The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-06-29
FROM NORTH DAKOTA
Henry Rosecrans Writes of His Trip
to DEVILS Lake.

Henry Rosecrans, editor of the
Times, who with his wife are spend
ing few days with his mother and
sister at Devils Lake, North Dakota,
before their removal TO Moscow, Ida
no, where Mr.. Burke has been for
some time past as state manager for
an insurance company, under date of
June % writes to the Herald:
! | find it difficult to speak of our
trip in anything like Christian
spirit. 1t was uncomfortable from
the start, the heat on Wednesday be-
ing almost uncomfortable. At Grand
Forks, n. d., however, we struck a
cool wave that made life worth living
and brought us to our destination in a
pleasanter frame of mind.
| North Dakota will have a prosper,
Gus year. Wheat, the great product
of the state, is looking fine, and bar.
ring hot winds will mature without
any further moisture. The Minneso.
ia wheat fields will soon be ready
for the reaper, and to the casual OBJ.
server indicates a bountiful yield.
We found Mrs. Burke and family
well, but busy. They will remove to
Moscow, Idaho, in a few weeks, and
as your readers are doubtless more in.
terested in this piece of information
than anything l could write just now,
attach a clipping from the Devils
Lake Daily Journal, which Mrs.
Burke's friends will be glad to read:
when Mrs. Richard Burke, her
mother and daughters leave, as they
expect to in short time to join Mr..
Burke in Idaho, Devils Lake will lose
very fine family. Mrs. Burke, who
is woman of remarkable talent and
untiring energy, may be called a pub.
lie spirited woman and has identified
herself with many praiseworthy un.
dertakings and never lacked time to
work for the welfare of her neighbors
and community. One organization
from which she will be sadly missed
is the Associated Charities, founded
through her efforts and kept alive by
her cheerful assumption of the tedi,
Gus and constant duties as president.
The work of charity is not pleasant
one and except for the inward conso.
lation of doing good is often thank,
less and subject to unthinking criti,
cism. 1t requires many virtues, chief
among which are tact and patience
and business ability.
Mrs. Burke has proved her fitness
for the trying position by exhibiting
all these qualities and so well has she
carried out the work that there is
no adverse criticism. She has taken
a personal interest in the work, ad-
ministering sympathy with material
benefits and giving in addition her
time and strength. While the extent
of her work will never be realized ex.
cept by her successor and what she
has done is known in many cases only
to those benefited, some idea of the
work may be gained from the fact that
last year the Associated Charities
clothed and supported forty families
conducting an employment bureau for
several members of each family, for
it has always been Mrs. Burkes aim
to assist the unfortunate in helping
themselves, not to foster pauperism
and dependence.
OF course kindness was at times
taken advantage of and this fact
made the work all the more difficult
as Mrs Burke, although serving with
out financial recompense, did not
wish to squander the money of the
people who had donated to charity.
1T meant visiting the homes, at
tending to the collection of clothing
taking charge of the room where the
clothing was stored, being there when
someone wanted something or want
ed to leave something, listing the
clothes. shopping for other people
work which agreeable weather meant
the sacrifice OF her own inclinatiOns
and pleasures, and yet no one ever
found her out of patience or unwill
ing to go.
Between Mrs. Burke and the cOun
ty commissioners there has always
been harmony and they have been
glad to do their part. In short. the
society feel crippled without the lead
ership of Mrs. Burke and although
there are very many good and capable
women who will continue the work
successfully, the past president will
be long missed and DEVILS Lake feels
that Idaho is gaining woman who is
needed here"