev., works among the Indians of this reservation. Just recently we read this report of his success : "Thirty-two Pahute children have been baptized in the com·sc of this year [1931] . Our Sunday-school enrolment includes twenty-two children and several adults, who all take a very active interest in the - school, where they, too, learn of the Gift of gifts and joyously sing songs of praise unto their Lord and Savior." United States Military Academy.-By request of the Atlantic District of the Missouri Synod, Pastor Karl Schleede, who served as army chaplain during the World War, makes regular visits to our National Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. we· were greatly surprised to hear that there are no fewer than forty-eight Lutheran young men attending this officers' school. The Atlantic District is
