The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-05-11
MONEY COMING IN
FOR CELEBRATION
RECENT SUBSCRIPTIONS BRING
HOME. COMING FUND ALMOST
UP TO SUM ESTIMATED
AS NECESSARY.

THE subscriptions to the home COM
ing fund secured by the special COM
mittees appointed at the meeting Of
,he Greater Hancock club TO canvass
overv block of the business section Of
tbe city. together with the fifteen hum
dred dollars appropriated by the city
council. brings the amount to over four
Thousand dollars and with a few days
more work is expected to reach the six
thousand dollars estimated as neces-
sary before the gates of the park can
be thrown open for the semi-centen-
NAL celebration next July. The COM
mitteees are working today and when
the executive committee meets this
evening it is believed that the full
amount needed will be in sight.
The results have proven most graft
fying to the committee in charge of the
homecoming arrangements, and are
very encouraging, many persons who
had hitherto appeared apathetic re-
gardng the movement having become
interested and are now exerting their
efforts towards making the home COM
inc a big success. Plans for the occa-
sion will be proceeded with and the
celebration will be carried out on the
big scale already announced, making
il the greatest celebration of the kind
ever held in Michigan outside of Grand
Rapids and Detroit.
Besides the subscriptions from bust
ness houses donations will also be re-
ceived from residents generally. who
are invited to send i'm any sums they
may feel disposed to give, mailing them
tc the secretary, c. A. Wright, Jr, in
the Superior bank building, and maxi
ing them payable to the treasurer OF
the Greater Hancock club, c. l.. Rou-
leau.
The money to be given by the city
will be applied mainly to the improve
mcnt of the park and the erection OF
buildings, most of which will be of a
permanent nature, adding greatly ia
the attractiveness and usefulness OF
the driving park, and making it avail
able for more purposes of a public ma
ture than il has hitherto been used for
The park is n valuable piece of proper
~ if put to the uses intended and with
better buildings, and other features
will be more extensively used than In
the past, and will Justify the expendi-
ture of the eighteen thousand dollars
paid for the park several years ago by
the city.
Henry Nikl<ila of the postofiice cleri-
cal force took first prize for the Longest
list Of names of former Hancock resi-
dents living in various parts of Tho
country. George Fisher came second
James Mccarthy third, and the fourth
largest list was sent in by William
Goudge. Circulars describing the plan:
will be mailed to those whose name!
are contained in the lists and invita-
tons will be sent them to attend the
Homecoming next July.
Many local societies have already ac'
cepted invitations to participate in thu
big pageant which is to be a promi'
nent feature of the home coming
among those already having signifie'
their intention of turning out beinl
the Hibernian Rifles. the Knights o
Columbus, the Eagles, and the st. Jeal
Baptist society. other organization
have not yet acted on the Invitation
hut every society i'm Hancock will un
doubtedly be in line when the big par
ade takes place.