Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1905 — RENSSELAER STILL AT THE FRONT. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER STILL AT THE FRONT.

In the statement of business transacted in the various presidential postoffices of Indiana for the past fiscal year, the gross receipts of the Rensselaer 7 poatoffice is given at $6,444.56, and Remington at $3,179.18. The salary of the Rensselaer postoffice is SI,BOO per year; clerk hire is given at ♦4OO, and rent at $331. The receipts of the Rensselaer office exceed most of the county seat towns in this section of the state of about the seme population, which speaks well for the intelligence of the community. Monticello leads us a trifle, being $6,761.36, but Crownpoint was but $5,121.75; Delphi, $6,113.46; Fowler, $5,335.83£Kentland, $3,173.12; Knox, $4.405.22; and Winamac $4,943.97. Crownpoint and Delphi claim a larger population than Rensselaer, while the other towns mentioned above have a smaller population.