Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — STILL ANOTHER AND FINAL PETITION [ARTICLE]

STILL ANOTHER AND FINAL PETITION

Union Township Residents Agree to Substitution Hi Order to Meet All Objections.

While practically every resident of Union township seems in favor of a stone road system and while three or four petitions have been circulated and at least two tiled it was not until Tuesday when a number of residents of that township met in Rensselaer and thrashed out their differences that a route was determined upon that seems to meet general approval. It has been said of others that they had practically unanimous approval but when the routes became generally known the objections from some regions were so strenuous that the entire project was Threatened. The route agreed upon Tuesday was placed in the form of a petition and will be circulated and filed at once, in order that the commissioners may act upon it at the June term. While the petition describes it according to the section locations it is probable that it will be best understood if described as follows: Starting one-half mile north of Virgie and running south 7 miles. East from the Schultz corner to Aix and south 2 miles to the township line. From the southeast corner of section 26 west 2 miles and south 5 miles to Parr. Thence 2Y2 miles east to the Amos Alter comer and south l.mile. From Fuller school house 32 miles west to Fair Oaks. Walter McConnell, Firman Thompson and others are circulating the petition.