Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-14
PICK DEhkMANN
PRESIDENT FOR
0NE-FUND BODY
Chairman of Beard of Trustees Of
Patriots Budget and Officers
Selected.
EVENING CANVASS TO 60 ON
Expect Minimum Goal of S1S5.000 to
Be Reached Within Short
Time Under New Plan.

Plans which are being drafted by
the Patriots fund committee would
indicate that the campaign shortly
will be brought to a close and that
the s1s5,O 900 which is being sought
after will have been secured.
From the survey which has al
ready been made the indications are
that there are fully three thousand
people vet to interview, people who
are financially able to subscribe
and would in all probability have
done so had they been seen. A care
full re-listing is being made and
within a few days committees will
be organized which will be asked TO
go out and visit the prospects.
working evenings from $50 until
30 This. it is believed. will re-
suit in Obtaining the goal which
the COMMITTEES have worked so hard.
The board of trustees met at the
Rock Island club yesterday after
noon and organized. Officers were
elected and bylaws were adopted.
The official name of the Organiza-
ton was passed upon as being
It
C Denkmann as chairman. Charles
MacGowan as vice chairman,iM NJ. S.
Heagy as treasurer, and F. w. Ben
der as secretary.
NJ. S. Heagy and Secretary Ben
der were appointed as a committee
to consider the matter of a perma-
nent headquarters and devise ways
and means for handling the affairs
of the fund.
The plans call for making the
Patriots fund a business institution
by having a permanent headquar-
ters and having a competent eXecu-
tive in charge who will be charged
with the responsibility for making
collections and attending to the
general business affairs of the
fund. ANY employees that may be
needed in the operation of the fund
will be bonded. as will be the treas
urer and executive in charge. 1t
is evident that every possible
means will be taken in the inter
est of safeguarding the money COL
lected in behalf of the fund.
The Bylaws.
The following is copy of the
bylaws adopted by the board of
trustees:
Bylaws of the Patriots Fund
committee of Rock Island. Ill
Article 1.-The name of this or
ganization shall be The Patriots
Fund committee
Article Membership. ANY in
dividual in the city of Rock Island
is eligible to membership and shall
! be constituted member upon sub
scribing either in cash or by
pledge to the Patriots fund, de-
signed in behalf of the support of
local and national war charities.
Article administrators The
affairs of the Patriots Fund COM
! mittee shall be placed in the hands
! of a board of trustees of seven
members who shall be responsible
ard accountable to the membership
! for proper administration of its af-
fairs and the distribution and dis
/ bursement of all moneys collected
| by the committee or through its
! Office representative The board of
! trustees as elected by the citizens
! committee are as follows: F. c.
| Denkmann, manufacturer; Mrs.
| Frank Mixter. women's organiza-
| tons: Charles MacGowan. Tri-City
| Federation of Labor; NJ. s Heagy.
| Central Trust & Savings bank; H.
| A. Clevenstine. merchant; c. j.
| T.arkin. contracting and building:
/ f. E. Curtis. attorney, and shall
/ hold office throughout the period
! Of the war unless provided for at
. the first annual meeting of the
members of the Patriots Fund