Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1915 — Fever Hits Brown County; From 14 Autos to 750. [ARTICLE]

Fever Hits Brown County; From 14 Autos to 750.

Nashville, Ind., June 26. —The automobile fever has struck Brown county this summer, in Nashville, a town of 500 population, there are now 110 autos. In the county there are 750. Last year the entire county

had only fourteen machines, six in Nashville and the remainder owned by farmers. [lt is probable this is a mistake, and that the figures given above are much too high. Brown county is considered about the poorest county in the state. Why, there are but 450 autos in Jasper county, and we have the second largest—in area—county in the state, and some of our land sells as high as $225 to $250 per acre. In Tippecanoe county, with a population of 40,000 to Brown’s 8,000, there are but 1,133 autos. Jasper county has a population of 13,000, yet has a larger per cent of automobile owners than has Tippecanoe.—Editor. ]