Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1899 — Hotel for Hobos. [ARTICLE]

Hotel for Hobos.

The county commissioners of Tipeoanoe county have decided to erect at Lafayette a lodging house in which to shelter tramps who congregate in the city in cold weather. The quarters planned by the boardacan be erected at small expenses. The house will be built in the northwest comer of the court yard surrounding the jail. When arrested by police the tramps will be taken to the cojail and will be placed in the building erected for their use, where they wil be under the eye of the sherif untill released from custody and escorted out of the city .-Lafayette Journal.