Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — Be Quick! [ARTICLE]

Be Quick!

And select lots in Leopold’s Addition the “NewOidahoma.” The are going fast and on favorable terms

A. LEOPOLD

Two metnbers of the j7c. Porter and"efthst~Dr.*-* Alter* or J. H. S. Ellis, will go-te^Crawfor ville this week, to * street improvement and the electric lighting systems, of that city. Dexter Jr Cox will sell you a nice grade of meal and Graham flour. For elegant and stylish millinery, at lowest living prices, call on Mrs. Imes, in the Nowels Block, and examine her stock. See her line Qf hats, especially, at prices from £0 cents, upward. Sheriff Blue received notice, Tuesday morning, that the material lor the new iron fence around the pubße . square had been shipped the day before, and that, as soon as it arrived In Rensselaer, workmen would be sent to put the fence up. On the strength of. this notice the work of pulling down the old fence war begun Tuesday afternoon and the new fence wri Ji probably be in process of erection by the time this paper is published Subscriptions for the The Republican taken by J. E. Spitler at P. 0., without extra'charge.

There has been some fault fbttod with the only gravel road in Jasper county, that known as the Rajige Line Gravel Road, in Carpenter tp., the claim being made that it was not constructed with sufficient c£re. Whether there is any justice in this claim we are not prepared to say,Jut we are ready to say that if the Range Line road is a poor specimen of a gravel road, then a good gravel |pad must be something of superlative excellence in the highway line. Last week, for instance, when the jnbd roads between Rensselaer and Remington were in such condition that they would and did, gtall a strong horse with no load btA a road cart, the gravel road was as smooth and firm, almost, as the cement walks in the public square. A J man was seen, for instance, trying to get to Remington with 25 bushels of corn. With four horses he managed to “woller through” until he struck the end of the gravel road. He then sent back two of the horses and went in “a flying,” and if he had had a set of thills along he might have stent back still another of the horses, jtnd the one left could have hauled the load, eaiser than all four did in the mud. Ladies and gentlemen or scholars wishing to make a couple of hundred , dollars during vacation in your own neighborhood, send 6 two-cent stamps for postage to Michael Bros., 4J41 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Hl. Tne construction of the Lakin ditch was sold, Saturday afternoon, by

Dept. Auditor Clark. Tbenwneysof the land affected had consulted 'together and agreed to forego their right to bid in their respective aflbtments, provided the whole job cptild be awarded, at equitable rates, to some dredging company. The dfedging men were therefore on ' hand In considerable numbers, including Mr. Wright, of Lafayette, representing the Western Dredging Co., formerly Wrigbt & Wallace, John Hack, Ldwell, Mr. Elliott, of Ohio, Mr. Smith, of Sheldon, 111., Mr. VanalM, of Brookston and Mr. Harding, of lA-* Porte. The bidding was rather spirited, beginning at 10 cents per yard, Of excavation and running down, finally to cents, when it was knocked off to the Western Dredging Company. This is the same firm that is now cutting the big Monon ditch. The Lakin ditch is in Union township, and is 6 miles in total length. Will be from 20 to 40 feet wide and from sto 13-feet deep. It drains a large extent of country. The total cosl of the dredge work, at the price above mentioned, will be about $8,500. It seemed to be the general opinion of those best informed that the contract is a very favorable one for the land own ers. It is intended to apply to the present term of the Commissioners’ Court for permission to compta|e this ditch under the newest ditch which case the property owners WiM have a series of years in which to pay their assessments; the county issuing bonds, roajs aft paid-for.