People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — Waterworks. [ARTICLE]

Waterworks.

It is reported that the sewers on Washington st. are filling and it will not be long until they will have to be cleaned and in order to do so the sewer pipe will have to be removed. To do this will necesitate the tearing up of the stone guttering made, which will cost hundreds of dollars to the tax payers. This could all have been avoided by having a system of water works. But then we have good w’ells. It may cost SIOOO to clean and repair said sewers. But then we have rock water. Filthy sewers breed dangerous diseases. But then we have the best water in the world. It does not matter who dies of Malaria we have the best watered town in the world. It would not make any differerence how much property may be destroyed by fire. Because we have pure water in our wells. We can ride a stick horse when we want too. Because there is pure water in the town well. Which flows into the town tank. A long winded article on water works is a bad thing But then we have rock wells. Its all right for Rensselaer to tag along just behind every other town in the state. Because we have the best wells in the world. Parties are now figuring on a private w T ater works plant. They will charge only $45 per hydrant, and if the town takes only thirty five hydrants it will costsls7s per annum. But that is not much where we have such wells. The town would pay out at that rate in twenty years the sum of $31500 cash. That is good economy for a town of about 2500 people nearly one and a half million ($1,500,000) dollars taxable property and plenty of deep wells. A. L. A. on W. W. Our motto is: “Honest Values at the Lowest Possible Cash Price.” Remember every item in stock a leader at prices asked Fendig's Fair.

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