Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1908 — POOR SEASON AT CEDAR LAKE. [ARTICLE]

POOR SEASON AT CEDAR LAKE.

The picnic season at Cedar Lake closed Sunday, with a picnic from Chicago. Notwithstanding the long season of hot weather —much moie than usual—the hotel keepers report a poorer season than usual, and say this is because the trades picnics from Chicago which make up the bulk of the season’s trade have been poorer patronized than usual, on account of so many working people being out of employment. Those who have come In on these picnic excursions have not spent money as freely as formerly, the hotel and saloon keepers say, because so many of those who have employment have been on reduced time and have not the money to spend that they formerly have had. . There has pot been a drowning at the lake this season, we understand, which Is something very unusual.