Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1910 — WEATHER FORECAST. [ARTICLE]

WEATHER FORECAST.

Fair tonight ; Saturday partly cloudy, possibly showers. Contract Let For New County Poor Farm Building* ] u Newton. The board of commissioners of Newton county has awarded a contract to Fred Friedlipe & Co., of Chicago, for the buiding of a new county infirmary, to replace the one recently destroyed by fire. The infirmary will contain a residence for the superintendent and forty rooms for inmates, and will cost $25,000. The commissioners also awarded to Jacob Ackerman, of South Bend, a contract for the building of thirty miles of macadam roads in Washington township, for $62,200. Kentland is enjoying a good building boom. Contracts will soon be let for a hqw SIO,OOO Carnegie library, and a $17,000 Methodist church; The Pennsylvania railroad will build 'a new SB,OOO depot, and the town is Constructing a waterworks plant. A new $20,000 hotel Has just -been completed and contracts have been let for a number of new residences to be erected during the summer.