Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1915 — MORE COTTAGES NEEDED AT HOME [ARTICLE]

MORE COTTAGES NEEDED AT HOME

Annual Report of Cotamandant'hnd Trustees Sets Forth Pleasing Needs of Inaiitation. . 1 T Lafayette Journal. The need for additional cottages to accommodate soldiers and their wives seeking admission to the state soldiers’ home, is emphasized in the annual report of the trustees and commandant of the institution just submitted to Governor Ralston. "The present need for more room suggests that appeals be made to a number of the wealthier counties of the state that have built no cottages and whose members are now quartered in buildings built and oaid for by other counties, to build cottages sufficiently large to accommodate the J members from their respective counties,” reads & suggestion from Commandant D. B. Kehler. The daily average attendance of members in the last year had been 916 and of this number 337 are men and 679 are women. One hundred deaths occurred within the year. Both the cottages and the hospital are filled to their capacity. The net cost to the state for the maintenance of the institution last year was $162,294 JUL