(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
The drive for $50,000 for the Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society was successfully concluded here, $53,000 having been collected.
The drive was headed by Godfrey Schirmer of the American National Bank and Frank Kirchof of the American Fixture Company. The amount collected will be spent on new buildings.
JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES
Mayor Perley E. Barbour was named honorary chairman of the Quincy, Mass. drive of the United Palestine Appeal which was launched last Sunday. Quincy’s quota is $2,000.
The campaign is sponsored by the Hon. Charles W. Eliot, president-emeritus of Harvard University. Gov. Alvan T. Fuller. honorary New England Chairman, Mayor Malcolm Nichols, honorary Boston chairman and Mayor Barbour, honorary Quincy chairman.
Installation of the David Chodekoff Post of the Jewish Veterans of the Wars of the Republic took place in Troy, New York.
Commander in chief Morris Mendelsohn and Col. Morris Simmons attended.
The colors and charter were presented. Mayor Clinton of Troy. William T. Fitzpatrick, New York State Commander of the U. S. W. V., spoke, Resolutions protesting against the enactment of alien registration and deportation bills were adopted.
The seventy-first anniversary of the Jewish Children’s home in New Orleans. La., was celebrated. More than 1,800 persons attended the celebration. Dr. J. W. Newmann is president of the home.
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