The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-10-17
HOSPITAL
IS APPROVED
BY THE SOUTH DAKOTA M. E. CON.
FERENCE IN SESSION AT
YANkTON
TO Be IN CHARGE Of DIAGNOSES
Temporary Organization is Formed at
Meeting Monday Evening-Super-
~intendent Soon to Arrive.


What about the hospital? Any news
from Y%ankton? DO you think they'll
vote us down? These and similar
questions were anXiously current in
Brookings during the latter half Of last
week, while the question of a Deacon.
ess Hospital for this city was before
the annual conference. Hopes and
fears alternated as scraps OF informa-
ton came by post or telephone and 1t
became known that five other cities
were in competition and that some Of
the conference leaders favored a larger
institution, centrally located. The
mayor of the city and severa organi-
cations, including the State College,
sent dispatches to Bishop Luccock
urging the location of the hospital in
B~rookings, and the matter was made a
subject of special prayer 1T the night
ly prayer meetings held in the Method
list church.
Vote on the question at the confer
ence was not taken till Saturday and
the result was no generally known
here till Sunday morning when the
news that Brookings had won by more
than a two-thirds majority was herald
ed in the churches. Victory Is ours
and it now remains with Brookings in
cooperation with the de%aconesses, to
make Of this hospital an institution of
which the whole conference may be
proud.
Miss Alice NJ. Robertson, general
secretary Of the Methodist Deaconess
Association, who was present at the
annual conference and helped mag
nificently in presenting our institution
before the preachers, came to Brook
ings directly after the vote was taken,
arriving with DR.. Green Saturday
night. Miss Robertson spoke in the
Presbyterian church on Sunday morn
ing and in the Methodist church Sun
day evening. She is a speaker of
great vision and power and inspired
her hearers with a splendid address
on the duty Of Christianity to minister
to social needs, wherever they may be
found and the success Of the deacon
esses in dealing with social problems.
On Monday evening a number of
those interested in the local hospital
met with Miss Robertson and under
her advice and direction formed a
temporary organization. Prof. II. B.
Mathews was chosen chairman and
Fred w. Cuckow secretary. A com
mittee on permanent organization was
appointed, consisting of Miss Eleanor
S Moore, Walter Cheever and Fred W..
Cuckow. The committee on repairs
y. +. Hansen and DR.. l.. G. Borst. Com
mittee on finance, II. A. Larson, w. NJ.
Cheever, Mrs. w. II. Leighty, Fl. F.
ii%aroldsOn, r. f. Kerr, f.. c. Olson and
T. H.. Chappell. These committees
enter at one upon their work, the
finance committee taking up the work
Of finishing the subscription list which
still lacks eleven hundred dollars.
Miss Eleanor S. Moore a deaconess
Of ten years experience, for the past
six years assistant superintendent Of
the large Old Peoples Home under
~deacOness management in Chicago, has
been secured as superintendent of the
Deaconess Hospital and will be on the
ground within a short time, Miss
Winifred Crouch, for three years a
deaconess in this state, will do the
work OF field secretary for the new in
stitution, presenting the work in the
churches throughout the conference.
1t is planned to make somewhat ex-
tensive repairs and improvements dur.
ing the month of November, reopen
ing to patients, with full force of
workers and equipment, about Dec. 1.