The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-10-13
GOOD FELLOWS
TO SELL CLOTHES
Announced That Sale for This Year
VIII be Opened on October
II In Library
Building.
USE LAST YEARS PLAN
Any One Having Clothes Which Can
Be Given to the Sale Are
Asked to do so Imme-
dlately.

announcement of the reopening of
the Good Fellows sale of clothes has
been awaited eagerly by quite num-
per OF people in this city who found 1t
useful to them last year. The Good
Fellows believe that through this sale
OF clothes many people are able to
buy what they need to keep their
children In school-and that 1t is a
valuable means of bringing the supply
of surplus clothing into direct CON
tact with the greatest demand.
The Good Fellows have been given
the use of one of the rooms in the
library building where their Xmas
sale was held last year for this pur-
pose.
They will hold sale once a week,
on Friday afternoons from 2:3O until
. o'clock. beginning October IL.
Any housewives having clothes that
they wish to dispose Of most usefully,
may send them, If they will, to the
library building and leave them with
the janftor at any time before noon.
| II they are unable to deliver them,
They may communicate with Miss
Dora Younker or Miss Meigs, and
they will be collected as soon as pos.
sible. All wearable clothing or that
containing good material that could
/ be made over into children's dresses
and all pieces of material that could
be used. will be very gratefully re
| ceived.
In making this announcement the
Good Fellows wish to enunciate clear
| " their principle in regard to this
sale as well as in everything they do
Their reason for existence is to EN-
body the strong healthy spirit O
good will in the hearts Of Keokuk PEG
lple toward their fellow citizens wht
are encountering Universities o
one kind or another, who are maxine
honest effort to do mems and won
ems work in the world and to whom
a bit of help and encouragement II
time of need is an incentive to great
er efforts until their need is past
The Good Fellows are giving tim,
from their own duties to this worl
because they believe deeply In tn,
power of friendship and kindness t,
those who are struggling agains
ILLNESS, and misfortune and who fin,
lit hard to provide for large families
They are absolutely not in sympath.
4 in any form with those people VIII,
find life hard for the reason that hon
lest work is distasteful-and no sucl
person need apply to them for aid
while at the same time no hard work
ing person need apply to them in vair
Cards of admission will be issue
to this sale of clothes and can be oil
tanned from Miss Meigs or Mis-
Younker. People must come to tn
sale with definite needs to be SUI
piled. Never for the sake of pickin
UP clothing because 1t is cheap, to b
sold again at higher price 1t is tn
intention of the Good Fellows tina
every garment shall go where it |
most needed.
Application may be made for admis
sion cards to Miss Younker, who ha
charge Of the sale-on the day Of sal
and they will be issued to ther
enc week later at the next day Of sal'
The Good Fellows undertake thi
with a large hearted desire to hel
those who help themselves, and the
ask that those who which to take al
vantage of their offer will do so j
the spirit in which 1t is offered.