Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1903 — A Roller Skating Rink Again [ARTICLE]

A Roller Skating Rink Again

It is said that quits a crazs fur roller skating is now spreading jver the country and has macb large inroads in Indiana. So popular is the amassment proving in other plants, that there is now very strong talk of stir iog it in Rensselaer. The parties wh > are putting up the talk are well able to baok it tip if the people here seem disposed to give the enterprise sufficient encouragement If a rink is established it is ppoposed to mkke it first class in evtjry respect, and well managed at all times.

Roller skating had quite a big run here back some time in the eighties, in the opera bonse before it was remodled. The sport proved very popular then and would probably be still more so now. inasmuch as the roller-hearing skates used now are avast improvement over those used in those days.