Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1916 — JACKSON HIGHWAY OFFICIALS COMING [ARTICLE]

JACKSON HIGHWAY OFFICIALS COMING

Officials Will Make four of Highway and Will Be Here For Meeting Tuesday Night. As has been mentioned in this paper before, the officials of the Jackson Highway will be here Tuesday evening, June 20, for a pig booster meeting and everyone in the city is expected to attend. They will leave Hammond Tuesday morning and will ba met by Rensselaer boosters who will escort them to our city. They will remain over night here. On Wednesday they will go as far as Indianapolis, stopping at Lafayette at noon to be guests of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce. Following is a letter from Mr. D. M. Boyle, vice president of the Jackson Highway: N. C. Shafer, Esq. Rensselaer, Indiana. Dear Sir:

Your letter of the 14th inst. received this morning. I supposed that the ioffice sending out the signs for marking the highway gaVe instructions. The plan is very much the same as you marked the D. A. The background is to be painted white with a black border above and below. On the white background put on with the stencil the letters “J. H. b The arrow points are to be used to indicade the turns in the road and are to be stenciled in black. You do not need to use the stencil only at turns in the road. One arrow at top and bottom, one pointing one way and the other the opposite direction, so that no mistake will be made by the public in travel. This is all there is to it. Hope you will get right away, as you know that on the 20th and 21st our southern parties will be going over our line of road. I have (been in correspondence with Mr. Honan, but he has no doubt been so busy that he may have neglected to- take it up with you and others. The officers of the Jackson Highway, most of them from the southern states, will be in Chicago on next Tuesday morning, June 20th, and will be met there by the Lake county boys, shown over the line of road through Lake county. The arrangements are that" some place on the lake front we will'eat dinner with Lake county. I suppose that Honan is .in St. Louis and will not be home for several days, so it will be up to you, Mayor Spitler and others to take care of matters so far as your county is concerned. It is planned now to inspect the roads in Lake county Tuesday morning and afternoon drive down to your city and spend the night. There will be a dozen in the party. It will be up to you Vq make some provision for their-entertainment. If you can arrange a booster meeting for Tuesday* night, it would Ibe a splendid thing to do. kam not advised as to how these visitors will get down from Lake county to your place, but it may be necessary for you to arrange to bring them down from your north line. I will hear from Roscoe Woods, of Hammnd, tomorrow and will write you again on this point. Tippecanoe county is planning to send one car to Lake county and possibly two cars to your place on Wednesday morning to convey the parties to Lafayette, it is planned to leave -yoqr city Wednesday morning and run to Lafayette for a dinner with the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce. It is hoped that many of your citizens can accompany these parties as far as our city and join us in our* little feed here. Please take up this matter immediately and advise if you can furnish cars in sufficient number to bring the guests to your city and what’entertainment you will furnish, etc. Lake county will expect a goodly number of your citizens up there on Tuesday and I hope many of you can go. After thd dinner in Lafayette, the guests will be taken in hand by the Frankfort boys and driven to Indianapolis. This will Complete our part of the line. From this point they will be turned over to the directors of the road south of Indianapolis and run through to Louisville, Ky. Relay forces will be used in the same manner through Kentucky and Tennessee. It was the wish of Mr. Atherton, the president, that a number from Indiana accompany them on the trip to Nashville. It wpuld certainly be a fine trip and if some one or two of your people would like to see southern Indiana, all of Kentucky and part of Tennessee, they- will be glad to take you in as a guest after leaving our own territory. Take this tsp also with the Jasper boys. Now I have written you in detail, as I have other parties in other counties between Indianapolis and Chicago. All are joining in and doing even more than I ask. It is a big proposition, but we are on the right tack and if we can get our road well marked, well established, the travel will go

our way and when the time comes for permanent improvement of highways, we will be the first to receive the benefits of it. See a number of your boys and get busy on this proposition for next week and let me know in detail just what we may expect from your county. Let me know by Saturday if jpssJlile. , Yours sincerely, D. M. BOYLE, x Vice President Jackson Highway.