Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-07-02
General Annual Meeting; Conformity Of
the Board of Trustees; The Execu-
tive Committee, The Physicians
Of the City and Citizens Yes
terday. Reports Read
and Executive Commit
FR--I
tee Elected.

COhJO1ALIy WAN G"o
mitiee, the physicians and citizens was
held at tina institution yesterday after
noon. and much routine business was
transacted and encouragement engen-
dered over the splendid record the
Hospital has made and the fine work
it is daily accomplishing.
The meeting was presided over by
Rev. F. w. FAIRIES, president OF the
Board and chairman of the Executive
The president made a brief, earnest
talk on the year's/work, and gave an
interesting and encouraging review Of
the history and steady growth and
prime purpose of the Hospital, after
which he called for the report of the
secretary, which was rea as follows:
Mr.. President and Members of the
Board OF Trustees of the Geldsboro
Hospital:
In submitting this my annual report
as secretary of your Board for the fifth
yea of the corporate existence of the
Goldsboro Hospital, and the thirteenth
wear of the institution itself-previous-
" the Emergency Hospital-I ask the
indulgence of your Board to say that
this Hospital, browning as 1t does the
physical heights of our city as to loca-
ton, is lik ew Use the GROWING glory of
a ph~ilanthropic people, by whose vol
untary contributions from year to
year its sheltering arms and mln1stra-
tions OF mercy are maintained, where
the INDECENT afflicted may come,
without money and without price, and
receive that intelligent nursing and
medical care that conduce to restora-
ton, and where, if the feet are found
trending toward the valley of the
shadow the Fatherhood of God is
made to shine through the gathering
mist in the soothing attentions of the
Brotherhood of mar here bestowed.
Experience has taught the world
that the greatest good of the greatest
number is not what will turn the peo-
pie into the best fighting machines,
nor what will turn them into the best
industrial machines, but h will
turn them into the best men. We are
human beings, and it is human well
fare that we should seek and not ma
chine welfare-not mere animal well
FIRE, but human weltare-ths welfare
of the whole being of man, physical in
tellectual and moral. This is what we
mean by civilization, by human pro-
gress. Civilization means not merely
the machinery for producing wealth.
for Transporting and distributing
wealth, for multiplying IN conven-
fences of life, for increasing it's com
forts and physical we'll being. Itmeans
sll that, out it means much more, be
cause man is much more than that
It means the advance of human wei
fare along ali the lines that make lite
worth the living. Not in the sense OF
increased facilities to ''eat, drink and
bs merry tor tomorrow we die, 'ibut
in what lies beyond that Tomorrow
where the fruition OF charity is re-
allied and abideth, and "hope's ten
der blossoms bloom into fragrant joy
for aye. And so this Hospital, inaug-
rated in the charity of the peerless
people Of Goldsboro, and fostered by
them in recognition of it's m~eritorious
work and sublime mission, is a double
benediction in the city, it biesses
those who give to its support and
those who receive it's care, and from ii
go forth influences that walk the ON
munity and bless it's people from year
to year, in manifold ways, of which
sfGod knoweth.''
The year just closed has been one OF
encouragement, because it has been
one OF wider recognition OF the merits
Of the Hospital and increased support.
both in charitable contributions and
in the patronage OF patrons able to pay,
as shown by the treasurer's report,
which viii be read to you by that ami
able gentleman and model citizen, Mr..
SOL We'll, who, regardless of the exac-
tfons OF a busy business life and many
social requirements, yet finds occasion
to give to this institution his personal
care in the outstanding and disbursing
its finances, and in personal solicitude
for the promotion OF its interests.
In the equipment of the Hospital
some needed furnishings have been ad-
ded; but in this respect there is still
room for improvements.
To relieve the superintendent and
nurses of encumbering household SER
vice, 81 matron has been secured, and
the change is proving in every way
satisfactory.
Through the admirable and greatly
appreciated public spiritand real phil
anthropy of DR.. r. e. Lee.a course OF
study and lectures has been inaugrateo
for the pupil nurses, in which, as hoped