Rock Island Argus., 1908-11-05
IOWA PROMISES
ALL BUT $1,000
OF States Proportion OF the Angus
tana Jubilee Fund, $39, 900
Has Been Subscribed.
BEGIN CANVASS IN ILLINOIS
District Has Promised $14o, ,0oo-Emi-
nent Archaeoiogist Is to Give
Lecture at the College.

The Iowa conference has now sub
scribed $39,0C0 of the $4,000 prom
ised by the conference to Augustana's
endowment fund This is the report
brought back, by DR.. Gustav Andreen,
Professor Andrew Kempe and Rev.
Theodore Ekblad, the college solici-
tors, who have now returned from
their tour in the state this fall. The
solicitors have been at work since the
middle of September and during the
six weeks they have secured $4,000 in
subscriptions.
start In Illinois Now.
Dr. Andreen stated that the $4,000
mark will easily be reached in Iowa.
At present. however. no more work
will be carried on in the state as the
solicitors expect to start the campaign
in Illinois next week, beginning in
Chicago. The Illinois conference.
which includes the states of Wiscon-
| sin and Michigan as well as Illinois.
has promised $4,000, of which
amount more than $4,000 has already
been subscribed Most OF this was Sc
cured by the solicitors during their
work in Michigan last summer.
| The subscription work will be great
lily facilitated by the fact that the Min
nesota conference has promised TO
raise its share of $4,000 itself which
will relieve the solicitors of This duty.
Nebraska has made similar promise
to raise it's share of $4,000.
Reports from the Kansas conference
indicate that the subscription work is
progressing very satisfactorily there
also. Rev. NJ. Noyd has charge of the
soliciting in this conference. which
has promised $1,000. During the fall
he has been busy in Texas. which is
a part of the Kansas conference, and
has secured more than $4,000. This
is considerably more than the share
Iapportioned to Texas.
Overreach the Mark.
The whole synod, including the New
York and California conferences, have
Inow promised $26S. 900 to the endow
ment fund; which is $4,000 more thar
the quarter million mark set for Tho
endowment fund. The solicitors ar,
greatly elated over the success OF theil
work and are confident that the mari
will be reached by the time the 5Otf
Anniversary jubilee celebration is held
in 1910.
ArchaeOlOgist to Lecture.
Tomorrow evening. DR.. Oscar Mon
telius of Stockholm, Sweden, th'
world-renowned archaeologist. will lee
ture in the college chapel in Swedish
on the subject. Pictures OF Prehistoric
Life in Sweden" AS tomorrow is the
anniversary of the birth of Gustavu,
Adolrhus, the noted Swedish king who
saved Professionalism. the lecture of DR.
Montelius is especially befitting fol
the occasion. DR.. Montelius is ;
: gifted speaker and the foremost living
Iauthority on his subject, and his lee
tture therefore promises to be intense
ly interesting.
! DR.. Montelius was brought to thi.
country by the Lowell institute o
Boston. before which institution he de
livered series of eight lectures. II,
then lectured at the University of Chi
cago and today at the Iowa state uni
lversity at the joint session of the low;
Society of Archaeology and the low;
chapter OF the American Folklore so
: ciety.
: During his stay here, Dr. Monteliu
will be the guest of Professor julie
Mauritzson. Owing to his lecture a
Iowa City today, he will not appea
: before the Davenport Academy o
Science as originally intended Hi
. lecture at the college will therefor
, be his only appearance in the tri-cities
The Wennerberg chorus will furnisl
music tomorrow evening. No admis
sion will be charged.