Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — Newcastle Got the Epileptic Village. [ARTICLE]

Newcastle Got the Epileptic Village.

The commission whose duty it was to select a site for the new Indiana Village of Epileptics, made their decision Wednesday, by selecting a site near Newcastle, the county seat of Henry county, and some distance southeast of Indianapolis. The people of Monon were very confident that their site would be selected, especially after they had, by a subscription, raised enough so that the price of the land offered was reduced to only $lO per acre. That their chances were very favorable is evident from the fact that at the final wind up only three out of the original 40 sites were left in the fight, and Monon was one of these three. The other two were Franklin and Newcastle. The Governor put a spoke in Franklin’s' wheel by saying he would not permit the state’s money to be paid for such high priced land, $l4O per acre, and so it was between Monon and Newcastle.

Probably Newcastle is a much better site than Monon, because the land is better and more variegated, and the climate considerably better than at Monon, and the inmates will thus be able to be out of doors many days more every year, which is a point of considerable importance. At the same time the site at Newcastle, which contains a little more than I,ooo’acres,'and cost SIOO per acre, 'will use up so much of the appropriation of $150,000 that there will not be ’ very much left to start the village on, until the Legislature meets again and makes another appropriation. But in the long run it will no doubt prove the wisest thing to have selected this better land.