Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1916 — SUGGESTS MORE BEAUTIFUL RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

SUGGESTS MORE BEAUTIFUL RENSSELAER

J. H. Holden Suggests That Merchants Have Washington Street Decorated With Flower*.

• Much praise has been lavished upon Rensselaer and her citizens for her cleanliness and beauty; For years this paper has had much favorable comment coming from the editor ant from others in this regard. Rut not one word too many has been said, nor is there an instance of exaggeration. We have a beautiful city and we do admire and appreciate it. We are justly proud of our beautiful shade trees, of our neatly mowed lawns and the splendid appearance of our. residence and business buildings. Our elegant depot with its beautiful setting of shrubbery and flowers is a mighty fine introduction of our city to the visitor upon his arrival. Our magnificent court house and its beautiful lawn, always so well kept, must be admired by all. The interior condition of this building is always very presentable. Milroy Park with its artistic statue of the noble General Milroy and with its beautiful summer flowers and carpet of smooth green grass, is greatly to be admired. The gardens of beautiful flowers are so well selected and tended and the neighbors - seem to vie with each other to reach nearest the perfectly beautiful. Weston cemetery may have many equals in the magnificence of monuments, but it does not have a superior in the matter of beamiful natural scenery and flower decorations. The artistic mind and hand of J. H. Holden has caused it to blossom as the rose. There are so many things to which we can point with the finger of pride that if we attempted to enumerate them all this article would be entirely too long, but we want to mention our beautifully illuminated streets at night, our elegant church edifices and cur splendid school buildings. ißut all of the above relate themselves to 1916. Soon a new 1917 is to be ushered in upon the scene. What can and will we do to continue to make Rensselaer more beautiful. This suggestion was made to the editor by Mr. Holden and it appeals to us as being jan excellent one, that the merchants of the city each have a very beautiful flower stand in front of their places of business. This has oeen done in a great many places and it has added greatly to the appearance of the otherwise undecorated streets. Also the boxes at the bottoms of the guides in the streets should be made deeper and then planted with flowers. The flowef stands could be made ;“rom barrels with little expense. They should be painted some suitable color and then the right selection of flowers could be made. Many of these stands coiild be placed in front of residences also. Think about this. If it is a good suggestion push it along. If * not, make a better one.