People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — Waterwork Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Waterwork Meeting.

The citizens mass meeting held in the court house. Mondav night was poorly attended, few of the business men being present. Those w T ho were there expressed themselves as decidely opposed to giving a franchise for fifty years or any term of years to a private concern. It is probable that nine out of every ten citizens oppose the franchise system. If Rensselaer cannot afford to own its own waterworks it can not afford to carry a franchised corporation which is doubly as burdensome.