Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1916 — HOW ABOUT A NEW HOTEL? [ARTICLE]

HOW ABOUT A NEW HOTEL?

People Somelfcnes Find It Inconvenient to Spend a Night Here. The need of additional hotel accommodation in Rensselaer was further demonstrated Tuesday night when four gentlemen from Marion, who were driving through to the Kankakee river for a few days’ outing, reached here near midnight and sought shelter for the remainder of the night. The one hotel was already filled to itg capacity and being unable to get sleeping accommodations, the gentlemen awoke one of our grocerymen from his slumbers and after purchasing nearly S2O worth of supplies, proceeded on to their destination. There was some talk recently of a stock company building a hotel, but the matter has apparently been dropped.