Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — AUTOMOBILES GALORE [ARTICLE]

AUTOMOBILES GALORE

Pass Through Rensselaer On Way to Indianapolis Auto Races. Probably 400 to SQO automobiles passed through Rensselaer Saturday, Sunday and Monday, enroute from Chicago to Indianapolis to the Decoration day races. One hundred and fifty to 200 of these went through Sunday and Sunday night. They began going through again Monday morning and kept it up all day and part of the night Quite a number spent Sunday ight here and the Makeever House did a rushing business serving meals both Saturday, Sunday and Monday, while Sunday night it had to turn many away for lodg-png-telse where. The Maxwell over 400 gallons of gasoline to the autoists on Sunday alone.