Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1901 — Some Jasperites Now at the Heights. [ARTICLE]

Some Jasperites Now at the Heights.

A representative of The Republican Wed. took in the sights and sounds of Chicago Heights, that flourishing Chicago suburb, just over the Indiana line, of Dyer, and the town which has been the Mecca of so many Jasper county people for quite a number of years <• past. Not all who have gone there have remained. and some of those who have, have prospered and flouished and others have had the'other kind of luck. Among the most prosperous of these ex-Jasperites is Chas. A. McColly. He is police magistrate of the city, a notary public, and represents a large number of fire insurance companies. He has an elegant office in one of the best buildings Tn the place, and in all respects, is a prosperous and influential citizen. M. B. Cox is another prosperous Jasperite. He has a set of bowling alleys that are duplicates of the Strickfaden alleys here, and a billiard hall in connection. He does a big business. Frank Minnikus is a cement walk and plastering contractor, and makes lots'of money, but most of it goes the same old way. His brother George, has braced up, works well, saves his money and a couple of weeks ago took to himself a wife. Virgil Nowels has a good job lat the pumping station of the city waterworks. Ben McColly runs a successful boarding house; Franklin Oit and Samuel Hershman follow teaming, Daddy Platt helps Minnikus plaster, and Perry Castor is still a carpenter. There are others, but what they are doing or how they are coming, our representative did not learn. The Chicago Terminal and Transfer R. R., has its track completed to about a half mile south of the Heights. This line will bear east after leaving the Heights and strike the Indiana line; and is understood to be the road over which B. J. Gifford’s C. & W. V. R. R. will enter Chicago.