Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1910 — Rensselaer People Take Auto Trip to “Shades of Death.” [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer People Take Auto Trip to “Shades of Death.”

Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Warner and daughter Helen, Miss Edith Shedd and S TJ E. Sparling, in the latter’s automobile went to Lafayette last Friday evening, where they were Joined Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hopkins and Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Thompson and son Thomas, and together they autoed through Crawfordsvllle to the “Shades of Death” in Montgomery county. The place derives its name from the wild appearance of the country along Sugar Creek, where some of the most beautiful scenery in Indiana can be found. Saturday night was spent at Veedersburg and the trip home was made via Covington, Ind., and Danville and Hoopeston, 111. The trip was a fine one and the season of the year makes it very pleasant for auto travel.