Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1912 — Why Not Utilize Match Factory For Breeding Stables? [ARTICLE]

Why Not Utilize Match Factory For Breeding Stables?

While many people all along could see nothing in the match factory proposition, now this feeling is universal, and the building is likely to be sold soon at sheriff’s sale. In fact the order of sale is now in the hands of the sheriff to satisfy the judgment of $637.98 secured last term of court by the foreclosure of a mechanic’s lien of the Central Rubber & Supply Co., for material furnished but not paid for. J. C. Gwin and the Rensselaer Lumber Co., are also foreclosing liens of upwards of $2,000, so it is pretty evident to the most optomistlc ones that the factory building and the five acres of ground on which it is located will be sold to satisfy the liens. ~ No one would give much of anything for this pile of cement blocks unless they could use it for some purpose or other, and its location would preclude its use for storage purposes, which It might be used for were It down town. But it would be an ideal location for breeding and sales stables, and The Democrat would urge some of the horse breeders to watch the matter up and try to secure it for such purpose. The time is hot far distant when

breeding stables will not be permitright in town, as they now are. Monticello, Goodland and many other towns have passed ordinances removing such stable outside of the corporation!, and in Monticello it is a misdemeanor, punishable by fine, even to lead a stallion through the streets.

Rensselaer, notoriously slow in civto advancement, has permitted such stables within its residence and its business districts for many years, and it is hard to convince some of the old timers that there is anything wrong about letting them remain. A couple of decades ago cattle and hogs ran at large in the streets of Rensselaer and used to bother the grocery keepers by snooping about their display of vegetables and running off with cabboge, turnips, potatoes, apples, etc. That evil was finally abated and it is time thatwe get a move on ourselves and keep up with the civilization and advancement of other cities and towns in the breeding stable matter. These stables could be abated by taking the matter into court and havihem declared nuisances, but no one likes to do this except as a last resort, but unless action is soon taken in the matter of a city ordinance it is likely to be done.

The sale of the match factory is a solution of the problem which those interested in such stables should not let pass. The building is outside of the city limits, 'has ample ground, and could be converted into a splendid barn for this purpose and has a side track leading down to it from the Monon road, making it convenient for loading and unloading horses, feed, etc., and it would seem that it would be worth more for this purpose than any other it could be put to—except, pf course, some manufacturing concern could be induced to use it. In the latter event, however, it is likely that the liens would have to be paid off by whoever could be induced to hold the property until such disposition could be made, which is altogether too indefinite to think about.