Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1911 — TO BATHE AT TOWN’S COST [ARTICLE]

TO BATHE AT TOWN’S COST

Request of Inmate of Connecticut Poorhouse Stirs Officials and Request Be Granted. Hartford. Conn.—The clean years are to follow the foul years in Manchester for Walter Jackson, the venerable negro, who, in addition to being prominent aa the only inmate of Manchester town house. Is now noted state-wide as the only person In the commonwealth who has escaped a voluntary or enforced bath In the last six years. He Is to «njoy a long deferred swim. Daring his stay at the poorhouse' Jackson never has dabbled in any water more than could be held In a small basin, but the past' week the selectmen received a respectful petition from him requesting that facilities be afforded for at leasFone more bath before he died. Much excitement was caused by the receipt of this extraordinary petition, and, after long wrangling, arrangements were agreed to by the sokms.