Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1911 — MUCH WORK BEING DONE ON INTERURBAN NEAR THAYER [ARTICLE]

MUCH WORK BEING DONE ON INTERURBAN NEAR THAYER

Two Large Grading Machines fat at Work and Some of the Road Bed Already Completed. We have it from reliable authority that a large force is now at work on the interurban Thayer and that an addtional force of 40 men was to be put at work today. Two large road grading machines have been put to work, it is said, and some of the grading has been done between Thayer and Roselawn. The road will cross the Monon tracks at Roselawn at the depot, pass down the main business street running east and west and then follow a line to Mt. Ayr. The big land- owners are cheerfully contributing .the right-of-way and some of them, in addition, are making cash contributions. At the rate the work is qow progressing it should not v e long until the grading is completed to Mt. Ayr. It is reported that work has also commenced on the bridge at the Kankakee river, which will be built between the Monon railroad bridge and the wagon bridge.