Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1916 — NEW STONE ROAD HELP TO RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

NEW STONE ROAD HELP TO RENSSELAER

T. M. Calalhan, et ai, Petition For Improvement That Will Conned Wheat field and County Seat. No more important road imm-ove-ment has been undertaken in Jasper county than the one recently petitioned for in the commissioners’ court by T. M. Callahan and others. It will connect the S., C. Irwin road, at Gifford with the main stone road south of Wheatfield and give a complete stone road all the way from Rensselaer to Wheatfield, The route most genearlly traveled between these places is via Kniman and Zadoc, but the route via Gifford is a direct one and the building of a stone road to close the unimproved gap will be a great boon to increased travel. Much of the business from Wheatfield and environs that would naturally come to Rensselaer has been going to Valparaiso because of the better roads north of the Kankakee river, but the improvement petitioned for will draw the trsyie in this direction. The exact location of the proposed road is as follows: From Gifford % mile north, thence V*. mile east and thence 3% miles north. Now if some effort will be made to connect up the gap at Viigie, Rensselaer will be connected in good shape with, the north end of the county.