Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-22
AGED WOMAN REACHES SIOUX
CITY PENNiueSs IN QUEST
'es aH FOR KIN,
BELIEVES "soY" WOULD y
PROVIDE HER A HOME
Mrs. Mary Black, Aged Nearly 70
Years, Searches For Relative After
Losing Her Savinss-Onee Before
Came to Iowa But Failed to Find
Aim--Says He Is Railroader.

Sioux City, April 22.-An old woman,
her face woven with the lines of many
cares and worries. penni!ess and with
out friends, with her thin, frail hands
clasped together and resting in her lap,
sat in a room at the home Of NJ. c..
Flaherty, Ills Eighth street. and told
how she had come from Milwaukee,
Wis, 10 Sioux City to find her youngest
SON. who she felt would be only too
glad to care for his old mother The
woman IS Mrs. Mary Black, almost ~
years old, and she came TO Sioux city
yesterday TO search for her son. Will
liam Black. believed to be employed
as a brakeman on one of the railroads
running into Sioux City.
Mrs Flaherty brushed aside the cur
tains on a window in her sitting room
ard nosiced an old woman walking up
and down the street. Apparently the
aged woman was wandering aimlessly
a bout and when she grew tired and sat
down on the curb to rest, Mrs. Flah-
erty invited the worn woman into her
home to rest. When Mr.. F9aherty re-
turned home yesterday he learned the
particulars of the womans visit TO
Sioux City. He then notified Chief OF
Detectives Richard, who today is at
empting TO locate her son.
Lost Her Savings.
Mrs. Black has been a widow for al
most forty years. She has worked hard
during her life and succeeded in put
ting away a little nest egg" for any
rainy days that might come. She in
vested in little real estate in Mil
waukee, and a few years ago when
taxes began to increase and she could
find no buyer for her property, the
sheriff came along one day and took
II over.
Four years ago Mrs. Black reached
an age when it was impossible Tor her
to 20 out and work With what lit
tie money she had she paid few hum
dred dollars to the Sisters home
Twentieth and Wells streets Milwau-
kee. and became ward Of that insti-
tuition. For four years she remained in
the home and, as her age advanced,
she felt desire to see her youngest
son and to go to him and remain for
the rest Of her life. She had not seen
her son for almost fifteen years.
Missed Her Son.
A few years ago she received word
that AoT son WAS III dl Tic w aAi 90 ~
mission in Sioux City. She gathered
a few Of her belongings and came here.
At the Wall street mission Mrs. Black
was informed her son was not there.
so she went back to Milwaukee. Last
November her son went to Milwaukee
to see his mother. When he entered
the, Sisters home a misunderstanding
resulted in his leaving. as some one in
formed him Mrs. Black was not at the
home. That same afternoon Mrs. Black,
seated in a rocking chair near win
dow, looked out and saw her son run
ming to q catch a street car on Wells
street. She raised the window and
shouted, but her feeble voice was un-
heard. So she missed meeting her son.
Last Tuesday she resolved to @qu't
the home and come to Sioux City. Ar
irving early yesterday morning she
spent almost the entire day walking
about the railroad yards in the bottoms
!nquiring for her boy. Almost ex-
hausted. she made her way to the W.
cinity of Eleventh and Wall streets
where she hoped to find family
named Ford. who were friends OF hers
when she lived in Sioux City twenty
wears ago. Failing. she sat down to
rest on the curb in front OF the ran
erty home.