Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1901 — Thinks Rensselaer is a Boss Town. [ARTICLE]

Thinks Rensselaer is a Boss Town.

Brook Reporter:—Of all the county seats in the north-western part of the state. Kentland has the smallest gain in population in the last ten years, and <Rensselaer has the largest. Kentland made a gain 8| per cent and Rensselaer’s gaiu was 64 per cent In fact it is very doubtful if there is a town in this section of the state th a has had as small gains in population as Kentland, if any has the census reports do not show it. While on the other hand Rensselaer show what a live, progress ve town can do, for progressiveness brings people to that community, which accounts for the rapid growth of Rensselaer.