The Greenville morning herald. [volume] (Greenville, Tex.) 1890-1956, 1910-01-04
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charmanof the Board Of Trustees
Makes Acknowledgment

Makes Acknowledgement
To the Herald; Our Heavenly
Father who does not forget even
little sparrow did surely remember
the little children at the Orphans
Home this Christmas. We desire, in
the name of the children. to return
thanks to the many kind donors and
pray that that God, who says "He
that showeth pity to the poor lendeth
to the Lord and He will repay him
again" may abundantly reward them.
The following persons contributed to
the royal Christmas of the children;
The Paris Grocery Co. contributed
box OF apples and sack of nuts;
Waples-Platter Co, a box Of oranges;
Pepper Grocery Co, box of oranges
and bucket of candy; Henry Harris
of Herald Office sends several boxes
of fruit and candy; Hudspeth & Spur.
lock were on hand with large box
of hoods and caps; the Elks sent
shoes, stockings, gloves, ribbons UNI
derclothing and toys amounting to
an outlay of twenty-five dollars;
gift of nice clothing from distance
but no name accompanied It; MIR
Duke Harrison made gift of nice
clothing; w. NJ Mcbride donated 81
pairs of stockings and loving friends
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and toys. Every girl in the home
has two new dolls and everybody one
or more useful presents. The Oil
Refinery gave an S0-pound tub OF
cooking compound and the Oil Mill
made the cows glad by large wagon
load of huls and meal: W. G., Air
hart gave as his expression of good
will in cash sl1; Delaney Lumber Co.
sent check for $40; the people of
Peniel and Mrs. Malcolm and Mrs.
Jones, the two lady workers in the
orphanage, gave them royal Christ
over to run them until New Years.
Some mistakes may have been made
in giving the names OF the donors as
the matron was not present when
every present arrived We the Board
OF Managers of the Home certainly
appreciate the generosity shown to
the Home, by the Greenvllle and
Pencil people on this and sundry 9TH
er occasions. AS you have befriended
you little family secret. For sew
eral years the boys, with the help of
the girls at cotton picking time, have
made by their labor eight, ten, and
more bales Of cotton annually and a
large amount of feedstuff for them.
selves and their cattle. But we had
to rent land to produce these crops
and give the children an opportunity
to learn habits of industry, so the
OF the fruits of their labor and some
times they had to travel considerable
distance to get to their fields OF
labor Under these conditions the
Board OF Managers decided to pur.
chase tract of land, AZ acres, lying
adjacent to the Homes property of
fifteen acres We are paying for that
purchase now, we have $1,000 note
with other interest amounting in all
to about $1,000 due in January We
have ON hand only about $500 of this
amount. In many sections of the
state where we had pledges to this
fund the crops have completely failed
SO this shortage in our funds. Now II
our Greenvlle friends wish to make
New Years present 70 this worthy
purpose of supplying an opportunity
to these children of learning habits OF
industry and also OF helping them, to
help themselves in their own support
we would very much appreciate the
favor and you would get blessing
out of It, II you wish to contribute
hundred, or a fifty, or a twenty-five
or a ten. or a five or a dollar to this
purpose, you may hand 1t to the
writer or to the treasurer Dennis
Rogers. Pencil, Texas, or to Mr. vii
liams or Phillips at the Greenville
National Exchange Bank, who are
liberal annual contributors to the
home. and judging from past favors
we will use the columns of the two
daily papers to acknowledge the re
ceipt of the same.
Il. C. DeJERNETT.
Chairman of Board OF Trustees
TO ENCOURAGE CORN BREEDING