Worthy Beneficence

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 27, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 30.

Worthy Beneficence.

We learn from Our Dumb Animals that at the May meeting of the directors of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and The American Humane Education Society, held May 18th, it was voted that in memory of the generous gift of the late Arioch Wentworth, the Massachusetts Society hereby offers the selectmen of each of the over three hundred Massachusetts country towns twenty dollars to aid in establishing watering-troughs or fountains for animals, attached to which should be an iron cup for the use of human beings, and on or near which shall be inscribed or painted the words, “Blessed are the merciful.”