Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1915 — SAY WE WILL GET THE DIXIE HIGHWAY [ARTICLE]

SAY WE WILL GET THE DIXIE HIGHWAY

Automobile Route From Chicago to the South to Pass Through Rensselaer and Lafayette. The project to establish an automobile route from Chicago to Chattanooga, Tenn., and .to eventually have it paved all the is attracting a great deal of attention now and naturally every city would like to be on the route. Hammond sent Mayor Smalley and John Gavit to Chattanooga to attend a meeting Friday and present the advantages of the route through that city and The Times of that day published the following message sent from them: “We were able to convince the commissioners that Hammond is the real gateway to Chicago from the south. Lake county’s magnificent system of roads was another factor of great importance. Hammond has been selected as the route into Chicago. “There was little controversy about the route from Indianapolis to Chicago. It will be from Indianapolis to Lebanon to Lafayette to Rensselaer to Hammond. The trouble about agreeing is in Tennessee- and Kentucky and southern Indiana.” It will be a great advantage to this city and will certainly be welcomed by our people, who should lose no .opportunity to boost for it. The Republican suggests that the Commercial Club get busy and align itself with the Hammond and Lafayette people and does its full share to encourage the adoption of this route. Whale the dispatch from Chattanooga says the route has been determined, there seems to be no mention of it in either The Indianapolis Star or Lafayette Journal and there may be same doubt about the matter. Hqre is a matter of such importance that It deserves the immediate consideration of the progressive businessmen of our city and county.

s H. W. Gsterman, of ■ Indianapolis, traveling in a White Stutz car, the official car of the Lincoln highway project, another route proposed, was n Rensselaer over Friday night. He is the counsel-at-large for the Lincoln highway, the route for which will be through the northern part of the state. The writer "did not get an opportunity to interview Mr, Osterman, but Dr. Brown talked with him and was very much impressed with ris suggestions. He' stated that the Dixie highway was the one that would prove most valuable for this city and urged us to exert every activity to secure it and advised that we lose no time in issuing an invitation for it to come this way. In another place in this paper is an article about a free lecture which Owen A- Charles, the apostle of the country town, offers to give here next Wednesday evening, and which our people should all be glad to welcome. It seem a that no better opportunity could be found for the Commercial Club to take some action on this highway pibject than at that time. We must get busy and do our fair share of work in locating it through Rensselaer and Jasper county.