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COLLEGEPORT GETS CHRISTMAS GIFT

H. A. CLAPP SECURES MISSOURI PACIFIC DEPOT FOR COMMUNITY HOUSE.

Through the untiring efforts of Mr. H. A. Clapp, secretary of the Men's Industrial League of this place, the Missouri Pacific station has been secured as a community house.

Two months ago negotiations were started with the company hoping the building could be purchased. The officials informed him that the building was not for sale as all the buildings were to be used as repairs for other buildings on different lines.

Undaunted by their refusal, Mr. Clapp then resumed correspondence suggesting this time that a gift of the building as a memorial would be most generous and as the passing of the railway would soon be a memory, the building would be known as the Missouri Pacific Memorial House.

Time passed. Mr. Clapp began to think his efforts had been in vain. When without any warning and after some weeks of silence, he was most pleasantly surprised to greet three officials of the Missouri Pacific who announced their intention of making a survey of the conditions here. Mr. Clapp showed to the gentlemen the library and pointed out their dire need of a community house that would be near the library and could enlarge the building. He talked so convincingly that they too agreed with his plan, whereupon they then turned over the building to Mr. Clapp.

Plans are now being made to move the building on the property of the Industrial League west of the library and will in all probability open into that building.

It will be known as the "Mopac House," that being the suggested name by his visitors and a grand house warming will be held to celebrate its completion.

Mr. Clapp has enjoyed a warm friendship for many years with some of the railway officials and we feel all credit is due him for his interest in the community welfare, as it is through him that the negotiations were made.

The Daily Tribune, Thursday, December 28, 1933
 

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