Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1911 — New Custodian for Big Monument. [ARTICLE]

New Custodian for Big Monument.

* Admitting frankly that politics was tbs only reason for the change, the board of control of the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument at Indianapolis has ousted Lieut Col. George W. barker, republican custodian of the monument for the last ten years, and appointed as custodian Captain John C. Miller, democrat, of Evansville. During the ten years of Colonel Parker’s regime the total number of visitors to the monument has been 374,510, and the total receipts $74.983.45. For the current fiscal year to date, the number of visitors at the monument has been 27,384, and the total revenue $1,703.4*.