Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — I Would Remark [ARTICLE]

I Would Remark

That Rensselaer is, comparatively speaking, a pretty town, and if the people would plant more trees, use more paint, and dear their property of piles of ashes, brush, wood, old cans, papers Ac. dec. and keep the weeds cut it would be a much prettier town. Let each of us do our part in this. A gentleman was here from Crawfordsville not long ago and he said he did not know of a town in Indiana that he would rather have property in than Rensselaer. The programme of the High School graduating exercises is a thing of beauty and far surpasses those of a few years ago. Why not procure and send a copy to our school friends to let them know how we do things in Rensselaer. * * * Should a man be permitted to pollute the atmosphere with the fumes o!‘ tobacco ? It is a very disagreeable stink to a great many, people and a nuisance in many cases. Some very bright and intelligent men will blow smoke in your face who would not think of spitting in your face ? The recent im provemept near the mill by putting in a large sewer across Front street is something permanent and useful.» It ougnt to have been done long ago. It will certainly present the Hood after each very heavy rain. The so called '‘catch-basins” ought to be replaced by “man-holes” with grates over them. The sewer pipe would last longer than the wooden boxes the Town Board are having p»* pO W ,

The pooling of the interests of the towns and several townships by the Trustees in the purchase of School furniture is a good thing and a- very great saving of time to theVTrustees and of money to the people. It is true the School furniture agents do not distribute easy chairs, fountain pens »sec. as of yore, but the money is saved by buying all furniture through 4he-special-Secmtary of the County Board of Ed ucation. Ezra L. Clark is the Special Secretary ; ask him about it and ask your Trustee if he buys direct or through Mr. Clark. * * * *

■ —The next Grand Jury will nougfi to do to keep it at work a long time. . . . According tp Bradstreet’s Commercial Directory four fifths or eighty per cent of all who fail in business, of the various industrial lines, do so because of lack of knowledge, natural, or acquired. 'Most men in business Avho succeed w.ell commence at the bottom and work up by learning every detail. One method of success is by judieios advertising. Bf judicious,* I mean putting your money where it will do the most good, i. e. putting your advertisements where they will be read by the great_est number of people. Some try by putting signs on fences, others try cheap dodgers, still others cheap papers, such as show bills, cheap city business directories socalled. The most intelligent people are those who take the newspapers and read them. They are the people who have money and will spend it where it will do them the most good. A man should patronize his best friends, always, remembering that “one good turn deserves another.” The newspaper is the community's best friend, provided it is clean and truthful. A newspaper that tries to destroy any good portion of any community, should not be pcttrouiznl by the people. Merchants usually look at this matter from a "tuimss standpoint, but sometimes they "WiT" w nwav** their money by advertising in transient At tonic) s, pby sicians, and special trades are sometimes caught in the same way. Gentlemen, these same “oily 1 * special advertising agents laugh in their sleeves at yon as one did at some people in Rensselaer recently. A newspaper that has one thousand subscribers is better than one that has five hundred. If you have money . to give away then patronize the cheap sheets.

BEN HUR.