People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1896 — KNIMAN. [ARTICLE]

KNIMAN.

Correspondence to People’s Pilot. [The following items were received too late for publication in last week’s issue.] Health generally good. Roads are very muddy. ■The Christian people are holding a protracted meeting at Virgie. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Cooper were made happy by the advent of a ten pound boy Jan. 22. We are sorry to have to record the death of Frederick Haselbring caused by the kick of a horse. Ex-trustee Wm. Cooper is building a fine house and barn on his farm recently purchased in the north end. We think the commissioners would be far bettdr conserving the interests and welfare of their constituents if they would build a decent and passable approach to the south end of Burk's bridge, instead taxing the people at this time to build a new court building. By the action of the present commissioners, and former ones, the people have been compelled for several years to drive through water and ice for a long period of each year. The south approach has been covered from one to three feet in water and ice the present winter and it is only a repetition of what has occurred annually ever since the road was first opened to the public. The approach is dangerous from three to four months of each year, and the facts in the premises are well known to the present commissioners. If the commissioners would make the desired improvement. whic- is absolutely necessary, instead of building a new court house the people would rise up and call them blessed instead of condemning them m their present course. Frank J. Gant.