Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1911 — CANAL ASSOCIATION-FORMED. [ARTICLE]

CANAL ASSOCIATION-FORMED.

Indiana Delegates Elect Officers for Erie-Michigan Project

South Bend, Ind., July 19.—The Erie-Michigan Deep Waterways Association, promoting the building of a deep water canal between Lakes Michigan and Erie, was organized here to,night at a meeting of fifty representatives from Michigan City, Chicago, Mishawaka, Elkhart, Goshen, Milford, Columbia City and Warsaw. The conference, which was arranged by the Chamber of Commerce of South Bend, was preceded by a banquet nt the Oliver Hotel, and was presided over by Richard Elbel. The officers elected were: President, Richard Elbel, of South Bend; secretary, R. E. Proctor, of Elkhart; treasurer, John Polsen, of Michigan City; vice presidents, I. 1. Spiro, of Michigan City, Henry Lee, of Chicago, David Guilfoyle, of South Bend, George Bennett, of Warsaw, Samuel Spohn, of Goshen, W. F. Stanton, of Elkhart, George Ogden, of Milford, and Ralph Gaylor, of Mishawaka. v■ • _