Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1909 — TRUSTEE KARCH HAS FOUR WARDS. [ARTICLE]

TRUSTEE KARCH HAS FOUR WARDS.

Judge Hanley Gives the ChOdren of John Blake to Him to Find Good Homes For. * Trustee Fred Karch and Sheriff Shirer arrived in town this Thursday morning with the four children of John Blaze, of Walker township, whose case the trustee thought needed the attention of the authorities. Blaze is a poor man and unable to provide for the children, and his wife is in the insane asylum, having been sent up two or three years ago from Gillam township. Blaze moved over to Walker township about a year ago and lives in an old house on the Hershman farm. Trustee Karch alleges that the surroundings are very undesirable, the house filthy and the bed clothing dirty and that the children have insufficient to eat and wear. Last fall he fixed them up at township expense so that they could go to school, but now they are entirely out of decent clothes. The children are air boys, 14, 13, 9 and 8 years of age respectively. They were clad in very ragged clothes, one of them having on one old boot and one old shoe. Judge Hanley decided that the boys would be better off if they weris placed in homes where they could do some work and he made them the wards of Trustee Karch, with authority to find homes for them. So the trustee took them back to his home and thinks he will be able to place them in homes where the environments are better.