Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1909 — Likes His Native Town. [ARTICLE]

Likes His Native Town.

■ Wherever they go they remember Rensselaer with a warmth of feeling that is a great pride to the old folks back home. The Interest is- mutual for we are always glad to learn of the success of our former boys and girls and men and women who have sought fortune in other fields. W. Elvin Overton, now of Chicago, in remitting for another year’s subscription to the Republican, pays his old town a nice compliment. He says: “For eleven years, lacking two months, I have been deprived of living in Rensselaer, and a nicer or better town in which to live I believe there is not. I always have a kindly feeling for the capital of Jasper county. I have become so accustomed to readihg the Republican, that I should be still more homesick without it, so I enclose draft for 11.50 for another year’s subscription.” The friendly feeling between our towns people and its former citizens makes for the welfare of us all.