Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1916 — JACKSON HIGHWAY MEETING TONIGHT [ARTICLE]

JACKSON HIGHWAY MEETING TONIGHT

Officers and Advisers of Association Are Inspecting Highway—Will Meet People Here, Today the officers and advisers of the Jackson Highway Association are making an inspection of the reads on the line of the highway in Lake ounty. This afternoon they will be met at Water Valley by machines sent fi;om here and will come to us over that pant of the line north from Rensselaer to the river and this evening a public meeting will be held at the court house in which the objects and purposes of the highway association will be explained to the citizens of our county. The highway, when completed, will extend from Chicago and Lake Michigan to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico and will be one of the greatest arteries of travel in the world. The time is near when the state of Indiana will have a state highway commission and will begin the building of cement and brick roadways on the main line of highways in the state. The lines of the Lincoln Highway, the Dixie Highway and the Jackson Highway will be those having the first call on the state money as well as the amounts apportioned by congress from the government treasury to the state of Indiana. Up to this time the greatest drawback to securing a trunk line road through Jasper county has been the unsatisfactory condition of that part of the line which runs through Union township. Now the good citizens of that township, in their own interests and on ther own initiative, have undertaken to and no doubt they will remedy that trouble. Within the last two days the line of the Jackson Highway has •been marked from Rensselaer north to Lake county’s line in the same ananner that the entire line from Chicago to New Orleans will be designated. Is it not desirable and wise~?hat out citizens and taxpayers get busy and make a sure thing of securing the permanent location of the Jackson Highway through this county ? If they do they will soon have the satisfaction of traveling over a highly improved road maintained in part, at least, by the state and national treasuries, and the remaining highways of the county will be relieved from the bulk of the automobile traffic and will be more easily and cheaply maintained. Come out tonight and contribute your influence toward pushing the matter along and help those who are spending their time and money for the common good. -