Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1916 — HOSPITAL PETITION WILL BE FILED AGAIN [ARTICLE]

HOSPITAL PETITION WILL BE FILED AGAIN

Persons Generally See the Importance of Having Hospital—Commissioners Will Approve. A petition signed by representative taxpayers from all over the county will be filed with the commissioners asking that $20,000 be appropriated for the erection of a county hospital in Rensselaer and it is understood the commissioners will act favorably on the petition. There should be no ill feeling -created about this matter. It is of too much importance to all the people of the county to be permitted to fail and we believe that there are a very small per cent of the people who would have it fail. Rensselaer is the largest city between Hammond and Lafayette and is situated in such a large territory that would make use of the hospital that certainly from a humanitarian standpoint it deserves the support of every person. Its establishment will' mean a development for Jasper county and be a great monument to dts progress. No one can tell how soon some member of their family may have to be rushed to a hospital for an emergency operation. How much better to have it done here at home, where the relatives can be in daily consultation and how much better to avoid the train ride on a cot. Any county or city that fails to develop along with the progress of