Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-06-17
Missouri Home for Aged Bap-s =
lists.

DEAR Mr.. AKE-Though a little tar
dy in complying with your request to
write something for your paper about
the Home, nevertheless take pleas
ure in doing SO. The second annual
report will be rendered to the Board
of Trustees at their annual meeting
which occurs in July. After that meet
ing, I'll be glad to furnish you items
from the report
In the two years that the Home has
been at work, it has cared for thirty
five old people. The highest number
in the home at any one time was
twenty two. OF the seven who have
died in the Home, five were past
eighty years of age, one was almost
eighty, and the other past seventy.
The old people in the Home come to
us upon the application of the
churches of which they are members.
Six churches in st. Louis are repre-
sented, one in Kansas City, and the
others here, have come from all parts
of the state, even Cedar and Vernon
counties being represented. One is
from Jefferson county, one from
Wayne and one from Cape Girardeau.
Two of the Home residents are total
ly blind, two are practically SO, and
another is totally deaf. Another keeps
&. her bed, and three use wheel chairs
when out of bed.
A progressive town, just as an up
to-date business firm, appreciates the
value of good advertising. A few
hundred thousand people in Missouri
In hal 70 hn RI xsytx IxA
was located in Ironton. Well, you
know the answer, the climatic, scenic
and few other advantages OF the
Arcadia Valley. The Hcme has Rev.
w. L. Boyer, of ST. Louis, giving all
his time travelling over the state. Mr..
Boyer is preacher of more than Or
dinary ability and widely known in
religious work throughout Missouri
Miss Komora Cheshire, a highly edu-
Gated and cultured young woman,
gives at least half her time travelling
in Northwest Missouri. The work OF
these two field secretaries, in addition
TO the travelling Mrs. Riggs and I do,
gives Ironton considerable advertis-
ing. The metropolitan papers and
scores of country papers have some-
vllluk w b0y 6OOub AAOhbOh OOCuu5O
the Home is here. Besides, there is
the Word and Way, OF Kansas City; a
denominational paper, going into
thousands of homes every week, and
at least every other issue having some-
thing about Irontoh and the Home.
The little paper published monthly by
che Home and edited by myself goes
into several thousand homes regular
ly, going to five hundred post offices
in Missouri, and into nineteen other
states and one foreign country. Those
who handle the mail at the post Office
can tell you that write several hum
dred letters O month. Now, II IRON
ton had not been on the map, the
Baptist Home would have put 1t on,
and 1t will certainly help to keep it
there.
IN my files have hundreds OF let
ters from people who want to come
to the Home to live and from churches
wanting to get members in. More
than this, ] have communications
from people In eleven other states
about admission into the Home. This
but emphasizes the need OF the kind
of work the Home Is doing. We can
take in people only as fast as the
chaFitably inclined people provide the
meana for their support, for those
who come TO the Home do not pay
their way, II they could do SO, they
would not be here,
The Home is In no sense private
enterprise or institution, any more
chan the schools, churches and as
eemblies of the valley are private in
atituuons. It is incorporated and
held IN tFget by Beard of Trustees
Cor che purpose Of caring for de-