Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — More Aid for the Monnett Home. [ARTICLE]

More Aid for the Monnett Home.

Assistance continues to come to the Monnett Children’s Home and many people are expressing themselves as heartily in sympathy with the movement taken by the Republican in assisting Mrs. Wilson in getting a start in the poultry business and in defending the home against the unjust, inhuman and selfish attack of another newspaper. Sylvester Gray is a late contributor in the sum of one dollar and Mrs. Wilson has received one dollar from each of two women by mail and $5 from another and her brother-in-law, who is a business man in Wisconsin, has sent her a draft for SSO. Fred Phillips, who is alw#s ready to recognize a deserving proposition and who is a neighbor of the home, has given a section of his pigeon house, 52 feet in length, with cement roof and all modern poultry improvements, and J. K. Davis has volunteered to aid in the moving of the same, as also has Firman Rutherford, another neighbor and a practical house mover. Mrs. John Gwin telephoned to the Republican from her home in Union township Tuesday that her class in the Rosebud Sunday school had become interested in tie movement to assist the h'ome and that they would devote Saturday of this week to soliciting chickens in that splendid neighborhood and that Mr. Gwin will collect the chickens either Monday or Tuesday of next week and .bring them in. Mrs. Gwin is quite srfre-that they can get 40 chickens in that neighborhood. This is a practical charity and will put the name of Rosebud well to the front in well doing. Mrs. Wilson called ( at the poultry farm of J. H. HoldfiA 1 and he has promised to asilst her in getting started, and tiTs professional knowledge will be of great value aside from the donation he made in the poultry shower.

The institutions that are maintained by taxation are largely correctional and from the foundlings the little ones are only held until they can be given away and very often they fall into very questionable hands. Irf the aeaconess work the girls are passed from one branch to another as they advance in age and in learning and they are given every advantage of excellent influence, something that they are not apt to acquire in ah institution where the teachers are elected or employed instead of having been given the place because their lives were devoted to rescue work. Rensselaer is very fortunate to have the Monnett Children’s Home in our midst; and it will be proven as time progresses that our people are as willing to aid the needy as aje the people of any community, and there will be no complaining that the home is exempted from taxation.