The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-04-01
FOR VN|TA| IN
CONFERENCE Of CHARITIES

To the General Public of Craig County
and Vinita:
Our citizens should wake up to the
fact, that on April 9th and 2Sth, there
will be held in our city, one of the
largest and most important meetings
to be held this year in Oklahoma.
Ponder for 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. "a
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
tarian, 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-
preaching 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 $1,5oO,OOO 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 senator's 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-
preciate 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-
cial interests are at stake. If you fail
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