Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — Steps to Be Taken Toward Getting Swimming Pool For City. [ARTICLE]

Steps to Be Taken Toward Getting Swimming Pool For City.

Steps are to be started immediately toward the raising at money to be used for the building of a municipal swimming pool. The money is to be raised by popular subscription and the more money there is raised, the better the swimming pool will be. The pool could be centrally located, making it convenient for everyone. It is estimated that the cost of an up-to-date pool would be about SI,OOO, and it 4s thought that there are enough of the citizens in Rensselaer interested in this venture to secure the needed money. It is planned, if the pool is built, to have it about 75x40 feet, which Should make it spacious enough to accommodate a great number of bathers at “the same time.

The pool, if constructed, would be a municipal one, and the upkeep of it could be provided for by charging a small admission fee to the bathers, at least those who do not subscribe toward it. One requirement of the bathers would be that they would have to obtain a health certificate from a doctor in order that those with contagious diseases would not endanger the health of the other bathers.