The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-06

today Mrs. Allen proved faithful
worker and competent matron. Miss
Carey will carry on the work of the
home in her own way, and I look for
the best results from her love for the
children and long experience in the
Minnesota Children's Home
During the year, employees have
come and gone, but several of them
have been with us for years Seven
people are given steady employment in
the home, besides janitor during the
furnace period, and stenographer for
irregular service, AS the correspond
ence has gown at tremendous rate
lstenographer could be given steady
work. 1t have endeavored to cover as
much of it as time would permit, and
when too heavy matl accumulates,
call in stenographer until the pressure
is relieved. From the middle of Sep
TENDER until February 1, a very large
amount Of mail must be cared for.
Last fall Miss Tennyson,. our lady
field worker, was obliged to resign that
she might care for an invalid brother.
She was a good worker and successful
in raising maintenance funds. In
September, the present field worker,
Rev. Theodore A. Doughty, was en-
gagged to raise finances. He has given
most acceptable service and gets the
goods. He is a hard worker and gets
over large field dn short time He
will soon remove his family from
Evansville, Wis, to the Dakotas.
While there has been money enough
to warrant the expense, a larger new
rug has been purchased for the parlor;
the one laid when the building was
opened having served It's day and gem
Grafton well.
A double deck gas range has super
ceded the coal range in the kitchen,
and has very greatly reduced the fuel
bill, besides being always ready for
use at moments notice.
Some repairs to paint and plaster
should be made soon-would have been
before had we been able to secure a
workman for the job.
The latest gift to tie home was in
answer to little appeal made in the
Home Finder asking for $25 to pay
for an invalid's wheel chair for the
use of our crippled wards. An i'm
mediate response was made by Mr.. G.
| J. Weiser of DEBORAH, Iowa. cousin of
our honored president who sent his
check for the amount, and the chair Is
now in use; giving fresh air and sun
shine to little Kauno, an 8-year-old
Finnish child, who has tubercular de-
cay of the bones of his limbs. The
chair is a God-send to him, and Mr..
Weiser has our hearty thanks for
answering our prayer so quickly
In closing, I desire to thank the
board for their kindness to me in Civ
ing me a vacation that will enable me
to establish my family on the home
stead claim on which filed last winter
1t will not, take any appreciable amount
of time from my Office work, as I will
gladly make up by extra hours of duty
all the time have to be absent on oc-
casional visits to my family.
I believe a great future is opening
out before the society. When people
realize that men of means are invest
ing their money in real property for
the benefit of our work. and we grad
ually get a well-equipped group of
buildings for the work the confidence
of others will be gained and there Will
be no dearth of means to carry on the
work
eThere are not enough homeless chill
dren in our whole state to begin to
fill all the applications we receive;
though we often have to keep some
children on hand long time before
they are in shape to be placed. A
change of state laws can now be safe
Ily made allowing children to bs,
changed from state to state. This
would enable us to secure in st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Chicago, boys and
girls to fill such applications as are
worthy and cannot be filled in cur own
state, because so few children of cer-
tain age come into the soeiety's hands.
The railroads have again extended
the courtesies of free transportation to
our workers, thus saving us hundreds
of dollars annually
recommend that 2 anefactor Mem
bershtp be granted to President Pen
lnington of the 500 lines, President
Louis Hill of the Great Northern, and
to Howard Elliott of the Northern Pa
cifc.
Thanks are also due nearly every
pastor in the state for cooperation in
our work, and for the interest created
| in others by their leadership; and to
the newspapers of the state for their
kind words and gratuitous courtesise,
And above all we should be thankful
to the Heavenly Father for his love and
care over the children of the home One
epidemic Of scarlet fever was nipped
in the bud, after two weeks quarantine
LOT Matron Allen and a little girl Not
another case developed, and the child
( recovered without any bad after ef-
fectS. Diphtherfa came too close To tha
home for comfort, and quarantine was
necessary until a suspected case. proved
to be only tonsihtis. No epddenics Of
any sort have developed during the
year Cholera infantum claimed two