The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-01
Business Men Are Expected to
Respond in Liberal Manner
To Requests for Subscrip-
tionS of Funds.
SPIRIT SHOWN COMMEND.
ED BY THE COMMITTEE.
Two Men Have Agreed to Give
$1OO Each and Non-Resi-
dent Sends Check Dance
Abandoned.

Business men of this city nave COM
or enterprise and that the town is as
dead as door nail. These business
men will be given an excellent oppor-
tunity TO show in a substantial man
ner if they approve of the efforts of
the fall festival executive committee to
instill ginger into the city with the end
in view of making it a good live town.
II on Wednesday of this week the So
liciting committees for the fall festi-
val succeed in raising between $1,000
and $4,000 to meet the expenses of the
affair, then the business men of Rich
mond will go on record as approving
the enterprising policy shown"
This statement was made last even
ing by Nimrod Johnson. chairman of
the finance committee OF the fall fes-
tival. 1t was addressed to about six
tyfive members of the committee who
met at the city building for the pur-
pose of discussing ways and means of
making collections. IL was the opin-
ion of all the committeeman that the
business men Of this city are heartily
in favor of the movement and that the
necessary expense fund can be raised
with but little effort. The committee
also decided to solicit Wednesday. The
following day the chairmen of the va
rious sub soliciting committees these
officials were appointed last night
will turn over the collections of their
respective committees to Mr.. johnson.
1t was decided that IL the various
business men solicited were not ready
TO make immediate cash or check do
nations they should be requested to
give their notes, agreeing to make
their payments the first of October.
A list of all business men not found In
their establishments when the solici-
tors call, will be made and at a later
date they will be visited.
Already donations and promises of
donations have been made. Two men
have each agreed to contribute SIO0.
One of these men. Mr.. Johnson stated,
would not be benefited directly or in
directly by the festival. This an
| nouncement was greeted with applause
as was the statement that one man,
| who is not a resident OF Richmond,
has agreed to contribute ten dollars.
Vice President Perry J. Freeman OF
| the Young Mems Business club. in
| opening the meeting, stated that the
prime object of the festival is to get
people living in this vicinity in the
habit of coming to Richmond He
said il the festival this fall was a sue
cess, 1t is proposed to make IL an an
nual event On Wednesday, Mr. Free
man stated. he and Paul Comstock
will go to Indianapolis and learn def
initely when the Tenth Infantry will
be here. The dates of the festival
will depend, he said. on the time the
regiment will be in this city.
| The second night the regiment is here
big ball will be given for the COM
missioned officers, but the plan of hav-
ing ball for the privates and nom
commissioned offices has been aban-
doned, because Col. Green has informed
the military committee that the march
the regiment is to make will be hard
one on the men and that they will
need all the rest they can obtain. He
said that enroute from Indianapolis to
Richmond the regiment will make two
night marches.