Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1912 — GIVES OF HER WEALTH FOR HOME FOR AGED WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

GIVES OF HER WEALTH FOR HOME FOR AGED WOMEN.

Mrs. Harry Caldwell Provides for a Home at Earl Park—Estate eludes 6,100 Acres of Laud. Newton County Enterprise. —Mrs. Harry Caldwell, of Earl Pafk, who died last week, left the greater portion of her wealth to charity. By the provisions of a will which she executed A couple of years ago the bulk of her vast estate will Be used for the maintainance of a home for aged women at Earl Park. The estate amounts to nearly three quarters of a million dollars, most of it invested in Benton county real estate. There is some mortgage incumbrance, the exact amount of which is not made public. Mrs. Caldwell died childless and without relatives nearer than cousins. A number of bequests are made to these relatives and friends, and about $60,000 is disposed of in this way. The balance of the vast estate, including the spacious home at Earl Park, is to be devoted to a charity which is in every way worthy and one that was very dear to Mrs. Caldwell. A home is to be provided for aged and indigent women and the number to be provided for will only be limited by the capacity of the Caldewll mansion. J. Lee Dinwiddie, of Fowler, and James Barr, of Earl Park, are named as executors of the will and trustees of the proposed home, and their judgment will rule as to the eligibility of the applicants for admission as inmates. It will require some time to arrange the details involved in putting Mrs. Caldwell’s wishes into execution and getting the property into shape to provide for the maintainance of the home. - v -- The estate includes 6,100 acres of Benton county land.