Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1859 — A HARD HIT AT RENSSELAER. [ARTICLE]

A HARD HIT AT RENSSELAER.

The following communication contains a hard hit at the culpable negligence ot this town in not building a school-house. We would recommend our citizens, if they cannot build a school-house, to call our rural friends to their aid, as “J. Q.” suggests: “Mr. Editor: Some time since it was quite common, through the columns of the Gazette, for your country subscribers to have their ears saluted with the cry of our County Court House being-made a st able, where the cattle, horses and hogs of Rensselaer resorted for shelter in stormy weather Also, our town friends would complain to us when we visited them of the County Commissioners not fencing the Public Square, and making walks, &c. “Now, we wish to know of them, as they cannot have the County Commissioners build them a school-house, if they wish the folks from .the country to come and build them one. If so, we wish them to make it known through the Gazette. J. Q.”