McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-05-02
HOME |KCURABLES
FORMALLY OPENED
LARGE AUDIENCE LISTENS TO
CEREMONIES AND ADDRESSES.
With Enlarged Quarters Home VIII
Be in Position to Accomplish the
Purpose Planned For, the
Relief of the Helpless.

Memphis With simple ceremonies,
in keeping with the quiet and unselfish
character of the work of the Kings
Daughters, the new building of tho
Home for Incurables was formally
opened.
The scene of the work accomplished
within the past five years since the
home was established was revelation
to those in the audience who listened to
the brief address in which the history
of the home was told.
Dedicated to the care of the suffering
and helpless, to those with incurable
diseases whom no other institution in
the entire state will admit within its
walls, and supported by band OF mo-
BILE women whose work is carried on
in accordance with the motto of their
organization, "In His Name" the hanl-
some brick building on McLemore ave-
nue., in which from eighty to hun
dred patients may be cared for. was
thrown open for inspection.
The members of the Kings Daughters
circles who have been active in the
work of planning and carrying out
plans for the erection of the new build
ing showed their happiness in being able
To realize their long-desired aims, and
the patients themselves seemed to feel
that they, too, had part in the event,
and that they should rejoice in the cul-
mination of the work which will enable
their friends to aid many others vs.
they themselves have been aided.
About twenty-five of them, who are
not entirely helpless, sat in their wheel
chairs or in big easy rockers in the re-
ception room in which the program of
the afternoon was carried out. Many
others, who are not able to leave their
rooms, and who may never leave them
again, listened to the music, and were
visited by friends who have learned to
know them, smiled at the gifts of flow
ers and tried TO add a CHEEKY word of
their own, in spite Of their Affections.
Few, if any, of them seemed despond-
emit, and sll had smile for the off
GERS OF the home, and for those men,
bers of the Memphis circles who arc
the most frequent visitors.
The completion of the new building
is the outcome of a suggestion made at
a meeting of the Memphis City Union
held in October, 1903 Two years later
the plan of building Home for lu-
curables, as state institution under
the care of the Kings Daughters, was
adopted at state meeting, and later
Memphis, having raised the largest
fund for the home, it was located in
this city. plot of ground containing
seven acres and small brick house
was bought for $17,500, and in that
the home was opened in March, 1908.
In the address nothing was said of
the earnest, unselfish struggles which
the members of the forty-odd circles in
the state went through ia order to pur-
chase the site and to sustain it for the
first few wears. No mention OF the
cost in money and time was made, but
those who know of the work of the
noble women who opened and have
maintained the home will honor them
for it.
The new building and other improve
ments cost practically $4,000, and
there is a bonded debt upon the prop
erty of $4,000. The institution is sus-
tanned entirely by voluntary contribu-
tions and by funds raised by the forty
circles of Kings Daughters in th'
state.