Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1898 — A Few Things "The Democrat" Would Like To See. [ARTICLE]

A Few Things "The Democrat" Would Like To See.

Lower taxes in Rensselaer and Jasper county. The entire Democratic ticket elected in November. The sidewalks of our city kept clear of bicycle riders. Plenty of work for every laboring man in Rensselaer. A curfew ordinance substituted for the fog horn in the second ward. Col. Honan elected to congress as soon as he becomes a lawyer. What those four pages cut from the commissioners’ record contained. All the other secret orders labor to have their state conclaves held in Rensselaer. The Rensselaer ball team bring home that hundred dollars from Remington to-day. The society lady who uses more than boisterous language over the telephone wire, let up. a The population irrespective of color or age, turn out to the ball game on next Tuesday. "The last of the New Court House bills audited and paid, so we will know the cost before election day. Several of our old batchelors forsake their present unhappy state and become some of the people. Someone that can inform us what that clean shaven batchelor does at the lower end of the city semi-weekly. The parties who accompanied the commissioners down on the boat from Chicago when Abe bought that court house clock.