Clinton County Republican-News
June 23, 1927

EWING REPORTS ON BATH FUND

SUPERVISOR ITEMIZES RECEIPTS AT RELIEF COMMITTEE MEET

Couzens Visits Village June 16; Will Meet With School Board on Friday

Senator James Couzens spent last Thursday in Bath, together with Gov. Green,
Wm. M. Smith of St. Johns, and several others.  Senator Couzens talked with 
members of the school board and a number of Bath citizens, also visited a number
of the injured children in Lansing hospitals.  After surveying the situation 
to his satisfaction he decided to send an architect to Bath to inspect the present
school and promised to meet the school officials at a meeting to be held Friday,
June 24th.

On Wednesday, June 15, members of the local committee in charge of the relief 
for Bath school disaster victims met with Supervisor Ewing of that township and
he gave a report of money received by him.  The fund was divided into two groups,
the first being that from which he had already paid bills, which is as follows:

Red Cross (taken in at Bath office)______________$  748.15
Clinton Co. Supervisors__________________________ 2,500.00
Governor's committee_____________________________ 2,000.00
                                                 ---------
                                                 $5,284.15

All money that had been paid out prior to Wednesday, June 15, had been paid 
from the above fund.  In addition to this amount Mr. Ewing had received the 
following items which had been deposited in the bank at Bath:

School ground boxes____________________$767.58
Ovid fund No. 1________________________ 310.00
Ovid fund No. 2________________________  88.00
Dewitt O.E.S. (Order of Eastern Star)__  25.00
Reed & Miller orchestra________________  45.00
Price M.E.S.S._________________________  12.36
People of Caledonia____________________   7.64
Ovid fund No. 3________________________  53.25
People of Munith_______________________  15.00
Mr. Scott, Dewitt______________________   5.00
Mrs. Frank Jacoby, Jackson_____________   1.00
People of Shaftsburg___________________  88.00
People of Grand Rapids_________________  33.65
People of Webberville__________________ 145.00
People of Salt Lake City, Utah_________  20.00  (!!!)
Bath Grange____________________________  25.00
People of Beaverton____________________  37.50
People of Fulton, Iowa_________________  25.00  (!!!)
School Dist. No. 5, Dewitt_____________ 119.50

Money for the relief of Bath people was sent to several agencies, and the above
tabulation refers only to that paid direct to Mr. Ewing, according to William M.
Smith, chairman of the committee.  All disbursements are being made by Mr. Ewing
with the approval of the committee.