The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-03-05

al Balance in Treasury, s.
10 Your Committee have rendered faithful
I'd aeount of money expended, and for who's,
j. breft, but your Treasurer deems it unne
,e cisary to 90 into particulars.
ye Your Treasurer has kept no regular &C.
m cunt OF the distribution Of the provision:
y ID clothing donated, as no official report
a. the same has been made to her. Yet she
IN Is reason to suppose and believe, that al
q, As been collected and faithfully distributed
syour committee, among the needy and
eservipg.
Something over dozen families have
hc'eeh recipients of the Society's bounty for
iphc past year. These have been variouslv
ofupplled with provisions, clothing, bedding,
owood, medicine and house rent. Though
hsome Of your visiting Committee have found
hllttlc actua! want in their several districts,
l and consequently have visited little, others
have been faithful and untiring in seeking
| out, and ministering to the wants of the
poor, the sick and the dying.
Cases of restitution NAV. and doubtless
have escaped attention at the hands of the
Committee !; but it has not been intentional
as our object has been to distribute our
scanty means as widely as possible among
the needy. Your Committee have reason to
believe, that comparatively little assistance
has been rendered to the destitute of our
City the past winter by the township officers
charged with that duty--as appeals to them
by your Committee have in many instances
proved unsuccessful. The idea seems to
have been conceived, that our Society was
designed to relieve them of their duty in
this respect. This certainly is great mis-
take. This Society never proposed, or des.
igned, taking upon itseii tho general care of
the poor OF the city--but only to distribute
the limited means committed to us-as we
have really done-among the fatherless and
the widow, the aged and paralytic, the sick
and the dying-and, as far as in US lay, to
Tighten their sorrows and comfort their
distress.
Your Committee have in some instances
felt that their kind Offices were unapprecia-
ted, and their labor thank!ess task, yet the
sight OF poverty and suffering has nerved
them to persevere in the good work to
which they have set their hands. In
other instances, the falling tear, and the
earnest 'God bless you,'' with which their
m'mstrasions have been received, has been
sufficient reward for all the labor and ex.
posure that has been imposed upon them in
the fulhlment of the duties Of their Office.
The treasury of the Society is now near
ly empty, and consequently your Committee
have to suspend their relief, unless the
treasury is replenished. As warm weather
is approaching. it is hoped there will be lit.
tie more actual need this season: yet it is
matter of regret that our fund had not held
out for another month.
Whatever may be the future action of
this Society, or whether or not the ossani.
cation shall be continued, We shall look
back upon our efforts the past winter with
great Notwithstanding God that he
put it into our hearts:to enter upon this Ia
DOE OF love, and that the people were moved
70 commit to our trust the means of dispens.
ing good to The less fortunate Of o.. race.