Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1909 — A Talk To The Farra rs, [ARTICLE]

A Talk To The Farra rs,

"T— r T,~- •• 1 -- 4-L J -Z*.; '!■ t ,a. r ' r j The s&le of lots for the securing -of -a factory in Rensselaer and the -booming of the brim and country 1b drawing near its close. Most of the people who have been able to purchase lots have done so. A-num-ber of public spirited fanners also have given their aid in the cause of their town. What is needed is tie aid of a few more farmers. The success of the movmeent for a Greater Rensselaer means as much to the fanners as to anyone el- e and it is only fair that they should help as much as they can by buying lots. To Increase the population five bpn4red or a thousand means a better .market for the farmers’ produce. They will be able to gerhigher prices for what they raise. That will enable them to ettjdy life more, to improve their farms, and to do a great many things which will make life pleasanter for them. All these .things will increase the value of fanning land and make everything tetter for their children who must ‘ farm the land in the future. F/br the'se reasons the farmers . help as much as anyone a fund to get industries will benefit our ehtii'e community. The present .success of tfce plan to make a Greater Rensselaer has teen dudlolely to public spiritedness of those who have given their time, jinoney and energy to push the thing to success. They could not succeed without the support of the pople. The city has been worked more thoroughly than the country because it was possible to get around to see more people in a day. However, there has been as much soliciting in the country as w&s possible in the time the Commercial Club has been selling the lots. As the plan is now recognized by everyone as a good thing there is no reason why it should ,be necessary to reach the farmers at their homes. If they would stop at the headquarters of the Commercial Club, just the first door east of the Post Ofice, they could get any information they might want about the plan and they could mdke arrangements there for the purchase, .of lots. Bxsax.-taoner should at least show his interest in his community to such an extent as to give the Commercial Club a call whether he buys a lot or not. There is no reason at all why the farmers shold not get irto this movement and share the increastd- v&tueof the, lots as well as those who lh e In town. A commercial club is an organization of the people formed to further the interests cf a'l the people and the farmers should j in it or aid it as much as they can. If some enthusiasts of the Comme.e al Club succeed, permanent quarters for the Commercial Club will he where farmers and other people may haye a warm, comfortable place to wait or to talk over matters without being hindered by anyone. This is a movement for greater advantages for us ali, to make things pleasanter for us all, to do anything that will increase our peace and happiness. Let the farmers come forward and show their progressiveness by joining the movement for a Greater Rensselaer, which means so much for all of us and not merely for a few of us.