The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-05
JANUARY HARDEST
ON kE0kUk POOR
Outside Demand for Help On Part OF
charitabIy Inclined Persons is
Believed to be One
Reason.
MANY ASKING FOR HELP
Relief Secured Through United Chart
ties and Through Other Agencies,
Report of Secretary
Shows.

The regular monthly meeting Of the
board of directors of the United Chaf-
Titles was held yesterday afternoon.
The board discussed principally rout-
line matters. The recommendation OF
the Rev. F. B. McAllister for place
on the board was made. The report
of the secretary, D. A. GLASGOW, was
read and showed what has been done
lin the past month.
The report follows:
January has proven much harder
month on the dependents of keokuS
than any previous month. This Is IN
part due to the fact that many to
whom the groceTs had extended credit
were cut off ana to the fact that the
very heavy outside demand for help
was being felt by the charitably dis
posed CT our community. Our suffer
ing has oeen as great if not as pic
ituresque as that of many for whom
our sympathies have been enlisted.
During the month there We're two
hundred and fifteen applications for
help of various kinds. These calls
came from the following sources ::
Applicants in their own behalf, ninety
leight: for work only, thirty-three J;
private individuals, thirty-five; school
teachers and officers, thirteen: rela-
Itives, ten; business firms, church Of
ficers and societies each, five; Visit
ing Nurse association, four: out OF
town agencies, three: police and phy-
Isicians each, two: Y. NJ. c. A., INDUS
trial association and city and county
officials Other than enumerated, each,
Ione: all other sources, two.
OF the seventy-nine families. thirty
Eight consisting of one hundred ana
thirteen individuals. came to us for the
first time and forty-one, numbering
enc hundred and sixty-seyen persona,
were known to the Office at some prey
ious time. The normal families were
in excess, there being forty-six. There
were thirteen widows, seven trans
cient men, three each widowers. sep
Grated couples and single women, two
children, eight single men and one
whose marital condition was not re-
corded This group contained one
hundred and ffty-one persons four
teen years of age and older and one
hundred and twenty-nine under that
age.
Relief Was Secured.
Relief was secured in seventy-nine
instances known to the Office. l have
no doubt but some of the churches
and the superintendent Of the poo
gave more than once to some. Ger
tainlv conditions warranted it. Ma
terial aid was secured from applicants
relatives three times, amounting to
thirty-two dollars in money; from our
good fellow fund, seven; church Of
fcers and societies, FIVE; Golden Book
fund, eleven; clothing from mer-
chants, once; fraternal and benevolent
societies, once; physician and medi-
cines, once; four grocery bills were
o. KID and the superintendent OF the
poor asked to assist in thirteen in
stances where the county had render
ed help at someN previous time or
where the applicants were not averse
to accepting county help. There were
fifteen pairs Of shoes secured from
various sources for children in order
that they might attend school. There
are probably fifty children now out of
school because lacking them. One
loan of fifty dollars was negotiated.
Seven were given institutional care.
Temporary worl, was secured fol
times and three persons placed In
what should be permanent positions.
TRANSFORMATION was secured for two
families consisting of seven individ-
uals. One was sent to place where
they were assured of work and the
other to relatives who were willing to
care for them until the man got on
his feet. There were numerous d.
mands for lift TO the next town.
These were refused on the ground
that the recipien; was not being bene-
flied and such help had tendency TO
promote vagrancy and encourage the
floating element in stopping here.
curing the month there were two
hundred and thirty-seven telephone
calls, two hundred and forty visits to
or in behalf Of the needy and seventy
nine letters written.
DAVID A. GIASCOFr.