The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-11
IN BILLINGS.
Aid Promised the Montana ChiIdren's
Home Society.

Aid Promised the Montana ChiIdren's
Home Society.
Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Billings, July 9.-The work and the
needs of that most excellent charity,
the Montana Children's Home society,
were presented to the churchgoing citi-
zens of this city on Sunday in the Epis-
copal and Congregational churches by
Miss Isadora f. s. Dowden, the state
superintendent of the work. Miss Dow
den does not possess the art and tricks
of oratory, but the simple, unvarnished
story which she tells of the homeless
children rescued from untold evils and
placed in comfortable, Christian homes,
clothed, trained and reared to lives of
usefulness, carries a weight and a con-
Viction to the minds and hearts of her
hearers that mere ornate words could
not. The ACCESSIBILITY of having the
homeless child placed and adopted
into some family where it can receive
the home training and the home love,
rather than sending it to an orphan
asylum, where the bringing up must
necessarily be more mechanical, was
strongly urged and many incidents
were related showing the happiness that
some of these little neglected orphans
had brought into the lonely lives of
some hitherto childless home. The So
ciety is Incorporated, with headquarters
at Helena and SO advisory boards or
ganized in the state. The whole number
of children received and registered by
this society from the beginning Of the
work in this state is 121, of which all
except one have been adopted into APP
proved homes. Several of the children
have been adopted into families living
near Billings and, to the writer's knowl-
edge, are being as lovingly cared for as
if they belonged there naturally. In
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been most the gamer by the operation
the little waif who has exchanged the
gutter for the home, or the childless
couple whose lives have been bright
ened and bettered by the prattle or
childhood around their lonely hearth.
The whole expense of the work since
the beginning has been $10,06154. AS
the children are provided for in this
way on an average for IA years, ana
the expense of receiving, cleansing,
clothing and placing each child Is some
thing like $S7, it follows that the an
nual expense per child would average
trifle over Sc, while the annual expense
to the state for maintaining a cnlld at
the orphans home at Twin Bridges Is
officially stated at 1908. The society re-
ceives it's support from the gifts of pri-
yate citizens but has entered into con-
tracts with several of the counties,
Yellowstone among the number, to- take
off the hands of the county boards the
homeless children who would otherwise
become a charge on the county poor
fund, the society receiving $50 per child
from the county.
The citizens of Billings are enthusl-
astic supporters of the society, and Will
meet next Monday evening to elect off,
GERS of the advisory board for the ensu-
ing year. .--,
Yesterday at st. Vincents hospital, ana
was buried to-day. The funeral was
from the Congregational church and
was conducted by Rev. W. d. Clark.
Mr. Bower was, until failing health COM
PEELED him to resign, the sheep inspec-
tor and deputy veterinary for yellow
stone county
Montana as a racehorse man, is report
ed seriously i'll at st. Vincents hospl-
tai from injuries received last Thurs
day while riding vicious horse he was
breaking. 1t was not Thought at nrst
that his injuries were at all alarming,
but he is said to be gradually sinking.
Thomas l.. Halbert, ST., died this
morning of Bright's disease at st. Vim
cents hospital. He was brought In
from his sons ranch in Fergus county
last Thursday for medical attention,
but TOGO late for any benefit. He was
67 years of age. A widow and several
children survive him.
The vote to-day on the question of
establishing a free county high school
under the Losekamp bill of last session
brought out a large number of ladies,
who appeared to take an intense in
terest in the question, and were unani-
mously in favor of the proposition.
Senator w. A. Clark of Madison coun-
ty was in town to-day.