Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1919 — WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING TO HUI? [ARTICLE]

WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING TO HUI?

(From the Remington Press Comic Sheet.) The editor of the Rensselaer Republican has a great, big grouch against that town which it is hard to understand, after the way the legal plums have been handed out to him in the way of road construction notices. He is like the man who will beat up his dog for the least offense, but will lick —1 out of the man who kicks the same dog for biting his child. He says in Friday’s issue: “Remington men have adopted a plan of holding a celebration of a carnival nature in that town each, month with very gratifying results to all concerned. The attractions have lured the public for miles around, and naturally the business of the merchants is thereby greatly increased. Rensselaer sleeps on and the town is abour as lively as an old maid picnic and Remington is a Coney Island, competed with our .town. It’s time to call in the undertaker.” Now, of all the unkind things Mr. Hamilton has accused us of saying about the town, we never would have said that. No, we would not say the town was dead—just in a cataleptic state as a result of too rapid growth, and will probably recover without being buried. Again in the same issue, he says: “No Doubt Ice Cream Cone* Will Be Banned: “Anyone wishing to visit a graveyard on July 4th, need go no farther than Rensselaer, for the town on Independence day will be deader than the guy who jumped from the Woolworth building. Lots of towns with far less facilities for entertaining than our own town are going to 1 celebrate, in other words, they are going to show that the last breath of life has not left their bodies. What Rensselaer needs is a thorough renovation, a little high life instilled into her. She’s in a trance, taking everything as a matter of course, following the path of Tea st resistance, and what moving along she does is because she’s in someone’s way who is in a. hurry. A tonic is needed and it’s time for us all to get some progressive ideas in our heads instead of using them for a parking place for sneezes altogether.”