Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-01-18
TO AID NEBRASKANS.
STATEMENT GIVEN our BY THE
RELIEF COMMISSION.
90 Car Loads of Provisions
and Clothing Raiscd-Local Distribu-
ting Committees at Work in Twenty
six Countics-A Double Suicide.
WOrk of Relief.

w. y. Mason. President of the NebraS-
ka State Rc!ief Commission. has made
the following statement in regard 10 the
reorganization and work of the commits
sion:
The commission is not a onc-maa con
Germ at all. rs. in addition TO myself. the
following gentlemen are members Of it:
Rev. L. +. Luddcn. Sccreiary: j. II. Ne
Clay. Lincoln. Treasurer; Rev. Joseph /.
Duryea. Omaha: {. J. Ernst. i. W. Hart
lev AMI \. j. Sawyer. Lincoln: Henry
Sprick. Fonlan"lle: AMI =. u. Thompson.
Broken Bow; making in all nine rienlberS
composing the commission. We have an
auditing committee and Il record i kept
OF everything that is received ami paid
out. and the auditing committee auiits
all the accounts. IT the last Eiee'in. ii
the regular working majority we author
lied Rev. J.. T. Ludicn H. l.ur inciden-
tai expenses. the principal it"m Of which
is the salary of one stru0srIpi."r. All
the bills are to ho submitted 70 the coin
mittec for approval.
when we first organized The cou.nis-
sion we had nothing TO dispense a.d orr
idea WAS TO get people Interested IA the
movement 10 raise funds without solicit
ing aid or advertising the STATE adversely.
and we have been successful in Obtaining
large contributions in this way. We de-
cidcd that we would try 10 organize Oma-
Ia in IL quiet way and get our pa0ple To
do what they can To aid sufferers. We
do not want 10 prey upon the citizens IF
Omaha. as they have 50 many charitable
causes that thee are taking care ri now.
but We merely wanted TO stimulate the
movement.
I'VE do our work in = systematic man
ner. and wherever 4 county has applied
for relief we have uniformly required the
people of that section 10 call a public
meeting ard appoint central committee.
comprising two members of the county
board and from five 10 seven citizens sat
isfactory to the people of the section TO
constitute the central committee. with
whom we transact our business, and that
central committee appoints committee
of three in every precinct where there Is
restitution. and this last committee acts
as visiting committee. We have eff
fected organization of committees in this
way Ii twenty-siX counties.
Among others who have already given
US relics from outside points are: Mrs {.
l.. Burrows. of Savanna, H., who has
donated Il carload of coal. We have
just received check from William III.
Allen. of Boston. Mass, for SOS. and
the other day the same gentleman sent
us a check for $500. besides Il lot of good
clothing. +. IL. Ilummel has sent us
So ami the proprietors of a coal mine AT
Athens H., have promised to send Us
the output for half day of their coal
mines which will amount to about four
teen carloads of coal. and the Burlington
Road has consented to transport ii free.
I'VE have already distributed about 200
carloads OF provisions, coal and clothing.
and about forty more carloads are now
in the course of transportation. L should
estimate that we have already disbursed
about S11. 800 for the relief of the suf
ferers. This is the amount of cash paid
out up to date. 1t was arranged at the
meeting last week that there would be
one or two members of the commission
in the office ut Lincoln from now on so
as to attend To the prompt distribution Of
SupnlieS.'