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Dallas Morning News
October 15, 1897

GRAYSON COUNTY POOR FARM

Denison, Tex., Oct. 14 - The county commisioners visited the Grayson county poor farm to-day and inspected that institution, as is their custom. There are thirty-one inmates at the farm, all of whom are unable to do any heavy manual labor. Grayson county does not send her county convicts to the poor farm, as most Texas counties do, but works them
on the county roads in gangs distributed over the county.
The commissioners are having fifty acres of the farm sown in wheat, which is double the usual acreage.