People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

We hope the hotel registers of Rensselaer are not a criterion of travel everywhere. Possibly, however, this fact explains that all the travel now consists of through passengers to Indianapolis, Canton, Washington and Carson City. Nor do we hear of any let-up on passenger traffic via Monon to Michigan City. Rensselaer is just now unfortunate in not having a penitentiary, insane asylum or prize ring. Only a thriving canning factory, running overtime and Sundays, as George Pumphrey puts it, canning the advance agents prosperity products for future use.