Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1909 — SALE OF LOTS STILL PROGRESSING [ARTICLE]

SALE OF LOTS STILL PROGRESSING

More Names Being Added To The List —Nearly All Proiessions Represented Boosters Club Hard At Work. The booster committee ccnsit-tlng of 50 citizens appointed by the chairman of the meeting in the opera house, meet every night in the office of Greater Rensselaer in K. of P. room. Every night meetings of the old committee will be held and will suggest persons to be seen the following day. If you are not already on this committee, appoint yourself one of the boosters. Your help Is needed along with that of every citizen of Rensselaer., Wednesday there were eleven more lots sold. Names of lot purchasers will be published dally and if you do not see the names whom you think should be on the roll of honor, make it your special business to interview them. If you have no contract, take them to the office of the Greater Renseslaer and see that they sign up. Don’t let them put you off with a promise. The roll of honor will show you who has the welfare of the city at heart. Don’t get it into your head that you are not able to buy a lot in the factory addition. That is what has kept Rensselaer back for so many years. We have had too many people here that had a notion that nothing could be done. While we were in this notion, other towns got the habit of doing things. This morning Mr. Price received a letter from Mr. Marshall V. Robb, President of the Clinton Commercial Club, Clinton, Ind., where he sold 2CO lots in September, 1906, for S2OO a lot, which reads as follows: Mr. Price, Mr. Burns was here yesterday, and in accordance with our contract, we made the balance of the third payment due him and we trust that by the time this letter reaches you, you will have heard from him. He is now having the machines set up and the indications are that two weeks from today they will commence working with about 25 or 30 machines and at the same time will begin to dismantle the machines which they are now running at Newark, N. J. Things -in-general are looking up and one of the lots you -sold when you were here, was sold this morning for $350. Yours very truly, MARSHALL V. ROBB.-r-We learn from Mr. Price that It is not an unusual thing for lots he has sold, to sell in a short time at so large an advance. This cond.tion can be brought about in Rensselaer if we get together, forgetting everything but the general good of our community. Let us continue the sale until we have sold 250 lots.