Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — What It Costs to Keep the Poor of Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

What It Costs to Keep the Poor of Jasper County.

The Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Correction just from the press shows the cost of keeping the poor of Jasper county for the six months ending March 31st to be $2,010.16. Milroy is the only township in which no aid was given. The amount expended by townships follow: Barkley $179.00 Carpenter • 414.00 Gil lam 168.05 Hanging Grove 110.00 Jordan v . . ......... 3.80 Kankakee 87.93 Keener '. 68.00 Marion 490.57 Newton 31.50 Union 282.08 Walker 75.00 Wheatfield ....... 100.23 The cost of runing the county farm in 1908 was $2,838.17. The receipts from the farm for the same period amounted to $2,666.54. There was expended on the farm in permanent improvements $1,762.57.