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Show The Dousrhfooy Is Here! HOW 01 DISPLAY ilH SHOW ROOM OE "l-flW -vXJjtt, 1SEELY-HJNCKLEY GO. Our Statue. "Spirit of tht. Amor! can Doughboy" has arrived at last. It came Wednesday and has been taken to the Seeley-Hinckley Automobile Auto-mobile Company's show rooms where it now stands that all may see and admire it. Many questions have been asked regarding the statue ami we will give a brief outline of answers to them. Chief among these has been t'How high will it be?" and "Where will it be placed, etc.?" The completed com-pleted memorial will be fourteen feet high, the base will weigh approximately ap-proximately twenty tons, and will be .even feet high. The figure proper is also seven feet in height. th:s making a total of lourleen o . : a:l. It is to be creeled at the inte.-seci bin of Main and State streets. This Statue is marie by hand from the same metal as the. Stabile of Liberty which stands at Ihe entrance to New York harbor, and will endure ior all time. You must see it to apprerialp. its beauty and suliablit.y. We as citizens of Mount Pleasant may well be proud of this magnificent magnifi-cent memorial to our boys. There still remains the task of completing payment for the undertaking under-taking and as it is a Community project the balance, approximately $1,800.00 will be raised by popular subscription. The slogan adopted being "Guve Your Shaie." This means that those who are the most able to donate freely w ill he e.pee(e. lo do so. The popular objection "why, Hints all I do is to givfi for this or thai," is not going to hold .good in this case lor il is a clear" cut community enterprise and we will ali be i;Uid lo give what wc can afford. Indeed, a person will be regretful who does not donate his nine iu this good cause. Five pel feci twelve inch statues, cast ol the same metal and in exactly the same design, will be given away to the donors to the memorial eaud. Three of these are plain and two carry eb-ttiic lamps In their upraised bands making a very pretty table lamp. The e Utile statues of the American Doughboy can be seen in the east show window of the Progress Pro-gress Mercantile Company. They are valuable repllras of the big statue and a'e such that all would be proud to own one of them. They will bi' diBlribuled In the following manner: lo each donor a tb-kct will be f.nen for e.u h dollar h : rub-scribes; rub-scribes; Ihi-uu will be. numbered serially seri-ally from 1 to l.b'i'l. if you give $10 you w ill be given len m-Kcia. vi nen 11,000 has been raised a drawing will be held and the statues ami lamps awarded lo Ihe lucky donorn. II must not be understood as 1 a rattle or a game of chance, but. thuse premiums are at hand and It was decided to disposi. of thein in Ibis man m-r. Now then, the thing to do in first of ail lo see the b; siat'M- at Se.-ley-Ilinckley'H. N'M dei ide what you can afford to give, then when you ar(. called upon by n pre h 1 1 ves of the memorial (onimittee. smile and "give your share." I, EPS GO! Signed, MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. |