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‘ ° ‘Thorval H. Larsen, 79, pastor emer- ry Rev. Larsen was born at Sandsver, ‘ was to make him one of the mosi . LUTHERAN LEADER : Dolores Returns _ BURIED AT TAYLOR Funeral Services Held for Rev. Thorval Larsen, Western Church Pioneer ee cea Taylor, N. D., Dec. 5—Funeral serv- ices were held here Tuesday for Rev itus of the local Lutheran church and @ pioneer leader in the Lutheran church in western North Dakota. Rev. Waldo L. Ellickson, his suc- cessor as active pastor of the local church, officiated at the services. Honorary pallbearers were Rev Louls Hagen, Hazen, president of the Mandan circuit, N.L.C.A.; Rev. G. H. Plamann, Dickinson, president of the Lutheran pastoral conference; Rev. ©. M. Fosmarck, Dunn Center; Rev Carl Turmo, New England; Rev. John Hoyer, Regen; Rev. ©. G. Nelson, Sims;, Rev. Will Gevers, New England; Rev. O. 0. Andvik, Man- dan; Rev. C. J. Fylling, Mandan; Rey. Opie 8. Rindahl, Bismarck, ani Judge Maser of Dickinson. Neighbors Are Pallbearers Active pallbearers were Hans Jes- perman, John Elkins, Ole Myran ana Torger Paulson, all of Taylor, and ‘Thomas Perhus and Fred Siverts of Marshall. Kongsberg, Norway, the son of Hans L. Gaaserud and Karen Christine (Staven) Gaaserud. In 1857 he im- migrated with his parents to St.! James, Minn., and in 1878-80 attend- ed. St. Olaf school at Northfield. After attending Luther College, De- | corah, Ia., from 1880 to 1884 he re- ceived the degree Bachelor of Arts. | That same year he entered Capitol! University at Columbus, O., and in 1887 received the degree of Candidate of Theology. Accepting a call to Cooperstown, N. D., he was ordained into the Lutheran ministry in the fall of 1887 and began the work which widely known churchmen in North Dakota. A minister 48 years, he served four charges: Cooperstown, 1887 to 1892; Park River, 1892 to 1897; Ada, Minn., 1897 to 1906 and Taylor, N. D., 1906 to 1935. He had been pastor emeritus of the latter church since 1932, Was Married in 1889 In 1889 Rev. Larsen was married to Mary Elizabeth Schlitt of Baltimore, Md., and they became the parents of nine children, of whom eight, together with 21 grand children, survive. They are Mrs, H. N. Hem, Minot; Dr. John B. Larsen, Morris, Ill; Mrs. Sivert Elkins, Taylor; Mrs, L. H. Lavik, Tempe, Ariz.; Mrs. William H. Draeger, Murdo, S. D.; Samuel Lar- sen, Denver, Colo.; Hans Larsen and Mrs. Alfred Haugen, Taylor. Mrs. Carl Johnson of Taylor pre- ceded her father in death. ‘When Rev. Larsen came to Taylor he was the only Lutheran pastor in the Dickinson area and with a horse and buggy served a territory approx- imately 80 miles square, extending from Taylor to the Montana line and from New England to the Killdeer mountains. During his service in this com- munity he conducted approximately 1,500 regular services, in addition to informal periods of worship for groups gathered together in shacks on the prairies. POSTAL RECEIPTS UP 44 MILLIONS IN YEAR Farley Predicts This Barometer of Business Conditions Will Increase New York, Dec. General Farley said Thursday that postal receipts—“one of the most re- liable barometers of business condi- tions’—increased approximately $44,- 090,000 in the fiscal year ended June 30th. ° “They have been steadily increas- ing for more than a year,” Farley said at the dedication of the $4,267,700 an- nex to the New York postoffice. have every reason to believe that as large, if not a larger, increase will be shown during the present fiscal year.’ “The increase at the 12 largest post- offices for the week ended Nov. 29, as compared with the same week last year, was 6.57 per cent,” he said. PAYING BEET FARMERS St. Paul, Dec. 5—(#)—W. A. 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