Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — The Towns Were Rivals. [ARTICLE]

The Towns Were Rivals.

“Interested in a trolley company?” asked a stranger in a little interior town of a man who had been expatiating upon its merits. “Not a cent's worth,” replied the advocate of the overhead wire. “Live here?” asked the stranger next “Not on your life. I wouldn't live here if you would give me the whole town.” “But you’re working mighty hard for something. What is. it If 1 The trolley advocate looked around to see that no one was in hearing distance, and then drew the strangeg up in the shadow of a building. •’ “I’ll tell you how It you'll keep mum,” he said. The stranger promiseded. “I'm employed by a rival town to get the trolley here. The other town has been trying for three ykirs- to get the lead in population, and has made up its mind that the only hope is in killing off some of the people here. That’s why I’m trying to introduce the trolley. See?”—Chicago Post. Pueblo Chieftain: The meter, if not the alliteration, of Cripple Creek’s .“million a month” of output has been spoiled. The work done in this month of January already shows that ’•million” has been changed to “million and a half.”