Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1914 — WANTS FRANCHISE FOR PROPOSED RAILROAD [ARTICLE]

WANTS FRANCHISE FOR PROPOSED RAILROAD

Commissioners Will Be Asked to Grant Right of Construction • Through This County.

. iO. L. Brown, who with M. A. Peoples, is engaged in the promotion of an interurban railroad from Lafayette to Kankakee, 111., by way of Remington and Rensselaer, was a Rensselaer visitor this Saturday morning, having come over from Remington, where he is making his headquarters, with Warren Elmore, who Is one of the boosters for the road. Mrs. Brown accompanied her husband.

Mr. Brown recently filed with the county auditor a petition for a franchise through. Jasper county and the same will be up for consideration by the commissioners of the county when they convene on June lot The law requires that the ctomplete text of the franchise be printed and this will be done in The Republican within the next two weeks. There is no doubt that the route these gentlemen have chosen is a very attractive one and the road