Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — Wants the Michigan Plan. [ARTICLE]

Wants the Michigan Plan.

Secretary Bicknell, of the State Board of Charities, has had printed a pamphlet of four a comparison between Indiana and Michigan as to their ways of caring for the infant poor of the State. Michigan has a population of 100,000 less tham Indiana, but it only has 300 children growing up in ignorance and vice in the country poor housts, while Indiana has 1800. The system prevailing in Michigan costs the state $45,000 a year, and the system prevailing in Indiana costs $175,000 a year. The experience in Michigan shows that the system has greatly reduced the rate of growth in the reform-school population. The pamphlet closes as follows: “For these reasons and others the Board of State Charities of Indiana will ask the Legislature, at its coming session, to enact a law for the establishment of a State school similar to that m Michigan. Such an institution in Indiana will mean a great saving of money and a greater saving of men and women.” , ■

An Old-fashioned House Warming. Friends of Mr. Micah B. Halstead and family gathered at his elegant new home in Newton tp., last Thursday eve, with well filled baskets. After a fine supper of which fifty persons partook, the house was inspected from 1 cellar to garret. Then came a general Ibcial time enlivened by music from a good country orchestra. Then th* big red apples circulated a dozen times or more and everyone had to strain his pockpt to convey home his apple for tomorrow. More music after which the company adjourned to meet in the near future at Uncle Jim Yeoman’s, who thinks his house deseives a warming in honor of its new coat of paint M. M.