Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1915 — Penal Farm to Open. [ARTICLE]

Penal Farm to Open.

Governor Ralston issued a proclamation Thursday declaring that the new Indiana state penal farm in Putnam county would be ready to receive prisoners April 12. The institution is designed to empty the county jails, which are breeders of idleness, of prisoners sentenced to serve 60 days or more and less than one year. The penal farm consists of over 1,500 acres and is adapted to fruit raising and general agriculture. It is expected that the new institution will provide ultimately for 800 prisoners. The cost of transporting the prisoners will fall on the counties.

W. R. Shesler is planning to go to Hammond tomorrow to spend Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. C. B. Brunsdon and family. Wow that he ids a private citizen with nothing to worry him, he feels lonesome and don’t much like the idea of leaving Rensselaer. And we don’t like to have him leave, either, and although he is going to travel for a Chicago Heights company, we believe he should call Rensselaer headquarters and come back* here occasionally. Think it over, Will, and see it that isn’t best ■ • • • ... »