Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1915 — GO TO CHATTANOOGA TO BOOST “AIR LINE” [ARTICLE]

GO TO CHATTANOOGA TO BOOST “AIR LINE”

E. P. Honan, D. S. Makeever and C. G. Spitler Left For South to Help y| Get Dixie Highway. Jasper county will be represented at the Dixie Highway meeting at Chattanooga Thursday by three boosters. They are, E. P. Honan, D. S. Makeever and C. G. Spitler. All 7 left today over the. Monon. The spokesmen for the “air line” route, which is the Lebanon, Frankfort, Lafayette, Rensselaer, Crown Point and Hammond route, are Congressman Wood, of Lafayette and Congressman Morrison, of Frankfort. The counties along the route are sending two or more dedegates to furnish information to the speakers and to mix with the other delegates and explain the advantages of the route they are supporting. The impression has prevailed among the supporters of this route that Carl Fischer, one of the commissioners from Indiana, favored the South Bend ■ route and that Thomas Taggart, the other commissioner, favored the other route. A dispatch, however, from Indianapolis to The Lake County Times says that the reverse is the case, that Taggart favors the South Bend route and Fischer the “air line” route. Evidently some politics is being played and until the vote is taken at Chattanooga no one can tell how they stand. Lafayette will send a good delegation to Chattanooga also, and Frankfort and Lebanon will do the same, while Lake county will be well represented. South Bend is enthusiastic to have the route through that city adopted and 300 boosters from there and along that route are to attend the Chattanooga meeting. The South Bend route leads to the Straits of Mackinaw and it is sand some of the aristocracy who spend the winters in Florida and the summers in northern Michigan favor a route between those places. It is undeniable, however, that the great volume of travel is between Chicago and Indianapolis and that the route through this city is the shortest and the best improved. It is also certain that the association formed and in which tjie Lafayette Chamber of Commerce has played such an active and commendable part will be made a permanent organization and will get the big end of the travel even.if we are not officially on the Dixie Highway. Beyond much doubt the route from Indianapolis to Chicago through this city will be improved and either oiled or given the tervia treatment. It is also certain that the route will be posted by painting telephone poles and that Rensselaer will come in this year as it has in the past for a large amount of the tourist travel.

Dorothy Wade, aged 17, did not go to high school in Hammond Monday. There was a reason. She had eloped Saturday with Virgil Hathaway, aged 18, and instead of high school she and her husband were the guests of honor at a dinner party at the home of the young bride’s sister. Fortunately the groom has a job. He is a clerk in . the railroad offices at Gibson.