Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-15
OVER TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
REPORTED AT BANQUET LAST
EVENING.
WOMEN DESERVE CREDIT

Banquet Given by Women OF Hospital
Association Last Evening Was a
Grand Success Address by Geo.
E. Maclean.
When the announcement was made
at the hospital banquet last evening
that S10,450 had been raised before the
soliciting committees had begun their
labors all doubts Of the ability of the
women of the Hospital association
and their able %lieutenants, the public
spirited citizens of Ottumwa, to Sc
cure the sum of SIS, 900 for the cree
ton of a new hospital vanished.
The banquet last evening was an
elaborate affair. Several hundred of
the representative citizens of Ottum-
wa were the guests of the Hospital as
ISOLATION and seated around the ban
quet board enjoyed a sumptuous
spread and later listened with delight
to an able address by DR.. George E.
MacLean, president of the state uni
yersity at Iowa City. Following this,
were a number of responses to the
toast, !" The Ottumwa Hospital" as
signed by the POSTMASTER, II. l.. Wa
terman,
Work Of Association Women.
The labors of the men and women
of the Ottumwa hospital association to
secure the means for the erection of
an exclusive hospital building date
back several years but it was not I'M
til the latter part of September in this
year that conditions prevailed which
permitted their efforts to assume def
mite shape. During that month
announcement was issued in the Cou-
rier that the association was DESTROYS
of receiving offers of a site for a hos
pital building and several responses
were at once forthcoming. The first
response was from Major Samuel Ma
hon, of the directors of the asso-
citation, who offered a tract of land on
North Jefferson street, about a block
from the end of the Jefferson street
a line. This offer was accepted
and plans were made to raise $4,000
for the erection of a modern hospital
building.
Banquet Decided Upon.
A meeting was called a short time
afterwards aad a ways and means COM
mittee with J. b. Sax as chairman was
selected for the purpose of deVising
means for raising the sum deemed nee
essary. This committee recommended
the plan of giving a free banquet for
the purpose of presenting the project
to the people and the event last even
ing was the result. Mr.. Sax, together
with T. d. Foster called upon several
prominent citizens before the banquet
and secured pledges of S10,450. The
soliciting committees proper. which
were selected at a recent meeting, will
begin their work Monday with the OBJ
iect in view Of raising the remainder
of the necessary amount.
The Officers and Directors.
The directors of the Hospital asso-
citation are deserving of the credit for
maintaining the hospital in the past
and to them will fall much of the work
of raising the sum of money necessary
to carry out their cherished plans. The
hoard is composed of six business men,
five ome and the officers of the as
sociation. The names of the directors
follow:
Mesdames c. R. Allen, j. w. Edger-
ly, j. H. Merrill, II. w. Roberts and S..
A.. Spilman.
Messrs. Samuel Mahon, T. d. Foster,
j. B. Sax, Calvin Manning, J.. j. Smith
and A. G. Harrow.
The Officers.
The officers of the association are:
LTH 4a- Me- 49,
First vice president-Mrs. T. A. Full
ton.
Second vice president-Mrs. ]. G.
Hutchison.
Secretary-Mrs. H. L.. Waterman.
Treasurer-Mrs. Frank Won Schra-
der.
Last Evenings Banquet.
The banquet last evening was sue
cessful beyond the expectations of
those who planned it. A sentiment
was developed there, when the crying
need of better quarters was presented.
that practically assures the sum still
needed before the project becomes a
reality. The assemblage was treated
to a delightful spread, served by scores
of young women. The menu follows:
Menu.
Soup with %croutons.
Fried chicken. Escalloped potatoes
Peas.
currant Jelly. Pickles.
Cabbage and celery salad with waters.
Orange ice. Cake. Coffee.
The Program of Toasts.
The program of toasts which follow
ed was enjoyed to the utmost and al
though all were on the same subject,
the different speakers enliyened their
remarks with wit and humor. H. J..
Waterman was In ideal toast-master,
and mis- curt, yet pleasing i~ntroductions
of the Speakers added much to The re-
sponses. Which followed, Mr.. Water
man. with a few appropriate remarks,
introduced the principal speaker of the
evening, DIR. MacLean, who spoke in
part as follows:
Or. MacLean's Address.
MI. Chairman and friends: