Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-11
THE STONE HOME
IS A MODEL
Splendid Work Being Accomplish
ed by Noble Woman.
INTERESTING STORY
ABOUT TIE HOME

BUILDING on Center Street the Scene
of a Charitable and Industrial Ac-
tivity UNIQUE in Martinsburu and
Should be Strongly Supported by
people of Means in This Community
The stone Settlement Home, situat-
ed on North Center sreet, of Martins
burg. meets a long felt want in that
community, namely the educating and
uplifting of the young.
This is accomplished by means OF
the kindergarten, various Industrial
clubs and night schools held during
the week. the prayer service every Fri
day evening and the Sunday school at
three o'clock on Sunday afternoons.
The work is in charge OF three
ladies': the superintendent, who Is a
mercy and help deaconess, and her
two assistants; IN industrial tacher,
and a kindergartnee. They are as
sisted in the prayer service and Sun
day school by Christian men and wo-
men Of the various denominations.
Sewing, cooking, housekeeping, bas-
ket weaving and wood carving are
taught. These industrial cubs have
their W officers and besides the drill
in parliamentary rule, each meeting
has it's devotional exercises. Each
club is fitted with a full equipment
along the line of its work, and at
Christmas and Easter sales are held
to dispose of the articles made by the
members each child getting part of the
amount the article brings, the other
money being placed in the club bank,
thus forming a fund with which TO
buy new material. BY this method
each child is taught some branch of in
dustrial work, and each club is self
supporting.
The lesson in cooking, sewing and
housekeeping will make home-makers
and home-loyers of our young people
and the streets, and the saloons will
not have so great an attraction.
Besides the educational features,
boundless good is done along charita-
BILE and relief lines, a room at the
home being kept filed with clothing,
bed clothing, food and medicine for
distribution among the sick and the
unfortunate.
Employment is procured for those
who want work, and homes are found
for neglected children.
This great work is the direct out
growth of the efforts of the Martins
burg auxiliary OF the Woman's Home
Missionary Society of the M. e.
Church, who r~e-organized in the fall
of 1904 to work along undenomination-
al lines. The president of the auxili-
airy, Mrs. Guy Hetzel, secured the
pledge of several hundred dollars
yearly and in honor of her deceased
father, j. T. Stone, the industrial
school was named. The work was
commenced in November, 1906. in a
small, rented house of FIVE rooms. but
in less than -wo years the increase in
attendance necessitated more commo-
dious quarters. Through the infiu-
~ence of Mrs. II. P. Thorn and other
friends and patrons of the work, money
u q anu was ~ DNg
a lot and erect the present building,
which has a large assembly room
reading room, kindergarten and super
in~tendent's office on the first floor,
with living rooms for the superintend-
emit and her assistants on the second
floor, and a large industrial club room
on the third floor.
The new Stone Settlement Home was
formally opened June 5, 1908. and ded-
icated the following Sunday, June 7,
1908, nearly free from debt.
The following gentlemen. Geo. Ry-
neal, jr., A. D. Darby, Lee M. Bender,
e. F. Willard and John j. Hetzel, hold
this property in trust for Martinsburg
Auxiliary of the Woman's Home Mis-
Sionary soc ETY. of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, for the purpose of car
rying on an industrial and kindergar-
ten school, and for religious, charita-
bic and relief work for the public. ir-
respective of creed or church denomi-
nation.
The board of managers of the Home
is composed of the officers of the aux
Hilary, together with four or more pat
ronesses. These ladies' are elected by
the auxi' larry FOR the year and share
the offices of the board of managers
equally with the officers of the auxili-
airy.
The institution is conducted along
educational lines of social settlement
work, with the additional spiritual up
lift in the teaching of Gods word. Its
influence is felt not only in the school
nor in the homes from which the chill
dren come. but throughout the entire
community. AS it is Tor the better
ment of the people, let all who viii,
assist in carrying on this work, which
is done "for the love OF Christ and in
His name"
A new branch of work will be open
ed at the Homo 40 sAon aq a-ranOa-