Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1915 — Should Get Busy With Sink Hole Road Near Virgie. [ARTICLE]

Should Get Busy With Sink Hole Road Near Virgie.

Jasper county is disgraced by two miles of road just north of Virgie. During the past few weeks it has been almost impassable and many tourists have been stuck in the mudholes and have been pulled out by teams of horses. The condition of the road, which was on the route proposed for the Dixie highway, is deplorable, and tourists are being told about it all over the country and they are missing it and missing Rensselaer. Tuesday a tourist with his family was stuck in the mud at that spot. In trying to get out one of the children fell from the machine and another struck her face on a part of the car and severely cut her lip. Finally they were pulled out of the mud by a team. They came to Rensselaer, where the girl's cut lip was treated by Dr. English. While the proposition of building roads for tourists does not seem right, on the other hand, it is a pity to have a strip of only two miles give a black eye to a county with 210 miles of improved county highway. A petition for this road improvement should be circulated without delay.