Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1916 — NEW HOME FOR DEAF AND DUMB [ARTICLE]

NEW HOME FOR DEAF AND DUMB

Will Be Erectpd Near Brookston On Site Given By Orson Archibald, Formerly Resident There. Some time ago Orson Archibald, formerly of Brookston, now a teacher in the school for the deaf and dumb* at Indianapolis, offered a tract of land, containing eighty acres, situated near Brookston, as a site for a home for the deaf and dumb of Indiana. This was offered with the provision that a fund of SIO,OOO be raised to buijd the home. That the home will be built is now assured, the money having been raised through the combined efforts of the deaf and dumb- children of the state, Utten E. Reed, of Indianapolis, and W. O. Weaver, of Lafayette. The last SSOO of that amount was raised at Brookston in one day and has been given in the name of Helen Weaver, a daughter of W. O. Weaver, who is a pupil in the school at Indianapolis. Plans for the new building arc being prepared by architects and a landscape gardener has been employed to beautify the grounds. The president of the association is a White county man, Joseph H. Kious, of Brookston, having been selected to fill that office. Prominent men of Indiana have been selected to fill the other offices of the association.