Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1908 — Battleground Monument. [ARTICLE]

Battleground Monument.

Governor Hanly Monday appointed the members of the board of trustees of the Tippecanoe battleground monument will have charge of the placing of a monument on the Tippecanoe battleground. The members of the commission are Job S. Sims, of Lafayette; Albert A. Jones, of Battleground, and Westly E. Wells, ol Lafayette. The appropriation made by the state for this work is $12,500 made with the condition that the United States government shall appropriate a like sum. The appropriation has been made by the government, and a commission has been appointed to act jointly with the Indiana board of trustees.