Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1915 — WHITE COUNTY VOTES SUBSIDY [ARTICLE]

WHITE COUNTY VOTES SUBSIDY

Three Townships Return Large Majorities in Favor of Extending Financial Assistance. -

Lafayette Journal. ~ Elections were held in three townshape in White county yesterday for the purpose of deciding whether a subsidy should be voted the Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad company and the vote was overwhelmgly in favor of the proposition. The majority in Round Grove township was 22, in West Point township 62 and in Princeton township 71. Thus makes more than SIOO,OOO that has been voted by townships through which the road is to pass and in every instance the people have favored the subsidy. An election has been called in Newton township, Jasper county, for May 26, and two other townships will hold elections later. If the elections in these are favorable the construction work will begin the latter part of June.