Life — September 12, 1918 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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“Ie YOU KEEP A THING FOR SE EN YEARS YOU WILL FIND USE FOK IT.” “1 DON’T BELIEVE IT. I'VE HAD HIM LONGER THAN THAT.” LIFE’S Fresh Air Inclusis has been in operation th that time it has expended § given @ fortnight in the Poor city children, The and voluntary contrib knowledged in this colun Previously acknowledged Proceeds of a play given at Hewitt Lake by nine Farmington girls... A Friend Helen Boynton. Elizabeth Grav Jerotte and Alw John Harris Gutterso Charles, Mary and, To In memory of Nellie Davis ..... Employees of Vinita, Okla, N. Thayer Monta Susie Williams . Anderson Lumbe Brimicom! Teona Hamden, Miller, Eleanor Moore. +++ ‘of the Society for Jefferson Cli th and Relief of Tu the Preventio berculosis .. “Bay City, Mich." B, de Guichard .. of 1917, Lirn's Farsi Air Fux und is supported entirely by beq Fund In ests $10,180.97 Mrs. G. C. Thomson. . ces Burrall Henry No Name In memory ton. . Vilcox Mrs. H. Cadwalader i Me, Coos . Hobson R. F. MacLeod A Friend Anonymous $10,669.44 ACKNOWLEDGED WITH THANKS Package of shoes from Master Ned Kur- welton, Haverford, Pa, Package of children's clothing from T, W. Moore, Huntington, W. Va. Donations of vegetables from the follow- ing: John E, Snyder, Branchville, Conn.; Mr. and Mrs. Burdett, Branchville, Conn.; Mr, Burr Sanford, Redding, Conn. Twenty-two, children’s scrap-books (on linen paper). from, The. Koinonia Society of Crombie Street Church, Grace E. Hood, Salem, Mass, Fire at LIFE’S Farm T was a fortunately prophetic in- stinct. which made Lire recently reduce the number of children being sent to Lire’s Fresh Air Farm at Branchville, In the years that the old buildings have been used to more than their capacity the vigilance of Mr. and Mrs. Mohr and the caretakers has guarded successfully against what might have been a great catastrophe. On the night of August roth one of the buildings which, in crowded times, has been used as a dormitory caught, or was set, on fire and was completely destroyed. tortunately no children were sleeping there. This year’s work at the Farm is now finished. Before next year's work be- gins Lire will make sure that the chil- dren shall be properly safeguarded, perhaps by reducing still further the number sent to Branchville and by finding room for the full complement in some other quarters. In the meantime it may be possible to induce the trustees of the bequest of the late Mr. Gilbert to loosen their grip on the accumulated income in their hands, now amounting to twenty or thirty thousand dollars. Only a part of this money, withheld from the purpose for which the charitable donor intended it, would erect a fireproof dormitory. Then it would be possible for Lire to send the full number of poor children to Branchville with the knowledge that they would be in sanitary surroundings and their little lives not exposed to the peril of fire. The great work of Lire’s Fresh Air Fund will go on next year. Lire is about to submit to the trustees of the Gilbert bequest plans for a simple but fireproof dormitory which will safely house all the children. In the case of acceptance by the trustees the whole work will go on at Branchville. Other- wise Lire will find somewhere a safe place where the greater number of the children can find health and happiness and an escape from the crowded city in torrid weather. “VYJELL, well!” exclaimed Horton, glancing up from his paper. “They have caught the cleverest hotel robber in the country!” “Indeed said Haynes. hotel did he keep?” “ Which comicbooks.com