Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1913 — AN ACCOMMODATION VERY MUCH NEEDED [ARTICLE]

AN ACCOMMODATION VERY MUCH NEEDED

Trade From North Part of County Lost Because of Failure to Make Cross Roads Connections. F. M. Hart, of DeMotte, was a Rensselaer visitor over night. He came yesterday morning, expecting to return in the afternoon on train No. 6, but it was an hour late and he would thus have missed connections at Shelby and so he remained here over night. The frequent delay of No. 6, by the way, is responsible for much business being kept away fro.m Rensselaer from the north end of Jasper county. Persons along the Three I road would come here to trade if they were certain of getting home the same day, but they are unwilling to take the chance of having to remain here over night If arrangements could be made for train No. 38 to stop at Fair Oaks and Shelby whenever No. 6 Is late, these people could be accommodated, and it is certainly asking but little for the railroad to give Agent Beam an order to do this. The accommodation of the patrons of the road is one of the things the people have a right to expect and when the company’s train is so late that connections are missed that travelers had expected to make, it is nothing more than right that the fast trains should stop to assure the accommodation. The Republican has though for a long time, also, that trains Nos. 5 and 6 should make regular stops at Parr and McCoysburg. These are not especially fast trains and the people in these two villages are greatly inconvenienced because the trains do not stop. Rensselaer people can not visit McCoysburg by train except to go there on the milk train in the evening and return on the same train the next morning and if they have any business to transact they would have to remain over two nights, while If Nos. 5 and 6 stopped there they could go on the 11:09 train and return on the 3:38. There are an abundance of fast trains between here and Chicago. The service Is all that could be asked, but we believe that some of the outlying towns should be given advantages that they do not now enjoy. Possibly the attention of railroad officials has never been called to this neglect and perhaps a petition from businessmen might bring about the desired » result. Especially should the connections at and Shelby for returning traders be assured.