Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-31

Eleven families have some part OF a
government pension beside the aid from
these several sources.
Aid Cost County Nearly $1,000.
1.-THE amount of aid from this office
for the year 1909 is s964,74, as follows:
Fuel, sS161S; provisions, sSS1.52;
shoes, $119.50; dry goods, s14so; rail-
road fare, $685. miscellaneous, s52.2S.
Some of these families were given
coal alone, others have been given fuel
and provisions also. But little new cloth
ing has been givenout because the char
itably inclined people have sent to this
office large quantities of good clothing
from which 1,412 pieces have been
given out. In some instances only shoes
have been furnished the family and
many of these have been given 10 chill
dren in order that bare feet might not
prevent attendance at school.
years old. One daughter earns from Sc
to 50 week; a son works in the
country and receives SIS month.
board and washing: another son earns
SIS month driving a delivery wagon,
and the mother is an able bodied wolll-
an, all living at home but the one son.
| Nineteen of these families. in addition
Should Shame Wooden Man.
This policy, with respect 10 giving
| of shoes, 10 enable the children to at
quite a number of families who, or
/ dinarily, do not belong there. Cases
! have come to me where the father has
steady work, al So or $3.50 a day, who
keeps a roof over their heads and
enough TO eat, such as il is. but pre-
fers to spend the money which should
go for shoes and clothing for his chill
dren, in the saloon, and the sight Of
some of these shoes, which l have on
exhibition ought 10 shame a wooden
man.
Physicians have been furnished for
twenty-three families. al a cost of
s26=lo Hospital bills Of $50 have been
paid Some Of these families have re
ceived no other aid. but large pro-
portion of them are on the charity
list.
The leading delinquency among
these people is. as stated before. in
temperance. and in nearly all the cases
the wife also drank Intoxicating
liquors.
MendicantS. as far as possible. have
been sen, out Of town, as fast as they
applied for aid. as shown by the item
Of sSo.6 for railroad fare. Twelve
persons. who We're unable 10 work and
could be better cared for a. the county
home. and who had no children, We're
sanf 10 The home during the year
Should Discourage Resident Mendicancy
The resident mendieant. who goes
from house 10 house begging, is fire.
quent IN this city. and i seems mis-
taken charity - give 10 these because
as rule, they are already receiving
aid from some church. charity organ
ization or county. and possibly allthree
J, Pronl!scuous giving encourages idle
ness. pauperis,n. ana vice They ara
oily ronsued, Or whining. and adopts ii
she profession More Troublesome thar
the nendicaney is a certain inclination
10 pauperism. which shows itself il
many recipients OF charity. They d.
no. hesitate % take all The old clothes
!, broken food from boarding houses
nichle donations etc. offered them, nu
when the county home is mentioned
.hey recoil with horror from the dis
: grace(?) and the stand is taken man,
Zines. that only the hea-t.ess and IN
christian would propose such thing
and that the Lord viii provide.
Young Marriages Breed Poverty.
Next 10 internperance. ineiicienc
seems to be the greatest cause of pov
: erty. Many Of the recipients OF char
: irv are families VINO have marie
? Young. the husband not earning enoug
I TO keep himself and barely Of votin
:, age. the wife still in her teens. an
d inexperienced in the ways and mean
: OF living. and thu increasing faznil
d leaves no other resort than TO apply I
T charity. Perhaps the husband take
Y 10 drink. and the wife who might han
i learned under more favorable cond
{ tons to economic. and keep her hon
: orderly. becomes discouraged, and fit
= and disorder and consequent waste
% the result Were the woman able to {
= out 10 work, or TO take it home. u
" filthy condition Of the house and Il
: improper way in which it would
e done. handicaps her among the ella
: who are able to pay. Charitable PEI
y ple have filed some of these nom
20 with good clothing which. with a fe
II stitches and little time, might ha'
le clothed a family twice as large con
III fortably. but the ambition TO mend,
ID make over,is lacking and the cloth
ID are either worn as they are, or a
re eventually kicked out onto the a
heap, TO make room for other don
tons.
N Gets Four Baskets: Calls For Mea
/ One family Of five, d mother, and 70
Il. children. who received four baske
Is. from as many charitable sources,
~ Christmas. each one containing
ey chicken, or a roast, on the Mo-~aay f.
e lowing, applied 10 the overseer Of t
ce poor for meat 1t is not always ire
on ularity OF employment, or financial
u enent, which is the cause Of the pc
re- ertv. and distress, but aside from g
he cldent and sickness. il is more oft
raj acknowledgement, and a desire to fill
RS home with useless ornaments or
he stomach with the things which are
no use to the system in sustain
health or brain power For instan
.s- one man, whose wages were "a a d
" when he worked, and whose servi
is+ were in demand. would only work ur
ial he earned a certain amount, then
ish would drink and gamble it away, q
nle his family was thrown upon charity
arc Prefers Amusement For Last Doils
ad another, for whom the county p
the vided physician for the sick fam
tho and buried their dead, asked his "
an whether she would rather go to Buff
nd Bills show with the last dollar, or /
ire something to eat, and Buffalo Bill "