Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1919 — REFUSE TO APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR HOME COMING [ARTICLE]

REFUSE TO APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR HOME COMING

The Carroll county commissioners met last Saturday to take some action on the request of the state officials that all counties appropriate money to send returned soldiers to Indianapolis for Welcome Home Day. The commissioners estimated that it would take $2,500 to send the soldiers to Indianapolis and decided not to appropriate funds for the Indianapolis celebration. Carrol county is planning a celebration of her own this year in honor of her returned soldiers and the commissioners decided when the time arrives to use the money that would have been spent for the benefit of the railroads and the city of Indianapolis for the home celebration. Wayne county has also refused to make an appropriation, which in their case would have amounted to several thousand dollars. The county will use the money saved to pay for a celebration of their own at Fort Wayne.