A Grand Jury’s Gift of Milk
Seattle’s Children’s Home receives a life-changing donation from the civic body overseeing the county’s legal affairs.
The ladies of the committee desire to express their thanks to the members of the recent Grand Jury for their generous gift of money, received from them, for the purchase of a cow for the Children’s Home of this city. It has been the desire of the ladies since the Home was opened to procure one, but they were unable to do so. When the Grand Jury was visiting the Home, seeing the great need, they were headed by the foreman, to whom we are especially indebted for the attention to the purchase. To them and a few former friends and friendly townspeople, our thanks are due, as also to the grateful and cheering words accompanying the gift. When we accomplished our task of purchasing such a cow as we wanted, with your permission we shall let them know through your paper, as the foreman requested us to do, saying: 'The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is read in every house of the county.' And it will be a satisfaction to the subscribers to know through their efforts the little ones of the Children’s Home shall be furnished with an abundance of pure fresh milk.
“The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is read in every house of the county.”
In 1886, a cow was considered a vital piece of infrastructure for a charitable institution—a direct, tangible investment in child welfare. Today, food security for youth remains a critical pillar of Seattle’s civic mission, though the scale has shifted from communal cows to complex food-access networks and school lunch programs.
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