The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-12-19
Community HOUSE
FOR ALL PURPOSES
Being CONSIDERED
Four Sites Optioned With a
Fifth Especially Adapted
Which 1t May Be Possible to
Secure.
SPEAKER FROM COLUMBUS
MAY COME FOR ADDRESS

SPEAKER FROM COLUMBUS
MAY COME FOR ADDRESS
The prospects being good for Me-
dina raising funds for the erection of
Community building, to embrace all
the newest features in community ac-
commodations, etc., among them an
auditorium, dance floor, basket ball
floor, amusement gym floor, stage for
amateur and professional theatricals,
swimming pool for men and second
for women, small gym or exercise
floors for each sex, Turkish baths,
shower baths, pool and billiard room,
with possibility of fencing off" small
gathering rooms for ladies club meet
ings, school club meetings, pastor or
Sunday school gatherings, and even
providing quarters, for mere pittance,
for the meetings of the young lads
or young lassies under conditions
warranting the best possible in
fuences, it's time to quicken thinking
apparatus Of Medina citizens so that
when the matter is presented to them
they may have their minds made up
to give and give literally.
There are likely to be two strings
to this giving campaign: /. Solicita-
tion for contributions to the under
taking. If not enough funds are
raised by this means second method
may be made imperative, as 2. The
sale Of guarantee bonds, which will
stand as lien on the structure un-
til such time as they are paid by
making second canvass for funds
with which to cancel them.
It may be possible-which those
interested in the movement hope will
prove true-to raise sufficient funds
to build as extensively as desired
without any further action. But if
this does not prove true the second
plan may become imperative. In any
event, if it is decided to go ahead and
build, plans should be worked out
that will be comprehensive enough to
meet all requirements, and then the
project be so financed that the people
Interested may be protected, the peo-
pie Of Medina given something for
their money, and if need be ask the
public ten years later to again con-
tribute that the structure shall be
from that time forth free from all in
cumbrance.
The project has been so far plan
ned that a committee with l., II. Ran
dali at it's head, has secured four sites
for the prospective Community
House. One is the property just
north of and abutting the property of
and station of the Southwestern Ry.,
on N. Court street. The second is
the corner location on E. Liberty
street abutting the County Jail prop
erty. A third is the vacant lot on w.
Washington street, on the south side
of the street and near the corner of
Elmwood. A fourth under considera-
tion is the lot on which the home of
DR.. Freeman is located at the south
east corner of the Court House
Square. This last site DR.. Freeman
would gladly sell to the city, but it
appears there is a prior claim, the
Doctor having given a promise of the
option to another in case he ever
made up his mind to sell. While the
Doctor would not divulge the name of
the man to whom this promise has
been given, from other sources the
man is known and certain of the COM
mittee feel that this man will, in
Difference to this project, release his
option in case it is finally decided to
make try for this site.
The E. Liberty and w. Washington
sites are finely located for conven-
ience for the Medina public. But for
civic pride and civic advertising it is
felt the DR.. Freeman site would prove
ideal. A handsome building thus To-
Gated would prove a big advertise
ment for the city. Every individual
who came to Medina would see it.,
comment on it's beauty, and go away
to advertise the city and the public
spirit of it's people. 1t is felt, too,
that enough pressure can be brought
to bear on the option holder to make
him understand that he cannot afford
to stand between the good of the city
and it's goal. Diplomatic yielding on
his part would mean a boost for the
man with the say so, and this can be
shown easily. But the time for that
is not yet.
Another meeting will be held to
further discuss this project very
shortly. 1t will likely be a meeting
of the comittee interested, then later,
when the project has progressed
further, a general meeting may be
called.
It is known that considerable
money will be required to build to
cover all requirements; and this is to
be building to meet all known re-
uuirements. Properly manipulated
the revenues should a little more
than care for the expenses and up
keep. And what a blessing it will
prove to Medina and the men and
women and boys and girls of the city.
One must think the project through
and through from end to end to fully
realize the good that this public in
stitution will do in the community.
Sunday school attendance should be
| increased at least 25 per cent, the
general health of the city should be
advanced from rs to 40 per cent; a
clean body has a much better chance
for housing a healthy soul than a