Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1914 — Making Another Effort to Remove C. & E. I. Passenger. [ARTICLE]

Making Another Effort to Remove C. & E. I. Passenger.

Some two or three years ago the Wheatfleld Improvement Association, aided by persons living along the route of the C. & E. I. railroad, secured an order frotii the State Railroad Commission requiring the ' railroad to run a passenger train ' between LaCrosse and Goodland. Since then the receivers of the road have rrfade several efforts to have the cortyjnission annul the order, but the activity of the friends of the train service has always prevented its removal. At this time another effort is pending and the receivers of the road allege that the train loses the road $67 per day. A hearing is granted, probably at Wheatfield on Tuesday of next week, Nov. 17th. Editor John Bowie, of Wheatfleld, went to Indianapolis today to appear before the commission to try to have the hearing conducted at that time and place. It would be a great loss to the people along the route if the train was discontinued and Rensselaer people are asked to do all they ean to have the train service maintained. It now furnishes the only connection by Which people can reach Rensselaer from the north and return the same day. It is thus an important train for merchants and by all means we should try to have it retained. /