Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-02-07
|lRITIES FIND |lyY NfED|N6 AID
 |oo nctober 330 Families l Individuals Have Ap- |nlied for Assistance. 
 |MAND IS GROWING
IS GROWING
I,t If Miss Julia Houston, Secrc- Shows Great Work by Organ
 i,atiou in Relieving Distress . Among Poor.

teresting ln great degree dlio ling the vast. amount of charity that has been done ill. Pine Bluff ,g the severe weather that has hiled here in the recent past, IS report issued yesterday by Miss Houston, general secretary of Associated Charities.
 ss Houston has been trying to are the report for some days but has been greatly delayed he effort because iof the rush ol Ecants at the Charities office (r, before have conditions in Pine been as bad as they have been winter, so far as concerns char work, and the organization has put to extra endeavor to care kll the cases that have been pre- ed to it.
 report covers the four months October 1, 1914, to February l., which period in the history of association Miss Houston calls fullest and busiest four months ts existence" In part, the re- is as follows:
 nce October 1, 330 families or iduals hitherto unknown to the |ities have applied for aid, only less than the total number of applying during the whole of year, which was 341. Twenty families, which were brought ard from last year were aIso assistance and "A of last years lies, which had been rendered Supporting, were forced to re- for aid, hence the organization cared for 3S2 cases, comprising S5O individuals, in the past four fhs.
 the new cases, 101 were pine families, 90 were families from Eby places, making 191 cases of a or less local nature, and 139 transients. Two hundred and y-one cases have been satisfac- disposed of and the organiza- had on hand February 1, 101 lgures can give no idea of the nous number of demands on the |ltles and the amount of work Oy them, during this distress n There have been S69 appli- TOT help in the office and the force has worked overtime to " the sorely-needed assistance. Materlal Relief Extended.
 nder the head of material relief. slocery orders have been g1vei, lao 4S orders for fuel. Since the a.eers of American have in- z 2 woodward in connection 'aelr industrial home, for tran men, the Associated Charities Su'ained wood from them. Some uulvlduals have been sent to the u'eefs home for work and meals 0s'ween v.' 50 and 100 persons have ,su medicine and medical atten- through the Charities. $56 has paia as rent for families, from aee store room TAP pieces ol ,as a nave been given on which aliilum valuation of $152.3O is s e' ga and el grocery orders valued '%sv' ~.S second hand school books Sasf \. school supplies have beer
 .o 70 school children and 1t sr,.,, ui furniture have been give, I'iles aa whose homes had beel ss 4 aassoc1ated Charities is yer,
 VI lne fact that in these day' a sulK' S' It has found work tha ssr s ' permanent for upward 0 ,ou ' women and children duri,l, 1sSs a,s. months. Sixteen childrel ,w;s. uiso been placed in school, tha |ttsrss would have been unap. er 4u because of the 1acx o ths V'otnlng and supplies. Per ", wo.' greatest part of the assocla thais IS with children, supervis 2 m aa, health, food, schooling an bo Finances.
 s he.pp'st past four months have see, he husasast sss drain on the finance lv m, association's history. Tim 1s rsn,se permitted a detailed finan ndituras.. ndiuss. but total receipts an bd dr,ss f,o'ss are as follows, for tn N i yal so1. October 1, 1914. to Eel sssa general subscription, sIsssu ssssultures, sl,1s3.o7.
 on hand, February s
 s'a's budget is ss.ooo, and