Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — Indiana Better Roads Convention Held at Indianapolis Favors Adoption of New Laws. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Better Roads Convention Held at Indianapolis Favors Adoption of New Laws.

The necessity for more attention to the upkeep and repair of roads w r as emphasized at a session of the Indiana better roads convention at Indianapolis. W. K. Hatt, professor of engineering- at Purdue university, presided, and made many suggestions for improvement in methods of taking care of roads. The plan of the Indiana Good Roads association for the maintenance of county and township roads was explained by Clarence A. Kenyon, president of the association. D. Ward King, of Maitland, Mo., the investor of a road drag, talked on the economical repair and maintenance of roads. C. F. Hunt, of Lafayette, led a general discussion. Charles C. Bjown, editor of the Municipal Engineering Magazine, was to preside in the afternoon. “In your system of working out road tax in Indiana, you are using the same methods in the townships as w<Jfe used in the time of Queen Elizabeth,” said M. O. Eldridge, of the office of public roads at Washington, 'in an address before the convention. Mr. Eldridge said all road taxes should be paid In cash and that wholly satisfactory results can not be obtained under the workout system. Indiana has more second class good gravel roads than any other atate in the union, Mr. Eldridge said, and, the reason they are not first class is that they are not constructed and maintained properly. --- V - In working out the road problem, he said, there should be state aid and the people of the cities should bear their proportionate share of the expense Of keeping up and building roads. Europeans do not build as good roads as we know how to build in the United States, but after we build our superior roads we allow* them to go to ruin through lack of care, he said.

Patronize your home mill by order-, ing Rensselaer buckwheat flour and corn meal. „ v 1 HAMILTON & KELLNER. H. E. Barnard, state food and drug comniissioner, will begin a campaign of education among the health boards in Indiana seeking to provide for the installation of a system of certificates, to be granted ow'ners of food handling establishments, when their establishments have been pronounced “excellent” under the provisions of the state’s pure food and drug act. Nice linen or drawn-work makes a good gift. Lee has the nicest line ever shown in Rensselaer.