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

One Way to Boom Rensselaer.

Instead of in any way curtailing the present facilities for hitching teams in town it would be a better policy for the business men, all of whom depend largely upon the vehicle custom for successful trade, to encourage the establishment in connection with the several livery bams, or elsewhere, of a system of free sheds wherein horses may be stalled and fed. It would be a wonderful advertisement to the town, would cost but little in comparison with the increased trade that would come here, and would be, after once established, a source of revenue sufficient to maintain it. As many would buy hay and grain, and the attendants would pierk up many a dime and quarter for courtesies offered and care given the animals.