Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-12-11
A CAMPAIGN Fob CHARITY.
THE WINTER WORK OF THE CITY MIssIol
AMONG THE SICK AND POOR.

worse elements Tor the poor, more cod,
more snow, but none for many years has
opened here with that great enemy OF the
poor-stronger than all others combined
sickness, so prevalent. AS with all other
communities, the grippe is visiting our
city with great severity and the poor are
needing help to an extent they have not
needed it before Sickness stops work, and
with the poor it is no work, no food, no
fire. Those self sacrificing women who
constitute the City Mission for the Poor are
again in the field, with far more calls upon
them than they can meet, They reorgan-
lied few days ago and we give the roster
under the reorganization
Oficers.-Mrs. A. H. Fultz, President;
Mrs. II. w. Henry, lst Vice President;
Mrs. G. B. Lipscomb, I'd Vice President;
Mrs. J. L. Massey, Sd Vice President;
Mrs. w. l.. Olivier, Secretary; Mrs. g. T..
Hanscombe, Treasurer Mrs. E. J. Cush-
ing, Clerk.
Board Of Momagers.- 7. II. Trout,
Mrs. j. A. Wise, Mrs. S. Brown Allen,
Mrs. L. G. Morton, Mrs. VIM. Lushbaugh,
Mrs. Berkeley Minor, Mrs. J. L. Beck,
Mrs. B. F. Terry, Mrs. S. II. Owens.
Visiting Committee.-Mrs.H Fl. W. Hen
ry, Mrs. A. NJ. Fauntleroy, Mrs. R. T..
Leftwich, Mrs. E. B. Lipscomb, Mrs.
James Baldwin. Mrs. Berkeley Minor, Mrs
VIM. T. Asst, Mrs. VIM. Hartman, Mrs. n.
P. Catlett, Mrs. A. T. Kinney, Mrs. H.
M
Jos. B. Woodward, Mrs. P. H. Trout,
Mrs. r. NJ. Powers, Mrs. S. Brown Allen,
Mrs. Geo. NJ. Harrison, Mrs. VIM. H.
Tams.
Committee on Distribution of the Work.
Mrs. Chas. G. Philips, Miss J. Calhoun,
Miss Kate Scott, NJ ISIS Sue Martin, Miss
Matte Cotton, Mrs r. M. Powers, Mrs
o. r. Funston, Mrs. II. M. McIlhany,
Mrs. VIM. McCue, Mrs. H. NJ. Patterson,
Mrs. T. r. Webb, Mrs. j. A. Wise and
Mrs. S. X. Kerr.
Committee for Purchasing.- A. F.
Kinney and Mrs. Geo. E. Price.
The city has been districted and each
lady visitor has a district, distributes the
NOIh1 1OOhO ttIUCI uCl IIulllDCl VI PCOpiC tLlilt
reports their condition to the weekly meet
| ings of the ladies of the Mission. As is
already well known, the Mission does not
confine itself to giving to the helpless poor,
but buys material and gives work to those
who are able to work. The applications
from the needy for work are already numer-
GUS, and constitute a good evidence thus
early of the hard condition of the poor.
The Mission has need of every cent that
the charitable hearts of our people may
prompt them to give, and their need is noc
1t is hardly necessary, to stir the sympathies
of our people, to give the cases of actual
suffering that the Mission has in charge,
though it may serve as an illustration to
state some Of them.
The Mission now has charge Of a family
of four-the wife with consumption, the
husband sorely afflicted with epilepsy, and
two tiny, helpless children. one an infant of
eight months. But a few days ago the
Secretary Of the Mission, Mrs. w. L.
Olivier, visited this family and found them
at ''dinner''-dry bread and weak coffee
their furniture, two chairs, a bed and box,
no stove, and not bed covering enough for
warmth.
The Mission has in charge deserted
wife with SIX children-the eldest not thir-
teen years old-occupying a basement fur
nished with one bed for all, stove, table
and two chairs. This poor woman is a
hard worker, but poverty had been too
strong for her and she could not earn food
for her family, and they We're in great want
There are number of the sick poor on
the Missions list who have no comforts.
On Wednesday of last week the father of a
family was adjudged lunatic and taken
away, leaving behind him wife, two sick
daughters and several other children, with
out provisions OIL a cent to buy them with
The Mission has paid their house rent and
furnished them with food.
The Sons Of Temperance last week,
i. through Capt. J. I. Long, sent S. to the
Mission for the relief of very sick girl,
whose parents were unable to buy her the
barest necessaries in the way of food.
The Mission ask that cast off clothing of
any kind may be sent them. 1t would be a
luxury to some of the suffering ones this
winter.
So, it will be seen, the winter has opened
with more calls on the charity Of the peo-
ple-calls made imperative through the
prevalence of so much sickness-than
usual. 1t ought not to be necessary to say
| IN, ~bo1 of
reads the pitiful cases that have been dis
covered and relieved, without thinking of
the infinitely pitiful cases that are not dis
covered and that are suffering in silence.
They seem, by some strange reasoning, to
| have come to the conclusion that there is
some sort of shame attending their accep-
lance of aid. Some Of them do not even
regard sickness as an excuse for their con-
dition and will not make it known. But
they will all take work by which they can
earn money. and if we help the Mission it
can buy materials and give them work-the
only sort of relief they will accept.
There are many Of our people who would
give, if they knew what to give and how to
give. On this subject Mrs. W. J.. Olivier,
the Secretary of the Mission, will answer
every letter addressed to her and give sug-
gestions by which much good may be done
at very little cost to the doer of it.
Deaths
Mrs. Frances Rosenbaum of Washing
ton city, mother of Mrs. G. A. Gladke of
this city, died at the residence of her
daughter on Sunday morning last at s