Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — A Prosperity Example. [ARTICLE]

A Prosperity Example.

Among the mortgages placed on record in Jasper county this week we find that of George E. Marshall and Lillie B. Marshall, his wife, to the Rensselaer Building and Loan Association, part of lots 1 and 2, block 15. original plat of Rensselaer, given March 27, 1900, and duly filed for record May 15, 1900, at 8:30 o’clock a. m. Recorded in Mortgage Record 36, page 76, Of the mortgage records of Jasper county. Amount of mortgage, S6OO. Running back over the mortgage records a few years and we find that of George E. Marshall and Lillie E. Marshall, his wife, to Rensselaer Building and Loan Association, lots 1 and 2, block 15, original plat of Rensselaer, given Dec. 10, 1890, and duly recorded in Mortgage Record 20, page 69. Amount of mortgage, 1,400. Said mortgage was released, as shown by same record and page, on Jan. 16,1899. It will be seen from the above that the prosperity shouter of the Rensselaer Republican, during what he is pleased to term the“disastrous and panicky times under ‘Grover and Clover’ ” carried along a $1,400 mortgage (the building and loan " requiring monthly payments) and was enabled to wipe out the small ’’balance completely soon after the close of “Grover’s reign.” Under, the prosperous reign of William I. he has struggled along, hadno building and loan mortgage hanging over him for the past year and a half, has had no sickness or other misfortunes to contend with—except libel suits—has added nothing new to his print shop, and has, so far as known, made no purchases of real estate, government bonds, or other property, except fire-arms. Yet, during the last year of the latter’s reign he has again been compelled to mortgage his home for S6OO. Surely, McKinley and prosperity “moves in mysterious ways their wonders to perform.”*