
“The Committee of Arrangement, Treasurer and other officers of the Wesley Chapel Aid Society, held in Nile township, Scioto county, Ohio, April last, have settled and paid all dues and expenses of the Society, and found the net proceeds to be $120, which has been expended in purchasing clothing, catables, and other necessaries for the sick and wounded soldiers who are in the United States service. The citizens of Nile and Washington townships united in getting up this society, and it was carried on with perseverance and activity and nearly unanimously supported and endorsed by the surrounding community. The committee feel to thank the ladies interested in this society for their activity and earnest exertions; also Messrs. Towell, Dugan, and others of their friends in Portsmouth, who donated very liberally to the society. We feel under obligations to Mr. Henry Jeffords, who was the most active and efficient ticket agent, and for his having sold more than double the amount sold by any other agent. A certain individual, not exactly known, passed on the society a counterfeit five dollar bank note, and a certain other individual passed a counterfeit fifty cent postal currency. We would say to these individuals, ‘Lord, forgive them; they know not what they do.’ Considering all things, the society had a good and glorious time, acting in a glorious cause, and gloriously in time to meet the Governor’s call for immediate assistance for the relief of our wounded soldiers in the Potomac Army. By order of the Committee.”1