People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — A SOUVENIR EDITION. [ARTICLE]

A SOUVENIR EDITION.

The People’s Pilot will be issued in pictorial form of about forty pages on the 19th of December, as a grand holiday souvenir of Kenselaer and Jasper county. It will be the most complete exposition es this rapidly developing city and county, that has ever been attempted, and it is hoped will compare favorably with the mammoth illustrated editions gotten up for older and larger towns. Messrs. Healey and Graham have been at work for a week securing the photographs of every public building, including ths schools, churches, county buildings, principal business blocks, mills, elevators, street views, and upwards of fifty of the better residences of the city and county, all of which will be used in illustrating the paper. There will also be portraits of many of the prominent citizens and pushing business men. Accompanying these illustrations will be given as complete and forceful a resume of past, present and future of Jasper county as possible. A brief historical summary will be given; the natural agricultural - worth of the soil truthfully described ; the drainage system, tiling methods, crops, stock and stockfeeding mentioned. The road improvements, land possibilities and in fact every thing that can possibly interest residents here, or those abroad who desire to come here. And the paper will certainly be of inestimable value for reference in the future.

It will be a compendium of general information, including a classified business directory, complete with the name of every business man in town. An effort will be made to have descriptive articles on every meritorious feature, embracing secret societies, church societies, musical talent, bands, public health, etc. The growth and improvements of Rensselaer for the past .year, will be carefully summarized; also the proposed improvements for the near future. The possibility of making Rensselaer a city of ten to twenty thousand people, by creating a manufacturing center and founding such schools as will make it the Athens of northwest Indiana, will form a department.

The editor of the Pilot desires to make this one addition of his paper of the greatest possible value to the whole community, aid he asks the assistance of every one who can furnish data, or articles on any of the lines suggested and implied. He would appreciate sketches of each of the churches and church societies, secret societies, the schools, public improvements, lire department, agricultural specialties, and, in fact, any thing that would be appropriate for such a paper. The Pilot will be printed on the best of book paper, with an appropriate outer sheet for a cover. The price of extra copies will be ten cents, three for twenty-five cents and $5 per 100. Those desiring copies will please order at once, that provision may be made for them. The first pages of the paper will go to press next week, so contributors will please hand in their Inatter as early as possible.