Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1884 — RECLAIMING THE KANKAKEE. [ARTICLE]

RECLAIMING THE KANKAKEE.

The Chicago Tribune, of the 2ld of January, in speaking |ef the scbeaie 'or draihing and building a isilwav trough tighty miles es the Kauk*kee swamp, says: A meeting of preminent citizens <jf South Bead, LaPorte, and Valparaiso, Ind., was held yesterday afternoon at the Grand Pacific for the ourpese of forming a company to build a railroad from South Bend :o the Illinois State line, where it would iutersect the Indiana, Illinois k lowa Railroad. The distance i ibout eighty miles end the road is ntended ta follew as nearly as >ossible tho Valley cf the Kankakee tiver. Its name will be toe South Send & Kankakee Valley Railroad Company. The building of the rail--oad is however a secondary consideration. and is merely incidental .0 the digging of a ditch along the tame line, which is needed to drain he laads adjacent to the courso of the river. I’be expense of digg ug this ditch will fall upon the property aolders along its line, but as the -»arth removed in excavation will .’orm a railroad bed, thereby saving half the expense usually incurred n grading a railway, it was thoucrht * good scheme to form a company and build the road. Abou: 45.000 acres of land was represented at yesterday's meeting, which was prodded over by Mr. Clem Studebaker In o der to form such a company accnrding to the laws of Indiana it is necessary to have a capital stock of $50,000. Tw# thirds of that amount was voted on the spot and the rest will be raised at another meeting to be'held at South Bend next we#K. It is intended to make the capital stock of the road $1,600,000. Among these present were Clem Studebaker, jf South Bend; the Sea. Mordmer Nye, Mayor <»t Lapor e; Gee. Newall Gleason; William Niles. W*, Biddle, Edward Haw itins, Jame S. Long, and B. and V. Huncheon, all of Laperte; Arthur Reeves, of Richmond, Ind., V/illiam E. Pinney, of Valparaiso, lad-, and John A. Lomax, of Chicago. Notice of assignment —Notice is hereby given that William T. Perkins has made a general assignment of all his properly to mo In trust for tho benefit of all his bona fide creditors, tint I have accepted same trust, given the required bond, and that the same has been approved by the Court, this 17th day of January, a. d. 1884. EZRA C. ROWELS, Mordecai F, Chilcote, [Trustee. Att’y fer Trustee.' January 18,1884.

The Quarterly Conference of the Church of God will be neld at Rensselaer, commencng on Friday night, Fe bruary 'dli, to continue over the following S nday. Able speak;rs from abroad expected. The mblic cordially Invited to attend. The National Greenback* Party of Jasper county, Ind., ire requested to meet in Rensselaer. on Saturday, February • 6th, 1884, for {.the purpose of appointing delegates te the date Convention, to be held t Indianapolis on the 22d of ’’ebruary next. A full attendance urgently solicited. S. W. Ritchey, Chairman County Committee*. January 28,1884.