Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1881 — Recipe for Making a Live Town. [ARTICLE]

Recipe for Making a Live Town.

1. Sell your building lots at reasonable prices. 2. If you can afiord to do so, donate a building lot for some large business enterprise and thereby enhance the value 01 your own town. 3. Induce business men to locate in your town. 4. Patronize the business men of your own town. 5. Always sum up your own expens* es when you visit places outside of your own town to buy goods. 6. Speak well of worthy public enterprise. 7. If anything should be undertaken that may be of benefit to the town, do not speak ill of it to others because you may happen to be a little prejudiced. 8. Speak well to strangers of your town and people. 9. If you have surplus money don’t invest it in some far away speculation, but give yourself and your town the benefit of it by establishing some profitable factory. 10. Eneovrage your newspaper by subscribing for, advertising in and paying for it. - Brownstown Banner. A recent decision of onr Supreme Court, thus answers the question—who is a householder? “A man is to be deemed a householder upon whom rests the duty of supporting the members of his family or household. The tact that a man’s wife dies, and his family consists of but one adopted child, and that he secures the services of others to prepare and furnish food and to take care of iiirniture, does not take from him the character of householder,” A full stock of Groceries just received, and will be sold at bottom prices, at R. Fendig’s. FOR SALE: 800 bushels of Corn, iu bulk or by the load. One mile east of Rensselaer, on the Ritchey

farm.

WILMOT H. BITCHEY.

New dry goods, large assortment, just, received, and will be sold at the very lowest prices by R. Fendig,