Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — GIVES FOR WORTHY PURPOSE [ARTICLE]

GIVES FOR WORTHY PURPOSE

Card Writer Heads List for Crippled Child With $25. Charles H. Wager, the expert penman who is holding forth in a lit-, tie booth on the sidewalk in front of the Barnes restaurant, writing; name cards, has given the first $25 taken in to the charity board as a nucleus to a fund to send Albert Albin, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Albin, to St. Louis to have his crippled foot straightened. Mr. Wager, who is known over the country as “The Little Man With a Big Heart,” has made the practice of performing these stunts to aid crippled children, and came here from Remington, where a fund of some S4OO was raised to send a crippled child to some famous surgeons for an operation to make the child sound. Before coming to Remington he did a like service for a crippled child at Fowler. It is the intention to send the Albin boy, accompanied by his mother, to this St. Louis institution, where they make a specialty of straightening deformed limbs and feet, and the lad will no doubt be permanently cured after receiving the treatment and will certainly have cause to be grateful all his life to the gentleman who started the. movement to riiake him sound and well like his other playmates. ■Mr. Wager is a wonder with a pen, and it is very interesting to see him at his work and the rapidity and ease with which he turns it out. The $25 -turned over to head the fund for the relief of the Albin lad was taken in here in but 24 horirs. He has enjoyed a good patronage here and will remain in Rensselaer for several days yet.