Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1915 — Funny What You See When Away From a Real Good Town. [ARTICLE]

Funny What You See When Away From a Real Good Town.

It pays when you leave homfe and visit neighboring towns to ook for the things that other towns hfcve and we don’t have and for some ten years The Republican has been telling about the good things our people have seen in other places. But it remained for J. J. Miller, the cement contractor, to \usit other places and pick out the faults of the places he visited. Last Saturday he went to Logansport and Logansport is wet. That don't bother Joe, however, but it gave him a chance to compare conditions with a dry town, and when Joe saw a man or two come staggering down street in an ocean-wave state of intoxication he decided to count the drunks, half drunks and slightly befuddled tipplers. Joe thinks he has had enough experience to know a partially drunk man when he sees one and he is willing to stake his reputation that he did not count a man who was not more or less under the influence of liquor. He “stamped” drunk men about all day long «fed in about every part cl[f town and when he left for Delphi in the evening he had counted 307 and is tolerably sure he did not count any of them twice.

When he got to Delphi he looked around a little. Of course, Delphi j has some nice streets and other good things but Joe was not looking for ; the good things, he was picking out the he went to the court house square. He saw on one comer a very fine monument to the old sol- j diers and on another comer a great j big ash heap. Then he went to the Monon depot and there he saw a waiting room that needed the services of a sanitary engineer. Cobwebs on the walls, filthy floors and dingy surroundings. Then he came home, looked at our nice, clean depot, walked through town and saw our nice, clean brick street and our nice court house and clean lawn and he went on home past an empty jail and didn’t see a drunk or man who looked like he had had a drink and he felt pretty sure that Rensselaer had it on some of its neighbors in a number of ways an/ he is satisfied that he is living in the best little citV in the country. The Republican suggests that on the next trip or two you take out of town you notice the defects of the places you visit. It will increase your affection for and your confidence in your home town. And in the meantime let us all strive to make Rensselaer better and better and there will be a great day coming.