The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-13

of and the need for the work in this
territory. For instance, three child
rem were taken not long since from
a dissOlute woman in AlamogOrdo
who is now an ~inhabita1t of an un.
savory resort in Ell Paso. These three
children are now living happily amid
the most wholesome environment on
a certain ranch, the whereabouts of
which hat woman would give a good
deal to learn. The children were tax.
en- from her through b courts and
she will never learn what has become
of them. Their fate, if we had not
saved them from her, is something to
shlldder at. They were brought to the
! attention of the society after their
mother had abandoned them in Ros-
well. Similar cases are coming UP
every day.
81 find plenty of people willing and
anxious to adopt children and make
homes for Them" said DR.. Lukens,
more in fact than / can find children
for and l am thinking of writing out of
New Mexico to find more homeless
ones"
The Children's Home Society of the
Territory was organized and incorpor-
! ated in October, 1906, and in the short
time ince has found homes for humid
reds of children. The society depends
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offerings of the humane n benevo-
lent people of the territory. 1t has
the backing of a list of persons, in
Guiding the most prominent men in
all callings in the territory, including
many OF wealth as the following list
of officers will show:
Officers.
Hon. H. J. Hagerman, president;
Hon. Hiram Hadley, vice president;
Judge William H. Pope, secretary;
Hon. J. E. yesterday, treasurer; Hon.
A. ]. Nisbet, Attorney.
Board of Managers.
Messrs. J.. J. Hagerman, Hiram Had
ley. William H. Pope, Charles E.. Ma
son, John Shaw, A. J. Nisbet, Edward
A. Cahoon, J. S. yesterday, John E.
Franklin, Napoleon B. Laughlin, Jas.
Barclay Reeves, Jefferson Reynolds,
William J. Mills, Charles E. Lukens.
Mesdames Anna o. Hagerman, Geor-
gia Viva Lukens. Comic lei Mason,
and Marie NJ. Holt.
DIR. LukenS is extremely anxious
to learn the names and addresses of
all persons having homes for homeless
children and all the names of child
rem who are in need of such homes.
The kansas Ch~ildrel's Home Find
err" the organ of the society in Kansas
has the following to say regarding the
work:
The radical difference between the
Children's Home Society and the ma
ny other agencies that are engaged
il similar work is that while these
other agencies devise orphans homes,
reform schools, rescue homes. oun
ty homes, juvenile court machinery,
and almost countless devices for solv-
ing or helping to solve the homeless
child problem the Children's Home
Society organizes nothing new, and
uses non of the above processes in
its work of saving the homeless child
en-. Accepting the statement as true
that Goods institutions are BEST" and
being thoroughly convinced that Gods
place for a homeless child, and for
all other children for that matter. is
in a good family home, the society,
in as simple and direct a way as pos
sible, oes about finding the child in
need of a home, and then finding the
family willing to undertake the task
of developing the child into an ideal
man or woman as a member of their
own family; then puts this supply and
demand together, and in every way
possible encourages and helps this ia
mily to perform its task. And when,
for any reason, the family gives up
the task, the society stands ready to
receive the child and place it again
under more favorable conditions in
another home.