The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
HOME FOR AGED WOMEN.
Report of the Managers for the Past
Year,

The annual meeting of the Home for
Aged Women was held yesterday and
the following officers elected: President,
Mrs. George S. Hunt; vice presidents,
Mrs. Samuel Small, Mrs. J. W. D. Car
ter; secretary, Miss Harriet S. McCobb;
treasurer, Miss Cornelia M. Dow; mana
gers, Mrs. Geo. G. Frye, Mrs. Edward A.
Noyes, Mrs. w. F. Milliken, Mrs. Chas.
B. Rogers, Mrs. ]. E. Prindle, Mrs. G.
F. Shepley, Mrs. D. W. Fellows, Mrs. e.
Fl. Sargent, Mrs. Percival Bonney, Mrs.
M. P. Frank, Mrs. II. P. Worcester, Mrs.
w. W. Virgin, Mrs. w. A. Quincy, Mrs.
r. E. Twitchell, Mrs. T. G. Lewis, Mrs.
W. w. Brown, Mrs. J. W. York. Mrs. w.
P. Hastings, Mrs. A. M. Smith, Mrs.
Adam P. Leighton, Mrs. Fl. G. Peabody,
Mrs. NJ. H. Tracy, Mrs. A. Il. Berry,
Miss L. E. Bancroft; matron, Fanny II.
Way.
Miss Harriet S. McCobb, secretary,
makes this report:
The board of managers respectfully
submit the report of this, the 39th year
of their institution, to their subscribers
and friends.
The household is under the care of the
same matron and assistant as in previous
years and is managed with as little devil
alton as possible from an established or
der. The chief changes during the last
- months have been quite beyond human
| power to prevent the sickness and death
of four of the inmates. But since the
| average age is about so and the average
condition of health feeble, the chief
| feeling in the minds of the board is that
of gratitude for the ability to give quiet
hours and good care to the closing days
of many whose, Llives would otherwise
have passed away in the midst of tur-
mol, neglect and poverty.
To those now in the Home who have
come to 1.-THE last of life for which the
! first was made" the board calls the at
tention of it's friends. A large proper
ton of them have been useful members
OF this community as teachers, nurses,
seamstresses. women of means and be-
nevolence, saints. some of them, always,
as now. Their natures have not changed
with score or two of added years. Old
age is not a different country, but the
same land with narrower bounds They
like work., books, visits from friends,
any and all of the trifies that are to ev-
cry one delight and a diversion, and
the more strongly, as many in the Home
have now, for the first time in their
lives, ample leisure for the enjoyment of
| simple pleasures. Such gentle tonics are
really needed also as a counteracting in
| fuence to the Encouragement and de-
preston which naturally come with
| physical failure.N4 They are received with
| warm aDDreciatifsp FiT
| The managers however, must not be
thought ungratefd9 feas past favors. They
do not forget the l6dglist of donations
which the years record shows, of read
ing matter, household supplies, both of
necessaries and dainties, clothing, tick
cts to excursions and entertainments,
| money, valuable services of physicians,
lawyers and clergymen. They beg to
| tender their thanks for. these most well
come gifts.
With regard to financial matters, if
| kind friends are still willing to afford
themselves and the board the satisfaction
of substantial remembrances, they are
| implored in the name of thrift and good
management not to desist, as they will
| see by the treasurer's report that if in
come and expenditure be compared, the
| balance is still, as far as the interests of
the Home are concerned, on the wrong
| side.
The report of the treasurer, Miss Cor
nelia M. Dow, shows receipts of $1O,-
9s421, of which $2,143.s7 was balance
from last year, $2,60S. AZ interest on fund.
So, $4,000 requests and $1,000 bond called,
$3.50 annual subscriptions, 1922. so i'm
terest on Noble memorial fund, S25 do
tions, $500 entrance fees and $1e7. 76,from
other sources. The expenditures for
salaries, wages and labor, provisions,
water, fuel, lights, repairs, furnishing
clothing, funeral expenses, investments,
etc., were $40, 2S5.0S, leaving balance of
$699.13. 'sA~