Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1908 — EXCURSION SLIMLY PATRONIZED [ARTICLE]

EXCURSION SLIMLY PATRONIZED

Only 25 tickets were sold for the Chicago excursion Sunday from this station, and it Is only the second Chicago excursion this season, too, if we remember correctly. Eight or ten years ago it was no uncommon thing for 150 to 250 tickets to be sold here for almost every Sunday excursion to Chicago, and through the summer they used to be run at least once a month and sometimes twice a month. Then the rate for the round trip was 75 cents; now it is $1.25, but this increase in rate of only 50 cents ought surely to not cause the great falling off in the patronage of these excursions. It is now a rare thing for fifty tickets to be sold here, and, judging from the small number on the trains when they reach here, a like condition prevails elsewhere.