Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1909 — Rensselaer Should Be Remembered By Some Who Have Succeeded Here [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Should Be Remembered By Some Who Have Succeeded Here

A great many cities and towns have received bequests from prominent and prosperous citizens, who wish to leave a monument in their honor in the towns where they have made their money, spent their lives and where they should wish to be favorably remembered. This is especially true in the east. In many towns are monuments in the memory of its citizens erected with money they have left, and thus is the town beautified, its citizens honored and their names perpetuated. The town of Thorntown has just been remembered by Gen. Anson A. Mills, who has given $15,000 for two beautiful drinking fountains, which will stand 28 feet high and be lighted by electricity. The gifts Are memorials to his father and mother. Gen. Mills now lives in Washington, hut he has not forgotten the town where his parents lived and where he was born and reared. Rensselaer should be the beneficiary of a similar endowment. A monument and drinking fountain in Milroy or Flatiron parks would perpetuate the name of the man or woman who contributed for its erection.