The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1916-11-17
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION

Report for the year ending Nov
ember, 1916.
Recelpts ..........: S26S.2S
Disbursements ... $S6S.24
The excess in disbursements is
covered by surplus from previous
year
During the past year, seventy
one families were given assistance,
one family calling on the Associa-
ticn twelve times for aid. These
people were greatly in need of food.
clothing. medical attention, etc,
and our splendid Relief Committee,
with untiring zeal and unfalt ering
judgment set about the task of help
ing these people help themselves.
Last month we asked through
the papers for contributions. The
collectors are going to try Cnce
more to interest the people of the
town in this Association. To those
who are active members of this or
| ganizatiCn and see the crying need
of funds as winter approaches, the
| Indifference the collectors meet
with seems unbelievable. People
cannot know what we need, or how
| great the need is unless they come
and see, or ask If you cannot
COME then ASK 1t will cost you
nothing to get this information and
what you give means life to the AS
ISOLATION. No matter how small the
amount is we will be more than
| glad to get it. If one hundred pep
| pie gave ten cents a month, seven
ty-five people gave twenty-five cents
! fifty people gave fifty cents, TWEEN
ty-fve gave seventy five cents and
ten gave one dollar, the Association
would have an income of $3.50
each month for their work and only
two hundred and sixty people Civ
ing, and Marietta has a population
of something like six thousand nine
hundred
We ask that everybody help the
Association all they can as we will
have more demands as the weather
grows colder.
Miss Louise Schilling, President
of the Benevolent Association of
this city attended the first confer-
ence on Social Welfare work held in
Macon Friday and Saturday, Oct.
27-2S.
The State of Georgia has no Of
! fetal board or central organization
for the purpose of promoting social
work in this State, and the citizens
| interested in such work desired to
holl state conference or conven-
! ton for the purpose of considering
| the needs of the State and adopting
methods of handling work along So
cial lines.
An invitation was extended by
the Evangelical Ministers Asocia-
! tiOn and the Chamber of Commerce
| of Macon to the social workers of
| the state to held a conference in
that city On Oct. 27th, 2Sth, and
10th, AMI expressed a desire that
the Governor appoint from the state
| at large who would not only be pres
ent as such delegates but would
| take the initiative in arranging for
the appointment Of delegates and
all other details Of the conference.
The following delegates were
named by Governor Harris and were
requested to take charge of the con-
vention:
Judge H. A. Mathews, Superior
Court Judge, Macon; Judge w. w.
Tindall, Children's Court Judge. At
j lanta; J. c. Logan, Gen. Sect'y As
ISOLATED Charities, Atlanta; w. c..
Vereen, Mayor, Moultrie, Ga; Robt
B. McCord, State Supt Ca Chill
dren's Home Society, Atlanta; Rev
w. N. Ainsworth, Pastor Mulberry
M. E. Church, Macon; Mrs. e.. l.
| Fitzpatrick, Pres. State Federation
of Women's Clubs Thomasville; Miss
Agnes Neva McKinna, Dept. of Spec
| ial Probation and Social Service
Work, Southern Circuit, Valdosta;
| Miss Celesta Parrish, State Super