Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — Boomers Will Boom Us a Few. [ARTICLE]

Boomers Will Boom Us a Few.

Lafayette people are getting up a big street fair for the second week in October; only it is going to be too big a thing to call it a fair and so it is to be a “street carnival.” And there is no question but what they are taking hold of the enterprise in a way to make it a great success. One of the advertising schemes is not only a novelty in its way but has a special interestfor Rensselaer, people. It is an advertising train, and is expected to start next Wednesday, Sept. 27th. It will run over the Wabash to Danville, Hl., and return, and will then go to Delphi, where it "will take the Indianapolis division of the Monon to Rensselaer. From here it will return to Lafayette over the Monon road. The fare for the trip will be SI.OO. A brass band will accompany the party and the parades at the different places where the train stops will be led by a squad of police. Mayor Justice and other city officials are expected to make the trip. The exact time of the train’s arrival in Rensselaer will no doubt be announced in due time, and a fitting welcome be given to it by our citizens.