Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-04
RURAL CLUB GIVES
IS To SANTA FUND
Flower Society Remembers Poor Chill
dren of City and Asks That
Money 60 to Them,
OTHER CONTRIBUTES DOLLAR
Good Fellows Asking fer Names Of
Tots to Whom They Wish 10
Play Patron Saint.

Interest in the work OF The Argus
Santa Claus fund is not confined to
the city alone The rural communi-
ties have taken up the cause and yes
terday there came to the committee SO.
contributed by the Flower society OF
Rural. an organization composed Of
women in the community who do for
those less fortunate than themselves.
Also during the day there came sew
eral checks for larger and smaller
sums. and included in the amount con
tributed was a dollar bill from man
who works as caretaker Of one Of the
public buildings Of the city. This man
has never failed in the six years of
the fund organization 10 contribute
his dollar toward the fund for poor
/ children.
I Good fellows are taking an active
Interest in the enterprise and already
/ number of applications have been
/ received by the committee asking for
o certain number of children to whom
they wish to play Santa Claus. These
names will be supplied just as sooR
as the committee has completed its
list when it viii be able to pick out
t these families which need the care es-
pecially Of good fellows. Good fell
lows must understand, though, that
( when they are supplied with the names
Of children, those names are taken from
the list Of the committee, and ii the
good fellow falls down in his Tespon~
sibility to them the children will go
! Christmasless. The only trouble the
committee has ever found in caring
for the children's Christmas is in this
very fact, that good fellows have neg
lected to carrying out their obligation,
or in the misunderstanding Of them
in the care of the children.
! Contributions Come to Fund.
Contributions come TO the fund with
each mail, but the sums are not large
and it takes many to make an amount
large enough 10 provide cheer for the
!many that must be looked after.
/ Christmas is fast approaching and the
/ committee must have more funds be
fore it can begin its purchase OF
! Christmas gifts for the poor children
of the city. Don't leave any children
in the city wake Christmas morning TO
find empty stockings. You were once
child and you know how for weeks
: you looked forward to the day Of days
and imagined that your stocking would
bulge with everything imaginable.
The children Of the poor want just
those things that you wanted when
Won were a child and they want them
Just as badly as did you. The Argus
is trying to fill those empty stockings
with good cheer.
It is really amusing the things that
/ the children ask for in their letters to
The Argus Santa, A letter that came
yesterday asks Santa TO bring q steam
shovel to d boy who says he is 6, an
other wants real automobile with a
crank attached and another pleads for
his teacher, whom he declares be
loves. Letters from the tots come with
every mail. each is filed and investi-
gated as 10 its merits before any help
is given the petitioner. The commit
tee has begun it's work in the interest
| Of the Christmas fund and the mem
bers are making a careful canvass Of
the entire city and the outlying dis
tricts. ascertaining the number OF chill
dren who are TO he taken care of
where they are located, what they most
desire, etc. The work is a big one
and takes weeks to accomplish.
Send your contributions TO The Ar
gus Santa Claus committee and don't
forget that Christmas is only 90 days
away