Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1877 — Bradford. [ARTICLE]

Bradford.

President Hayes’ annual message was delivered to congress Monday. It js qtlilo a lengthy document and contains some important and some unimportant points in it. Wo have neither the time nor space to comment at length upon it, but presen t our readers with supplements containing it and leave them to form .their own conclusions.

The work of laying iron from Bradford this Way is being pushed as rapidly as possible. About four miles oi' iron have aleady been laid, and it is expected that the tracklayers will rentW the county line this week. The engine will arrive Friday. Already people hre smacking their lips in anticipation of getting a slice of that fatted steer which is in wailing for the barbeerte to be had upon the arrival of the first train at this place.

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Bradford is no longer a dead town, but a living, moving entity, her streets thronged with men engaged in constructing the 1., D. & C. It. li.—with men looking for desirable farming lands, and finding them—with men looking for good locations for business. Our hotel is filled with travelers and boarders, and all the boarding houses in the town are filled to overflowing; Our mechanics are crowded with business, und our merchants arc doing more business this fall than they have done before for many years. The grading on the 1., ts.,& C. K. I R. between Bradford and ltensseIsief will be completed in a few days, ties are now being distributed along the track, and they have commenced rails; so you see Bradford will soon be a junction. But we hope the road will soon be completed to Indianapolis and then our “junction” will be metamorphosed into a crossing.

Bradford numbers about 250 inhabitants, has one church building, the Baptist, which iff also used by the Methodist Episcopal congregation, and the Christian church. We have a graded school, with competent teachers, we have three dry goods and grocery stores, one very large clothing and furnishing store, one restaurant, one drug store, one hardware store, one shoe shop, two blacksmith shops, one wagon shop, one hotel and several boarding houses, one meat market, one saloon, two attorneys at law, four doctors, a strong band of “Murphies,” and two railroads. But Bradford needs many other things which we hope will soon be supplied. We need a good flouring mill and saw mill. We need more factories of different kinds. We need more men of capital and brains to purchase and cultivate our rich lands which are now lying idle or only used as herding or pasture lands. We want farmers to come and see these lands for themselves. We want millefs'and manufacturers to come to Bradford, look at her advantages and surroundings and invest their money. —Cor. Monticello Herald.