Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1913 — EDITOR FOUND TRAIN WELL PATRONIZED [ARTICLE]

EDITOR FOUND TRAIN WELL PATRONIZED

Goodl&nd Herald Tells What Publisher Pound in Making Trip to Fair Oaks Recently.

Since the new train has been placed on the LaCrosse division of the C. & E. L, the company has tried every way possible to prove that it was not a benefit to the towns along the line and was not needed. - . Papers at Rensselaer and Brook have ridiculed this, the only train our neighbors, Mt Ayr and Foreman, have, thus making a good loophole for the railroad to make complaints. J. Bowie informs us that the reports being circulated that he is asking to be reimbursed are not true and that the Wheatfield Improvement Association paid all his expenses some time ago. A meeting of the Wheatfleld lmprovement Association was held in Wheatfield Thursday evening to make arrangements to fight the case, Editor J. Bowie having received notice from Chairman Wood of the Indiana Railroad Commission, that a hearing would be held at Indianapolis March 13th, and that he wanted as large a representation from different towns along the route as possible to attend and testify and show cause why this train should be kept on. We went to Pair Oaks on this train last Friday and we noticed that about fifteen passengers left on the same train. At Foresman several left the train and several boarded it, and at Mt. Ayr it was the same. At Fair Oaks about thirty-five left the Monon train and went north on the C. & E. L tl this happens very often the train should be retained by all means.