Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — Bicycling Items. [ARTICLE]

Bicycling Items.

Recorder Hunt rode to Medaryville, Sunday, to see bis home folks, He made the trip up in two hours, and back in about the same time. It is much better time than any ordinary team could make. In fact, man is a fleeter now than the horse, when he gets a bike under him. Misses Ura McGowan and Blanche Hoyes left Thursday on a bicycle trip to Indianapolis, and various other points. It is, we btlieve, the most extended bicycle trip any Rensselaer ladies have yet undertaken. Will and Ernest Wishard started on a bicycle trip Tuesday which will take them to Danville, Ind., and about a dozen < tber towns in central and southern Indiana. They will both be gone some time, and the former three or four weeks. Alf Hopkins our long distance cyclist arrived home from his trip Saturday night. He took in the East in good shape and says cycling is the best method of traveling to set the country. The “new woman” is no unusual sight in our city now. Our girls are right up to date and appreciate the comfort of a pair of bloomers. Hopkins and Wilcox wheeled to Battle Ground Sunday. Loedla McCoy who has been doing Chicago on a wheel arrived home Saturday from a two weeks trip. Kirg Spitlei and Ira Washburn tamed their wheels as fsr as Lafayette the other day. Grace Vanatta is our latest lady bicycli t. She rides a new “Monarch.” The Haus Sisters were the recipients of a fine new wheel last week.. Bicycle liders will avoid a great many mishaps if they only remember that in meeting a vehicle of any kind they should turn to the right.