Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — OFFERED GROUND RENT FREE [ARTICLE]

OFFERED GROUND RENT FREE

Section of Land in Kankakee Tp. for Bays’ Training Camp. It was announced today at a meeting of the state advisory committee of the United States Boys* Working Reserve, held at the Claypool hotel, that the firm of Straus Brothers company of Ligonier has offered to the state committee 640 acres of ground, free of rent and taxes, in Jasper county, the ground to be used as the site for a training camp for boys of the reserve. The money obtained from the produce raised will be turned into the treasury of the reserve. The establishing and financing of such “Farm Plattsburgs” was the main topic discussed by the committee. It is the plan to give the boys intensive agricultural and physical training before sending them to work on farms.—Wednesday’s Indianapolis News. / The Straus brothers own considerable land in Kankakee township along the river valley, , and the establishment of such a School there ■would not only be of benefit to that section of the county but would undoubtedly enhance the value of their other lands greatly.