Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1912 — De Puyster and Monnett Home for [ARTICLE]

De Puyster and Monnett Home for

Girls. Tho work oLAho De Puyster School and Monnetb Home for Girls will be much enlarged by the new addition which will be completed in about a week. There will be eight new bedrooms besides a bathroom, large dining room and school room, and an airy basement to be used for play rooms. There will be accommodations for about thirty girls. This school is not an orphanage, though many orphans will find there a home and school combined, with the motherly care and guidance of Methodist deaconesses, who do the entire work of the school and home. Some of our students are not in financial need, but we receive letters almost daily begging us to take unfortunate little girls whose admission or refusal will mean for them, education and loving care, or neglect and often the greatest moral danger, yet for whom there is no money. It breaks our hearts to be obliged to turn away so many of these. To support a little girl in this school costs about $144 for the year of twelve months, at the rate of sl2 a month.

The board of trustees has recently been enriched by the election of two representative men, George Meyers, Mayor of Rensselaer, and Rev. C. L. Harper, pastor of the Methodist church. The other members of the board are Mrs. Julia O. Warington of Chicago, president, and Miss Winifred Thompson of Chicago, secretary. To these will soon be added | the name of Mrs. Rella Cromwell Fell of Rensselaer. In course of time the entire board will be chosen from Rensselaer. Working in harmony with this board for the interest of the Mon nett Home is the Northwest Indiana Conference Deaoonnees Board, consisting* of O. B. Rlppetoe, president; W. H. Fertich, secretary; A. L. Miller, N. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. J. C. Malrtln, T. J. Bassett, T. T. Everett, J. E. McCloud, Mrs. Rella Cromwell Fell. This beautiful new addition should not be dedicated with no debt. We have been made very happy this week by the gift of SSOO which we believe come as a direct answer to prayer. But there is about S7OO which must be raised soon. The toi tai cost of the building has been $3,600, including entire new heating plant, lightning and construction. This money is all paid with the exception of the S7OO. Furnishings for the eight new bedrooms are needed. These rooms may be furnished at a cost of $25 to S3O per room. The name of any individual or Epworth League furnlshing a room, will be placed on the door. tt