Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-02
TAKE UP CANVASS
To SECURE Funds
Task of Raising 100000 %,
Augustana Hospital Be.
gins This Week.
WILL BUILD IN MOLINE
New Lutheran Institution to Be Er.-
ed Near Rock Island Boundary
Lire Is Plan.

The last big task of the Campaign i.
raise fund of 100000 for the buiId
ing of Lutheran hospital within tie
Rock Island district of the Augus,ar,
synod begins this week When tn.
! plans for such an institution were FRS,
preached the city of Moline took tims
| by the forelock and raised a voluntarv
Subscription of $4,000 with which
site for the hospital was purchase
and presented to the board of diree.
tors.
The citizens of Moline, realizing thu,
the hospital was not intended to servs
the interests of that city alone. wers
anxious to have the institution placed
as near to the Rock Island boundarv
as possible A five-acre tract on Fiftn
avenue and Fourth street was there,
fore purchased for the site This ID
cation is admitted to be the mos, A.
tractive as well as perhaps the NOS
suitable in the two cities. The brs.
pitaI will then be entrally located to
serve the twin-cities as welt as the e.
tire district, which includes all of Rock
Island county, parts of Henry and We,
Ger counties, and Scott and Muscst5rs
counties in Iowa
Will Canvass District.
Prof. Jules Mauritzson of Augustzn,
Moline will have charge of the ez,-
vass in the country congregations and
in the smaller towns of the district.
The canvass in Rock Island will Be
handled by Peter Benzon, L. E. Jones
and Andrew Kempe. The work Efn
be taken up simultaneously Throughout
the entire district. and it is expected
that the whole task will be finished
within the next two months so that
the actual work of construction on the
new building may begin in the latter
part of the summer Plans for the hos
pital and the home for nurses are now
being drawn by Architect Olaf z. Ger
vim.
The building of this hospital U'ill be
he realization of a long cherished
1ream of Dr. o. OLSON, late presidenf
If Augustana college. He, together
With members of the district. felt that
iition to the college and publishing
house already located here. He pre-
iented a resolution for the considers
ion of such project to a meeting OF
he Illinois conference in the sos. A
committee was appointed which took
he matter under consideration, with
he ultimate result that a hospital was
by the conference, but ow-
ng to the greater needs of Chicago 1t
vas deemed best 10 build it there.
Augustana hospital of Chicago, the
ruit of that earlier movement, is
-ow an institution known far and
vide for its excellent work. and the
lutheran hospital of the Rock Island
istrict is going to be a worthy sue.
essor in the local field.
Cause is Worthy.
The cause is a worthy one and the
olicitors look for a generous response i
} their efforts. 1t is hoped that Rock
5land may do at least as well as Mo- l
ne did in it's preliminary subscription
loline has continued the subscription
ork and has already added some s4-
DO additional toward the building
md. Though Moline already has tyo
ospitals, it feels the need of add
onal facilities on account of its ex-
ansion in the manufacturing field.
nd Rock Island, growing rapidly as
center, is also sorelF
need of another institution where
lie sick and injured may find treat'
ent and care. II
Mrs. Rachl F. Avery and her daugh-
r Julia. both students at the Unlyer~ i