The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-05-17
PEOPLE OF GOPHER
STATE AS PARENTS
They Have Adopted Eighty
Little French Orphans
KATO DOES ITS SHARE
Schools Here Exhibit Large
Interest In Those Who Suffer
Because of War

Minnesotans who have aided the al
lied war cause by the adoption OF
French war orphans have themselves,
or through their friends, provided for
eighty of the children whose fathers
were lost in battle, says The Mime
apolis Journal.
Miss S. Lillian Blaisdell, foreign
secretary of the Orphelinat des Ar
mees, Paris, formerly of Minneapolis,
in a letter to The Journal told of the
work that has been done in Mime
sofa. Miss Blaisdell and Marian
Moir, also former Minneapolis
woman, are on the ways and means
committee of the organization.
Several hundred children have been
adopted by Minneapolis and north
western residents through this and
other organizations, but the report
co-ers those adopted through the
Orpheniant des Armees, Paris.
Minnesotans Have Been Helpful.
Friends in Minnesota have been
so helpful to Miss Moir and myself
in our work for little French orphans
that we take great pleasure in MAX
ing the following report" wrote~>Miss
Blaisdell.
Eighty adoptions have been made
through us by MinnesOtans or by
their direct influence in other states.
The foster children are chosen from
the carefully investigated lists of the
Orphelinat des ArmeeS, though our
own, personal investigation is always
added to make doubly sure, not
alone that the family is needy and
justifiably entitled to war orphans
pension, but that it is unconditional
ly deserving as well.
with schools we make point in
each instance of choosing child
whose history is of unusual interest
or whose letters would carry patriot
ic inspiration to the American SYM
pathizers with whom correspondence
is carried on.
Group of BOY Scouts.
I'm one case d group of Minnesota
Boy Scouts have been put in COM
munication with a French Boy Scout
who is one of the needy orphans of
the war.
Following is the list of Minnesota
godparents:
miss Clara Crockett and friends,
Minneapolis.
Miss Helen Cooper, Minneapolis.
"Miss Isabel Kedney and friends,
Minneapolis.
Faculty of the Mankato normal
school,
Miss Kate Sparrow, Mankato.
women of Daniel Buck hall, Man
kato.
Miss Josephine Horton, Mankato
miss Lillian Gray, Minneapolis.
Pupils Adopt Two.
Mrs. Gray's classes, Central high
school, Minneapolis, two proteges.
Mrs. C. E. Wales, Bloomington
two proteges.
''Keewaydin chapter, d. A. r..
Minneapolis.
81. X. HoultOn, Elk River.
Samuel Houlton, Elk River.
'Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Jerome, Min
neapolis. three proteges.
Friends of Miss Agnes Moir
Bloomington.
Senior class, 1917, Mankato high
school.
Senior class, 1918, Mankato high
school,
Freshman. class, Mankato higf
school,
"Mrs. C. E. Wise and friends, Man
kato.
MRS James Moir and friends
Bloomington.
alfred Baillif, Bloomington.
"Victor Baillif, Bloomington.
"Mrs. ]. M. Moir and daughter
Bloomington.
Mrs Matte S. Fay, Minneapolis.
Miss Adra M. Fay, Minneapolis.
LA CroiX Verte, West high school
Minneapolis.
"Froebel club, Minneapolis.
Sunday School Aids.
"Two classes Presbyterian Sunda.
school, Bloomington.
Mrs. Joseph Clark, Minneapolis.
Misses Edna and Evelyn Fischer
Menkato.
'R. G.. Eagles, Minneapolis.
Baptist Sunday school, Whine
bago.
Room 305, South high school, Min
neapolis.
North high school, Minneapolis
two proteges.
"West Mankato school,
Pheasant Grove school, Mankato
Teachers. of Pleasant Grow
school, Mankato.
Union school, Mankato
"Franklin school, Mankato.
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