Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — DeMOTTE ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

DeMOTTE ITEMS.

Fine spring weather. Farmers are busy planting peas for the factory. Several of our citizens took in the excursion to Streator Sunday. All report a fine time. Geo. B. Antrim went to Medaryville last Saturday. The editor of the Medaryville Advertiser paid our burg a visit one day last week. Mrs. Effie Fairchild has had a nice new lattice porch put in front of her pearance of her residence. Still another new house for DeMotte. W. W. Cheever is putting lumber on the ground for a nice six room cottage.

Peck and McGinnis have put in a good stock of meats of all kinds in the Granger butcher shop. The canning company are shipping the last of their tomatoes canned last year. Now is the time for our citizens to get our streets in good shape; if they would put on about three or four inches of black muck or clay over the sand we would have a good, hard street in a little while. Hay does for a while but soon wears out and the time wasted this way every Lyear if spent in the right way would soon make us good streets and it would be a comfort to drive over them. Let our citizens think over this and do something as there is nothing that helps a town so much as good clean streets.