Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-02-19
CHILDREN find HOMES
Thirteen Orphans Placed in Splendid
Homes i'm Winneshiek County.
MORE CHILDREN COMING
ON THURSDAY, MARCH 18TH
Childrens' Aid Society Unable to Sup
ply All Who Desired Children,
Will Send More.

1t seemed like the whole county
came TO Decorah on Friday TO see the
company of orphan children brought
here from New York by Misses Mary
B. Comstock and Anna l.. Hill of the
Children's Aid Society, TO be placed
in homes in Winneshiek county. II
has been long time since anything
large crowd, but hundreds of people
from the city and country wanted to
see the children, and many of them
wanted to take one or more and make
a home for them.
Early in the afternoon the Grand
opera house was crowded, and by the
time the train arrived, an hour and a
half late, the. theatre was packed
from pit to dome, with standing room
filled. The children were taken di-
rect from the train to the opera house
and given seats on thet stage. Miss
Hill gave a short address explaining
the work of the society and the re-
quirements for placing these children,
that they must be we'll cared for, be
sent to school and Sunday School, and
that they are given out on trial for
both sides. The homes into which
they go are visited by representatives
of the society, and if the home is not
satisfactory or the people are not sat
isfied with the child, it is taken away.
There were thirteen children to be
given away, with about forty appli-
cants, so that the committee had
some difficult problems to solve in Sc
lecting the homes into which they
would be sent, but the general opin-
-ionAis that they selected wisely and
that every child goes into a splendid
home. 1t was particularly gratifying
to send the two little sisters and a
brother all into one home, that of
Frank Pilgrim of Madison township,
and the three Dickman boys into ad-
jacent homes, southeast of the city.
Two children were brought here
for parties from elsewhere, Alfred Le-
vitz, for Mr.. E. S. Johnson of Yank-
ton, S. D., and Clinton Whitteneour
for Claus S. Hanson of Clear Lake.
The former boy was corralled by
Lawrence Keefe as soon as he arrived,
and they became chums within a few
minutes. He was allowed TO take
him home until Mr.. Johnson arrived,
AMI Mr.. and Mrs. Keefe fell in love
with him, and it was sore trial to
part with him when Mr.. Johnson ar
rived Saturday, having come here
from New York, where he had been
to see the, child. The little fellow
will be taken out to Yankton.
The demand for children has been
so large here that the ladies in charge
Misses Hill and Comstock, inform us
that they have decided to arrange for
the bringing of another lot of child
rem to Decorah on Thursday, March
18th, for distribution, and the same
committee have been asked to assist
them in placing them in homes. This
committee is C. j. Weiser, Ben Bear
Rev. Paul Koren, H. c. Hjerleid, E
c. Bailey, H. ]. Green. No doubt their
coming will attract another large au.
dience, and an experience similar to
that of last Thursday.
The names of the children, their
ages and the homes into which they
have been taken, are given below:
Harold Krauss 13, Mabel Krauss
II, Mildred Krauss 9-Frank Pill
grim, Madison township.
Leon Floyd Hodge 6-N. n. Hend-
rickson, Satire.
Joseph Miller John Bollinger
Decorah.
Nelson Olsen 17-Hans T. Sandag.
er, Conover.
John Dickman 1t. William Dick
man 12-Paul Egge, Springfield.
Edward Dickman 80. c. Hill
dahl, Springfield.
Dominick Brown ia. o. Lands
rud, Springfield.
Henry Schroeder 12-Wm. Lime.
void, Frankville.
Carrie volkert 12-Torge Thorsen
Hesper.
Geo. w. Buckland 9-John Flueck
Pleasant
Don't place too much confidence in