People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — Complinentary to Rensselaer [ARTICLE]

Complinentary to Rensselaer

The Wolcott Enterprise has the following to say of one of this city’s pushing young business men, which is indeed justly merited: A handsome granite monument arrived this week from the north shore of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where it was duarried, and yesterday George Barcus, the Rensselaer tombstone man, came over to set it up in Meadow Lake cemetfry over the grave of Richard Pugh, Mr. Barcus is putting up a large number of fine monuments in neighboring cemeteries, and this last coutract will add greatly to his already established reputation for furnishiug handsome tombstones.”