Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1912 — Many Tourists Passing Through Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Many Tourists Passing Through Rensselaer.

A great many automobile tourists are passing through Rensselaer these days, probably an average of s at least twenty-five cars going through each day, and Monday there were about twenty-five motorcyclists went through town. Of the latter one motorcycle, carrying a man and a woman, was a new one to us. The seats were on either side of the machine and the riders therefore sat beside each other and seemed to be riding much more comfortably than the old style of two-passenger machines. These tourists, while pethaps injuring our stone roads considerably, many of them stop here for meals or over night, purchase oil and gasoline or have repairs made and leave quite a little money, besides advertising our section of the country.