Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1914 — Traction Company Wants Blanket Franchise In White. [ARTICLE]

Traction Company Wants Blanket Franchise In White.

Montfoello Journal. Auditor Fisher ha-9 given notice of the petition of the £afayette & Northwestern Railroad Company for a franchise through White county, which is to be heard at the next meeting of the board of commissioners. From the reading of their petition it appears that make the game bluff in White county that they did in Tippecanoe and Jasper by asking for an indefinite right of way through Round Grove, Princeton and West Point townships. ' At the hearing in one of the other counties it developed that the company had not yet acquired the right to issue bonds. .Now they have applied to the public service commission for this authority and give notice that their petition will come up for hearng before that body on July 30th. There is quite a rivalry between this company and the Indiana Northwestern Traction Company, and very likely both will he represented at the hearing in this county August 4th.