Smyrna times., 1909-11-03
KINGS DAUGHTERS REPORT
Old Folks Home At Dover and The FL
nancial Report Concerning 1t.

Old Folks Home At Dover and The FL
nancial Report Concerning 1t.
At the meeting of the Laura Lee
Circle of Kings Daughters of Smyrna
last week, the following report of
Mrs. Mary E. Salisbury, of Dover,
Treasurer of the Building Fund of
the Old Folks Home was read: "On
the twentieth day of March, 1899,
proposition was made at a meeting
of the Kings Daughters to make
Five Dollars each 10 start fund to-
ward building a home for respectable
old people by making the Five Dol
lars at work of different kinds. We
had Two Hundred and Twenty six
Dollars and Fifty Cents, then by
selling old iron, old rubber and hav-
ing rummage sales, suppers and
different kinds of entertainments.
also some contributions of money we
raised One Thousand Dollars and on
December 31st, 1901, we bought a lot
for which we gave Two Thousand
| Dollars, paying the thousand we had
and borrowing one thousand of The
First National Bank. We then went
to work with a will doing the same
kinds of work to raise money and
with the rents of three small houses
on the lot and receiving some contrit
buttons of money we paid the las
dollar of the thousand we borrowed
on the sixteenth day of June, 1903,
and burned the bond at a meeting of
the Kings Daughters held at the
home Of Mrs. Henry Moore, June
%, 1908. Having our lot paid for
we felt encouraged to persevere to
raise money with which to build the
home, we worked in every way pos
sible to raise money and some of US
went out to solicit subscriptions.
We had brick cards, that is cards
laid off in bricks, and sold them at
five cents a brick and in that way
raised One Hundred and Sixty-three
Dollars and Seventy Cents. While
we were at work with the cards Mrs.
Atkinson sent one to General William
Palmer, of Colorado, telling him
what we were doing with the money
and asked him if he would fill it, if
not please return to her. He re-
turned the card saying he would give
a dollar for every dollar we collected
and he did until he had given Forty
five Hundred Dollars. We then had
Nine Thousand with which to COM
mence our building. We made Five
Hundred and Fifty-two Dollars and
Sixty-seven Cents at rummage sales.
At suppers, selling old iron and old
rubber we made One Thousand Dol
lars. With entertainments of differ
ent kinds we made Four Hundred and
Forty Dollars and Twenty
seven Cents. We sold the houses on
the lot for Two Hundred and Fifty
Dollars. Tag Day we made Three
Hundred and Seventy-six Dollars and
Sixty Cents. At an entertainment
given by Miss Hum at Wild Cat
Manor on Labor Day 1908, we made
Two Hundred and Eighty-one Dollars
and Eighty-four cents. Selling pos tai
cards Twelve Dollars and Seventy
Cents, donations of money Eight
Thousand and Sixty-three Dollars and
Eighty-six Cents, making money
paid to this time Fifteen Thousand
Three Hundred and Seventy-sevenDol
lars and Fifty-fve cents. We COM
menced our building in 1906 and fin
ished it in 1907; it was opened Oce
tober l, 1907. When we opened tn
home our indebtedness was Three
Thousand Dollars. To-day, October
z, 1909, it is Eleven Hundred and
Twenty-Five Dollars.
can any one steal it. You feel safe
now but when the time comes to enter
the army of bread winners you want
to be able to fight and make good.
Not to stand in on place, going
neither forward or backward: you
want to advance. You will need cul-
tivated brains to do this, and now is