Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1909 — Objects To His Assessments For Opening Alley. [ARTICLE]

Objects To His Assessments For Opening Alley.

A special meeting of the city council was held last evening to act on a remonstrance of John Makeever against the opening of an alley through his hotel property. The alley has already been opened to his grounds and the assessments made. The commissioners awarded Mr. Makeever S4O benefits and sls damages. There is a small building on the south end of the alley and a tree near-by. Mr. Makeever asks for S7OO damages, $lO Tor moving the tree and the balance for the expense of moving the building and the value of the land. He claims the alley is of no benefit to him, as he has a private alley of his own. C. W. Duvall, who lives on the other end of the alley, has already cut off one end of his barn to give room for the alley, arid he was awarded small damages. It is understood that the proceedings for opening the alley have been according to law, and that the time for objecting to assessments has passed. A Winamac newspaper comments on the recent advertisement of Geo. Fate, the fat dinner man, in which he advertised a wild duck dinner for a quarter, and said that the reason he was doing this was because the people had treated Mrs. Fate and himself so well, for “when we came here we had nothing, and after serving all of these big money-losing meals, we have managed to have half of it left.” The Winamac paper says that reminds the editor of a man who' moved from Monticello to Kansas a quarter of a century ago and In a year or two wrote back to a friend that “when we moved here we hadn’t a rag to dur backs; now we are covered with them.”