Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-07-16
GIVE MONEY FREELY
oTTUMWANs GENEROUS TO ED.
UcATIoNAL AND RELIGIOUS
INSTITUTIONS.
Parsons College at Fairfield Largest
Recipient, Being Given $4,000 ".
M. G. A. Makes Heaviest Expendi-
ture-$2o,ooo For Baptist Church.

ture-$2o,ooo For Baptist Church.
That Ottumwa people are generous
| has been abundantly proven in the
past year and a half, during which
| time the citizens have subscribed over
| $125,O0O to charitable purposes, to new
religious and educational buildings and
to the liquidation of debts incurred by
such institutions in past building oper-
atoms.
President Hancher in his efforts to-
| ward wiping out the indebtedness up
on the Iowa Wesleyan university, of
which he is the president, has made
thorough canvass of the city and
has given especial attention to the
amounts that have been given by the
Ottumwa people to the various organ
ization in which they were interest
| ed. He is said to have had a state
ment showing in detail the amounts
donated and the purpose for which
they were given which bore out his
| statement that the total was practi-
cally s175,00O.j
Reaches High Mark.
! A hasty summary of the more no
table building operation and subscrip-
tons show total of about $125,000.
1t is quite probable that the remain
ing $4,000 is made up of smaller
amounts given for various purposes a
knowledge of which has never reach
ed the general public. The list given
herewith makes no claim to anything
more than approximate accuracy. The
| statements given in each case being
made by someone who is capable of
making close and fairly reliable .es-
innate.
Parsons College.
The larges amount of money from
| Ottumwa has gone to Parsons college
at Fairfield. Gifts of $4,000 and of
/ $4,000 were received from T. D. Eos
ter and an additional subscription
amounting to $4,000 from other men,
bers of the Presbyterian church in this
city.
Iowa Wesleyan University.
Members of the Methodist Episco-
pal congregation have subscribed to-
i tai of $4,000 to help in freeing from
debt and endowing the Iowa Wesleyan
/ university at Mt. Pleasant, an ex.
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the Courier few weeks since.
I. M. C. A.
The most extensive and expensive
improvement in the city has been that
in progress at the Young Mems Chris.
tian association, which has cost prac-
tically S2S,000. A new gymnasium has
been built, the third story of the as.
ISOLATION building has been complet-
ed and developed into splendid Sc
ries of 10 rooms for the accommoda.
ton of young men and a handsome
new swimming pool as fine as can be
found in the state, is just nearing COM
pletion. The building of a set of ten
mis- courts at the rear of the building
is all that yet remains to complete
the plans as they have been pre-
pared.
First Methodist Episcopal Church.
About 514,000 has been expended in
remodeling and improving the First
Methodist Episcopal church building.
A new Sunday school departm ent was
built as an addition to the old build
ing and large and handsome gallery
was put in the main auditorium The
building was thoroughly renovated,
painted inside and out and partly re-
furnished.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
| The congregation of the Sacred
Heart Catholic church in the East
End has given about $1,000 in the
past fourteen months toward wiping
out debt hanging over the church
which was largely incurred in the cree
ton of the handsome new rectory.
About $500 of the total was spent on
needed improyem ents in the church
building.
Y. w. C. A. Building.
During the year the Young Women's
Christian association has raised an :
proximately $1,000 to apply on the pur-
chase of the property of the First Bap-
fist church which is to be remodele /
and arranged in such manner as to
make an appropriate home for the as
sociation.
Other Sums for Improvement.
For repairing and re-decorating their
building the First Congregational
church people have raised and expend-
ed about $1,S00. The First Presbyter-
ian church is shortly to undergo a thor.
ough cleaning and painting, the total
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| $500. A similar amount has been ex-
pended upon the A. M. E. church in
repairs and in refurnishing the church.
Approximately $3.50 has been expended
in moving and remodeling the building
which is now the home of the Open
Door Mission.
For the Flood Sufferers.
About $500 was raised for the ben
eft of the flood sufferers through the
efforts of the relief committee and
at the mass meeting which was held
on Sunday following the beginning OF
the flood
| New First Baptist Church.
About 100000 has already been rails
ed of the $4,000 which is to be ex-
pended in the erection of the new
Baptist church at the corner of Cour;
and Fifth streets, for which the con.
tract has recently been let.
Tabulated Statement.
A tabulated statement of these sub
! scripfions is as follows:
! Parsons college $4,000
Iowa Wesleyan University. -. 5000
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