Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1910 — Not a Rensselaer Merchant Owns An Automobile—Strange Isn’t It. [ARTICLE]

Not a Rensselaer Merchant Owns An Automobile—Strange Isn’t It.

Automobile owning may not be a positive evidence of prosperity but it ought to be if it is not. One merchant in Rensselaer this morning pointed out to the Republican reporter that there is not a Rensselaer merchant who owns one. Professional men, farmers and retired farmers pwn them and are planning tb pufchase them but pot a single retailer of goods in the city owns one. This should not be taken as suggesting that the merchants of Rensselaer are not making some money, but they are for the most part young business men, whose money is needed in their business, instead of laying on their backs .under gasoline wagons and having the machine oil drip into their eyes. They are applying themselves to business and leaving the automobile buying for the future. But there is no Rensselaer merchant who is getting rich at the expense of his patrons. It fact, we believe that every Rensselaer mer‘chant is selling his goods on the narrow margin plan and that there is not another town in this section of Indiana that offers to buyers a better place to do all kinds of trading.