Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1916-10-12
CAMPAIGN ON FOR
LARGER HOSPITAL
FORCES ORGANIZING FOR SYS-
TEMATIC EFFORT TO MEET
GREAT LOCAL NEED

Williston has excellent prospects
for securing modern hospital suit
able to meet its great and growing
need of such an institution.
Preliminary work is now being done
for short term campaign under the
leadership of an eminently success
full director Elizabeth Rudyerd Cur
rier, who recently completed q cam
paign for Marquette University, Mil
waukee, where she raised over
$50O,0O0. The publicity is in charge
Of Everett K. Currier, for many
years manager of The Publicity
Printing Department for the Ladies
Home Journal and the Saturday
Evening Post. Joseph w. Jackson,
President of the Williston Commercial
Club, has accepted the post of Chair
man of the campaign.
Offices have been opened at l3 I'd
Street West, first door west Of the
First National Bank, Telephone 3S.
Miss Constance S. Patton of New
York, who has been closely associated
with Mrs. Currier for years in her
fund raising work, is directing the
campaign prior to the arrival of Mr..
and Mrs. Currier.
A Case of Great Need
In speaking of the local situation
Miss Patton makes strong argu-
ment preliminary to the campaign.
give years ago there was opened
at the corner of 4th Street and 1st
Ave. West in Williston, a small hos
pital known as "Wittenberg Hospi-
tall" The building was a residence
house, not built for hospital purposes.
For this reason it was serviceable but
not up-to-date in every particular -
a modern hospital. However, the doc
tors and general public welcomed the
opening Of this hospital because it Of
fered the only place where patients
could be taken in aud given surgical
treatment and medical care.
During these five years the people
Of Williston and the surrounding dis
tricts have continuously benefited
from the Wittenberg Hospital. So
that now at the point where its use
fulness has crowded it 80 that suffer-
ers have actually to be turned away,
it comes to you, citizens of Williston
and surrounding towns, and asks you
to provide the funds for a new up-to-
date building with modern equipment;
a building which will be decoration
to your city, monument to your gen.
erosity and a blessing to suffering
humanity.
"Why should the people of Willis
apolis? Why should man, tortured
with pain, have to endure seven
hundred mile trip on jarring train?
Why should he take the risk Of de-
ferring an operation eighteen hours,
when often a wait of much fewer
hours than that spells death? Why?
When Williston has skilled surgeons
and public spirited citizens right here
at home? Ask yourself that question
and you will wonder why Williston
has not long ago had hospital on
a par with its imposing school, its
post Office, its Library, its Elks Home
and its Armory.
"A good hospital is blessing to it's
community. It is life saving insti-
tuition. Sooner or later it touches
every family. No home is exempt
from it's need at some time or other.
So that no individual can escape the
normal responsibility for it's support.
That you have no immediate need for
a hospital, that your wife and children
are blessed with abounding health
to-day, does not mean that they are
sure to be so fortunate tomorrow.
"The Wittenberg Hospital has
struggled bravely along doing the
best it could under conditions so far
from ideal that it has seemed almost
a miracle that the fine results have
been produced which stand to it's
credit. 1t has, up to the present time,
been directed by a board composed
of members of the Lutheran
Church although it has always open
ed it's doors to sufferers Of every
creed. The present Board of Direc-
tors, composed of L. C. Wingate,
Simon Westby, Rev. N. ]. Evensen,
Rev. C. Sumstad and Rev. A. Johan-
sen, in bringing the hospital before
the public at this time propose to en-
large the board to include representa-
tives Of other denominations, so max
ing the new hospital the natural pride
Of every citizen of Williston."