People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — FIRE DEPARTMENT. [ARTICLE]

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

For a volunteer company there are few towns that can boast of one of greater efficiency than that of Rensselaer, and it is with regret that this issue goes to press without a write-up and illustration of the company in uniform. A new and attractive sixty-foot bell tower has just been put up, that the hi arm may be more readily heard by the members living at a distance.