The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-02-04
STARTLINGl.
Mrs, Emma +. KOOns Makes
an Affidavit,
Tyhat Mrs. Ada T. Clark Will BE
Compelled to Answer.
1t Contains Charges of the Gravest
Possible Character.

~. Koons has become very much exaspsT-
ated over the treatment she has received
at the hands of certain interested persons,
who seem bent on supressing the trutn,
and in trying to make out that the serious
charges made by Mrs. KJons against Mrs.
Ada Il. Clark are based on personal nal.
rec. Doubtless many persnns III this COM
N2unity have so regarded n contest. Bat
Mrs. Koons now comes forward win an
affidavit which puts new face OF tbe
whole matter. She no: only veritles the
0rst charges made against airs. Clark OF
Sppropriating money illegally, that be-
longs TO the charity fund, but she has just
made some new and startling discoveries
OF other moneys and of larger amounts
that Mrs. Clark has collected for adver-
Sising in the official journal of Proceed
in0s that have never been turned over to
the treasurer, as required by law. These
charges of Mrs. kcons are of the gravest
possible character. Here is the affidavit:
MRS. Rooms AFFIDAVIT.
STATE OF OHIO, &c
STARK COUNTY, ! '''
Emma +. Koons Past Department Treas.
1rer, Womans Relief Corps, Department
of Ohio, being duly sworn, says that she
was elected Department Treasurer,
Womans Relief Corps, by the seventh
Department Convention, held in Cincin-
natl, Ohio, May, 1890, an association in
corporated under the laws of the State of
Ohio, to receive and disburse funds on
behalf of Union soldiers widows and
orphans: That upon her election, she
took upon herself solemn obligation TO
honestly and faithfully discharge the
duties of her office; such duties to hold
all funds aud other property of Relief
Corps; receipt for all moneys received,
and TO disburse no money, except on
regular drawn orders. That in order to
do this, she gave a bond of six thousand
dollars. her boDdsmen being, II. A. Cav
nah and G. w. Rooms. Said bond was ac-
cepted and fled with the Department
President, Ada Z. Clark. That during
the year she received the sum of SS,993.76
and disbursed S1,1ll.C6. That at the
eighth Department Convention held at
Steubenville, O1io, April 2S so, 1891 her
reports we're presented at convention,
accepted, and her work endorsed as ac-
ctlrate and satisfactory in every particular
That according TO a custom OF the Relief
Corps and Grand Army and e!sewhere the
Setiring officers were required to
close up tue business of the year, and
make supplementary report to the new
administration. That this business in.
cluded the payment of bills contracted
t1uring convention, part OF which was
amount due FOR printing OF Roster and
D. badges, and the printing of the journal of
the Proceedings of the Convention. That
the bill fer Roster and badges was Sl1O to
the Repository Printing Co. That the
hObEeT, as Itllltel, lutlNutN, DSSluBS d IlSt
Of Corps officers and delegates, to con.
vention, nine advertisements secured by
Ada +. Clark that in payment of this bill,
for roster and badges, Ada Z. Clark
turned over to her, Emma f. Koons,
thiTtv dollars in money and an order Oh
she Department Treasurer for seventy
TgI dyIarS. Ihzt the Repository Print
LnE c.. donated ten llOl dollars on bill 10
che department of Size NOmau's Relief
r<'-~Ia. leaving lu= sum OF one hundred
WOO dollars 20 be paid, and was paid hs
IS ated above That upon this basis she,
Emma L. koons, made supplementary
reDort to the Department President Mary
A. McOuisten, Nenia, Ohio. That Ada b.
Clark in turuing over the thirty (3C) dol
lars made no itemiZed statement of the
source from which money was received.
That later, she, Emma 4. hoons, entered
into correspond suce with the following
advertisers in Ros er, receiving from them
Clark did receive and receipt for money
aud merchandse.rec aived in the name OF
che Woman's Relief CorDs,as follows:
gieishman n Co., Cincinnati O.......,,,,..,SlO 90
Cleveland Canton 4 southern RalIway........ . 90
6YS 5YST Bski@g Taxing Powder Co. New York 10 90
EGSspb BisCheIe s0lp Co.. Canton O.....,.... 10 90
Novelty Cutlery Co, (Msl. Nignos) Canton 0. D 90
That in doing this, Ada f. Clark usurp-
ed the authority vested in her Emma b.
Koons) as the hlancial officer, under
bond, of the administration of which she
was treasurer, and whose accounts she
bad obligated herself to carry to compile
ton. That besides this usurpation OF au-
thority contrary to the Rules and Regula-
tious Of the Womlu's Relief Corps, she
discovered from the statements and afii-
davits Of the firms above named, that Ada
4. Clark had withheld for her own pri-
Vate use, and IN defiance OF the laws Of
the WOman's II s.iet Corps, and Of an as
sociatiou incorporated under the laws of
the state Of OLio, the sum or seventeen
% dollars in money, Jos. Bieehie's as
sorted soaps 10 the value Of ten l0) dollars
and Ave hundred mile ticket for trans
5DGrtation over the Valley Ry. 20 the value
of ten Q0J dollars.
Emma i. Rooms further says that in the
compilation OF the journal of
she proceedings OF the Eighth
Annual Convention, Ada +. Clark
"a shown by letters and receipts in her
possession, did receive and receipt for ad-
Vertisements as follows, as found on pa.
gees of journal 2O0, 2l0 and 2ll:
COmrade Woolson, OF the WooAon Spice Co
9rasg TaeTI St waite; Heater 60 DO ton Mass is 90 90
IA. q. Lilly Co., GRAND Amy Flags Column %
BUS W
Also thai she received money on an ad.
vertiseuent from thu Isaac N. Smead
4
determined, owing TO Nc. Smead's abb
senee from Toledo.
Emma +. Rooms further says that all
this was contrary 10 the rules and regu.
lations of the Woman's Relief Corps, and
usurpation of her duties as financial Off
Ger, under bond for the faithful discharge
OF her duties. She further says that Ada
II. CLARK, having become aware that she,
Emma +. Rooms knew that she, Ada Il.
". Clark, had appropriated TO her own
use, money and merchandise acquired in
che name of the Woman's Relief Corps,
and OF which she, Emma b. hoons, the
lawful custodian, did falsely and malici'
ously invent and circulate scandalous re-
ports against the good name Of Emma r.
Noons, in order to force her out of the
Woman's Relief Corps, and make 1t i'm
possible for her 10 compel her, Ada Il.
Clarke, TO make restitution of moneys
aud goods by the said Ada L. Clark to the
Department of Ohio, Woman's Relief
Corps. Emma +. Rooms further says
that she entered the Woman's Re-
ief Corps in 1884, and obligated her
self to serve the best interests of soldiers
ot the Union, especially the Grand
army of the Republic. and that
she gerved a6 treasurer of Canton
Corps two years and a half, and as
Treasurer Of the Department Of OHIO one
year. All under Ada h. Clark as Corps
President and Department President and
th At her work was audited carefully, by
thH regularly constituted oilicars,and pro-
It,Inced accurate In every particular.
.nat she loves tIe work Of the Woman's
Relief orFs and hereby denies every ru-
NOR originating wish her prosecutors, and
circulated by the CauJon Repository broad
cast throughout the staIe, that she has
any part iI breaking up Canton Corps or
ofidentifying herelf wish any rival assoc
ciation Whatsoever.
Emma II. Koona further aHys ;hatail she