Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-06-12
TIE KINGS DAUGHTERS.
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treasurer's report is read. also reports
from the committees and circles and
any business coming before the Union
is transacted.
Since the last State Convention a
constitution has been adopted. This
provides for an investigating and relief
committee consisted of three members,
elected each month. Through this
committee many needy and suffering
families have been discovered and re-
lieved.
In many cases where the real neces-
stiles have not been needed the King s
Daughters have carried some delicacy
and cheering word to the sufferer.
There has been much restitution IN
Charleston for the past year and as
there is no organized city charity aside
from the Home for Destitute Women
and Children, much has devolved upon
the Kings Daughters.
Several of the circles have pledged
81 a month for ten months, to help
defrav the incumbrance on the chill
drens department of the Home. This
money passes through the City Union.
Aside from contributions from indi-
viduals and circles, the treasury has
been increased by the proceeds from
bazaar held in November. when over
$40 was realized After the disband-
ing of the Good Samaritan Hospital,
about $50 was turned over to the City
Union: sSS.75 was given by the Benz
Kedem Temple of Shriners as Christ
mas Offering. A lecture was given
May IA, 1897, by the pastor OF the
Kanawha Presbyterian church; this
swelled the treasury to the amount OF
SIS.
We have expended for groceries, coal,
clothing and nurses an average OF
about $50 month.
At times our treasury has been very
low. and then the circles have come
to our rescue by offering to pay one or
more of the monthly bills against .ne
City Union.
While the City Union of Charleston
is on a better footing to-day than it
was fourteen months ago, still we feel
we are in our infancy; but we hope to
increase in zeal and usefulness as the
years go by and be able to do more for
our King in the future than We have
done in the past.
MARY B. BUTTR1CK,
Secretary City Union of Charleston.
Mrs. J. T. Waters, treasurer of the
City Union of Kings Daughters, re-
ports money spent by the Kings
Daughters of Charleston since our last
convention, as follows;
Through City Union .........S COZ "a
Through the Circles ..... 633 46
Total ... 1,236 10
Reports of Circles were read as fol-
lows;
Colored Circle, of Hinton, by Artie
Jones. President, and Harriet Foster,
Secretary; Piedmont Circle, of Char
lesion. by Mrs. julius A. de Gruyter,
Secretary: Sunshine Circle, of Mounds
vile. by Pearl B. Criswell Secretary;
Whatsoever Circle, of Piedmont, by
Mamie Hepburn, Secretary; Champney
Circle. First Presbyterian church, Par
kersburg, by Julia Merrick, Secretary;
Cheerful Circle. of Charleston, by
Louise Brown, Secretary; Golden Rule
Circle, of Charleston, by Mrs. Henry NJ.
Bond, Secretary; Helpful Circle, OF
Charleston, by Mrs. Frank Woodman,
President: Opportunity Circle, of Char
lesion. by Martha Hogeman, Secretary;
Every Day Circle. Mrs. Middleton,
Leader; Hospital Circle. of Martins
burg. Mrs. G. NJ. Sherry; Watchful Cir
Gle. of Charleston, by Lizzie Key, Sec
rotary: Charity Circle, of Charleston,
by Mrs. B. H. Oxley, Secretary; st.
Matthews Circle, of Charleston, by
Louisa Kretchmer, Leader; Junior Cir
Gle of the First Presbyterian church,
Wheeling. by Annie NJ. Cummins,
Chairman: Anderson Circle, by Ann
Reed. Treasurer; w. II. Cooke Circle,
Second Presbyterian church, Wheeling;
Golden Rule Circle; Whatsoever Circle,
Fifth ward school, Wheeling; and
Home Mission Circle of the First Pres
byterian church, Wheeling, by Miss
Kate Hazlett. Treasurer. There were
also read the report of the Odds and
Ends Committee and an exhaustive re-
port of the work done by the Kings
Daughters of Charleston.
The reading of these reports showed
how much good had been accomplished
under the direction of those who have
given over their Offices to their sue
cessors.
Invitations had been received from
the City Hospital Committee, the Home
for Aged and Friendless Women, tho
Rescue Home, the Day Nursery and the
Humane Shelter, and were cordially ac-
cepted by the visiting delegation,
which numbered twelve, so the time