Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1908 — Monnett Children’s Home Growing. [ARTICLE]

Monnett Children’s Home Growing.

Mrs. Wilson, who is in charge of the Monnett Children’s Home, has another little one added to her fold, who was brought here last week by a Methodist minister from Frankfort, 111. ,It is a little girl four years of age, who was deserted by both its father and mother. She is a pretty little girl and is of splendid family, save for the waywardness of her own parents. The wife of the minister that brought the child here is herself the aunt of the little girl, but sbe is an invalid and was unable to care for the little one, and they thought it would be better to have her in a children’s home than to have her adopted by a family. Mrs. Wilson has recently had many applications from various sources for admission and all are to be self-sup-porting. Eight or ten more will be here the first of September, and the home will then be on practically' a self-supporting basis. Of course, it will be in need of money for various purposes of extending its influence, and any contribution will be gladly received, either of money or clothing or any useful article for girls. The fectful women in charge of the home will employ anything that is given them to the best advantage. Mrs. Wilson and the little inmates were overjoyed recently when they received a gift of a new organ from a charitable person at Waupun, Wis., The has greatly aided in entertaining the little ones, and gives the home more of a homelike feeling One of the little girls who is to come within the next three weeks is from way down in Old Mexico. She was bom in the states, but went to Mexico with her parents, where her mother died, and the father, who is amply able to pay, wants a good home with Christian influences for his little daughter. The home has been quite successful in chicken raising this year, and the little ones have aided in the care of the poultry, and in the gathering of the eggs, and they have had eggs •to eat a great deal of the time. A friend of Mrs. Wilson has suggested the holding of a lawn Jet* on j the lajvn at the home, and it is probi able that quite a little revenue could I be derived from it if some of the i charitable ladies of Rensselaer would take the matter up. tr