Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-28
THOUSANDS AS
GUESTS IN CITY
Plans for Entertainment of
Lutherans Here Next Year
Being Formulated.
DIRECTORY TO BE MADE
To Show Where Accommodations
May be Had i'm Three Cities
Meetings to be i'm Big Tent.

Rock Island will be called upon
next spring to entertain thousands of
visitors at the time of the meeting of
The Augustana synod of the Lutheran
church and the celebration of the Au
gustana college jubilee anniversary,
and plans for the entertainment of
the visitors are already being outlined
The synod session will bring to the
city 1000 delegates, in addition to the
many visitors who will accompany the
delegates, and the Lutherans from all
parts of the country who will come
here to attend the jubilee exercises
The representation in the synodical
session next year has been greatly in
creased, and instead of a limited rep
resentation from each district, at the
meeting in Rock Island every congre
cation will be permitted to have two
delegates the pastor and one lay
delegate. There are 1000 seongrega
tons in the synod.
Canvass the Cities.
whom the burden of the preparation
falls, are planning to make an cX-
haustive canvass of Rock Island and
the other two cities, to ascertain all
Of the places where delegates and
other visitors may secure rooms and
other accommodations. These ac-
Communications will be listed syste-
matically, and there will be directory
made for the benefit of the delegates.
In addition plans are being made to
organize an information bureau for the
Two weeks which the festivities here
will be held, and this bureau will be
provided with large force of clerks
and attendants to supply information
for the visitors, and look after thei:
wants. The bureau will probably have
headquarters at the college.
Sessions i'm Tent.
There is no church or auditorium
in this city or Moline that has a large
enough seating capacity to accommo-
date the big gathering, and plans are
being made to pitch tent on the col
lege campus, and hold the meetings
during the week there. The Sunday
services of the synod will likely be
beId at the Swedish Lutheran church
in Moline. which has a big seating
capacity.
To Dedicate Library.
The contract for the new Denkmann
memorial library given to the college
by the children of the late Mr. and
Mrs. F. c. a. Denfmann, has been let.
and work is to be begun soon. The
contractors. Jobst & Son of Peoria,
are TO have the exterior of the build
ing finished by the time of the fes
tivities next spring, and it is likely
hat the dedication of the library will
be one of the features of the jubilee
celebration. The building is to be
ready for use by the opening of the
fall term of the college next year.
Wanted TO Come Here.
II will be remembered that there
was great surprise in Rock Island
when the synod voted TO hold its SEES
scion here, and delegates who have
returned from the meeting say that
the syonds action was something
never before known in the history of
that body. The synod delegates
when Rock Island was chosen, broke
into cheers and wild applause. 1t had
been supposed that Rockford would be
named, and the Rock Island churches
and Augustana college representatives
had been urging Rockford as the meet
ing place This city did not feel thai