The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-14
TRIMMER CLUB
TO COVER STATE
Christian Endeavor Workers Of Iowa
Plan TO incorporate and Elk
tend the Scope of
the Society.
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
State Organizer to be Placed in the
Field and Clubs Formed in
Every One Of the
Cities.
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

The Trimmer club movement to en-
courage thrift and temperance among
boys, founded by Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Saucerman of Des Moines, is to be
made an incorporated state wide or
ganization and will be under the di-
rect control of the Iowa Christian En-
deavor association.
When the Christian Endeavor state
convention was in session in Vinton
last week, Mr.. Saucerman and his at
torney, Charles r. Dorm, appeared be-
fore the convention and presented the
cause. The value of its influence upon
the boys SO appealed to the delegates
that formal action was taken max
ing the state organization responsible
for the promotion of the movement In
Iowa. A state organizer will be placed
in the field at once by the executive
committee of the Christian Endeavor
association and it is hoped that a To-
cal club will be established in each
city in the stae within the coming
year.
The Trimmer club, which was or
ganized by Mr.. Samuel Saucerman, is
a unique one, but its success has been
determined by the large club of boys
which has been in existence in Des
Moines for the past year. What Mr..
Saucerman has done for the boys of
Des Moines the Christian Endeavor as
sociation will ask some wealthy man
l., oif 10 Cor hn <,fb iC
community.
When boy joins this Trimmer club
he Is given 81 by Mr. Saucerman and
places this with his own initiation fee
of 81 to his credit in the bank. With
50 as nest egg the boy is to add one
cent day for three years and during
the first three years, Mr.. Saucerman
will also add penny a day to the bank
account The Des Moines club has a
membership of 100 boys and this will
mean local club endowment on tie
part of the founders for the last
year, and the next two years of 81 200
The important clause in the member
ship contract is that each boy is to
pledge himself to abstain from drink
| ing and smoking until he is twenty-oae
years of age.
When the state Christian Endeavor
association accepted the proposition to
undertake the work of organizing
these Trimmer clubs In the state, it
was with the understanding that the
work of the association should be
among the boys exclusively. A SINH
lar organization, without the abstin.
ence membership clause, was being
contemplated by Mr.. and Mrs. Saucer
man. The w. c. T. U. of Des Moines
had asked for the local organization
of club to encourage thrift among
the girls. but no mention was made
of the state work Later the executive
committee OF the Christian Endeavor
association asked for the privilege OF
organizing similar clubs among the
girls of the state. This could be done
without mourning the added expense
of state organizer, and the Christian
Endeavor association, which is an in
DETERMINATIONS organization OF
young people, could in this way reach
both the boys and the girls of Iowa
The committee said Mr.. Saucerman
granted the request of the committee
The plan or organization and method
of work of the girls club is now being
worked out by the committee, but ii
will be known as the Cleaners club.
Although it was not officially an
nounced to the Christian Endeavor
convention, it is asserted on good au
thority that Mr.. and Mrs. Saucerman
have SO arranged that beauest OF
$4,000 will be left by them to the
state association to perpetuate this
work in Iowa
The Trimmer club movement is ex
tending into Minnesota and Wiscon
sin.
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