Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1914 — ALL VOTE AGAINST RAILROAD SUBSIDY [ARTICLE]

ALL VOTE AGAINST RAILROAD SUBSIDY

Jordan and Carpenter Townships, Jasper County, and Princeton in White, Against It.

The proposition to vote tax aid to the Indiana Northwestern Traction Co. lost in Jordan and Carpenter townships, Jasper county, and in Princeton township, White coupty, at elections held Tuesday, April 7th. Before the result of the elections was known President Roberts of the projected interurban, had taken the evening train for Chicago and expected to go from there to Milwaukee. What effect the defeat of the subsidy proposition in the three townships will have on the building of the road we can not tell, but it is possible that with the big tax aid voted in Marion township, where the need of another railroad is greatly felt, may be sufficient to serve as a nucleus for the building of the road. The proposition lost in Jordan township by a majority of 3L in Carpenter township by 46 and in Princeton township, where Wolcott is located, by 84. Probably a factor in the negative vote given at Remington and Wolcott was the fact that another electric road project had been offered recently, promoters befcis in a scheme to finance a road from Logansport to Kentland.