Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1909 — Tom Taggart Entertained Retail Druggists At French Lick. [ARTICLE]

Tom Taggart Entertained Retail Druggists At French Lick.

A special train of seven cars passed through Rensselaer Sunday night, en route from Chicago to Louisville, Ky. It contained 185 retail druggists who will this week attend a convention in Louisville. The train stopped at Tom Taggart's French Lick Springs resort, where another train load of St. Louis druggists met’them, and the widely known Smiling Tom acted as host and gave the visitors a swell breakfast and dinner. None of the telegrams say that there was a “dry" moment during the day. Coal operators in the Indiana district are complaining of the present car shortage and many of them say they are unable to work anything like full time on account of tbe conditions. They assert they can get no definite answer as to probable relief, tbe railroads saying that they are doing the beat they can to supply tbe demand for cars. Some of the operators say they nave been compelled to turn down big orders on account of lack of tranSDortalion facilities.