Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1905 — Old Time News Facts from Jasper County’s First Paper. [?]rd, and 30th, 1854 [ARTICLE]

Old Time News Facts from Jasper County’s First Paper. [?]rd, and 30th, 1854

A railroad meeting had been held on the 15th, inst. to advance the interest of the variously named Continental railroad, though not called by that name. In spite of the fact of the alleged letting of the contracts for the whole line clear to Council Bluffs, the best that seemed to be said about its prospects for construction *was that it was confidently hoped that Congress at that session would give a liberal grant of land to aid in its construction.

Our county officers were urged to set shade trees in the public square and provide for a fence around it. » The editor had never before been so impressed with our commercial advantages as when a few days before he had seen from his office window,* a fleet of small crafts coming down the Iroquois at the rate of six knots an hour. They' made port, and the editor, who plead guilty to some sporting blood, made them a visit. They were a fleet of trappers who had started from the head waters of the Pinkamink, and were going down the Iroquois until they struck the Some of the boats were already well loaded with furs and wild game.

The “Bank of Rensselaer” the coming establishment of which with a capital of half a million, by New York parties, had been announced some time before, and bank notes were already in circulation, was the subject of a very sarcastic article signed “A Bank Vian.”" He wanted to know where rhe bank was and how and by whom it was operated. The writer says i hat some people suspect that a certain white hat is the bank safe, but who wore the hat is not stated.

David Sayler had sold his store to W. & C. Sayler, who got into rhe paper with a small ad, announcng the change. A writer who signed himself “Vulcan” had column kick igainst an order of the County Commissioners against sheep and hogs running at large in the unenclosed lands of the county. He declares the order unlawful and that he shall let his hogsand sheep run, tnd if they are taken up he will ake them dowm. He does favor a law against male hogs of the Land pike family and male cattle of the Maul head variety running at large. Vulcan was replied to later by Venus, his wife and a read hot controversy resulted. A half column editorial was devoted to the “White Sulphur Springs” along the south bank of the troqnois for a mile below town and their water it was declared had been fnlly tested and were in no respect inferior to Saratoga Springs in medicinal qualities.