Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1895 — The County Commissioners. [ARTICLE]

The County Commissioners.

The regular March term of the County Commissioners’ Court is in session this week. An important and commendible action, was the entering into a contract with the Children’s Home Society, of which the headquarters are in Chicago, by which the Society agrees to take charge of and find Christian homes for dependent children, between the ages of infancy and 15 years. For each child so taken, the Board a< rees to pay to the Society $35. This is the twentieth county in the state to make such a contract. Two children at the county farm, will at once be taken charge of by the Society, under this contract. August Rosenbaum of Rensselaer, and Charles Gundy, of Fair Oaks, were granted saloon licenses.