The Anaconda standard., 1896-03-24
HER SPLENDID WORK
Mrs. White of the WOmen'S and Child
ren'S Home Has Been Faithful.
MlSDlRECTED COMPLAINTS
The County May Assume Control
of the Institution = Prof. Kern
and Chance Harris Circulate
Subscription Paper.

The county commissioners held a spe-
cial meeting yesterday afternoon for
the purpose of considering the PROPOSE
tion to make the Women's and Child
reen's home a county institution, and
practically decided to take charge OF
and manage IT IL the present indebted
ness is paid Off Supt of Schools
Kern and Chance L. Harris volunteered
their services to raise the money by
popular subscription and the COM
missioners will meet again next Mon
day to receive the report of the gen.
tleIea and t. Ike final action in the mat
ter of assuming control of the home.
Mrs. White. through whose efforts the
home was established and kept run
ming for nearly three years was pres
ent at the board meeting and gave a
statement of her receipts and expendi-
lures
The total Outstanding Indebtedness is
about or a little more than $780, to-
wards the payment OF which the Silver
Bow Trades x Labor assembly has do
mated 500 and $3.50 is due from
the county, which would re-
duce the debt to about $500.
There are "a people at the home
y nurse. seamstress and cook are em-
ployed at an expense of $50 a month
four children have been given out in
adoption, one being an orphan and the
other three half orphans and aband-
oned. One of the four was a baby
about or s months old. A woman
brought 1t to the home one day about
four months ago and then went away
saying she would return i'm a few min
utes with some clothes and would pay
for the child's keep. but She never came
back and no one knows who the baby's
parents are.
Recently some complaints were made
against the management of the home,
II being charged that the finances were
mismanaged. The commissioners ques-
toned Mrs. White concerning the mat
ter and she not only showed that the
complaints were made by some un-
grateful women whom she had shell
tered for a year or two, but she ac-
counted fully for all the money ever
received and showed that she even used
money out of her husbands wages for
the benefit of the home and incurred
all the indebtedness in her own name
for which her husband will be per-
sonally held responsible If she cannot
make up the sum herself She said
she had about grown tired Of trying
to reform fallen women and desired to
get out OF the management of the home
as soon as she could honorably do so.
out she ala not want TO leave IL as
long as it was in its present financial
condition. She has had all the expert
/ ence she cares for.
The commissioners were convinced
| that Mrs. White had done the best she
| could, and the only fault they had TO
| find with her was that she was too
| easily imposed upon and was too read
! lily taken in" by those she took in.
which resulted in running the home
In debt. Mrs White said the indebted
nes has not increased since the first OF
the year. The commissioners are pay
ing $3.50 for the care of the county
charges at present at the home besides
the rent and fuel and they believe the
home can be run by the county at al
most the same expense as they intend
to discharge those not actual objects
? of charity and send to the orphan home
those children entitled to admission 10
the state institution. There is nc
other charitable institution of the kind
in the county and the commissioners
feel that IL should be supported. espe-
cially as the county has derived a greaa
deal of benefit from it, Final action
/ Will be taken next Monday and Messrs
/ Kern and Harris have confidence ina,
they will be able TO raise enough money
to pay off the existing Indebtedness
| on the home.