Pleasant View
Congregational Church
The Congregationalists planned a basket social for the Battleview Hall in August.
Beginning in June, 1910 Union Congregational Methodist prayer meetings were held in Powers Lake on Thursday evenings. This was done while meetings were being held to determine whether Powers Lake would have a Methodist or Congregation church. Rev. E.S. Shaw of Minot represented the Congregationalists on an arbitration committee to settle this question. Apparently the Methodists won, since they organized and later built a church in town; and after August 1910 Rev. Olson had left the area and there was no further mention of the Congregationalists or the Pleasant View Church.
Rev. Severt Olson, a Congregational minister, held services in Powers Lake for the first time on January 30, 1910 at the hall. Services were also held in offices of the Rogers and the St. Anthony lumber yards in town, and also in the Pleasant View School District northwest of Powers Lake.
It was there on March 6, 1910 that the Pleasant View Congregational Church was organized with Rev. Olson as pastor, Magnus Lee as deacon and a membership of 14. Little is known of this congregation except that it met in schoolhouses and services were still being held in August of 1910. Rev. Olson conducted the funeral for little Blanche Grace Zerbe, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Zerbe of Thorson Township on May 15.