Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1903 — A Pecullar Hotel. [ARTICLE]

A Pecullar Hotel.

A traveling salesman tells the following story of a peculiar hotel: “In a little town . below Warsaw there is a peculiar hotel. It is just like any other hotel, except in the way the rooms are named. They are not numbered, as is generally done, but each room is named for a State of the United States. When I stopped at the place I was assigned to the room called ‘Delaware.’ It was correctly named, too, for it was one of the smallest rooms in the house. A man who was occupying ‘New Hampshire’ made complaint to the landlord that the man in ‘Maine’ was drunk and boisterous, and was keeping him awake. This seemed strange, when we recall that Maine is a prohibition state. Two men up In ‘Montano’ were keeping up the reputation of the wild West by engaging: in a noisy poker game. A big fiat capitalist had ‘New York,’ which was the best room in the house. The room named for Alabama is too ordinary for anything, and a farmer was occupying it the night I was there. It was fhnny to stand in the offloe and hear a bellboy tell the clerk that towels were wanted in ‘lowa’ and that the fellow, in ‘North Dakota’ was kicking like a steer because he had no fire! ‘Send two Manhattan cocktails up to ‘Mississippi,’ was one of the orders that the clerk gave. ‘Be sure and call the man In ‘Florida’ at 5 o’clock in the morning,’ said one of tbe employes. And thus it went. This hotel is a curiosity to the traveling public. It is conducted by an eccentric old fellow, but where he conceived the Idea of naming rooms after States I don’t know.’’ t Judge Hanley Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order against the opening of a proposed road in Keener township on application of Nelson Morris, through whose land the proposed road is laid out. The road was originally laid out in 1876 but was never opened.