Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-14
WILL RAISE
$4,000 BUDGET
Intensive Campaign To Meet Cur
rent Wear Expenses WIN Be
Staged Thursday.
GROWTH DEMANDS FUNDS
Departments of Young Women's
Home Are Making Rapid Pro-
gress Along All Lines.

greSS Along All Lines.
Mrs. F. E. Marshall is chairman
of the committee in charge of rails
ing the $4,000 budget for the
Young Women's Christian associa-
ton, an intensive campaign in the
interest of which will be staged
Thursday in Rock Island. Plans
are receiving careful attention anu
the list of captains and solicitors
will be announced shortly. They
will meet for luncheon at 1915 at
the Rock Island club Wednesday.
Booths will be established in some
of the down town centers and a
personal canvass also will be made
Thursday.
A careful estimate of the budget
has axed the sum needed at $4,000
The national war work council is
spending an equal amount in en-
Iarging the local work. 1t is good
Fl business proposition when money
. IS brought from the outside for To-
caI deyelopme that the sum
+ should he OFFSET by subscriptions Of
Rock Island citizens for q like
amount. Rock Island knows this
and will not fail.
A splendid work has been accom-
plished by the local association, the
ideals of which are the sort that re-
construction days need. Now, more
than ever before, will Rock Island
citizens rally to its support.
The association has expanded
remarkably since its organization
IN 1917, and this growth has ne
cessitatsd more funds to carry on
the work which has so far been so
successful.
This year there are. to be more
improvements made. The activi-
ties will be carried on in the new
recreation building, and the cafe
terra and Offices are to be moved
to a new location. The present
building will be used only as a
dormitory.
The association was organized
Nov. q, 1917, at a mass meeting
held at the Methodist church, which
Davis, q national secretary from
Davis, a nationalsecretary from
New York. To Mrs. G. W. Foss is
given the honor OF having made
the motion to organize the associa-
ton. IN that same month the as
sociation had its beginning in three
rooms in the Central Trust build
ing. The activities soon spread to
all the available space-six rooms
of the fourth floor of that build
ing.
About one year ago the associa-
ton was privileged to move into
its own spIendidly remodeled
- @P
Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann COM
pany. Here are comfortable and
attractive rooms at minimum
price for girls who appreciate a
home OF the best type. Outdoor
summers night to the weary girls
summers night to the weary girls
of the work-a-day world. The
girls make constant use of the
conveniences Of a laundry, irons,
and q sewing machine.
One Of the girls in the dormitory
said recently: This Y. w. c. A. Is
the grandest place I ever lived in.
It makes me feel SO good to sit
down in the pariors when I come
in tired at night" Another girl
said. at like to come home at night
where people smile at you. and
talk nice" One young woman who
teaches on Big Island. gets her
own breakfast at $50, rides out to
Milan, and walks one and one-half
miles, In all kinds of weather, for
the privilege of living at the Y. W.
C. A.
TIE rooms for transients in the
dormitory have served a very great
need The house secretary, Mrs.
\. z Tucker. says that IS tran
sients have been taken care of the
past month. It means a great deal
20 a strange girl arriving in the
city to be housed in the right place.
A largely attended and very in
feresting bible class has been con-
Quoted for two years by Rev. J. c.
Granger. The Y. W. c. A quarters
were soon outgroYn, and the class
meets a. the Y. n. c. A.
Mrs. J. E. Condor has an en-
thusiastic class in advanced
French The class in dressmaking,
conducted by Miss Strate has prov
en- a pleasure combined with real
profit.
The girls will resume swimming
at Augustana pool. Tuesday, April
%. The expert instructions pro-
vided assures an even greater pop
ularfty for these classes.
Good Eats.
Mary people have learned that
they cannot buy 50 good meal in
town and at such reasonable rate.
as the Y. W. c. A cafeteria serves.
sHThe Kind OF pies my mother
makes" an apPreciative patron