Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — GIVES LAND FOR CHARITY [ARTICLE]

GIVES LAND FOR CHARITY

Indianapolis Man Plans Home for Aged Deaf and Dumb. r Lafayettp, Und., March 1. —Through the generosity of Professor Orsen Archibald of the School for the Deaf at. Indianapolis, and a former resident of Lafayette, a state home for the aged and infirm deaf of Indiana will be established in White county, twelve miles north of Lafayette. Professor Archibald has given eighty acres of land for the home an£ the only condition imposed is that the sum of SIO,OOO be raised as a maintenance fund. An association has been formed* and has received a state chapter and the money will be subscribed without delay. The incorporation members of the association are: Wilbur F. Severson of Lafayette, Orsen Archibald of Indianapolis, Henry Bierhaus of Indianapolis, Uthen E Read of Indianapolis, Henry D. Miller of Middlebury, Philip Hasenslob of Chicago, Daisy Soot of Michigan City, Ida Kinsley of Shelbyville and Evelyn Heiser of Indianapolis.