Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — MONTICELL PEOPLE HELP CHICAGO KIDS [ARTICLE]

MONTICELL PEOPLE HELP CHICAGO KIDS

Many Volunteer to Take From One to Four Tenement Children for a Two Weeks’ Outing.

Monticello people are engaging in some practical Christianity and fifty-two Chicago tenement children are to enjoy the fresh air and all the pleasures of country life for a period of two weeks, W. A. Bryan, of Monticello, went to Chicago Thursday and today on train No. 37 took 26 of the kidlets to Monticello, where they will be distributed among a numbet of families who volunteered to look after them for twoweeks. • - Tomorrow 26 more of the little ones will be taken to Monticello by one of the settlement workers. The United Charities Board, of Chicago, selects the children who are to be sent out. Tired’mothers are made happy by having their weakly children taken into charitable homes, where the fresh air of the country will restore them to health and where they may have the pleasure of country life. Many of the little ones have never been outside the crowded city before and the lessoifs they will receive will prove of great value to them.

If some one in Repsselaer cared to take up the work they would doubtless flndjnany homes where little children'would be cared for for a fortnight. A line to the United Charities Board, of Chicago, will Satire the information desired to start the movement.