Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, March 13, 1924, p. 1. OVER HALF MILLION DOLLARS SUBSCRIBED BY BUSINESS MEN TO GUARANTEE WATER WORKS 5,000 Citizens To Attend Mass Meeting Next Monday Morning. The big question is at last settled! Bloomington is to have an adequate water supply! At a preliminary citizens' meeting at the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon, to arrange for the mammoth mass meeting to be held next Monday morning, over a half a million dollars were subscribed by citizens to guarantee the contract for building the water works at Griffy Creek at once. Pledges of $50,000 in cash were also made to the contractors to enable them to order the structural steel at once so that work will not be delayed. Arrangements were also made to offer the appraised price of the land at once, so that if the offer is refused the land can be at once condemned and save delay. Roy Pike, the chairman of the meeting, appointed the following program committee to arrange for the meeting to be held at the south entrance of the court house next Monday morning at 10 o'clock: Dr. B. D. Myers, Dr. Frank Holland, Oscar Cravens, Henry Beard, Henry Jones, James Turpin, Alonzo Miller, Edw. Fletcher. Union labor men have indorsed the Griffy Creek site. Subscriptions to guarantee the success of the construction of the new water works were made by the following citizens and many more citizens will sign the guarantee when presented to them: Shower Bros., Co., $100,000; Citizens Loan and Trust Co., $50,000; Roy O. Pike, $10,000; Graham Motor Co., $10,000; Oscar Cravens, $10,000; First National Bank, $50,000; W. L. Bryan, $10,000; Harry Johnson, $10,000; Charley Sears, $10,000; D. A. Rothrock, $10,000. And the following citizens $5,000 each: Hays Buskirk, Charles Small, B. D. Myers, T. J. Louden, Allen Buskirk, Alex Hirsch, Otto Rott, Roy Feltus, W. C. Stewart, Chas. Shaw, Wood Wiles, S. F. Teter, F. J. Prow, A. O. Henry, L. E. Shaw, R. M. Renaker, Elmer Bender. At the mass meeting Monday speeches will be made by Judge R. W. Miers Dr. W. L. Bryan and other citizens. The store will all close from 10 to 11 a.m. and the I. U. band will furnish music. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.