Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-02
The $3.50 Debt of the Uncle
Sans Club, Grinnel, is
Raised
NEARLY $4,000 WAS DONATED
The Results Are So Far Very Salts
factory and 1t is Thought This Will
Be a Great Boon to the Boys and
Girls Of Grinnell-Need of Other Inn
provements.

Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell. Feb. 2.-The dedication SER
vices of the Uncle Sans Club were held
last night in the Colonial theater. The
house was crammed to the doors, the
seating capacity being entirely made
quate for the occasion. The program
given was as follows: Song. Onward,
Christian Soldier" by the audience;
prayer, by Prof. Parker; singing, coli
lege quartet; address, by Chairman
Dean Main; short talks by Rev. Stod-
dard, Rev. Robinson, Sam Crosby, Rev.
Vittum. Rev. Douglass, after u short
talk, proceeded to raise the sum that
the club was in debt, which was $3.50.
A blackboard was arranged on the ros-
trum, which had the full amount of
S1,S50 arranged on it in zoos, sos, EOS,
los and 5s They were arranged in the
form of a mountain which was to be
reduced to q plain during the evening,
which was done. The Spaulding Man
ufacturing Company took the first hum
dred, followed by d. S. Morrison with q
hundred. The Spaulding Manufacture
ing Company had taken $3.50 at the END
of the collection. Mrs. w. III. Newman
added $50 to the sum of 1920 which she
had already given, making her contrib
Sution 5000. A total of nearly $4,000 was
raised before the evening was over.
This sum includes gold watch given
by one who was modest enough to re-
quest that his name be not mentioned.
The watch was valued at 800. Rev.
Douglass makes a good collector and in
fact he surprised himself last evening,
altho he said himself that that is his
business. The club is now out of debt
and has about 500 in the treasury. The |
club property is valued at $500, and
the building would cost at least $1,000
to build. The lot is valued at 5000 AMI
was given to the club. The Muscatine
firm which did the wood work threw off
$500 on their bill, and some other gen.
erous contributions by the contractors
reduced the cost of the property good
deal. It is thought that this will be a
great boon to the boys and girls cf /
Grinnell, and it is suggested that even |
If the club proves a failure, which is not
thought possible. the building will be
very convenient, as it can be used for a /
school house very appropriately, and
one is neeQeC IN tnaC lOcallty anyway.
Therefore, the citizens who have con-
tributed towards the building need have
no fear but that their money is well
spent. The dominating thought in all Il
of the talks made was that altho the
club is a good thing, vet the foundation
of child's character must be laid ut
home, and If this is done, the club will
fulfill its mission. The management
consists of four members, of which two
are appointed by the college and two by
the city council. These four can APP II
point as many associates as they think
advisable. The liberality and public
spirit of the citizens of Grinnell was
amply illustrated by their liberal con-
fluctuations to this worthy cause. Now
that the Uncle Sans Club has been
paid for, publiuc attention is called to
the great necessity for a fine new high n
school building, and the paving of the
streets, and of all the other works pro-
posed by the Commercial Exchange,
md as soon as any one of these has
been accomplished the others are sure
70 follow in rapid succession.