Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1908 — Jerry Is Back in Town. [ARTICLE]

Jerry Is Back in Town.

Jerry Karsner Is back In town again. After spending the winter months at the county farm, where he really should be compelled to remain, be has returned to the city and will work for Cooney Kellner. Besides an unfortunate mental deficiency Jerry Is afflicted with a rupture that unfits him for hard work and he never exhibited any great liking for work even before his Injury. He allows himself to become dirty and his appearance on the streets of Rensselaer has always been regarded as mors or less of a menace to tbs health and safety of the pub)/c. It would be far better If he was kept at the county farm, where he could probably do enough work to earn kls board sad that Is about all hs could do any place.