Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-12
OPENING GUNS
Two Big Demonstra-
tons to Occur Friday
Prosperity Parade in Afternoon and
Dinner at Augusta House at p. M.
k to Launch $4,000 Hospital Drive
Theatres Aid in Preparing Public for
Campaign

Two big demonstrations will occur to-
day as opening guns Of The General hos
pitfalls $4,000 building and equipment fund
campaign. The Prosperity Parade Will be
watched by throngs along the linz Of
march in the afternoon and the $50 men
aid women workers in the movement will
assemble at P. n. in the Augusta House
for the opening business dinner Of the
campaign.
Team captains have ISSUED a call to
arms to the members of their units to ar
rive shortly before O'Clock in the lobby
of the hotel. The team leaders and
workers will choose at the dinner the
names of the prospective givers TO the
fund to whom they will present the in
stitution's appeal.
eighty Thousand Dollars in One
Week" is the battle cry that will be
sounded at the dinner, and it will re-echo
the expression of public determination,
given IN the afternoon by the civic pa
rade, to equip the city with an adequate
, hospital.
Every worker in the campaign from the
executive chairman throughout the ranks
to the last worker on the volunteer corps
roster which includes the county's men
and women who foster civic welfare
work, is expected to be in the parade.
These volunteers afterward will gather
at the dinner, where Governor Carl E.
Milliken and the Rev. Henry f. Dunnack
will sound the keynote of the campaign,
which promises to be one of the most
memorable community undertakings in
the county's history. Hon. George E.
Macomber, executive chairman, will pre-
side. A score Of Augustus leading citi-
zens who are interested in the hospitals
welfare will sit with the executive com
mittee as special guests.
Everything is in readiness for the or
gained appeal to the public to provide
the funds and equip the addition which
will shelter Kennebec county soldiers and
sailors, wounded abroad as well as meet
ing the communty's growing hospital
needs.
The executive committee is unanimous
in fci ecasting flood OF subscriptions
from the residents that viii Guido tine
splendid response to the Red Cross cam
paign which was 50 per cent. over-sub-
scribed
The leading business ali professional
men who have organized the hospital
fund-seeking corps regard the Red Cross
campaign as striking evidence Of what
Augusta and Kennebec county can accom-
plish by concerted action. The hospitals
appeal they assert, has in many aspects
a stronger urge than any similar fund
raising effort ever launched here, chiefly
because the hospital for two decades has
given valuable service to the community.
treating hundreds Of PERSONS free OF
charge, without ever making a general
appeal for funds,
The big campaignOcloek. which W II EEL
the progress of the movement to raise
the building and equipment fund, was
placed yesterday on the balcony IF tho
Opera house In spite of the rain the q a.
attracted much attention from passersbY.
as did the long banner suspended from
the Augusta Trust building and thu Alec
Building.
Members Of the campaign committee
Yesterday expressed the opinion that there
is hardly a person In Augusta who do-s
not know that the raising of the instlfu-
tion's much needed fund will engage the
activities of many Of the community )
public spirited men and women begi l.
ming today and continuing next week.
eighty Thousand Dollar Week" is the
way business men. shoppers. professional
men, merchants and others are referring
70 the coming week which IS to be ded-
icated to the undertaking to put the hos
nital In a position to meet the calls made
on It.