Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1883 — A Condemned Dam. [ARTICLE]

A Condemned Dam.

The Township Trustees.-Tugs-day was the day appointed for the trustees of the townships to meet with the County Superintendent to make their reporta of the enumeration of school children in their respective townships. All the trustees were present, with the exception of Mr. McCullough, of Gillam. The substance of their reports will be given in The Republican as soon as the superintendent has worked them into a practicable shape.

Rensselaer will lose its dam by the Mill site but not its mill by a ( —) sight. Thanks to the fruitful brain of S. P. Thompson who conceived the plan of the Jasper County Draining Association, and to the energy and perservance of himself, and others, who have put the plan into execution, that great obstacle to the improvement of Central Jasper, the Mill Dam at Rensselaer, is at last to be improved off the face of the earth. The terms of the contract between The J. C. D. A. and Mr. E. N. Hyland, the proprietor of the mill, give to the former the possession of the dam and raceway upon the 24th of the present month, and from an official notice from Dr. Loughridge, the superintendent of the association, which appears in this issue of The Republican it will be seen that the dam is to be removed immediately after the date above mentioned. • Mr. Hyland, who is an enterprising ! and valuable citizen, and a good miller, is already making arrangments for putting an engine into the mill.