Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — ONLY SIXTY TICKETS SOLD. [ARTICLE]

ONLY SIXTY TICKETS SOLD.

The Chicago excursion last Sunday was not very well patronized. Only 60 tickets were • sold from this station; and Agent Beam did that well for Water Valley for the milk train, while several who spent Sunday at the latter place went on Saturday evening. Possibly the increased “tariff” of 25 cents all along the line kept many people from going to Chicago from here as well as other points, and then the “smallpox scare” might have had something to do with it. But it seemed fewer people patronized the excursion than usual, for there were fewer and two were still empty when the train pulled out of Rensselaer.