Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1909 — HEARS FROM BICKNELL [ARTICLE]

HEARS FROM BICKNELL

Red Cross Official Tells of Work Being Done at Messina. Bedford, Ind., April 13.—Dr. J. T. Freeland of this city, is in receipt of A letter from Ernest Bicknell, a boyhood friend, who has charge of the work of constructing 3,000 new stone buildings at Messina, Sicily. The letter says the dwellings are being built from American plans and are radically different from the buildings destroyed by the great earthquake. Bicknell was born in Knox county and at one time was secretary of the state board of charities, with headquarters at Indianapolis, where he Is well known.