Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-03

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fAlA - tho lnkluonsa, leAvtn0 ~
WITH fivs ehildreA and nothing With
which - care for them. Che OBJ
tanned . home for her oldest gtrl aSs
IL On . farm near STATE Center.
where she = wsrktn9 for her board
ana clothes and n goiA6 10 SCHOOL,
and . boy, aged Z. has . home with
her husbands parents at Exlins.
Fred. age II. 10 fine looking well
built lad whom she wishes to place
on farm. where he can earn his
board and clothes and be aliowsd to
attend school. He has worked on .
farm, and understands milking and
ell farm chores. Last summer he
earned u a day. but Mrs. Cornmesssr
will DO satisfied II she CAN find him =
good homo where he can Darn only
his keep. but she wants him 70 70 to
school.
Paul. who was I years old Feb. IS,
ID 4 healthy looking younsster with
brown hair and eyes. and In wide
awake and q bright little fellow. Mrs
Cornmesser wishes to place him In
some homo whore the people would
not insist upon adoption, but who
would care for the child and give
him a good home. She says she Will
be willing to pay board for him and
pay for his clothes II someone will
give him a home.
Last Comes Baby May
The baby. May, who will be ; years
old in May. has Just learned TO walk
and is beginning to talk. She has
light hair and pretty blue eyes, IL fat
and has never been sick. Mrs. Corn
messer Ia willing that she be adopted
II q desirable homo can be found fol
her.
Mrs. Cornmesser has been able to
keep the children together for a year
but has found that she cannot give
them the advantages she wants them
to have. and tho she can heartily beaI
the thought of giving them up. she
believes she Is doing the right thins
for the children.
Since her husbands death she hai
seen much trouble. Her Oldest CIR
submitted to an operation for appen-
dicitis, and Mrs. Cornmesser herself
was operated upon last November
Altho she is not fully recovered from
her sickness. she has been forced to
20 to work in order to keep the fam
lily fed and clothed.
One Son 10 Dead.
Her oldest son. who would have
been Is in May, died a year before
her husband, Of appendicitis. Had
he lived he would have been a great
help 10 her at this time and she
would have been able to keep the
family together. But she says she
has met obstacle after obstacle which
she has tried to overcome. but has at
last decided that she must divide her
family, in order to make. a living.
She took the two younger children
witt, hsr TO State Center where she
worked in q hotel, but found that the
hotel was not a desirable place to
raise children, SO, after five weeks OF
hard work there, which was soon af
ter she submitted to an operation,
she took the children to Rock Island,
ILL.,, where she kept house for an eld-
erly man. He disliked children, how
ever, 80 after four weeks work there,
she came to Marshalltown. She says
she IL not afraid to work, that she has
known nothing but work all her lie
She was married very young to a
poor man. but they were very happy
with their children.
Happy TIL Trouble Came.
1T seems" said Mrs. Cornmsser
striving bravely to keep back the
tears, "that every thing that have
started and planned to do. can not be
NV husband and were just gettins
nicely started on the way where we
could see our way thru to better
things for the children, when he was
taken away.
II have tried to keep my family to-
eether, but now must give them up
II there is any happiness here since
my husband has died II hr" failed
to come to me, even when I needed
It most. If am willing to see my
children taken from me, surely there
ia someone who will be glad to take
them. They would If they loved
them like I do" 400
The only thing that Mrs. Corn
messer asks is that she be allowed to
see her children whenever she wishes
and that they be assured of per-
manent homo, II she finds that she
Il unable to take them back. Those
interested should apply to Miss Lou
yopel at tho Y. NJ. G. A.
HAS NEVER OWNED GUN.