Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1915 — Hammond Men Who Attended Highway Meeting Are Home. [ARTICLE]

Hammond Men Who Attended Highway Meeting Are Home.

Mayor Smalley and City Attorney John Gavit, of Hammond, who attended the meeting at Chattanooga, Tenn., of the Dixie highway boosters, returned to Hammond last Saturday and expressed themselves as certain that the highway is to be over the route reported in a former issue of this paper, namely, from Indianapolos to Lebanon, Lafayette, Remington, Rensselaer and Hammond. Another meeting is to be held in Louisville on April 21st and A. M. Turner has been asked to attend the meeting. The Dixie highway movement was started by the Chattanooga, Tenn., automobile club. C. E. James is at the head of it and he has a reputation for doing things in Tennessee that lends .confidence for the success of his great project.