Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1901 — Old Time Lake County News. [ARTICLE]

Old Time Lake County News.

The Crown Point Star is giving every weelp from the files of an old Crown Point newspaper, some 1858 news. In its issue for this week it has some interesting items for the week of Aug. 12th to 16, 1858. Schuyler Colfax is coming to make political speeches in every town and village in Lake county. A howl is made about hogs running at large. One day the editor counted seven big sows on the main street, and every sow had a big litter of pigs. Robt. Gray, of Graytovfn, Cedar Lake, [now the Binyon property] advertised town lots for sale, told of the great fishing there, of the pleasure boat he had just inaugurated, eto., and of the wonderful opportunity he would give mechanics to come there and go into business. He guaranteed that a railraod would run there the next season, starting from Kankakee City. lil., and going via Cedar Lake to Niles, Michigan. That railroad hasn’t got there yet.