Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1910 — State Soldiers’ Home at Lafayette is Badly Crowded. [ARTICLE]

State Soldiers’ Home at Lafayette is Badly Crowded.

Col. W. S. Haggard, commandant of the State Soldiers’ Home in Lafayette, visited Gov. Marshall Monday. Col. Haggard declares the home is much overcrowded and that there is. the most pressing need at the Home for an appropriation of at least $50,000, which will be asked of the next legislature. There are at present 1,430 men on the rolls at the Home, and with 200 or 300 on furlough, there is not a room vacant and many of the veterans are compelled to double up in bed with some one else. Besides this, there are at least 300 applicants waiting for admission.