The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-19
Children From Kansas City In.
wade Clay Center.
Fifty Youngsters Will Be Given
FOrtnight's Holiday.
CROWD WELCOMED EN-
Five Hundred People and a
Band at the Depot.
Farmers Wanted to Care for
Some of the ''Kfds.'

Clay Center, Kan, Aug. 19.-Five hun
dred persons with a boys drum CORPS
gathered at the Rock Island depot 70
meet the fifty children who were sent
here by the Institutional church of Kan
sas City for a two weeks outing. Long
before the arrival of the train the depot
was crowded with men and women and
children waiting for the children from
the city. When the train whistled for
the crossing, half mile east of town
there were shouts of Here they come. -
A special car was attached tc the reg
ular train for the little folks and as it
was the rear car, it was several yards
east of the depot when the train stopped
There everybody rushed while the chill.
drcn alighted
They formed in line and with the drum
corps at the head marched uptown to
the courthouse square, two blocks away,
where ring was formed and the fam
lilies which had promised to take chill
dren for the two weeks, made their Sc
lections. Within half hour all the chill
dren who had come were provided for
and the crowd had dispersed.
Twice fifty children could easily have
been taken care of, as Mrs. w. L. Jen-
nings of this place, who had charge of
all the arrangements here, was besiegcd
with requests from different persons for
one or two or in some cases even more
children for the two weeks. One woman
this county, and said that she could cas-
lily take care of four children and would
be glad of that number Others, when
they found that all the children had
been provided for, really showed anger
that they couldn't show these children
from the city good time.
When the club women about three
weeks ago, decided to give these fifty
poor children from Kansas City an out
ing, they were just little dubious
themselves whether they could find
homes to care for so many. But after
they had decided to take up the work
and began to canvass for homes for fifty
children, they found that they would
have no difficulty IL taking care of fifty
Accommodations for that number were
found easily in Clay Center. Most of
the children were assigned to homes at
the edge of town so that they would
have more of a view of the country.
Just a few were taken care Of by coun-
try people. One man came after two
children and when he found they were
all taken he said that tine town al
ways hogged everything" and that the
country ought to have share in this
good work.
It is the plan of Clay Center to give
these fifty children good a time for
the two weeks as the town is capable of.
There will be buggy rides, hay rides,
picnics, fishing parties and all kinds OF
good times that the town can give chill
dren from city curing the not months
of the summer. While all the children
will be taken care of in private families.
two or one in a family, yet money has
been subscribed for extras and 1t will be
spent on special picnics.
Mrs Jennings. president of the La
dies Library club of this city, frsS
thought of the plan from having read
that women in the eastern cities are do
ing this thing every summer. She called
the members of the club together and
after discussing the plan they decided
to attempt it.