The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-04-07
OPPORTUNITY FOR vINITA IN
CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES

fact, That on April Zfth ana zolh, tnere
will be held in our city, one of the
largest and most important meetings
to be held this year in Oklahoma.
Ponder for a moment At the low
est calculation, there will be five hun
dred visiting representatives coming
from all parts of the state, delegates
from each county to attend this con-
ference.
DR.. j. H. Stolper, general secretary,
who is best informed on the subject,
places the probable number of visitors
at from one thousand to fifteen hun
dred.
These delegates will have to be en-
tertained with lodging-our present
hotel facilities are wholly inadequate,
and our good people will have to be
at some personal inconvenience and
sacrifice to entertain this host of del
egates, and it will be necessary for
each home in the city to be prepared
to take from one to six visitors over
night.
1t is up to our citizens to properly re-
ceive and entertain these delegates.
Immediate action is necessary, as our
time is short
We have an opportunity not only of
assisting in one of the noblest of en-
terprises in this meeting, which comes
together to consider how best to con-
tribute to the upbuilding of the human
itarian, social and general interests
of society of our state, which object
ought of itself, to cause us to do every
thing in our power to make the ap-
Iproaching conference a success in
every way:
But, in addition, there is a business
side of the question appealing direct
ly TO Craig county and Vinita 1t will
cost in figures from $1,5O0,O0O to $2,-
100000 to build the state hospital for
the insane at Vinita. From year to
year, thereafter it will cost several
hundred thousand dollars to maintain
the institution after it is built.
To Vinita and Craig county the ex-
penditure of these vast sums in our
midst means much. If secured, it can
only be by means of appropriations of
public funds by the state legislature.
To obtain the appropriations, we must
win the friendship of the people
throughout the state, who are inter
ested in matters of this kind and who
will insist upon the support of these
necessary appropriations by their re
: spective state senators and represent
: atives.
These people will come in large num-
: bers to attend this conference, and we
can make fast friends of them by our
/. reception and entertainment of them,
! and by showing to them that the cit
izens of Craig county and Vinita are
: alert to interests of this kind, and ap-
2 Ipreciate the friendship of the rest of
the state, and that the exceptional ad-
vantages in the location at Vinita, Of
fers in the sight chosen, situation
: worthy of the largest, best equipped,
| and most modern hospital for the in
! sane in the southwest.
We must wake up. Opportunity is
: knocking at our door. Christian men
/ and women of Vinita, large interests
! concerning suffering humanity, and
how to relieve it are at issue. and you
: can make the approaching conference
/ a movement for the advancement of
| Christ's kingdom on earth Business
men and women of Vinita, your finan-
t cial interests are at stake. If you fail
to take advantage of this great oppor-
{ tunity enlist the enlightened and
progressive Christian people of the
r state in your interests, you may lose
the large expenditure of money in your
{ midst which this institution will bring
: to you You will lose a chance of
> greatly enhancing property values in
5 yur city and its vicinity; you will lose
> what will bring additions to our pres
ent population by reason of the neces-
/ sary attendants of the institution, and
) of families coming whose unfortunate
, friends are part of its inmates.
Let us then all get busy, and forget
; differences, jealousies and anomosi-
ties, if any there be in our midst, and
one and all Join to assist in making
this conference notable, in the annals
; of our state, as the most successful in
the initiation and forwarding of up
. lifting mvements in charities and cor.
} rections and show, SO far as in US lies
the cordial hospitality of our city and
J county towards the rest of the state
Hon. Dennis Wilson. president OF
: the Commercial Club, was by unani'
( nous vote placed at the head of all
committees, and the matter of pro-
viding for the entertainment of the