Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1915 — Our Jealous Neighbors Show “Sour Grape” Symptoms. [ARTICLE]

Our Jealous Neighbors Show “Sour Grape” Symptoms.

Commenting on the accident President Kurrie of the Monon had by colliding with a light post during a rain storms The Newton County Enterprise says: “The Rensselaer papers have told how superior their street lighting system was over neighboring towns, and now they are humiliated by having to print that during a little rain storm Saturday night One of the lamp’posts was knocked to smithereens by an automobile driven by H. R. Kurrie, president of the Monon railroad company. Better adopt the Kentland system, as they can be plainly seen and distinguished even by a motorist on a rainy night.” The rain was not a “little” rain but was a blinding storm and would have made the feeble cluster Ights in Kentland look like a chunk of coal in the devil’s basement We want it understood right here and now that the Rensselaer lights are the very latest and have an illuminating power much superior to the cluster lights in Kentland and Monticello. Naturally the jealousy of the neighboring county seats is aroused when they see Rensselaer so majestically forging to the front, but we are waving a beckoning hand and hope that at some future time Kentland and Monticello will get into our class, but right now it looks quite hopeless for them.