The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-03-20
Report Of Directors Of the Poor
House of Employment
Somerset County, Pa,

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Somerset County, Pa,
10 THE
Court and Grand Jury for the Year
Ending Dec. 3lst, A. D., 1894
Tsakc Honora5le. the Judges Of the Court
Of Quarter SESSIONS of the Peace aud
Grand Jury cf said County
I'm compliance with the Sixth Sec
tion of the Act of Assembly approved
the 18th day of April, 1915, providing
for the erection of "House of Employ
ment and Support of the Poor of said
County" the undersigned Directors
herewith respectfully submit and lay
before you their report for the year
ending December 81, 1894, showing the
number and sex of all persons
maintained and employed in said
House of Employment and supported
or assisted elsewhere, as well as the
names OF those who have died at said
House of Employment during the year,
and Of the children by them indentur-
ed. with the names of their masters,
their occupations and cailings-
We. also, herewith submit an ac-
eoant of all sales, donations, devises
and bequests, and moneys received 10y
or for them.
In addition to the information re-
ouired by the Act of Assembly, the
Board of Directors herewith furnish
under suitable headings the names Of
those who have been assisted else
where, and, also, the children who
were maintained in private families
under the Act of Assembly approved
18th June, 1885, and the amounts paid
for their maintenance. Also, the
names of all persons removed to other
institutions for medical treatment and
teaching.
We. also, submit an account of the
repairs made, description of buildings
erected during the year, condition Of
the farm, products of the same, mate
rials made and manufactured, improve
meats made or added, together with
short history OF the House of Employ
ment, a. well a. all other items which
may be Of interest 10 the Court, Grand
Jury and the Public
All of which Is respectfully submit
ted and certified this 5lst day Of De-
cember, \. ID. 1894.
Attest = ! JOSEPH l.. MILLEB,
&c. CoIborn JOSIAH u. WEIoLE,
Clerk. JACOB MCGREGoR.
Directors Of the Poor.
In submitting this our annual report
of the house of Employment of SOM
erset County we are reminded of this
significant fact: In April of the
present wear, we will celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary or centennial
of the constituting and establishing
of Somerset County. In April, We also
can celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
or bi-eentennial of the establishing and
constituting of the House of Employ
ment of Somerset County.
Our county We all have reason to be
proud of. She ranks fifth ia number
:is to territory. and first among the
counties of the state as 10 the produc-
tiOn OF eminent men. Her wealth Is
untold and undeyeloped, but it remains
fact that almost her entire surface is
underlaid with coal and rich deposits
of all other minerals.
Her grand old mountains, lofty
peaks, beautiful valleys, wide spread
ing table lands, aud fertile glades, give
her superior and greater advantages
over many of the counties of the state.
Her citizens mostly descendants from
the original Pennsylvania Dutch, they
are industrious, intelligent, thrifty,
christian and patriotic No place in
1he world DO the people live betierand
longer, enjoy life more, and at the same
time have "a higher regard TO the duties
they owe to their God and fellow man
than in onr grand old County of Som
erset
At the first call for troops, when the
nation was in peril, company after
company volunteered aud were march
ed 10 the front many Of them having
laid down their life in defense of their
country, while scores OF Others returned
maiined and wounded, telling more
eloquently than words the struggles
and hardships they endured.
While we rejoice over the extent of
our territory, the wealth of our county,
the peace, thrift, intelligence and con-
tentment of our citizens, and the pros
perityof our county, yet there is one
thing alone that her people should be
proud of more than any other, and that
) the provisions she has made for the
poor, unfortunate and insane. Fifty
years ago, by Act of Assembly, this
county was constituted and formed into
n seperate Poor District.
The thousands of persons that have
been cared for, and the thousands of
dollars ofcharity she has dispensed, as
rell a. the homes she has relieved, the
orphan children she has cared for, the /
deaf, dumb and blind she has educated, |
and last of All, the most pitable of all, /
those who have been bereft of their !
reason, who have been maintained and /
treated in hospitals, many of whom
were restored, is monument to our /
glory more enduring than granite or
Inarble, and lasting as time.
Twice the Supreme Court has ren-
dered formal decisions that Pennsyiva- |
mia is a Christian Commonwealth bat |
important and authoritative as are such
judicial utterances, far more eonyine-
ing are the splendid evidences of Chris
tian spirit seen in Pennsylvania no.
bile provisions for the poor and unfortu-
nate in life. And when this work Is
considered in its character, its spirit,
its magnitude and its far-reaching re-
suits, we may well ask, ''Is not this.
after, all, the chief, the crowning glory
of our Commonwealth" We know
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