Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1913 — RENSSELAER GIRL BUILDING A HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER GIRL BUILDING A HOSPITAL

Miss Nettie Jordan is the Leading Spirit in the Modern Hospital Being Built at Aurora. A fine new hospital that will cost when completed and furnished $150,000, is being built at Aurora, 111., and the leading worker in securing the funds and in planning and erecting the building is Miss Nettie Jordan, daughter of Mrs. S. L. Jordan, of Barkley township. Miss Jordan has for several years been the superintendent of —the Aurora hospital and being a woman of modern thought and thoroughly alive to the hospital needs of the country she realized that the hospital was inadequate and did not conform to thb- proper modern ideals. She interested the organization and secured their approval of a new hospital and a good one. She secured the co-operation of the newspapers of Aurora and they helped her boost. She was the inspiration of the campaign and when the decks were cleared and a summary made it was found that $116,000 had been pledged. Miss Jordan was sent to the east to visit the best hospitals of the country and she helped the architect in the plans for the hospital and it is claimed that there will be no. hospital in the land of its size that will be as good. Later on more money will be required, but Miss Jordan confidently’says, “Oh, I will go out and get it; I know how to do it and I know that the people of Aurora need this hospital.” There are two other hospitals at Aurora but they will be small compared to this splendid new building. Miss Jordan came Wednesday to visit her mother and respond to a demand from the board of trustees of the hospital that she rest up for a time, as they feared she would break down under the weight of her work, but she insists that she can not remain away long and that she will return to her work In a week. Miss Jordan is an enthusiastis suffragette and holds that the standing of a nation must be as high as Its estimation of its women.

The three Columbus caravels, which went to Cleveland on their way from Chicago to the Panama exposition at San Francisco, left Cleveland Wednesday for Erie, Pa., after a delay of several weeks. The three reproductions of Columbus’ ,vessels, the Pinta, Nina, and Santa Marie, were towed by a tug.