Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-21
PUBLIC WILL BUY
CHARITIES HOME
Hoped to Gather the Needed
Funds in a One-Day Can
vass of the City.
SOLICITORS ARE NAMED
Each Subscriber to the Cause Will
Be Enrolled and Be Known as
Builder Of the House.

The board or control or the ASSocla-
ted Charities having been notified that
unless the building known as the Asso-
citation house was bought by the asso-
citation it would have to be vacated, a
plan has been proposed and adopted
having in view the requirement of the
property. The committee appointed
Mrs. w. H. Gest, Mary L. Carter. Grace
Wheelan, E. L. Taylor, and Clara B.
Hompton-has completed plans for
canvass of the city to be made next
Friday, to secure funds to purchase
the building at 637 Seventeenth street.
To insure the people they are being So
licited by the proper party. all workers
will be invested with a badge and re-
ceipt book Any amount, no matter
how small, will be receipted for. All
contributors will be listed on an
| honor rolf to be kept on record as
the builders" of one of the city's most
necessary establishments, which will
provide a place for the many different
emergency and other cases coming up
before the charity board, police matron,
visiting nurse, and humane society.
INTERESTING CASES.
A great number Of interesting cases
could be cited to put before the public
the real necessity for such an institu-
ton, and very few, except those per-
| sonally interested, have any concep-
ton of the good accomplished every
day. The home is not the harbor for
families of drunken men. as many
think, but place to care for hayward
and runaway girls, old women, and
others needing protection; for children
whose parents and only support may
| lie i'll; children cared for while the
mother earns a living by the day, and
children that cannot be taken into
other institutions. Before the Associa-
| ton house was established many re-
| quests were received for such accom-
modatiOns by women seeking employ
ment One of the main objects of the
home is to provide a place for girls
without homes and immediate employ
ment, giving them the protection of a
real home.
The board of charities and commit
tee hope the general PUBLIC will be as
| generous as possible, and any amount
NAMES OF WORKERS.
Those who are workers and assist
| ing are as follows: Rev. G.. H Sher-
wood, DR.. ]. DeSilva H S. Cable, w. M.
| Stewart, E. B. McKown, DR.. j w Stewart,
A. Mosenfelder, Eugene Ramser, F. J.
Young, w H. Gest, Jr., w. H. Reck,
Hope Thompson, Mr.. Frewert, w. H.
Parks, Mrs Tittefington, Mrs. o. M
Myers, Mrs. Martin Reidy, Mrs. Dorm,
Mrs. o. F. Tremann, Mrs. Darling, Mrs.
Tuckis, Mrs. Will Pratt, Mrs. Rochow,
Mrs. Hasselquist, Mrs. L. Koch, Mrs.
Math, Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Bergesten.
Mrs Godfrey, Mrs. Stamm, Mrs BEEN
er, Mrs. c. Nelson, Mrs. Valentine,
Mrs. ]. Maslin, Mrs. L. Cook, Mrs. S.
Swisher, Mrs. R. Summers, Mrs B.
Jones, Mrs. A. H. Wood, Mrs. Clapper,
Mrs. Renner, Mrs. E. l.. Taylor, Mrs.
Sperbeck, Mrs. Crissman, Mrs. Arnold,
Mrs. Kolls, Mrs. Hastings, Mary L.
Carter Katharine Gest, Harriet John
son, Ella Mitchell, Grace Schreiner,
Nellie Carpenter, B. Grace Wood, Ger
trude Schmidt, Blanche Canty, Edna
Carl, Rilla Frazer, Madge Stewart
Grace O'Neal, Gertrude Volk, Julia
Eckhart, Irene Don, Sarah Richardson,
Florence Bailey, Cora Gaetjer. Ruth
Koenig, Edna Lundberg, Mary Long,
Sarah Olson, Miss Muse, Miss Burns,
Mollie Peterson, Lydia Hult, Ellen Ro-
sencrantz, Mabel Leaf Martha Acker-
lind, Miss Cronholm, Orna Heuck, Ce-
Gle Williams, Florence Long, Helen
Luphert, Katharine Robb, Meueril
Lewis, Mabel Finlay, Nellie Brein