The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-15
for men and women to hesitate or re-

tients, but also of the place that the
institution is making for itself in the
community and conference. The field
secretary presented the work in thirty.
seven churches. The total of seventy
churches have sent donations of money
and supplies, The names of one hun
dred thirty individual subscribers ap-
pear on our books. secured largely
through the canvass made by Mr..
Bielski and through special efforts
made at the time of the opening, in
April. and at the Thanksgiving season.
The latter effort brought In more than
S4OO besides scattering more than g.
500 letters and the same number of
phamplets were put out from the office
during these two special attempts at
raising funds. Money for the first ad-
vertising was given by n of the mem
bers of the board of managers. Need
less to say the advertising has paid.
During the summer, two hundred let
tiers went TO Ladies Aids and Epworth
Leagues Of the conference, asking for
fruit and other supplies. Our fruit
and linen rooms show a liberal re-
Spouse. The Thanksgiving letters
were followed by postcards to Sunday
school superintendent asking for the
observance of the Giving Christmas
for the benefit of the hospital. These
gifts are still coming in. Only yester-
day we received from the superintend-
ent of Big Stone city 1884, the
schools White Gift to the King"
These are special efforts, but when
I tell you that the years bill for
stamps alone is more than n hun
dred dollars you can realize that there
has been day by day a great amount
Of desk work done to further the in
terests of the association. Through
the kindness of Miss Crouch l have
had the use of her typewriter, which
has lightened my labors.
We nave put tIS duNSl tloS'lthI VI
the hospital in the conference minutes
in the South Dakota Gazetteer, in
hotels, and have kept it somewhat be-
fore the people in the church and local
papers. Addresses were made at con-
ference, before the teachers assembled
here last spring, and also at the farm
ers institute. If our men influential in
civic life would bear in mind that the
hospital would always be helped by
being included in boosting for Brook
ings schemes it would be advantag-
eous. | looked in vain for the mention
of the hospital among the list of
Brookings improvements recently pub
lished in the city papers.
among the special gifts to the hos
pital this first year has been that of
the horse and buggy, the gift Of Mrs.
Ayers, of Sioux Falls. This has been
greatly appreciated by the family. The
gift of a surrey would give pleasure
to a greater number of our family and
would increase the usefulness of the
horse as we could put a new bed on
the running gear Of the old buggy and
have a light wagon to do much of our
hauling. Doubtless this will come in
time.
THE pledges to finish the purchase
of the piano, the half of which was
promised by the factory, are still I'M
met, but are being borne in mind by
First Church, ~Englewood. and First
Church, Evanston, Chicago.
Il would mention with gratitude Mrs.
G. F. Swift's gift of 81, 900 and her
pledge for the remaining cost of the
lots recently purchased. These lots
increase the size of the original
grounds four times and give ample
space for future growth. Smaller
gifts have come from other friends In
Illinois, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Iowa,
and Ohio.
Another means we have to establish
the work has been the interesting Of
the women of the churches. Deaconess
Aid committees have been appointed
in twenty-three churches throughout
the conference. 1t was considered adj
visable to leave the Brookings wo-
men free during the first year to meet
the pledges made by various societies
toward the purchase price. Effort is
now being made for their organization
and | am glad to report a sympathetic
and cordial response from many of the
women.
81 returned in the fall from my short
business trip to Chicago with the
thought that this organizing should
have immediate attention. The ILL
ness of the field secretary, the need to
prepare for and attend conference pre-
vented. No one regrets more than
your superintendent her inability to
be in two places at one time or the
impossibility to do several things at
n The social and personal touch
given have not been all that l have de-
sired but one unfailing requisite Of
success is the ability to choose the
vital duty each day. 1t did seem to
me that my duty was plain this year.
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