Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1891-10-15
COIN FOR THE COLLEGE.
Friends of the jamestown Col
lege Discuss it's Necessities
and Future.
A Substantial Addition to the
Finances of the Institution
Received.
Thousands Of Acres of Govern.
ment Land Still Available
in North Dakota.
jamestown College Matters.

jamestown college Matters.
The report of the committee on board
of aid for Presbyterian colleges concerns
the jamestown college. The report was
made at the Fargo Presbytery Wednes-
day, and is as follows:
The committee on board of aid to col-
leges and academies would respectfully
report that of the thirty nine churches on
the roll Of the presbytery only eleven of
them took up collections for this object.
The aggregate amount contributed is
only $16l, or, distributed among the
membership Of our churches, less than
I cents each-this when the contribu-
tions go directly to the support of an
institution which has been established
by this presbytery within its own bounds,
intended for the education of our own
youth and therefore having claims on
the generosity of cur people, which
should make it incumbent On every loyal
Presbyterian to do whatever is possible
for its support. Seven cents per
member! What showing for church
which prldes itself on being the pioneer
and leader in all grand educational mat
ters, and 20 boast OF Its determination to
keep at the front of all UNCONVENTIONAL
movements for the higher education Of
its sons and daughters.
On the roll of honor contributing even
this small amount stands: Goose Lake,
SIS; LaMoure, SIS; Lisbon, s5; Durbin
$3; Fargo, Sl9; Sanborn, $40; James
town, $50; Fullerton, IS; Buffalo, ST.;
Tower City, SIS; Corinne. SIS; Edgeley,
$3.50.
Against all the rest OF the churches
stands a blank, showing that the require
ments of the presbytery laid on the
hearts and consciences OF it's ministers
and sessions, as solemnly and earnestly
as words could convey. their bounden
duty to this institution. have been dis.
regarded. No opportunity, apparently,
has been given to the people to show
their willingness to contribute, no know
ledge conveyed of the needs.of the insti.
tuition, or the work it is intended to &C.
compllsh, and would accomplish, if aided.
What more can we expect than the
dearth OF revenues observed, when min
listers and sessions heed no obligation
laid on them and show no interest COM
mensurate with the needs of the case.
Lest, however, this should be recorded as
all the interest taken in the institution it
ought to be stated that other persons
and churches, at the solicitation of Pres
ident Baskerville have to the
furnishing Of roons and other improve
ments the following amounts during the
college year, viz:
Hillsboro, $ll; Tower City, S34.1O;
jamestown. $50; Lisbon, $50; Fargo, $50;
Grand Forks, S6S; Rev. J. w. Baldwin,
$685. rs; A. G. Baldwin, $40.
This leaves the following list of
churches wholly IN default. having taken
no part whatever in contributing either
money or material for the support of the
institution, or for making comfortable
the apartments which the students oc-
cupy, viz: Blnghampton, Grand Rapids.
Sheldon, Hunter, Blanchard, Broadlawn,
Pickert, Rutland. Wheatland, Oakes,
Hudson, Mlnot, Monango, Fullerton,
Elm River, Mapleton, Kelso, Howe, Ayr,
Casselton, Galesburg, Cogswell, Barre'
Erie, Edmunds, Wild Rice and Mt. Zion.
In view of these neglects OF the press
ing needs of the college, of the permis-
sion to every church to turn into the
treasury at jamestown it's contributions,
therefore be it resolved,
FIRST Every church session be in
structed to take up an annual collection
in aid OF our institution.
Second We hereby appoint the Of
ficers Of the local churches, viz: the el-
der, deacon and trustees, committee to
devise ways and means by which the con-
tribution hereby called for shall not be
merely basket collection, usual to the
but solicitation of funds
contributions from the mite of
The poor, to the greater amount of the
we'll to do and the wealthy, shall be re-
,eived and applied to this object.
Third. Presbytery hereby sets the
Time of soliciting and contributing tow
,rds this object from the first of October
20 the first OF December; nevertheless
urging the churches, If it cannot be
secured within this limit, that it be se-
cured sometime within the college year.
Fourth. To this end we insist on
,very minister SO informing himself of
he needs Of the institution, of its worth