Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1913 — RENSSELAER WILL AID FLOOD SUFFERERS [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER WILL AID FLOOD SUFFERERS

Subscription Started to Procure Help for Unfortunates Who Have Lost Homes. ,L>‘H ir ' If aid is needed at a time of suffering Rensselaer‘ls generally one of the. first communities to realize it-and td offer to give assistance. The direful conditions reported to be existing in the. flood-stricken cities has awakened a number to a realization that we hav<> been very fortunate in escaping serious damage and to give of the plenty with which many are surrounded to the unfortunates who have lost their homes and in many instances everything they had on earth. An appeal was made by Governor Ralston which declares a calamity is upon the state and that all the people who are able should respond to the call for help. Hugh Daugherty, of . Indianapolis, has been appointed a trustee -to receive the money, while clothing and supplies can be sent to Adjutant-Gen-eral Geo. W. McCoy. The local subscription has been started by James H. Chapman and William & Day and people are generally giving toward it with customary liberality and well they may do it, for there was just enough trouble here to indicate how /rightful in its disaster a great flood can be. Many Rensselaer pimple have relatives and friends in the stricken districts and this should cause our people to have a still deeper interest in the crisis now existing.