Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — OLD SOLDIER NOW IN COUNTY ASYLUM [ARTICLE]

OLD SOLDIER NOW IN COUNTY ASYLUM

Man Called the “Ground Hog” at Remington Given Bath-t-Gets Increase of Pension. A few days ago an old man named John M. Hillman was brought from Remington to the county asylum. It seems that he had lived in a hovel over there and never washed nor cleaned himself up and he was so filthy that he was nicknamed the “Ground Hog” there and so known to about every person. One day last week John Harris, Cy Rice and the town marshal of Remington decided to give him a scrubs bing up and this was done, after which he was given a new suit of clothes and brought to the county asylum here. The next day Superintendent Nichols received a letter forwarded from Remington. It was from the Pension Bureati and proved to be a notification that he had been granted an increase in his pension from sl2 td $25 per month juid that he had been allowed back pay at this rate since last May, amounting to a little over $67. Mr. Nichols had already written to the national soldiers’ home at Marion, where he claimed to have been an Inmate at one time, to ask if he could not again be admitted there. The reply stated that he had not been an inmate at any time. Under the federal law a pensioner who received more than S2O per month is not eligible to admission at a national soldiers’ home

, The old man has been quite well pleased since he arrived at the county farm and since he was given the scrubbing at Remington and required to keep clean at the farm, he is not a bad looking old man. A package of papers that he carried in his pockets, smelled so foul that Mr. Nichols disinfected them. thoroughly. The soldiers’ home would be the proper place for him, if he has no relatives willing to care for him. ‘ V | ' Christmas shoppers will find Lee’s new dry goods and shoe store a good place to buy. Everything new and nice. The day of harsh physics is gone. People want mild, easy laxatives. Doan’s Regulets have satisfied thousands. 25c at all drag stores.