Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — Deputy Warden Named. [ARTICLE]

Deputy Warden Named.

Frank Sewell, who has been connected with the Michigan City prison for 19 years, has been named deputy warden to fill the position made vaoant by the resignstion of W. M. Barnard, who ia now connected with the reformatory at Jeffersonville, /Mr,, Sewell will qualify and begin his duties at pnoe.

C. E Kersey, of the town of Kersey, at the oroseing of the Gifford and the Three I railroads, was in town Tuesday. He is tbe foreman of the Gifford farms, for his region, and well posted as to the wofk on the northern extension of the Gifford railroad. The long bridge being built for it over tbe Kankakee river is making fine progress, and the middle of the stream wiU be reached about tbe middle of next week. The bridge ia a a wooden structure, of course, but is being very substantially built, of heavy oak piling, and Georgia pine oaps and stringers. The big steam dredge that has been located between Gifford and Newland ia being loaded on the oars and

will be taken to the end of this bridge and unloaded in the river, and will then begin making the railroad grade on tbe north side of the river, There is about four miles of low land through whioh it is expected the grade will be ont by the dredge before winter sets in.