The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-22
MRS. HAYES GOES TO NEW JER-
SEY.
Called TO a Larger Field of Usefulness
She Feels it Her Duty to Accept.

one CGtS ~ Ter EutY 10 accept
Mrs. Fannie Hayes, our popular city
missionary, whose cheerful counte-
nance and splendid work among the
poor of Raleigh, for the last four
years, has made her ore OF the most
familiar figures and most beloved Of
women in our midst, viii on next Fri
day, leave Raleigh for 3ayonne, N. j..
where she goes to take charge Of
charitable institution known as the
Waifsaving Home. 1T is a well APP
pointed philanthropic institution. CON
Quoted on a large scale, where the op-
portunities for doing good" 1.-THE
chief object and ambition of Mrs.
Hayes life) are very great, and where,
in the performance OF the duties as
signed her, this consecrated Christian
worker will be in her very element.
The people Of Raleigh are very 10th
to give up Mrs. Hayes. Tor the per-
Torrance of the kind of work she has
been dong in our midst, we have
never had SO specially qualified a
worker. The hearts Of many Of the
poor of this city viii be greatly sad
dened when they learn 3f her inten-
ton of leaving our city. But she feels
that it is her Christianduty ID take adj
vantage this opportunity TO engage i'm
field Of larger usefulness, though her
heart, too, is made sad at having TO
leave so many of the deartest friends
of lifetime here.
Before leaving a large number of the
Kings Daughters Of the Mission, St
Luke's, Isabella, and other circles, I'M
der whose auspices Mrs. Hayes work
here was so long conducted, desire to
give a reception in her honor, at which
refreshments will be served, and so on
next Thursday evening (23rd) at s
o'clock at the Mission rooms, corner
Morgan and Wilmington streets, this
pretty little courtesy viii be extended
her, The members of any other circle
of the Kings Daughters, who desire
To do so, are invited to participate in
the reception, when they and any other
friends SO disposed will have an oppor-
tunity of bidding farewell to this dear
woman, whose work and individual
personality have endeared her 10 this
entire community.
At the same place, between 5 and $3.50
.. M, the poor people, among whom
she has lalDored, will be received by
| her and an elegant dinner given them
on Thursday evening.
/ The last official acts Of Mrs. Hayes
III Raleigh flor the past two months
| She has been working under the pa
| tronage of a committee of philan-
| thropic gentlemen were the finding
Of homes. with the cooperation OF the
| ladies of the w c. TIL. of this city,
| for seven poor little, homeless children.
| -Four of these she taken from the count
| ty poor-bouse to the orphan asylum
! 81 the Friends (Quakers) at Hight
| Point, the other three she sends 10 the
Masonic Orphan Asylum at Oxford.
/ She will take these little waits to their
| new homes this week. The ladies OF
! the ~. G. Il. e. were also active in
| assisting to secure homes for these
| little waits.
| We commend Mrs Hayes to her newly
| found friends ia the North as cultI-
waited lady and a Christian worker wor-
| thy of their highest esteem and affee-
| ton, and we feel sure that she will
| conduct the work entrusted to her
charge In such an earnest, intelligent
and experienced manner as to merrit
and receive their highest appreciation.
MRS. DIR. CARTER.
MRS. ". j. KENDRICK.
MRS. ALLEN.
And others