Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — Goodland Thinks of Trying For Newton's County Seat. [ARTICLE]

Goodland Thinks of Trying For Newton's County Seat.

And now'Goodland is contracting the county seat fever and is likely to be the next happy town to take a fall out of that beautiful little anti-removal law that Kentland has fixed up for ambitious towns to tumble over and break their backs. Goodland is even more in a corner of the county I than Keiitlend. It is a tritie uear- , er the southern border than Kentland is, and two miles nearer to the eastern border than Kentland is to the western. Still it has ! sernq marked advantages, too. It is quite a railroad center, being the only • town in the county that has two railroads: and it really has three, as one of its two divides into two only a mile or two away. In! fact, in point of railroad facilities it is. far the most accessible town in the county; and that is what counts in these days. The ; matter of making a trial for the county seat is being seriously considered and a meeting has been held and committees have been sent to all of the other townships, to ascertain the feeling towards Goodland. On the reports of these committees will depend the question of moving further in the matter or letting it drop. Mutual animosities between Brook-Mo-rocco and Kentland will also help Goodland greatly, and if the town strikes while the iron is hot and the tempers still hotter, it might come mighty near the 65 per cent, mark, possibly finite to it.