Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1916 — ALBAN COEN’S PLANS FOR HOSPITAL ACCEPTED [ARTICLE]

ALBAN COEN’S PLANS FOR HOSPITAL ACCEPTED

Contract WiU Soon Be Let and Building Will Start In Early Spring— Is Badly Needed. Alban Wasson Coen, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Coen and a former Rensselaer youth, was here Sunday conferring with the Jasper county hospital board about the plans for the .new hospital. He brought with him an architect’s drawing of the hospital, which was supplementary to plans he had previously submitted and which the board had approved in general respects. It was decided at a meeting with Mr. Coen to accept his plans and to authorize him to proceed with the .preparation of complete specifications and this will be done and as soon as completed the advertising will be done for the letting of the contract. The building will start in the spring just as early as the weather is suitable and will be rushed to completion. The Republican has sent the drawing of Mr. Coen to an engraver and within a few days will be able to present a picture of the building as it will look when completed. The need of the hospital is more apparent than ever before, for during the past few weeks there have been a great many persons taken from this county to the hospital for emergency operations, all of which might have been performed here if the hospital had been in operation. As previously stated no physician is allowed to be on the board of trustees, the managers always being representative citizens who will avoid any possiple scheme of favoritism. The present board is composed of J, D. Allman, L. H. Hamilton, E. P. Honan, C. H. Peck and F. E. Lewis.