Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1903 — Will Soon Have Another River Bridge. [ARTICLE]

Will Soon Have Another River Bridge.

At last tbe people southeast ot | town in the vioinity of the old ] county fair grounds and beyond, will soon have their long wished for shorter entrance into Rensselaer. In other words another bridge will soon be thrown aoross the Iroquois river, on the south extension of the read which run north and south along the east boundary of Rensselaer, and Whioh along the oity’s limits, is oslled Melville street. The bridge will be about a quarter of a mile eouth of where this street orosses the Pleasant Ridge gravel road, near the G. P. Daugherty and Jud Perkins residences. The bridge ’to be erected there is not a new one, but is one of the two oldest iron bridges in Jasper county; being the original iron Groom’s bridge, whioh was abandoned two or three years ago,' when the road was straightened at Groom’s place, and a new bridge built Beveral hundred yardß farther down the river. It is still a good bridge however, and no doubt will bo just as good in that plaoa as a new one. Tbe contract for moving the bridge was let many months ago, but it is

only very reoently since the work was begun, bat it now seems likely to go ahead at a rapid rate. Solid stone abutments have been constructed, by Jarnis Maloy, our old reliable and old time stome-mason. The heavy new planks for the bridge floor are on the ground, and part of the iron has been hauled down from its former location.

The Winamao Bridge Company are the contractors for moving the bridge.