People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1897 — THE RENSSELAER JOURNAL. [ARTICLE]

THE RENSSELAER JOURNAL.

The above is the name of a new paper which is to succeed the People’s Pilot. Leslie Clark, its editor and publisher, is a Rensselaer boy, son of Ezra L. Clark, and is a capable and energetic newspaper man. He is not unknown to the Pilot readers, having been its editor and manager during the first two years of its existence. Recently he has been located as a publisher at Fort Recovery, Ohio, and has shipped his nearly new and very complete printing office here. Mr. Clark does not claim that his paper will, in a partisan sense, be a populist journal, but promising to make it thoroughly independent of party control and attempting to make it the fathful Watchdog of the people’s interests, we trust that our patrons will bestow upon him the liberality they have constantly shown us. After thus introducing our successor we have a word to say to

and of the people of Rensselaer and vicinity, among whom we have resided for over two years on terms of the most cordial friendship, and in whose midst it may be an unaffected pleasure to remain for some time to come. not speak too highly of their hospitality and true Christian kindness. They have spared no pains to make our social relations enjoyable as a summer dream, and their business favors have been generously bestowed.

F. D. CRAIG.