Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1905 — MILLION FOR A COLLEGE [ARTICLE]

MILLION FOR A COLLEGE

Illinois Man Offi-rs That Much if Its Friends Will Raise *BO,OOO Additional. Martinsville, hid., Sept. 29.—At the session of the Indiana synod of the Cumberlaud Presbyterian church It was announced that SIOO,OOO necessary to secure a gift of $900,000 offered by James Milliken, of Decatur, 111., for the university at that place bearing bis name, would lie raised, and that Mlllikiui had offered a million dollars more to the university provided S3O,<KM» additional was raised by 1908. It was stated tliat this money would be secured. Dr. W. J. Darby, of Evansville. Ind., was re-elected a trustee of the university.