NOVEL WAY OF RAISING FUNDS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2376, 30 June 1892, Page 3

NOVEL WAY OF RAISING FUNDS.

A new mode of financiering lias been developed in a small city in the west, and we commend it to the consideration of the people in this part of the world, Otsego, Michigan, has a public library, and an association of ladies undertood to raise the funds for a new building and for the purchase of a stock of books ; but after exhausting all the ordinary means of money raising, they still found themselves dOOdol (80) short of the required amount. Two of the unmarried ladies of the ‘ Fair Forty,’ as the Ladies’ Library Association was called, were one day in the store kept by the husband of the president of the Association, lie suggested that they would hrve to raise the rest of the money by organising a kissing club, whereupon one of them asked how much he would give to the fund to every woiujm who kissed him, lie answered that he would give 2oc, whereupon the two fair ones fell upon Ids lips and collected Ado for the library, One after another of the Fair Forty visited him, and each collected 2oc and turned it over to the treasurer of the library. Then the proprietor of a factory offered oOc for every woman who would come over to his factory and kiss him. At once the femine tide set in his direction. The young men of the place aided in swelling the fund by the same means, and altogether more than half of the required amount was secured through kisses. Then other schemes were devised. One woman drove an omnibus for a day, another washed windows with a mop, two others went about with a hand organ, one playing while the other passed the cup ; one woman blacked boots on the public square, two went out peddling shoe strings, which they readily sold at a high price ; another carried a green banner on St. Patrick’s Day, and others did various things. Then they arranged to give a lecture in a public hall and tell their experiences, charging an admission fee of 2oc, with no free list for the Press. The hall was crowded, the library fund is now complete, and there is quite a handsome amount over and above the total sura required.'