Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-10
INVITATIONS TO THE BIG AFFAIH
ARE ACCEPTED By i
-. MANY. -.1saskkEI IEss.M
THE LIST OF SPEAKERS
Ways and Means Committee and Hos
pitai Association Hold Joint Session
Banquet Arrangements Completes
City pistricted for Soliciting.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Every one who has received an ine
vitation to the hospital banquet to ba
held Friday evening in the basemenG
of the Market Street theatre is earm
estly requested by the chairman of the
invitation committee to write upoE
the return postal card received witH
the invitation, either an acceptance
or a refusal of the invitation and
mail the card as it is addressed to
B. P. George. The banquet is absolutea
ly free to all who have received invi-
tations. There will be no charge for
admission OF places at the banquet
tables and there will be absolutely no
appeal or solicitation for subscrip
tions.
OF the 750 invitation mailed many
acceptances, sufficient in fact to in.
sure that the banquet will be one OF
the most successful affairs Of Its kind
ever held in the city. have been re-
ceived. 1t is almost absolutely nee.
essary that the committees having the
preparations for the banquet in charga
know at once within a very few the
exact number of persons who will ah
tend. The banquet is not money
making proposition and preparations
will be made only for the number who
give the proper assurance that theN
will be present.
i A Joint Meeting.
A Joint meeting ofFthe Ottumwa Hos
pital association and the ways and
means committee was held last even-
Ing in the office of j. II. MarriliA on
East Second street. at which the ban.
quet arrangements were discussed
and found to be practically complete
and at which plans for the work OF
soliciting subscriptions for the new
hospital building were formulated.
/ Judge w. D. Tisdale. Senator S. H.
Harper and DR.. M. Bannister were
named as reception committee
to meet and entertain Geo. g. MacLean
Of Iowa City, president of the Iowa
State university, who is to be the prin-
cipal speaker on the evening Of the
banquet
List of Speakers.
The committee appointed to secure
speakers for the banquet made their
final report. H. L. Waterman is to be-
toast-master for the evening. The chief
address is to be delivered by Presi-
dent MacLean. In addition there will
be number of five minute talks by
: the following business men of OF
tumwa: DR.. D. G. Brockman, Calvin
Manning, DR.. F. F. Stoltz, Senator S.
H. Harper, T. D. Foster. DIR. A. o. Will
liams, Rev. Father James Foley, F. w.
Simmons. T. j. Phillips, Mayor T. III.
!, Picker, George A. Brown, ]. j. Smith,.
]. B. Sax and D. H. Emery.
: The committee which has been call.
: ing upon the citizens for large SUBJ
Y scriptions report good success, and
/ states that there will be at least $10,-
: 900 in bona fide subscriptions ready to
be announced at the banquet The
d work of securing the remaining SIS 600
: will begin on Monday morning, Decem-
ber Ia.
subcommittee Named.
Z For the purpose of systematizing the
: :, work of securing these subscriptions
s the city has been divided into five dis.
:. tricts and committee assigned to
u each. Main and Market streets arg
the dividing lines and practically all
the soliciting will be done among the
l. business houses. The divisions and
j. the committee men are as follows:
o First District.
West Of Market and south of Main
streets. Committee-Mrs. Frank Ra.
cine, Mrs. G. R. Allen, A. G. Harrow.
!, Second District.
: West of Market and north of Main
streets. Committee-Mrs. II. l.. Wat
, > erman, Mrs. ]. J. Smith, J. w. Garner,
+ Claude Myers.
: Third District.
o East of Market and south of Main
: streets. Committee-Mrs. Charles
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