Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1908 — WHO WIL HELP A WORTHY CAUSE? [ARTICLE]

WHO WIL HELP A WORTHY CAUSE?

Monnett Children’s Home Seeks Aid in Starting Itself in the Poultry Business. > The Monnett Children’s Home Is in Rensselaer to stay, and before this week is past there will be seven little girl orphans at the home and under the careof Mrs. Etta B. Wilson and Miss Cora Edison. The home Includes the residence property of Miss Cordelia Monnett and the ten acres adjoining it. The plan Is to have the women in charge of the homes earn their way and Mrs. Wilson is a very resourceful woman and has been able to procure enough means to feed and clothe the three little ones* that have been at the home for several weeks and is now undertaking the task ofcaring for four more, who have already been started on.their way from Spokane, Wash. It Is a large task and something that the people of Rensselaer and Jasper county will be very anxious to assist in when they learn the good that the home is accomplishing. To this end the Rensselaer Republican wishes to assist In getting the people interested, and after they are interested to get something substantial from them. The seven little girls are Orphans and save for the work of rescue these women have undertaken would be left to the cruel mercies of the world, in hovels that have a certain ending that is evil. This is practical Christianity; it is the kind that should have the greatest response. To this end the Republican has arranged with Mrs. Wilson to cbnduct a chicken shower for the home. The arrangement is to let any person who desires bring a chicken, good hen preferred, and leave it either Friday or Saturday of this week at the Monnett Children’s Home, on College avenue. It is hoped that every person who lives in Rensselaer and every person who comes to Rensselaer on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 28th and 29th, will either leave a chicken at the Home or contribute in some other direction toward the aid of Mrs. Wilson in starting In the poultry business. They will need fence posts, a better chicken house, a larger chicken park, and money will be required to accomplish all this, but if there are more chickens contributed than can be handled some of them can be sold and the money used to' build the park and the house.. Elsewhere is a list started by the Republican for the benefit of the movement The following article is from Mrs. Wilson: The Monnett Children’s Home, after an existence of three months, is pleased to announce that'*'it is not only alive, but lively; and Ing that everything had to be worked up clear from the bottom —tb say that the Home has made a good start in three months’ time is saying much. As a worthy institution of your town, every public spirited person should take an interest-in its work; and also be willing to lend a hand toward making it a success as well as a blessing. As a home for homeless motherless little girls, it seems we are filling a deeply felt need in the Deaconess work. From among more than a scoie of applications, but one little girl has a mother, and she was at death’s dbor and dependent on the county where they lived. The Home can take these girls only just so fast as the Lord sends us day by day our dally bread and the other things necessary to any home. Believing that “The Lord helps those who help themselves,” we are planning to help ourselves by getting some hens to help us scratch for a living. Eggs are very good for children to eat, eggs can always be traded for groceries, and there is always a market for good poultry and there is no other such a willing helper in a quick and ready mtoney scheme as Biddy. • X There is ample room and an experienced hand at the poultry business and nothing is needed but a start to make a good paying business possible. .With even a hundred dollars capital to begin on, the business could bo made to yield a fine profit even the first year; and, in years, become a mods and more valuable source of income to the Home. « But we need the start; and we see no way" of getting it unless it comes from friends. Who wants to be one of them, and help us with a contribution for our chicken enterprise? Anything will be acceptable, money (dollars from thOse who can spare smaller sums will Wp couni

up) building material, fencing, feed, heps, eggs to set, and please don’t forget the Incubator. The Rensselaer Republican has kindly offered to help in this good work by calling for and receiving contributions for this purpose. The readers of some of our city papers contribute thousands of dollars every summer to help poor children. You have a chance right here in your own town to help some as needy and as deserving as can be found anywhere. Therefore let all who read this try earnestly to help in some way, as the Lord has blessed you and spared your children from being left adrift on the world.