Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1909 — CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS [ARTICLE]

CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS

All Blds Opened Are Within Allotment of $6,000 Each. Indianapolis, Feb. 16. —A Washington dispatch says that twenty-one bids for the erection of two marble monuments over the graves of Confederate soldiers in the cemeteries at Indianapolis and at Alton, 111., were opened at the war department, which had allotted $6,000 for each monument. All the bids were within the allotment Teh blds were for the monument at Alton and eleven at Indianapolis. ‘The awards will be made In a few days.