Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1919 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

TulegnpMe Ruperts From Many Parts of llw Country. SHORT DITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* in the Nearby Citie* a*d Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. MONON TRAFFIC BREAKS ALL PREVIOUS REOORDB Lafayette, August 23. —Traffic on the Monon railroad is the heaviest in the road’s history, according to officials of the company here. Every available locomotive is in use and new freight crews are being pressed into service. Last Tuesday 31 engines were sent out of the roundhouse here to handle trains leaving this point. The railroad handled on that day 1,793 loaded cars and 585 empties, compared with 1,377 loaded and 960 empties on the corresponding day in 1918. With two fewer trains than last year more cars were handled. Every station along tho line reported increased business. The Monon has practically all its mileage in Indiana, running from Louisville to Chicago, with a branch from Monon to Michigan City.