Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — A Pleasant Time for `Poor Fciks. [ARTICLE]

A Pleasant Time for `Poor Fciks.

The kindly Mrs. Roberto, mistress of 'the county asylum, loaded t :emostof the inmates of the asylum, into a bob sled last Saturday evening, and drove over to Mr. F. W. Bedford's place, east of Rensselaer, stopping by the way. to gather up a few friends in town, ;as they passed-through. Mr. Bedford's hospitable people gave them all a most cordial welcome, and a very pleasant kwening was spent. The Wartnerboys sang Dutch songs, the crippled girl poetess of the asylum, recited poetry, (some of it original) and the others contributed their shares in the evemmgXfl 'pleasures. The occasion will leave a bright spot in the memories of the asylum inmates, to whom social pleasures of that kind, are very rare indulgences. How rare may be judged .from the fact that the crippled girl “ .ibove'meritioned, had not been away from the farm before, for several years.