Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-04
DONATIONS
Charity Society Reports on the
Thanksgiving Contributions of
the Schools
Portion Of the Donations Given to
the W. R. G. For Dis.
tribution.
Several Lodges Elect Officers Bah.
cock Estate Affairs Local
Miscellany.
Several Lodges Elect Officers- Bah.
The Regular monthly meeting Of the

evening at the home OF Mrs. p. NJ SUIT
ton, corner of Center a nd Grant streets.
The meeting was of more than ordinary
interest owing to the fact that the re-
port Of the schools donations for
Thanks iving was received. Four
school buildings of the city made their
annual donations 10 the Organized
Charities, while the remainder gave
their offerings to the W. r. G., to be
dispos ed of among tt.e soldiers families
THAT are destitute.
Another matter Of interest Mas
brought up in a report BY Mrs White
heaS; to the effect that the scarf pin
lstfat was mentioned in these columns
las having been sent in an anon ymous
Communication to the society some
| months ago, With instructions that II
was the intention of the donor TO have
lat disposed of and the funds turned!
lover TO charity, had been claimed by.
Fan owner who, after reading the ac-
l5count in the T.-R. recognized it as a.
| pin she had lost. The lady. a Boone
street resident. makes a minute de-
lsscription of the pin and ii is likely that
| it will have to be returned to its
| owner.
| The report of Agent II E. Whitehead
Ito the society was as follows:
4 There have been donated 1874 pieces
of clothing twenty-eight pairs of
4 shoes, forty -ones pairs Of hose, seven
hats and two pieces Of bedding. There
| have been given for work ninety nine
pieces of clothing, twenty pairs Of
shoes twenty -four pairs Of hose. ten
that's, four pieces Of bedding two pieces
of household goods and two baskets of
provisions
Work done for thu society inelud IS
stwenty-folir garments made. nine gar
ments nended, thres COMFORTS made.
fourteen quilt blocks piecsd. thTee
A pounds of carpet rags cut and sswet.
i nine hoods made six hats trimmed.
some washing, house work. errands
and hauling done.
4 Funds on hand Noven,ibsr 1. Still.
4 taken in since for goods. s3.ssa EN-
slspended, 81; balance on hand Deeenebei
4 1896.
In the employment department SIX
s|fhave applied for work ana three for
! help In the department of literature
y three books. sixty papers and thirty
{ mine magazines have been donated
while three books. 100 papers and forty
q magazines have been distributed
. Three sick people have bsen assisted
and some help given in the burial O
one.
Your agent has made TWEEN six Wis
I. its in tl1e interest Of he society. Forty
Il families, numbering 200 people, havt
received aid in various ways
q Thanks giving offerings from schoo
IEpupils on November 27 ant. IS. tn.
First and Second wards and the Arnols
\ and Arson schools. donated 10 the Or
gained Chirities the following articles
= Thirty-fo four ,oaves of bread, nineteen
\ glasses of jelly. four pounds Of sugar
q thirty ears Of popcorn. nine bushels o
! potatooes, ten heads of cabbage, TWEEN
llSty-four squashesi and pumpkins fly,
bushels of apples, one-half busnel Q
lsonions six gallons of cookies ans
lscracsers, one package of mIncemeat
, one- box of sardines, one box of niacca
Ironi, ten pounds of coffee. one hal
! pound of tea thirty three cars o
aj.fruit, thirty-two cans of vsgata b!es, ST.
! Isoranges, ten pounds of oatmeal NV,
2 baskets Of sundf.ies, one sack o -four
\ two sacks of eornmeal. two pounds q
I rice. seventeen quarts of beans, thre
"a quarts of nuts. one and one-haf bush
) els of mixed vegetables. two pounds Q
r bologna sausage, twenty+five pairs Q
5 shoes, twenty-one pairs of hose, tx
I pairs Of mittens. fourteen hats, cap
j and hoods, 221 pieces OF clothing an
= lone ball of carpet rags.
From this supply there weressiven on
s Thank sgiving aa forty three pa skets 2
i provisions 10 that number of families
y lwhos came TO the store room or We're re
q ported by others az in need. These has
Q kets contained a portion of canned Veg
: tetables and canned fruit, a loaf of hreae
a plate fullsof cookies, crackers Q
n doughnuts, some coffee. popcorn Q
: l.apples six special baskets We're put u
/. for aged or sick people, these contain
d Ling, in addition to the other thing
k manned. some tea sugar some Of IN
r best of this. crackers. an orange and
d glass of jelly. All We're given potatoes
n saua sh, onions and cabbage. # thsy1de
S sired them. The supply of jelly, frui1
h loatmeal. etc. which remains to use f.
II the sick for the rest of the year is quit
: small, compared with other years.
4 1t may be Well here to state that Their
& lis no charge made for any of thes
n things at this time, nor to the sick an
n disabled at any time. And when wit
Il a view of creating or sustaining fee
S ing of self-respect in the recipient.
9 l-charge is made IN work or money, 1t
il always so managed az to benefit som
(, iother person in need For instance,
g Imilliner donates Two hats and We hay
some old trimmings out of which a litt1
skill and ingenuity make two quit
I, tasty and good hats, which we cell
N on,