having found homes for some of their little charges at Oskaloosa and 6 going to Valley Falls,
where the former supply did not quite meet the demand it seems.
A great deal of interest in the children was shown here, and several families entertained
children until homes were found for them.
Legal adoption is not required, and the children are really taken on trail. The society
agreeing to take the child back if anything goes wrong. They are visited twice during the
first year and then annually for a time, and families taking children are required to make
yearly reports.
The best appearing children and those in good health are picked to bring to Western homes.
Otto Lantz, who lives 4 miles southeast of Oskaloosa, took a little German boy aged 3 years,
named Samuel Dunbar, a bright little chap who speaks German readily.
Chas. Winans, at the old Fairgrounds, has a little 2 year old German boy, Fredoff Fredericks.
F.H. Corson, at the end of town on the northwest, takes Katie Fichtner, aged 11.
Louis A. Kimmel, a mile east of town, has the oldest two of the lot, Anna Potthoff, aged 15 and
William, her brother, aged 13 years.
Owen Johnston, 3 miles northwest of town, has a little 6 year old maiden, Adelaide Loggman.
Harvey Wood, who recently came from Missouri and is on the Critchfield farm, 2 miles
southwest of town, has a boy aged 9, Henry G. Palmer.
James Quakenbush, just east of town, takes Eva Grant, aged 10 years.
Thomas Davis, on the old Snyder farm, southwest of town, has Mildred Grant, aged 12.
This lot of youngsters have certainly found good homes and it is to be hoped will grow into
good, strong, bright young men and women.
Of those sent to Valley Falls: Norman Deacon, aged 5, goes to Jessie Uhl; Fred Valentine,
aged 6, to Newton Bilger; Wm. Buggelen, 12 years to A.H. Jurgens; Wm. Hoyt, 10 years, to
H.A. Mowry; Edward Hoyt, 8 years, to J. Irvin Spence; Marvin Miller, aged 6, to A.J. Jurgens.
The agents say that only about one in ten of the children are ever taken back, nearly all of
them being acceptable to the families taking them.