Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1884 — An Intelligent Editor's Impressions of Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

An Intelligent Editor's Impressions of Rensselaer.

Rochester Sentinel. # ,j Our first visit to Rensselaer was made last Tuesday for the purpose of attending the Democratic Congressional convention that nominated Hon. T. J. Wood for Congress. We have heard and read much of the place, but was surprised upon visiting it to find a town of such proportions, so beautifully located and so well supplied with large and substantial business houses and magnificent residences. Its citizenship is made up of an intelligent and wealthy class of people who are leaving nothing undone in the way of improvements to make known the advantages of the town and county to that class of people who are seeking pleasant homes and rich and profitable farms, Rensselaer does not boast of a grand court house, but it has a magnificent new jail, numerous fine business houses, iwo good hotels and a large and imposing school building. Rensselaer is in the midst oftufee agricultural district and when it secures an east and west railroad, it is destined to become one of the best cities-of the State.