Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1914 — Stone to Replace Cinders As Ballast Near the Depot. [ARTICLE]

Stone to Replace Cinders As Ballast Near the Depot.

Recently several ear loads of cinders were dumped along the Mondn tracks in front of the depot. They ■were unsightly and dirty and H.'R. Kurfie, general attorney for ■the road, decided to have them hauled away and replaced with rock. He took the matter up with the proper officials of the road and the change is being made. The cinders are being hauled away and two car loads of the planer chips from the Bedford quarries are on hand and will be used as a ballast. It will make the depot surroundings cleaner and more -attractive. The Forest street sidewalk crossing has been in very bad condition and this, too, is to be corrected.