Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1911 — Came to Rensselaer to Look at Sunnyside Inheritance. [ARTICLE]

Came to Rensselaer to Look at Sunnyside Inheritance.

Frank M.. Brown, of Champaign, 111., where he is the secretary of an active building and loan association, was a Rensselaer visitor Monday, having come here to see 48 lots in Sunnyside addition to Rensselaer, which his brother, Albert S. Bfown, had purchased when the Sunnyside addition was laid out about eighteen years ago. Albert Brown came here and remained for some time at the home of John Neal* who owned a farm at the northwest edge of town. He was a young man of some means and very poor health. He thought there was a future to Rensselaer and did not hesitate to buy a good chunk of Sunnyside. The lots all lay together, except one or two, and there has been practically no building in that part of the city since Sunnyside was laid out Mr. Brown after leaving Rensselaer went, to a number of places in quest of health but could not find it and finally passed away. The Sunnyside property was inherited by his father and brother. They had paid no attention to them, simply paying the taxes. This was the first time Frank Brown had ever seen the property and the first time he bad ever been in Rensselaer. He was agreeably surprised, not so much at the lots as he was at Rensselaer. He had not figured our city to be so large or bo well advanced and after walking al! over town he called at The Republican office to tell us how favorahly impressed he was with our city. He remarked that our court house was tbe handsomest he had ever seen, that our homes were about the nicest and best kept, taking all in all, that he had ever seen, and he thought from our location that Rensselaer should have a fine future. Mr. Brown Is convinced of the importance of a building and loan association as a factor in building up a city and says that Rensselaer should get an active one going away to aid us in making the most of the factory boom. He realizes t the value of good schools, coming from the seat of the Illinois university and dropped a val-

The ladies of the Christian church will hold their annual Thanksgiving aaarket Wednesday, Nov. 29. Will also have aprons and other useful articles on sale. We have plenty of that fine Long Horn Cream Cheese again. Now only 10c a pound.—Home Grocery. * “I suffered habitually from constipation. Doan’s Regulets relieved and strengthened the bowels, so that they have been regular ever since.”—A. E. Davis, Grocer, Sulphur Springs. Tex