The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-01-19
BUILD HOSPITAL
SAY THE LADIES
WEARY OF WAITING THEY ASK
THAT SOMETHING BE DONE.
RESOLUTIONS ARE ADOPTED
Urgent Plea to Hospital Board to
Push Project At once-Ladies
Have Earned Over Four
Thousand Dollars.


les of the Philanthropic Department
Of the Oskaloosa Woman's Club yes
terday passed resolutions urging the
board of its own creation to immedi-
ately take up the proposition and
start on the canvass for none to
build the needed improvement.
Behind this resolution is the almost
unlimited energy Of the ladies' of the
Womans Club, who have already sue
ceeded in raising, unaided, something
over $4,000 in cash. Besides this the
ladies' have secured a couple of thous-
and dollars in pledges from certain
business men in the city and have
promised by various organizations
and p~rivateparties, several wards
which will be fitted up at no expense
to the hospital board. These pledges
and promises were secured by the
ladies during the first few months of
the work of the hospital board. In a
few days this work was accomplished.
The ladies rested and awaited a plan
from the organization at the headSof
the movement.
The plan was made. An allotment
in which the names of Oskaloosans
were put down, together with the
amount the committee apportioned as
an appropriate donation, was made by
atcommittee which spent the greater
part of two nights in study upon the
matter. 1t was decided to start with
the larger sums asked. The commit
tee appointed for this purpose never
found an opportunity to get together.
The members were business and pro-
fessional men and their personal du-
ties were such as to prevent a meet
ing. Awaiting the action of this COM
mittee, nothing has been done toward
raising the money by the others in
terested in the movement.
The ladies' protest that Oskaloosa
must have a hospital and that each
day of delay makes the matter just so
much harder. They protest that the
public which has helped them in rails
ing the money which tey now have ac-
cumulated wants to know what they
will do with it. They believe they
are being blamed for a delay that they
are most anxious to obviate.
Any Action Satisfactory.
"If the board will make a showing"
said n of the women in the meet
ing Thursday afternoon, at which the
resolutions were drawn up, 1--WE will
be satisfied. If they will only tell us
to go ahead and let us continue our
work and begin to show some accom-
plishment to those who have support
ed us in the enterprise, We will be
satisfied"
Should the ladies have their way
and carry out the plans which have
been prepared for some time and up
on which the campaign for the city
hospital will eventually be made, the
city of Oskaloosa will be mucn nearer
a hospital than at present. The lad
les will find time to devote to the so
licitation just as they have found
time in the past five years to conduct
rummage sales, horse races, and to
beg on the streets in payment Of an
election bet. Work for the hospital
is not counted labor among the mem
bers of the Philanthropic Department.
They are used to it and they are anx-
ious for the opportunity to continue
in their enterprise.
The meeting of the department on
Thursday was the regular monthly
meeting and was held at the home of
Mrs. ]. H. Leathers. Mrs. Reid pre-
sided and the program was devoted
to a paper by Miss Madison, on the
Iowa Hospitals for the Blind, Deaf
and the Feeble-M Minded. The paper
was excellent and was the result of a
considerable research
Refused Flattering Offer.
The ladies absolutely refused at the
meeting to become connected with
any scheme for promoting sales in
connection with the hospital work
J. A. Bolts, local representative of the
Grand Union Tea Co., presented q
proposition to the ladies regarding
the sale of a preparation called
Painene, a guaranteed remedy fol-
many of the ills that flesh is heir to
Mr.. Bolts proposed that If the ladies
would sell 5000 bottles of the sover
eign remedy before September list Of
this year, ne would give them his
house and lot on South NJ street fol
use for the hospital. He also offered
that If the sale Of the remedy should
be made by July list, that he would
give in addition 100000 Painint
retails for $1.00 per bottle, and the un
dertaking was no small one. The
ladies, however, have had n similar
promoting experience and they there
fore promptly refused to consider the
proposition.
Resolutions Adopted.
To the Honorable Board of Hospita
Trustees:
Whereas. The project of building
a hospital was preached in Oskaloost
} at a meeting of the Philanthropic de
) partment of the Oskaloosa Womani
! Club, in January. 1900, five years ago
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