Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1912 — WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN NEXT FIVE YEARS [ARTICLE]

WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN NEXT FIVE YEARS

Rensselaer Merchant Who Content*. plates Improvements Would Like A Peep Into the Future. . , y'-: , - - - . x “I would give $1,000,” recently remarked a progressive merchant of this city, “if I could see five years into tne future.” Realizing that any person might turn a glimpse into the future to good account by a knowledge'of this kind he quickly qualified his statement by saying that he contemplated improvements in his permanent equipment that would run into a great amount of money and that there was such rapid development at this time in the things that his business needed that he is almost afraid to invest because a short time may entirely revolutionize the equipment. "‘" r " r 'V: This is a great age of electrical development, of concrete-construction, of transportation changes and the fellow who plans for the coming five years by looking at things as they are today is apt to lose out. It would be * worth SI,OOO to any businessman in Rensselaer for a very little peep into the misty five years future. And yet that five years will roll by almost before we know it and we. will probably be more in the dark than ever at the end of-that time.