Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. AUTOS ARE STOPPED BY SNOW Thirty Lexington automobiles from the Lexington automobile factory at Connersville, on their way to Chicago in charge of factory Superintendent E. B. Brown, reached this city Saturday night where the party of drivers spent the night at one of the hotels. When the string of machines reached Montmorenci -yesterday morning after leaving this city to continue the journey they were compelled to turn back to Lafayette on account of the impassable roads that were blocked with snow drifts. One of the cars had to be left in a farmer’s barn on account of a twisted steering rod and the rest were stored in local garages until such time as the roads become cleared for traffic. — Lafayette Journal.