Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1902 — a Baker Likes the Pen. [ARTICLE]

a Baker Likes the Pen.

Sheriff Hardy has received a letter from A. P. Baker, now in involuntary retirement, for the good of his moral health, at a big institution maintained for that purpose, by the state of Indiana, at Michigan City. A. P. finds things there much different than he expected. He gets plenty of good, wholesome grub, and kind treatment so long as the rules are obeyed, and the convict tries to do right Everything is run systematically and goes like clock work. On entering a man is put in the second class, with coarser clothing and more stringent rules. In three months, if hie conduct is right, he will get into the first class and have much better clothing and more privileges, and a better time generally. But if conduct is bad, the third grade is his portion. The clothing is coarse and striped, and ugly as the hair of a brindle bull dog. Grub is also of the plainest. A P. expects to get into the Ist class all right, and no doubt he will. He is now permitted to write one letters month. In the Ist class he could write every two weeks. Baker’s present job is bottoming chairs, which he likes very well.