Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1916 — Strange Situation Comes to Town In Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Strange Situation Comes to Town In Indiana.

David Byers, who is under quarantine for leprosy at Ft. Branch, Ind., has defied the people of the town, who at a mass meeting insisted that certain rules and regulations should be followed by Byers and his wife and daughter, who remain with fim. He declared that he would resist any attempt to remove him from the state* or to have a guardian appointed for him. He declared that he still able to take care of his own business. Byers, as a civil war veteran, draws a pension of S3O a month. Citizens desire the money turned to the use of his family without passing through his hands. Steps are being taken by the citizens to remove the boycott which was declared against the town by traveling men and visitors. The state board of health and the county medical society have been asked to issue a statement giving assurance that there is no danger of contagion.