Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1909 — MUST BE DISAPPOINTING. [ARTICLE]

MUST BE DISAPPOINTING.

The 10,000 —more or less—people there were to have been here Thursday night failed to make their appearance, and as a result after appearance, and after we had made great preparations, too. Lyman Zea had a load of straw hauled into his barn and nicely covered with horse blankets, already to charge five shekels for a “flop.” 'Two well known citizens rented Coen & Brady's hay barn for an auto storage, and a syndicate entered into negotiations with William Leek for the rental of his hitch barn, offering him S6O for the two days. The rdbtaurants also made big preparations and will suffer some from the over estimation of the crowds.

At Lowell Thursday the crowd was rather thin, less than 2,000 people there, but Crown Point reported excellent crowds. - The fact that the farmers can work tn their corn fields ha? no doubt kept thousands of country people from attending the races. Between 30 and 40 autos passed through Rensselaer Thursday bound for the races, some few staying here over night, and the Makeever Hotel was full of guests. Parties, however, that had spoken for rooms therte Thursday night canceled same Thursday. About half of the Rensselaer autos drove up to Lowell and Crown Point yesterday, and about 100 people went to Lowell and Cedar Lake from here by rail.