South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-22
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DEAR TRADE, $264.s5 is STILL NEEDED TO MAKE THE
TOWERS CHRISTMAS FUND 81, 500 AND A COMPLETE
RIP-ROARINC SUCCESS-SO "SAY 1T WITH A CHECK"
JACK SANDERS.
Manager OF the HollinF worth Tur.
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ncr lice Cream Company.
Once upon a time. there was
/ little boy, who got immensely
wealthy selling Saturday Evening
Posts. He must have been worth as
much as seven or eight dollars. when
| he heard about The Towers Christ
1 mas fund for the approximately $50
poor folks down to Ray Birds Res
/ cue mossion.
! Instead OF saying. ooh well. these
! poor folks hain't none or my look
/ out. Let George do it, - ne dug
/ down into his sock and produced a
/ dollar, with Instructions 10 his
! mamma 10 send it to he Tower.
That kind OF donations is the
kind that makes the particular big
I hit with US in this raising Of funds
\ TO give a decent Christmas celebra-
ton 10 the poor devils at the mis-
sion. Like Brother Brooks. the un-
I fortunate consumptive wounded sol
/ der at Healthwin hospital, who sent
So, there's something real about this
! kind of charity
The little Saturday Evening Post
I magnate happens to be our nephew,
/ which pleases us all the more
/ That's the reason we have placed
/ his name today at the head OF the
/ honor roll. We can't figure out
| where the little fellow developed his
| habit of giving. unless possibly he
/ caught in from his uncle
About the only thing we ever gave
away was an overcoat We gave once
TO a poor fellow, who looked as if
he sorely needed it. We never
| learned whose overcoat il was.
Guess everybody knows what The
Tower Of Babers Christmas fund is
all about by this time. To those.
who are next, we can simply say that
exactly $26495 is still needed to
make a total of 50. 800, which will
be devoted on Saturday afternoon
and night TO making upwards Of $50
people happy -- many Of them-for
the first time in their lives Satur-
day afternoon 500 poor kidlets viii
be entertained with a turkey dinner
as the guests of the members of the
board Of directors &C the City Rescue
mission. The directors Will serve the
dinner themselves and have appro-
priated $500 To be added 10 The
Tower fund for the purpose OF
throwing this banquet. With the
balance of The Tower fund, every
one of these 500 children will be
Eovided with presents. warm
clothes and other things they need.
In addition TO this, The Tower
fund Will be used to provide the
parents Of these kids and the very
small children with clothing and
other things they need to make this
| Christmas a perfect one. The cele-
bratiOn for the adults and the small
children Will be staged at the rescue
mission home on East Jefferson
boulevard Saturday night, Christmas
eve
All in all. it's quite a stunt, don't
you think? Show what you think
of it by writing that check today
Mail it to The Tower. care of The
News-Times. and Wen guarantee
youu really enjoy Christmas this
year for your kind act.
John Chess Ellsworth. in sendins
in his contribution. slings the French
and the North American languages
around as follows:
Strongarm Birday. ct Gle,
Enclosed find check am
pleased to see how the Strong
arm Steph puts that Bird into po-
sition to radiate Rays of sunshine
into the lives of the children. As
the years go by, may your powers
increase. Wishyou Happy
Christmas. Sincerely yours.
J. c. E.
And J. C. f. follows up his letter
with a Christmas box Of cigars. 1.
we don't burn up Christmas trying
to smoke the box up in one day We
expect to have very happy Christ
mas Thanks J. c.
Bill Nichols in mis- letter remind.
US a little of the Well known Ulinoi!
poet. the Burke Brothers:
Dear Bill
This check enclosed
I hope it goes
To some pore little kid
With no sox on his toes
Hos at BILL.
So
BILL NICHOLS.
That's all the letters we got room
for today, Customers. so that you'll
have to imagine the rest OF them.