Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — A BIG EXCURSION. [ARTICLE]

A BIG EXCURSION.

Over two hundred tickets were sold here Sunday for the Cedar Lake The two section were merged at Monon and run as one train from there to the lake, some eighteen coaches being run, and they were packed to the steps. The train was about an hour and a half late in reaching the lake. Everyone seemed to have a good time and except for a Rensselaer youth who had imbibed too much seltzer water and wanted to play Indian, there was

little or no drunkeness or rowdyism. Lyman Zea was up there but was not about when the “Indian play” was going on, therefore missing the opportunity of his life to distinguish himself and possibly win a fat job with the Monon people as chief bouncer. The report that Lyman run back in the woods and hid when the youth let out his first war-whoop he pronounces a base calumny Lyman stated'that he went to get a cigar and stopped to chat a few minutes with the seller.