Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-09
HUMANE SOCIETY
HAS BUSY MONTH
Meeting Held at Association
House Last Evening and
Reports Received.
MAY HAVE STATE OFFICER
Plans Discussed for Work Horse Pa.
rade to Be Held Later in the
Year.
MAY HAVE STATE OFFICER

An interesting meeting of the Rock
Island County Humane society was
was held last evening at the Associa
ton house.
Communications from the Illinois
Humane society were read, and these
showed organizations more than will
ing to assist in every way possible
toward the appointment of a state
officer for the county, and expressed
the belief that the matter could be
carried through. The matter of secur-
ing this state officer was left in the
hands of the officers to follow up as
they thought best with the advice of
the Illinois state society.
WORK HORSE PARADE.
The matter of the work horse par
ade was discussed and it was agreed
that this matter receive attention.
Action was deferred till later in the
year as the society thinks it advisable
tint the parade be held in the fall of
jlt year Miscellaneous bills for the
month of December were ordered paid,
leaving balance in the treasury of S..
The report of the humane officer
shows a very busy month with the fol-
loving cases attended to:
Animal cases received and investi-
gated, 5; Horses and mules examined,
90 Drivers reprimanded, 5; Horses
suspended, /; Horses destroyed, g.;
Children's cases received and investi-
gated, 2; Parents warned, 2.
The humane officer supplemented his
report with a verbal report in which
| he spoke of the benefit the society
| has been to the community and stated
that while the society had made but
| few arrests 1t has the respect of the
community and the transfers them
selves often give the information
which leads to the investigation of the
cases. He also spoke of the condition
of the horses owned by the poorer
people and stated that even the
| peddlers, and rag pickers of the city
have much better horses than former
| ly and that the efforts of the society
have been to educate the people to the
fact that old and poor horses are not
economical. He regretted the fact
that many of the worst horses on the
streets are owned by firms and indi
viduals who are amply able to own bet
ter stock.
NEEDS Personal INTEREST.
The society is awake and doing q
splendid work and it is to be hoped
that through the stress of other mat
tiers the friends of the society will re
member the organization and assist in
the work of protecting the children
who cannot help themselves and the
dumb friends of man which canno
speak for themselves, by renewing
their yearly subscriptions-and doing
it now.
The society has on its lists many ap
plicants from poor and needy womer
for work of all kinds. Many womer
are willing and able to do washing
either at their homes or at the homes
OF those needing help in their work II
they but know where such assistance
is wanted. Members of the associa
ton ask that anyone desiring womer
to assist with work of any kind
please notify the Association house
and that help will be forthcoming al
once. In this way the poor women are
able to help themselves and relieve
at the same time the burden tha
would otherwise fall on the shoulders
of the charity workers.