Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1915 — ORGANIZE TO BOOST FOR DIXIE HIGHWAY [ARTICLE]

ORGANIZE TO BOOST FOR DIXIE HIGHWAY

Mayor Spitler and E. P. Honan, of Rensselaer, and C. H. Peck, of Remington, Appointed.

Rensselaer and Jasper county have taken the initial step toward securing the Dixie highway. The county commissioners Monday appointed a committee of three men, Mayor C. G. Spitler and Attorney E. P. Honan, of this city, and Charles H. Peck, of Remington, to officially represent this county and to co-operate with similar committees from Lake, Tippecanoe, Clinton and Boone counties, through which counties one of the proposed routes for this highway are to pass. An auto load of Lafayette people, including Albert E. Weigle, secretary of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, Thomas Follen, David Boyle and Geo. D. Franklin, arrived in Rensselaer shortly after noon Monday and went to the court house to ask the appointment of the committee. Advised that they would not reach Rensselaer until about 2 o’clock the band on Shafer’s truck, and several autos went south to meet them, but the Dixie Highway boosters were already in town. The members of the committee were called into meeting by Mr. Weigle immediately after their appointment, Mr. Peck having come over from Remington with the Lafayette boosters. The committees from all the counties named are to meet in Lafayette Wednesday and take action as to the best method of conducting the campaign for the road. Logansport, Kokomo and South Bend are working like Trojans. We want to show them how it is done.