The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-08-31
Large Amount of SO(idI-ServiCe
and Charity Work Done
DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE YEAR
TOTAL $3S4.69.
Mrs. Kennedy Packard President of
Association, Tells OF Help Given
Many Deserving Cases.

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Charities of Twin Falls, given out by
Mrs. Kennedy Packard, president of
the organization, together with her
personal report, shows that a great
amount of work has been done during
the past year and that many deserving
and needy people have received aid
from this splendid organization.
The following report is given by
Mrs. Packard
Help was given during the winter
to 80 families. Some were helped to
coal and groceries only a few times.
Some would have suffered only for
clothing and shoes donated. A num-
Der of families where there was a
large number of children were helped
for many weeks.
Many children were kept in school
by being supplied with hose, shoes,
rubbers and clothing. Most of the
clothing was rubbers and many shoes
were purchased.
The number of persons in families
and single who were helped was 24O.
OF the individuals, most were men un-
able to take a job because of no
shoes, no coat or lack of underwear.
One man of Thrift and intelligence,
but laboring under the burden of a
sicl. wife, two small children and no
work, came to us for aid in the cold
est weather, clad in a sweater and
overalls, with poor shoes and no hose.
A Job was open to him, but he needed
clothes in order to take it. We in
vestigated our supply rooms, found
what was lacking, got busy over the
wires and met the response we have
always met here in our work. In one
day we had him entirely fitted out. He
took the job, made good in every
way, took excellent care Of his fam
lily and never again applied for help
"Such incidents explain to the do
nors some of our emergency coils
when we were telling our needs over
the wire in a hurry. 1t was in such
a case necessary to use all possible
dispatch or see the man lose his JoD
Over $50 calls were made during the
winter seven new babies were out
fitted, either wholly or in part; sick
ness in Is families called for many
calls. many ministrations, much labor
in preparing food. Meat sandwiches
were prepared for many days for the
men for the emergency work at Sho'
shone falls grade Gloves were alsC
furnished them.
zone woman, we'll on in her seven
ties, was found in a two-room shack
i'll, with few bedclothes, one hod O.
coal and half of a dry loaf of bread II
the house Her attendant was al
anaemic, starved-looking son of 10
who looked fit for the hospital. Sh'
was a foreigner, but we did not nee(
to understand her language to com
prehend the blessings she shOwered Oh
us when we gave her nourishing soup
oranges. and put on the shelves o
her room supplies Of food and on ne
cot a new comfort and blanket Bes
of all, perhaps, was the hot-water DOT
tie which the poor, sick creature
hugged to her breast as child woul'
a doll When we got to the bottom 0
d this case, we found that out on nic
40 acres not far from town lives he
oldest son, growing fine crops, lan'
all clear, and he with neither wife no
child to care for. Furthermore, n
had sent to Minnesota for his mothe
to come out to cook for him, and pic
tured the home he was making Sh
cooked for him three years, living o.
coffee and bread most of the time. Sh
gathered and cut all the sagebrus
She used, winter and summer, and h
made her help him clear the land an
work far beyond her strength. She
last smuggled a letter to the postoffic
by a neighbor to the younger son L
Minnesota, telling him to come TO
her. For two years the son had Gu
her off from all communication wit
him. He came at once and found he
bent sick and starving, and got he
into place in town and medical hell
The elder son refused any help. l
addition to this, he had during all thi
time collected a monthly rental OF hi
mothers in Minnesota, which woul
have been sufficient to feed and cloth
her.
Through correspondence, this wa
adjusted, good food, care and warmt
built up her strength to point wner
she was able to travel and she an
her younger son returned to Mime
sofa
"About January we moved 'grant
father to warmer quarters, DougI
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