Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1901 — A Town is What Citizens Make It. [ARTICLE]

A Town is What Citizens Make It.

Loyalty t 0.... Homo Interests

Insures Mutual Success to Buyers and Sellers. Rensselaer Considered as a Commercial Center. It Wiirße Difficult to Find a Spot on This Green Earth Better Than Our Own Enterprising Town.

Rensselaer is the county seat of Jasper county, the second largest county" in Indiana, and is located on the Monon railroad, 72 miles from Chicago. It has electric lights and water works, owned by the city, planing mill, carriage factories, marble works, machine shops, two telephone exchanges and other lines of business, well represented by enterprising, prosperous men, who act for the town’s advancement. In point of excellence, so far as schools, churches, business houses, public buildings, private residences and all the other conveniences essential to modern life, including macadam streets, cement walks and good roads, Rensselaer is abreast of the times and all that is necessary to increase the town’s trade and importance is to impress upon the people this fact, viz: that every dollar spent away from home tends to enrich that community at the expense of the one in which you live, and there is no valid excuse for going elsewhere to purchase goods, as the stores here carry excellent stocks The professions are filled with able men that rank well with any in the state, and it is in the hope of bringing the farmer, merchant and the business man' closer together, so each may be enabled to see things as we do, that this number of The Democrat is printed.