People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Paint the Court House. [ARTICLE]

Paint the Court House.

One of the most liberal contributors to public improvement, a heavy tax-payer to be sure, but a man who never complains about taxation for proper purposes, remarked a few days since, that the court house should be kept in better repair, that it was a solid building, would last for many years if given proper care, and was ample for all the requirements of Jasper county for a generation to come, but if it is allowed to go to decay it would be the excuse for building a new and costly one, that the people do not need and are not able to pay for. This is probably the opinion of nine-tenths of the voters of Jasper county, and even though the treasury is low, it is false economy to neglect repairs.