People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — The Park Enterprise. [ARTICLE]

The Park Enterprise.

To the Editor of the People’s Pilot. I understand it is proposed, or at least it has, in certain circles, been hinted at, that as the court house is to be built for the glory and adornment of Rensselaer, that every string should be pulled that can possibly be gotten hold of. The esthetical and public-spirited of the capital city have long been asking for a city park where those of leisure and cultivated tastes can while away their much spare time amid beautiful flowers and singing birds, ’neath shady bowers and,upon glassy lakes; so it is now proposed, by some, to buy a plot of ground on the south side of the city (?)and park it. It is said that the dirt excavated for the park lake (and what is a park without a lake) can be sold to the county, for filling on the court house square, for money enough to pay for the ground. Jasper county will never build another court house, never will there be another chance for a court house grab, so argue those who expect to work it for what it is worth. We, up this way, think there is already enough “dirt” about that court house square without buying any more. Tip of Tefft.