Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-24
MEETING FULL
OF ENTHUSIASM
Jollification Gathering 81.
Subscribers to Hotel
Stock Is Lively
LARGE SUM RAISED
DURING EVENING,
Nearly $4,000 Increase Ii
Made BY Conditional
Subscriptions

II there was ever any belief that Oh
tumwans once aroused could baS
tnwarted from their purpose. thah&
Time has passed If the spirit that nrnsss
vailed at the hotel jollification me- etin M
IN the Commercial association room Ss
tuesday night Is criterion. Ther1
may have in times past been AZ an.9
lhuslastio and lively meetings held iras
ottumwa. but never one that surpa ssa.si
III real Ottumwa boost spirit and th@t
VIII to 90 ahead, that featured Tue9.i
days gathering.
1t was a crowded room in which there
was not one who was not keyed tp to N
pitch tnat would make one throw OF
MS coat and enter any movement rs
advance Ottumwa under the most try.
,hs OF conditions. II VIII" was the
keynote and this was sounded BY most
OF the speakers and they were numerss
Gus. These men held to the theofv
tnat It Is not what Ottumwa can do.
Dut what 1t will do and this spirit cui.S
minated In the determination to mako I
Two days campaign and even close
IN one day If possible. to raise the
amount OF additional hotel stock to
complete @16O,O0O for the project. Nose
OF the speakers favored even going Be-
yond this and the notion that $780, !;
ooo can be raised by the doubling ofl
subscriptions after $150,00O has been {
raised, was very popular and may 10
attempted. S
Words Garry Dollars.
A larger meeting has never been
heid In the Commercial association 4
rooms and nearly every man there waa
an orator for the time being. The Il
satnerlng assumed the air OF an old
tlme testimony meeting for every one q
cailed upon for remarks had his con-
trlDut1on OF words to give the Gauss
ana some of these words were silver
or gold lined for not few OF them
nnished the sentence, you might just
as Well count me In for another h,lri-
dred," or you may double my sub
scrlptlon, for this Is not donation
but what ! consider good investment
II 1t was donation | would not 20 so
strong"
Plan to Raise $4,000.
Few talks like that called forth more
OF the same kind and toward the close
OF the meeting proposition made fyis
one OF the city's active workers that &
he would be one of twenty men to take
fve shares of stock, resulted within
nve minutes in eight men joining him. II
Aside from this there were five onea
share subscriptions taken, most Of
them conditioned on $150,O0O being
raised.
In checking over the returns of the
various committees 1t was reported by
the chairman that few errors tho
duplication OF subscribers names onl
the secretary's list while he was alb Il
sent from the office during the canvass
showed about $4,000 more than was
really subscribed. The corrected list
at the opening of the meeting Tues
day night was $134,SOO instead OF $137..!
200 With the conditional smaller ailb.i
scriptions taken by the close Of tl1eI
meeting tho list grew to $135,3OO and
including the nine $500 subscriptions
upon twenty men taking
five shares each, the list was increased,
10 $139,SO0 b
Committees Out Again.
To demonstrate the feeling manifest
1t the meeting Tuesday, no less than
men volunteered to give
,wo days If necessary to get the other!
eleven five-share subscriptions to COM
olete the twenty needed, and to get
n as many others as necessary to COM
olete the $15O,00O desired All OF
hese volunteers are working today
With the intention to close the CANE
oaign In one day If possible.
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