Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Excursion to Chicago and Milwaukee. [ARTICLE]

Excursion to Chicago and Milwaukee.

On Wednesday, August 28th, the Monon Route will run an excursion to Chicago a&d Milwaukee. The rate from Rensselaer will be $2 for the round trip. * This includes trip toMilwaukee via the Great Whaleback Steamship “Christopher Columbus.” Special train will pass Rensselaer at 10.50 a. m . arriving Chicago 1:45 P. h. Returning, special train will leave Chicago at 11:00 p. m., Thursday night, Aug. 29 th. Tickets will also be good returning on milk train of Aug. 28th and 29th. Everybody should take advantage of this excursion, as it will be the only one to Chicago this year. There will be at least fifteen coaches on and everybody can have a seat. Coaches will be provided with plenty of ice water, besides refreshments will be served from the baggage car .A good cornet hand will occupy the front coach. This is the Monon’s annual excursion and they are going to try tc give their patrons a pleasant trip, and,Jwith the music, the refreshment* and lots of room, everybody ought 4o have a good time.

Among the more important attractions in Chicago at the present time is “Pain’s Siege of Vicksburg.” This wonderful reproduction of the battle and capture of Vicksburg is of itself welljworth the cost of the trip. “Shooting the Chutes,” the Masonic Temple Roof Garden, 302 feet up in the air, “AH Baba” at the Chicago Opera House, “Little Robinson Crusoe” at the Schiller Theatre, “The Merry World,’, at the Columbia, “Trilby” at Hooley’s, etc., etc., are all well worth seeing. ~The time of passing other Jasper Co., and neighboring stations, and the round trip rates are as follows: Lea 10:30 $2.00. Marlboro 10:36 2.00. Pleasant Ridge 10:42 2.00. Surrey 11:00 2 00. Fair Oaks 11:15 1.75. ““"Rom Lawn" 11:27 1*75. Thayer 11.31 1.75. Shelby 11:35 1.75.