Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-18
HALF ORPHAN
 ASKS AID ID . 60 10 SCHOOL
Girl With Withered Limb Wants to Study Stenog- raphy So as to Become SeIf-Sustaining.

With her right limb witherod eoIa the hip to theNeno of her foot. Agnes Courtney. a beautiful eighteen-year- old girl from Corning. California, has been in the camp for the past few days soliciting funds to enable her to take a course in stenography so that she can become sell supporting. The afflicted girl received substan- tiai financial assistance, and has en- listed the symRathies of the charity committee of the board of trade, who are now investigating her case. Should it be found as she represents 1t, she will undoubtedly receive sui ficient funds here to enable her to take the educational course that she is so desirous of securing. Not only thai. but the unfortunate girl will also be given employment in Bishee after sho becomes 2 stenographer, at re muncratiye wages. should she care to take up her abode in this city.
 By a happy coincidence. the young lady who is So grievously afflicted physically arrived in the camp on the same day that the miners were paid or at the Copper Queen. Wherever she went and told her pathetic story she was showered with money, and before the day was over she had man aged tC accumulate a neat sum. While she was soliciting funds, the attention of Secretary G. K. Reynolds, of the board of trade. was called to tho case. After an interview with the principal in !t, he became satisfied
 that she was worthy of assistance.
 To be perfectly sure. however, he wrote to the. mayor of Corning, and reply justif,es 1t.
 Lam half orphan." said the girl. My father is dead. and my mother is t5ocr. I have received a good edu- caticn, and if I can succeed in taking
 a course in stenography l shall soon
 be able to maintain myself To pro. cure funds to do so. I am making a | tour of the mining camps of Arizona,
 and have received most substantial aid from the big hearted miners that have encountered"
 Miss Courtney is a sweet faced semi-brunette, withSwayy brown hair.
 When she makes a request for aid, the petition is couched in language ] that is perfect This. supplemented by a smile that is winsome, though pathetic. causes the hardest heart to become softened She went from
 here to Douglas yesterday and will return to Bisbee in a few days.
 "If she is right, and I think she is, , she will have no trouble in getting the money necessary to take a course in stepography." said Secretary Key holds. T"ands wben she~ graduates, she can get position here without hunt ing hard for it"
 The charity committee of the board of trade has been in existence now ' for about six weeks, and has already I looked after about tWnty-fiye cases oi i Restitution. All who were worthy were aided, while the board caused | several professional panhandleTs tC 1 be orderd out of town.
 Those composing the committee arc | the ciergymen of tine city, and several
 business men. Miss L. Cummings acts
 as investigator and soiicits tbe fund. | with which the work is carried on
 She is assisted by Secretary Key
 holds. Each application for aid il thoroughly looked into. and the char ity meted out is gauged by the resul
 of the investigation.