Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1913 — FRANKFORT PAPER IS AFTER PURTELLE [ARTICLE]

FRANKFORT PAPER IS AFTER PURTELLE

News Says His Propositions and Promises Bear the “Earmarks v of a Four-Flasher.” Eugene E. Purtelle, who has been engaged for some time in trying to promote a traction line between Frankfort and having his usual and the Frankfort News says the line is “slipping” fast. The News also intimates that Purtelle’s propositions and promises bear the “earmarks Of a fourfliisher.” The commissioners of Clinton county refused to grant Purtelle an unrestricted franchise and the people of Frankfort seem to have been suspicious'of the project from the first. Over in Tipton, however* he seems to have been making better headway. He has secured donations of much of the right-of-way and is now talking glibly of a $750,000 bond issue and “of completing the road yet this sumrrjer if a free right-of-way can be secured all the way through. B. J. Moore went to Tipton Thursday, after having had a conference with Purtelle the earlier part of the week, and expects to have charge of 25 miles of construction work for him there.