Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-06
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED.
Organized Charities Association Names
Officiary For Coming Year.

Organized Charities Association Names
Officiary For Coming Year.
The annual meeting of the Organ
lied Charities Association was held
Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs.
Harriet l.. Sutton. The report of
Agent Whitehead for MARCH and the
annual report were received, and the
following officers were elected for the
ensuing year:
Presdent-Mrs. T. j. Fletcher.
Vice President--Mr. b. +. Nichols.
Secretary--Miss Agnes Thomas.
Treasurer-Mrs. ID. r. Denmead.
The appointing of district visitors
was left to the new officers.
The annual report of Mrs. e. NJ
Whitehead, the associations agent, was
as follows:
There have BEEN donated 1902 pieces
of clothing; 252 pairs of shoes; 263
pairs of hose; 1s1 hats, caps and
hoods; seventy-one dishes; ten pieces
OF bedding; fifty-three pieces of house.
hold goods; sixteen bushel potatoes;
five bushel mixed vegetables; thirty
seven heads of cabbage; twenty-five
pumpkins and squash; three bushels OF
sound apples; twenty barrels OF
specked apples; ten loaves of bread;
ITO toys: twenty nine cans OF vegeta-
bles; twenty-six cans of fruit; twenty
glasses of jelly; twenty-nine rolls OF
wall paper; sixty-six yards of carpet
and mating: fourteen yards OF new
goods; five bars of soap, besides
quantity of small parcels OF groceries
at Thanksgiving time.
"There havs been given for work
1,3lS pieces of clothing; 2O5 pairs OF
shoes; 227 pairs of hose; liz hats.
caps and hoods; seventy-two dishes;
twenty three pieces Of bedding; fifty
nine pieces Of household goods; thirty
four baskets of provisions; five cans
of fruit; sixty-six yards OF mating
and carpet; eighteen rolls of wall pa
per; thirty bars of soap and six toys.
I'm the department of literature liz
books, 2.751 papers and 765 magazines
have been donated, while 6s books,
1925 papers and $50 magazines have
been distributed.
"In the employment department thir-
ty-three have applied for work and
twenty for help.
wTwenty-fiye sick and aged people
have been assisted, some of them many
times.
Work done for the society: Four
teen comforts made, fifty-five gar
ments made, 1S9 garments mended, $50
rug blocks made, ten and one-half
pounds of carpet rags cut and sewed,
fifty-five errands, some house and
yard work.
money on hand, April 1, 1904 $121;
taken in since in donations and for
goods, s2s.61; expended. $27.25; bal
ance on hand, April 1, 1905, 1857.
Thanksgiving, 1904, we gave out
from the donations from schools, bas-
kets to forty families. At Christmas
we gave toys, which had been donat-
ed and stored during the year, to nine
ty-eight children, also some pretty and
useful presents to six old and lonely
ones.
"Your agent has made 1913 visits IN
behalf of the society"
There is some talk of merging the
Associated Charities with the Mar
shall County Humane Society, that
stronger organization may be main
tanned, Final action on the matter
will be taken at later date. Mrs.
Joseph Holmes is the retiring president
of the Associated Charities, having
been active in the work for years Mrs.
Holmes sent in her resignation to the
association, because she expects to be
out of the city a great deal of the
fine. being at present in California.