Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1898 — A Petition For Hitching Racks. [ARTICLE]

A Petition For Hitching Racks.

A petition will be presented to the commissioners at their December session asking them to put hitching racks around the south and east sides of the public square. This is an arrangement of such great public convenience and utility, that it is adopted in most county seats, in spite of whatever objections there may be raised on the score of appearances. Of course it is not a very nice thing to have a big string of teams tied around the public square, but so long as people have to come to the couuty seat to do business, either at the stores or in the court house then just so long they must leave their teams somewhere, and it is much better that they should be all together, in some place especially prepared, and thus easily kept dean and in order, than that they should be scattered about the town, in places that can not and will not be kept clean and in good order. And certainly a central hitching place like that at the court house would be vastly more convenient for the farmers than having to tie their teams in most any old place, as they do now. We believe that the commissioners will readily grant the hitching racks petition as a virtual promise was made to put in the racks, at the time the old ones were removed.