Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — ROOM FOR HOME MISSION WORK. [ARTICLE]

ROOM FOR HOME MISSION WORK.

Clint Saidla was bound over to the circuit court Friday afternoon in SSOO bounds furnished by his father, I. A. Saidla, on paternity charges brought by Ella Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of former night-watch Thoms, who alleges he is the father of her six months old babe. Young Saidla vigorously denies the charge. A sister of the girl also has an illegitimate babe, and is understood to have settled for a cash consideration from the father of Roscoe Zeig-. ler, she alleging that young Zeigler was the father of the child. By the way, isn’t it about time Rensselaer had a moral awakening? In the last year four or five illegitimate children have been born to young girls here, and if such girls are allowed to gad the streets at all hours of the night, as they have been doing in the past if reports are correct, we may expect these conditions to grow worse instead of better. This is a live subject and it is to be hoped that it will replace foreign mission work among our religious and moraiuplifht people for awhile, at least until the conditions are bettered greatly.