Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1918 — Visitor Praises Rensselaer [ARTICLE]

Visitor Praises Rensselaer

C. F. G. Wernicke, furniture man of Grand Rapids, Michigan, expressed his admiration of Rensselaer enthusiastically. Mr. Wernicke has been spending some little time under Dr. F. A. Turfler’s care, his illness having resulted from injuries received at the first training camp for officers at Fort ‘Sheridan. “Rensselaer was a surprise,” said the visitor* “and is really a remarkable little city. The* civic center formed by your public library, schools and churches in one neighborhood would be a credit to a city of twice its size. The people are full of the old fashioned courtesy so pleasing to a stranger, and yet there is a remarkable lack of that sleepy liesuresliness which has marked other small cities I have known. The town has pep.” “Do people in Rensselaer appreciate the asset they have in Dr. Turfler? The man is a genius. He has a reputation which extends.from coast to coast. No doubt that business men of Rensselaer appreciate the business it brings herd, but more than that it is an element of pride that Dr. Turfler should prefer to live here when he could clearly advance his worldly fortune by moving to a larger city. He has done more good for me than all the treatment and doctors I have had in the last six months. I have been here but a little over a month, and am practically cured. , , “Rensselaer people have been very hospitable and “kind. When L leave I know that I shall always remember Rensselaer half for its famous doctor and half for its kindness to a stranger. And believe me, I am going to send some of my friends here, too.” Mr. Wernicke expects to leave for his home 1 in a day of two. While in Rensselaer he has been staying with the A. R. Hopkins.