Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1909 — Price May Pass Rensselaer Up As Bad Proposition [ARTICLE]

Price May Pass Rensselaer Up As Bad Proposition

Says Lot Sales Are Too Slow And He Can Land Five .factories In Other Places While Re Is _ Trying To Land One Here. Of all the towns he ever got into L. D. Price, the Greater Rensselaer boomer, says .this is about the worst for raising money and he is about to make his first failure in the nine years be has been in the work of creating funds, for the of locating manufacturing ind.jst lev It is about as hard'to make a man thaw out for future prosperity as it is to sell ice in Alaska, and, white he extends thanks to those who have responded, he feels thqX there are a whole lot of peopte that are not doing their part. There is too much of the Alphonse and Gaston act, you buy and boom the town, dear Alphonse, and Til take in the profit if it is a good thing. Heretofore Rensselaer had looked on Attica as a flag station on the Wabash. Attica Boid 83 lots at the first night’s sate, following this with an average sale of some 20 lots per day until 250 lots had been sold and almost immediately located a large car coupler plant together with a large brick plant. The people of Attica stood as a unit and by their united effort secured what Rensselaer has been endeavoring to secure for years and from the general outlook at this time will continue in the same manner as of Old. 's This Ib not a matter of what others ought to do, but a matter of what you are going to do. "There is nothing wanting; nothing lacking to secure the factories but the money. The money must be forthcoming. It is a -question of put up or shut up. Everybody is wilting. There is no difference of opinion upon the subject but the question is—how many lots will YOU buy?—must be answered by each person in the city for himself, and it must be answerei without delay. As a nice farming community center, Rensselaer is all right. , Any town can be a center of a fa ming community if it has only 100 population and is set down in the center of a fifty acre farm, but Rensselaer needs factories* and new is t’ e time to get them. Will you be one to se ttis movement fail? Rather than see this movement fail, that means so much to Rensselaer, Delos Thompson, E. L. Hollingsworth, Warren Robinson, A. Leopold, Hiram Day, Geo. E. Murray and J. H. S. Ellis have doub'el Weir subscription. These gen’lenen have spent a .great deal of time and thought on this proposition and beIteve it is a good one or they would iy)t be behind it personally or financially. A great deni of talk was current on the street that these gentlemen had not dene tleir part When this was presented to' them they responded immediately. There no lengthy argument necessary. Not let the other lot purchasers come -forward and Show their faith in this proposition and the home of their adoption. We cannot afford to see Xhifc fail.