Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — The “Peoples’ Railroad Com Pady of Ainerica still Extant. [ARTICLE]

The “Peoples’ Railroad Com Pady of Ainerica still Extant.

Mr. feiii gentleman formeHy a resident bf this place, whb lute now a largeacquaintaace here is just now beginiiing the work of cotistf tfeting the PeoSles’ Railway in California. From re West feerkly Advocate, a paper handed us yesterday morning by Mr. C. A. Mitehell we find an extended account of the exfercises had at the beginning of the Work at that point. Mr. Kennedy is president of thfe company, and the rbad is to reach, when completed, from ocean to ocean, and is to be built upon the assessment plan. Mr. Kennedy has been at work on this scheme for several years, and has encountered opposition at every turn. Whether his enterprise 4111 ever be pushed to completion or hot is yet to be seed.

Every month brings fresh evidence that Rensselaer is destined lo grow into a flourishing city at no distant day. That her citi- . zens have the push and pluck to make her a good business marit. Already the prospect for a good crop, and the election of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan have infused new hfe into trade. Dingy old houses, once thought guod enough, but fit oiity for the abode of rata that held their midnight orgies there, are being “Smartened” up for the business people who are just now pushing to the front to be ready for a lively trade next fall. Mrs. La Rue and Babcock, who have occupied one building for the past eighteen months, find the building they now occupy is entirety Ibo small to accommodate their jdesent custom: Consequently Miss Babcbhk will move her stock of Ladies’ Furnishing goods into Thompson’s building, two doors west of Mrs. La Rhe’s Millinery Store. Miss Bab’cdck has labored hard, and incurred considerable expense to build iip a trade in a class of goods very much needed by the .vomen of Jasper county and they should manifest their appreciation Jof her efforts by calling on her in her New Store, when they will find her courteous and obliging, always willing to show goods, and customers can get many hints in regard to styles, and the uses of many articles, that they could not from the masculine salesman. When women.extend that patronage to woman’s thH hieu extend to men. the woman’s inilleniun will be nearer at hand than it is now.