Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilssraphlc Reports From Many Parts of the Country. - SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL T Happenings in the Nearby OiUes and Towns—Matters of Minor MenOon From Many Localities. STATE BUYS A COLONY SITE Purchases, 2,120 Aliens Near Butlerville for Feeble-Mfnded Home. Purchase of 2,120 acres of land near Butlerville, Jennings county, to be used for the estabUahmant of a colony for feebte-utindod, is announced by the* commission appointed by Governor Goodrich to secure the site. Tiiß cost is given out as >l4oy--000. The land, the commission reported, was selected from 25 sites offered, and more nearly fills tbe requirements than any of the others. It is seven miles from North Vernon, has 12 farm, houses on it at present and a water supply from the Mfiscatatuck river is available. In addition there Is sand, gravel and jimestone on the land for use in construction of building and 80 per cent of the total acreage is tillable. The legislature at its last sesqjon appropriated $250,000 for. the land and erection of buildings- Inmates of home for the feeble-mnided wUI aid in. the erection of tbe buildings/