The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-05-30
Lakeland Churches Re-
spond Nobly to Ap-
peals for F und S t o
Provide Buildings and
an Endowment f o r
Southern College
Other Cities S h O w
Great Enthusiasm.

Returns are necessarily incomplete
in the great Christian Education
Movement drive which was begun
yesterday and will lie carried on with
vgor during the week, and complete
reports will not reach headquarters
for several days.
The quota in Florida is $774,500 and
the hope of the leaders have been to
make it a round million in the state
for Southern College. Ninety per cent
OF tire entire quota raised in Florida
viii go to the college to be located in
this city, and all in excess of the
quota also goes direct ito the college.
Dr. w. G. Lemasters, financial di-
rector OF the movement for the Flor
IDA Conference. and DR.. S. W. Lawler,
Conference Secretary of Education,
were in their offices i'll the Advocate
building all yesterday afternoon, and
Mr. NJ G. Waring, district director,
was also keeping open house receiv-
ing reports from the Barlow district.
The first report received was from
First church. Lakeland, announcing
that the quota of SIT 900 had been ex
ceeded by $50 and the eight teams
were still securing tho territory in
pushing the battle for pledges.
Then came Myrtle, Street, the.
church On the north side OF town,
with its quota of $500 pledged and a
surplus of 1926, followed by Dixie
land. our church on the southside OF
town, $4,000, with quota .Qf, $500.
The news came early in the after
noon that First church, Jacksonville,
had raised over SIT 1000, Witch. was
later increased to $4,000, and. still
going, and later message came stat
ing that the Jacksonville district, had
exceeded its quota, raising s94lething
like $4,000. 19!l. .sssl
Presiding Elder BlaRhbiirn was at
headquarters during aher afternoon,
GnXiously watching fef7reports from
the Rartow district iaAt 19 o'ciock
last night reports had- been received
from about half of the: charges of the
district. Including the special gifts
already announced in the papers the
Barlow district has swept away over
its quota, and ii is expected that when
the returns are all in the quota OF
the district will have been raised ex-
elusive OF the big donations of L. n.
Pipkin, H. B. Carter and others.
Points in the Barlow district re-
porting last night included Fort
Myers, $500; Eagle Lake, $500;
Homeland, $4,000; Punta Gorda, $S-
$50; Zolfo. $4,943; Fort Meade, $6.-
, 942; Barlow, $9,449; Arcadia, $S,1S0;
Wauchula, $2905; LaBelle,i i $3.50;
Fort Green, $672.
Information coming from other
places shows that Plant City has
raised $500; Winter Haven, $1,6S5;'
Okeechobee City, $4,000; Gainesville,
$19.50O; High Springs, $500; River
side church. Miami, $3.50.
The Tampa district reported over
$3S,000 Ocala district, two charges,
$l7,626 Tallahassee and Madison in
Tallahassee district. $12,99S;f Largo
reported over the top in 30 minutes
and still going.
Director Mercer from the Mimai
district announces that district will
go % Per cent over its quota.
y. About $350000, or nearly fifty per
cent of Florida quota has been al.
ready reported, and reports still COM
ing in today.
The financial campaign will be
waged all the present week, the clos
ing day of the drive being next Sun
day, which will be known through
cut the Southern Methodist church as
Victory Day.
Dixieland, our little church on the
southside of the city. so far leads the
entire district and the conference in
the excess over its quota. Over 200
per cent and still going.
Tampa Past Hallway Mark
Tampa, May 30-The first day of
the drive by the Tampa churches in
the interest of the Methodist educa-
tional movement brought in more
than half of the quota for this dis
trict, with but eleven of the sixteen
churches heard from. Up to yester.
day evening the total subscribed was
$4S,535, according to F. M. Foulks
chairman for the Tampa district. The
quota for the district is about $94 900
In making up his report yesterday
afternoon, Mr.. Foulks had the follow
! ing figures available. First Methodist
church, $13,513; Hyde Park Methodist
church. $4,000; Tampa Heighths
Methodist church, $7,640; Nebraskf
Avenue Methodist church, $2,408;
Highland Avenue Methodist church
$4,000; Sarasota Methodist church
s1.72s; Edgewood Methodist church
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