Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1913 — CHARITY BOARD ACTIVELY AT WORK [ARTICLE]

CHARITY BOARD ACTIVELY AT WORK

Discussed Hospital Project and Elected Mrs. A. P. Burton to Succeed Mrs. Roberts. The organized charities board of Rensselaer met Monday evening at the office of Mayor George F. Meyers and transacted some business, discussed the methods of raising funds, elected Mrs. A. P. Burton head of the relief committee, to succeed Mrs. C. A. Roberts, and determined on a plan to procure funds for the starting of a general hospital for Rensselaer. Mayor Meyers is president of the board and opened the meeting, and after the minutes were read by the secretary, Rex D. Warner, turned the meeting over to the vice president, Mrs. John I. Gwin, who has given much thought to the subject of organized charities and who is familiar with the local work, the mayor having been absent from the city for most of the past two months. The Rensselaer hospital is to be closed as a general hospital, so Dr. I. M. Washburn reported, and will be used only for emergency cases, and this fact led up to a plan by which the charity board hopes to procure aid for the building of an adequate hospital. Reports of committees were received and the treasurer’s report showed that most all moneys had been turned over to the fund, there remaining outstanding about $57, of which about S4O is in the ministers’ fund.