Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1914 — Monon Will Adopt New Passenger Train Schedule. [ARTICLE]

Monon Will Adopt New Passenger Train Schedule.

Firman Thompson, who recently carried a petition signed by itizens of Parr and surrounding country to Chicago, asking that the Monon railroad make changes in its schedule, made another v’sit to Chicago Tuesday and conferred with General Passenger Agent Frank J. Reed and others and was informed that a change in the schedule would be made Sunday, May 3rd. Important in the change is the fact that the milk train will go baek to its old schedule, thus being an hour earlier in the morning than at present. The Par** petition asked that trains Nos. 5 and 6 be stopped at that point. This feature of the petition was not granted, but trains Nos. 37 and 38, running on almost the same schedule as 5 and 6 will stop at Parr each Saturday. This will be greatly appreciated by the people at that point, who are now compelled in order to get home from Rensselaer in the afternoon to take the train to Fair Oaks and either walk back to Parr or wait and return on the southbound milk train. Another change that will probably be generally satisfactory is. made for No. 31, which now leaves Chicago in the evening at 4:45 and arrives here at 6:54. It will leave Chicago at 5:30 and arrive here at about 7:45 and at Indianapolis about 11 o’clock. Mr. Thompson was not informed of all the changes and it was not make known whether anything would be done to furnish a train out of Chicago in the early morning to bring Chicago papers.