Show 1 The Poor House Superintendent A L Cummings of the County Poor House is pegging away trying to get the place into a shape that will satisfy him He hasten has-ten acres of ground all under cultivation cultiva-tion and regrets that there are not ten acres more as he could cultivate that amount without any additional outlay whatever The patients do most of the work Superintendent Cummings has hired but one man and but one woman who does the cooking the work being done mainly by patients In view of the fact that the only outlay necessary to cultivate ten acres more land would be the purchase of the soil it looks as though the county could make a much worse investment The are now twentyfive patients The highest number at any one time in the poorhouse was twenty seven There are accommodations for thirty five or forty and it is a pretty safe assertion that few it any of them ever had so comfortable a home before The place is kept remarkably clean considering consid-ering the character of the inmates a majority of whom are imbecile The proportion of those confined to the place because of old age is very small indeed but six being too old to work the rest being childish or imbecile Practically all the stuff necessary to feed the inmates is raised on the pface save the wheat and while the home was only opened last November it is already presenting a very pleasant appearance ap-pearance due to the energy and spirit of Superintendent Cummings The design of the home is such that it can be enlarged from time to time as occasion occa-sion may demand |