Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1895-11-22
The Beverly Manor Mission for the Poor
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The following from the Secretary of th'
Beverly Manor District Mission for tn,
Poor, gives the reasons of the members fol
its disbanding, which has taken place:
Editor Of the Vsndseator:
At a meeting of the ladies comprising Bev
erly Manor Mission, held in the Y. NJ. q. A
parlors on Wednesday, Nov. IL, 1t was decid
ed, in order to intelligently and efficiently be
gin the arduous work of helping the need,
poor of Augusta county living near Staunton
that it would be wise to ask the County Su
pervisorS to add to the Individual contribu
, tions of the ladies comprising the mission
sufficient funds to enable them to put thei
organization at once into thorough working
order.
Mrs. H. D. Peck. the President, was APP
pointed to meet the board and make the ap
plication. She did SO. telling them that the
mission only proposed to work as an auxili-
airy to their own efforts, and that the ladies
would give gratuitously great deal of theil
time and some funds from their own resour
ces.
Personal experience of all the ladies COM
prlsing the mission has made it painfully evi
dent that many Of the needy and deserving poor
are entirely overlooked. while impostors and
hriftless persons, through, either the care
lessness or Indifference Of those having
charge of the funds, are often maintained in
idleness.
At a meeting held Wednesday morning,
Mrs. Peck read the following:
cat meeting Of the Board Of Supervisors OF
Ana bo1 ~ A.
Of, on Thursday, the 18th day of November,
1895,
Present-Elijah Conner, chairman; Silas H.
Walker, s. A. Dunlap, VIM. A. Crawford.
A. Perry Anderson and Thomas NJ Smiley
Gent'n Supervisors.
Mrs. H. u. Peck appeared before the board
and asked that contribution be given for
$500, to be appropriated in aid of INDECENT
of Beverly Manor district, under the super
vision Of the Ladies County Mission" But
the board after due consideration, doth deny
said application for the reason that the Over
seers of the Poor of the various districts of
the county are the proper persons to apply
and render such aid to the poor of his district,
and for that purpose this board under the law
is bound to furnish county money from the
property owners through that channel only in
aid of its deserving poor.
Copy Teste, WILLIAM A. BURNETT,
Clerk of Board
The effect of above communication was a
decided damper to the enthusiasm of the
ladies comprising the mission, who had never
entertained the idea of relieving either the
Board of Supervisors OF Overseers Of the
Poor of any part of their duty in the matter
but only proposed to assist and aid them in
the better and more judicious dispensation Of
the funds put in their hands by the taxpayer.
for the purpose of caring for the poor.
While aware of the fact that the law pro
vides Overseers of the Poor to dispose of the
funds in question, it is also a fact that ne
law exists forbldding those officers from EN-
ploying Intelligent and competent persons tx
aid them in the better distribution of theil
| funds.
After due consideration of foregoing com
munication. it was decided that the purpos
of the miss ion had been misunderstood ant
unappreciated. and the motion to disbant
was carried unanimously. Whereupon th'
defunct mission adjourned sine die.