Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — Monon Sent Out Its First Blackberry Train. [ARTICLE]

Monon Sent Out Its First Blackberry Train.

Monticello Journal. A train on the Monon, run from Floyd county to Chicago, was an innovation in railroad transportation for tiw.t line. The Monon has frequently *"run strawberry' trains, but never before a blackberry tram. The berries were shipped and veached Water street in Chicago Wednesday morning in fine fihape. The blackberry chop in southern Indiana is said to be the largest this year ever known, and profiatble figures are being received 'for them by shipping to the Chicago market.