Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-29
hard TINES MOI N .
EVIDENCE N SCHOOLS
HIGH COST OF LIVING DOES NOT
INFLUENCE DONATIONS
TO THE POOR.
ALL SCHOOLS GIVE UP
TO NORMAL CONDITIONS
Some Donations Larger Than Year
Ago, and About Only Evidence Of
Falling OF Is in Potatoes-charitabIe
Organizations Receive Offerings -
Programs in Schools.

That there is no evidence of hard
times in Magshalltown homes when it
comes to giving to the poor was shown
in the annual donations to the needy.
Tuesday. From the material brought
to school two charitable organizations
o. the city were today enabled to dis
tribute forty-fve baskets Of food, SUI
ficlent in quantity TO feed large fam
lies
Frank NJ. Thomas Woman's Relief
Corps. No 9, distributed fifteen baskets.
each of which was worth So, and would
feed a family of ten. The corps re-
ceived the donations of all the school
buildings west of Center street. In each
basket was a chicken. bought by the
corps: two quarts of canned fruit, two
cans of VcsetableS, potatoes for two or
three meals. turnips. onions, apples
cran berries. bread. cookies. cake. cof-
fee rice and in some OF the baskets
butter.
What the Schools Gave.
The schools contributing to the corps
the Rogers, Click. Arnold. and Frank
lin--provided for the THANKSGIVING
feast and for other relief work for tbs
winter eighty EIGHT quarts of canned
fruits 145 cans of vegetables six cans
of condensed milk thirty-siX glasses of
jelly, eleven quarts of pickles. three
cans of fish. two quarts of mince meat,
two loaVes of bread. one cake. six
pounds Of rice and beans three quarts
of Cranberries, a small package Of
cheese. -four sugar. corn meal. coffee.
squash. onions, eleven heads
of cabbage, two and one half bushels
of potatoes. one and three-quarters
bushels OF apples. one bushel OF, tur-
nips. and one chicken.
From the donations of the Arson.
John Childs and Abbott schools the
Associated Charities will feed from
twenty five to thirty families with bas-
kets avera aging from $3.50 to s. in val
lie. Mrs. Luther Ray. in charge Of the
charity station. had supplied ten fami-
lies up to II O'Clock this forenoon with
the supplies she received from the
three schools.
Each basket which was sent out con-
tained bread, potatoes, canned corn or
peas, oranges, jelly or fruit, coffee,
cranberries, milk apples and a small
amount Of tea, canned salmon or herr
ing and pumpkin or squash. The bas-
kats are filled by Mrs Ray according
10 the size of the family for whom 1t is
intended. Some clothing was also re-
ce.ved from the schools. and this was
distributed By Mrs. Ray when needed.
From the three schools which turned
in a;r-n firth n nc oh VT u
ISOLATION the following totals were re-
celved: One bushel potatoes. fifty
cans fruit, fifty cans of corn. peas and
tomatoes. one-half bushel apples. a
peck of oranges, seven loaves of bread.
twenty glasses OF jelly. several
squashes and pumpkins. two cans of
coffee. one-half pound tea. four quarts
cranherries. six cans of condensed milk
and three tins of canned fish.
The Woodbury. school, which is the
fourth school east of Center street
from which the Associated Charities
Ora vs.. disposes Of its own donation
within its own district. as has been the
custom for several years.
Thanksgiving Programs Held
While in most of the schools Thanks
giving was celebrated only informally.
with no public exercises. in two of the
buildings, the Rogers and Arson pub
lie exercises were held. Some of the
schools are bending their efforts to-
ward Christmas programs, and for that
reason made no formal observation Of
At the Rogers the kindergarten. first.
and second grades held a joint Thanks
=
grades had separate programs, the
fifth and sixth We're together, and the
seventh gave a dramatiZation Of The
Courtship of Miles Standish''.
The Arson programs comprised
party in the kindergarten this morn
ing. a joint program Of both first
era des in Miss Redmond's room:
joint program Of the two fourth grades
in Miss Moscrip's room, with the other
grades giving their programs separate