The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-05
u Good Fellows win En-
asavor to Make Everyone
Happy During the
Holidays.
n PROMINENT WOMEN
othing, Food and Other
Good Things Will be Dis
tributed to Poor and
Needy Of Keokuk.

TO all Good Fellows.
last Christmas and New Years,
and I went In for a good time and
Ient considerable moneyall we had
spend in fact. Last Christmas
orning scores OF children awoke to
empty stocking the bitter pain Of
appointment that Santa Claus had
rgotten them. Perhaps 1t wasn't
i fault. We had provided for our
n: we had also reflected in pass
way on those less fortunate than
\ own, but they seemed far off, and
didn't know where to find them.
erhaps in the hundred and one
ings We had to do some Of us did not
link OF the heart sorrow of the child
Ter the empty stocking.
Now old man, here's a chance. L
i've tried 1t for several years. Just
ate how many children you are will
K to protect against grief over that
hpty stocking and you will be furn-
he'd with the names, sex and ages OF
at many children. 1t is then Up to
bu to do the rest. Select your own
resent. spend fifty cents OR fifty dol
rs, and send or take your gifts to
ose children on Christmas eve.
pu spend not cent more than you
ant to pay every cent goes just
here you want 1t to go. Neither
hi nor / get anything ont of this ex-
Rpt the feeling that you have saved
pine child from sorrow on Christmas
orning. Ii that is not enough for
pu, then you have wasted time In
bading this-it is not intended for
pu but for the good fellows of this
"
Perhaps a twenty-five cent doll Or q
en cent toy wouldn't mean much to
e children you know, but to the child
Tho would find them in the otherwise
mpty stocking they mean much--the
Eference between utter disappoint,
lent and the joy that Santa Claus did
[Dt forget them. Here's where you
hd come in. The charitable organ
Fations attend to the bread and meat
be clothes and the necessaries. You
nd the rest OF the good fellows furn
d the toys, the nuts, the candles, the
,fldte vao1 Nh rtcf
GOOD FELLOW.
This in essence is the original Coco
fellows letter published in the Chi
ego Tribune four years ago, which in
Hated the movement now become
nown over all this country. In re
ponse to this single letter between
1000 and $4,000 children were made
appy on that first Christmas. TIL,
liter was reprinted each succeeding
ear and last Christmas 10000 volun
Der good fellows were in the street
18th bundles, December "a, and 5000
hildren had Christmas carried t
hem. Their example has been follow
in many smaller cities Throughout
be country. The growth of tn
Movement proves that the real spiri
4 Christmas lies here. Might no
his letter be addressed to the goo
blows of Keokuk? Are there n
hildren who may experience the dis
Prominent of an empty stocking
bove all are there no good fellows?
Out of the belief that there are
as grown an organization which ha
b to this time devoted itself to quie
Investigating the first of thes
uestions and finds that such Chi
rem are many.
1t now seeks an answer to the SET
nd question.
1t appeals to the good fellows
eokuk to carry the Christmas spir
every corner of this city. Follow
hg the plan begun in Chicago the a
pciation will furnish the names, Sc
ge and addresses of children abot
hom it is not well informed.
AS result of it's Investigations tn
ssociation has found, however, tn;
work must differ somewhat fro
bat Of other cities. Keokuk boasts a
associated charities organization. TT
ecessaries of life, while they al
ountifully distributed by vario'
odies and groups Of people at Chris
pas time, do not reach those who nee
penn continuously and systematicall
his Keokuk Good Fellows Assocl
lon hopes to be step in the rig
erection, central source of inform
ION and central point about whit
o-operation may be secured-sin'
nere are many to whom Christm
asket might bring lighter hearts al
ONE of the seasons good chez
nch center would insure again
hree baskets arriving at one do
md none at all at two others.
Next to the coming Of Christmas
ne children the associations large
ndertaking will be the distribution
othes. Many mothers are glad