Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1916 — DEAF MUTE HOME TO BE BUILT [ARTICLE]

DEAF MUTE HOME TO BE BUILT

Building Will Be Placet! on !„•«,<! (liven by Orson Archibald. Lafayette, September 22.—-Orson Archibald of Indianapolis, who is a deaf mute, three years ago proposed the building of a home for aged arid infirm mutes <v r Indiana and offered eighty acres of land north of this city as a site. The only condition imposed was that i.c. obtained by subscription, to be! ap;plied to. the building. After a great deal of' effort bad been raised recently by the deaf ] children of the state, and Mr. At - ■ ibald agreed to give twenty acres more in ease the money was forth coming by September lT,' W O Weaver of this city and Utten B j Read of Indianapolis then went to Brookston, White county. near where the Archibald land lies, and soon had the needed sum, the residents of that town subscribing liberally. Credit for the raising of the $.,00 has been given tOf Mr. -Weaver’s little daughter~Helen, who is a pupil at the Indiana School for the Deaf at Indianapolis. A landscape gardener will be-em-ployed to get the land in condition for the beginning of work on the building early next spring. Mr. Archibald is much interested in the project, and will superintendent the erection of the horn*,. Joseph H. Kious of Brookston is president of the Orson Archibald Home association: *U; B. Read of Indianapolis is recording secretary; Evelyn B Tleiger of Indianapolis, Corresponding secretary, and Henry Bierhaus of Indianapolis, treasurer. i