Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-09

Rev. Karl Rest, pastor of the Ger
man Evangelical church, and John
Banzhaf. of this city, acting for peo-
pie interested in the project. contract
ed today for the purchase from c. II.
Conovcr and wife. Of the old Board
man homestead at the corner Of Third
avenue and Main streets, which is to
become the site CT new $4,000 hos
pitaI and deaconess home to be erected
and conducted by the people affiliated
with the German Evangelical and
Lutheran churches of Iowa.
Incorporation papers are being
drawn today for the Evangelical Dea-
coness' Society, the general object OF
which shall be Ito nurse the SICK
by theoretically and practically trained
christian nurses, to establish, founo.
maintain and support aeaconess
home and school and hospital where
persons of the female sex may be re-
ceived. maintained, supported. ana
educated and trained 70 ne nurses ana
helpers in all branches Of church work,
and where the sick may be admitted
and receive care and nursing, anu
from whence deaconesSes and nurses
may be sent out to do private nursing
under such circumstances for such
compensation and under such rules as
may be established by the bylaws"
Old House as Homo and School.
The plans are to use the old Board
man house for the home and school for
nurses. where Young women can De
trained both for nursing and social
settlement work. Then beginning on
the Third avenue frontage directly
south of the residence. magnificent
new hospital is to be erected extending
east and turning 70 the north around
the residence. with a frontage on Main
street. opposite the Pilgrim hotel.
Plan Of Financing Project.
Rev. Mr.. Rest said today that he
was backed by the people of his own
church in Marshalltown, who had
agreed to provide the site, which has
been purchased for $4,000. The ground
has dimensions of lS0x1SO. and the pur-
chase price includes the present resi-
Gence building. The people Of Mar
shalltown outside the church will then
be asked to raise $4,000. and friends
Of the project outside Of Marsha lltoWn
are expected to raise $4,000 more, as
this hospital located in Marshalltown
will be expected to serve the German
churches OF the entire eastern half OF
the state. or more.
For the present Rev. Karl Rest Is
to be president Of the society. and Paul
Fedderson. a retired merchant of
Gladbrook. vice president; Rev. ].
jain. of Newton. secretary. and John
Banzhaf. of this city, treasurer.
Have Many Fine Hospitals.
The German Americans of the
Evangelical and Lutheran churches
have some magnificent protestant hos
pitfalls in this country, the Evangeli-
cal DeaconcSs' mother house and hos
pital at St Louis representing an in
vestment of a quarter of a million or
better Besides this there arc big hos
pitfalls owned and conducted by the
people of these churches in Chicago,
Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Evansville,
Ind. The nearest one to MarshalltoW n
is at Faribault, Mimi, where 1000
building was only recently erected.
| Many Communities to Cooperate.
Cooperating in the erection Of a
deaconess' home or nurses school and
hospital at Marshalltown are the peo-
pie Of the churches in this part of the
state. particularly at Ackley, Alden,
Berlin, Buckeye. GAINESVILLE, Dysart,
Geneva, German township, Grundy
county; Gladbrook, Horn, Hubbard,
Latimer, Laurel. Manly, Schleswis, and
yinton, to all Of which Marshalltown
would would be easily accessible.
Hospital Will Be Modern.
The Evangelical Deaconess' Society
i is to include in it's membership, every
minister OF the German Evangelical
synod of North America. every mem