Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — SOLDIERS’ HOME CROWDED. [ARTICLE]

SOLDIERS’ HOME CROWDED.

More in State Institution Than Ever Before—Fewer Deaths. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 10.—When the board oif trustees of the State Soldiers’ home assembled here yesterday for the first meeting of the year, Colonel D. B.'Kehler, commandant of the institution, reported the largest attendance in the history of the home. The roll call showed just 871 memibers and sixty-five officers and employes, giving the home a total population of 1,036. This is not the total membership, as a number of memibers are out on furlough, but. it is the largest number of members ever in the home at any one time.

The home is crowded to its capacity, and the waiting list is growing longer. There have not been as many deaths as usual in the last few months. The board of trustees received three applications for admission, whereas some months there ares more than one hundred applications.! Oif the three applications one was., rejected and the other two were continued for Investigation.