Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1903 — OUR ENVIOUS NEIGHBORS. [ARTICLE]

OUR ENVIOUS NEIGHBORS.

There are a generous lot of popple over in Rensselaer when it comes to rendering decisions in law. A man over there stole over SB,OOO worth of cattle and was fined $25; another stole several hundred bnsholsof corn, was found gnilty and fined SI.OO and costs. A company of real estate men from here sold a farm in Giilam township and the jury over there after a law snit gave a Jasper connty man the commission. It seems to ns that they are so kind that if a man stole the oourthonse and all its contents, he would be fined 25 cents and costs and be made mayor of the city.—Francesville Tribune.