The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-10-05
PLAN GENERAL
HOSPITAL FOR THE
WONDER CITY
Meeting Held Monday Night and Plans
Discussed for New Modern Nom
Sectarian Hospital for Minot.

At meeting of quite large num-
Der of prominent citizens of Minot at
the Commercial club rooms Monday
evening, plans were laid for Minot's
new General Hospital.
Halvor L. Halvorson was chairman
of the meeting and R. J. Piper Sec
retary.
Plans are under way to build the
first unit of hospital to cost quar-
ter of million dollars wher the en-
tire structure is completed. The pre-
liminary plans call for the first unit to
cost in the neighborhood of $4,000,
containing rs beds.
The chair appointed r. E. Barron,
l.. H. Kermott and Peter Fugelso as a
committee to select a temporary
board of eleven directors, which will
have charge of the preliminary work
of securing a charter and arranging
for constitution and bylaws.
The ministers of the various Minot
churches are to constitute an advisory
board and according to present plans,
stock in the concern is to be sold in
Minot and surrounding country. One
of the pleasing features of the plans
is to allow those who buy stock to use
it to pay hospital bills. This will en-
able many to take out stock as form
of insurance. The committee hopes
to be able to secure first class site
this fall and have plans for the first
unit prepared during the coming win
ter so that work can be started in the
spring.
Chairman Halvorson, who is an en-
thusiast, explained the benefits that
would accrue to the city as a whole
thru the erection of such hospital as
has been planned A good hospital is
q steady business getter and one of
the very best advertisements that
city can have. Minot loses a great
deal of money every year because we
do not have the proper hospital facil-
tiles, he said. He urged that a site
close in be secured. Visitors cannot
afford to pay bus fares and doctors
and surgeons will appreciate hospi-
! tai conveniently located The hospital
, should be non-sectarian, he said, with
all the Minot doctors represented on
the staff
Julius Fauchald is intensely inter-
ested in the plan and said he was will
ing to get behind it for all that he was
worth. He referred to the hospitals
OF the east, where rooms were fur
nished by the various fraterna1 and
church societies and believed that
much of this work would be done in
this way here.
The action Monday night was in
spired by the fact that the county
commissioners have advertised to sell
St. Joseph's hospital buildings, which
property is owned by the county. Dec.
4. The sale of this institution will
leave Ward county without adequate
hospital facilities.
! While the hospital association is not
being organized with view of max
ing anything out Of the investment, in
case that the proposition does make
money, it will pay a small percentage,
the balance to go into sinking fund.
In connection with the hospital
training school for nurses will be con-
nected.
The following is list of the direct
ors of the association who will serve
until their successors are elected and
qualified: Julius Fauchald, H. C. H.
Siege, Robert E. Barron, Paul V. Nc
Coy, Otto Ellison, E. A. Long, Peter
Ehr, E. S. Person, A. A. Robinson,
Erik Ramstad and Halvor L. Halvor-
! son.