Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1916 — J. H. MEETING HELD , TUESDAY EVENING [ARTICLE]

J. H. MEETING HELD , TUESDAY EVENING

Meeting In the Interest of the Proposed Jackson Highway Held at the Court House. A meeting to further the interest in the proposed Jackson Highway was held Tuesday evening and considering the unpleasant weather conditions there was a good crowd on hand to meet the tourists. Mayor C. G. Spitler was elected chairman of the meeting and A. Halleck secretary. The visitors numbering about fifteen, were met at the Kankakee river by several automobiles and escorted to Rensselaer. The visitors Included the two vice presidents, the committeemen of the states of Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee and a correspondent for the Motor Age. There were speeches made by Mr. Boyle and Mr. Grimm, of Indiana, and Mr. Dent, of Tennessee, and A. Halleck, E. P. Honan, and C. G. Spitler, of Rensselaer, and Logan Wood, of Parr. The purposes of the meeting as set forth were to -advise the people as to the route the highway would take, the reason why it was so named, how it was proposed to build the road and the improvements that were to be expected. The road will extend from Chicago to New Orleans, will pass through the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, the home of Andrew Jackson and President Polk, and will include the Dixie Airline, the Hoosier scenic trail, and the Louisville-Nashville highway and will include the world famous sea shell roads east of New Orleans, rated as the finest roads in the worldJ This route will be the shortest between Chicago and the south. It will be far ahead of the Dixie Highway in the condition -f *he road and the points of interest. The telephone poles are to be marked with “J. H.,” those between Chicago and Nashville having already been marked in this manner. It was named after Andrew Jackson. ' ,

It is planned to pay for the road either by each state contributing its share or by making a federal road out of it, and it is to be either of brick or concrete later on. It is the idea of the officials to have each county tihrough which the road passes to work as units in. the construction of the highway, and each county to have a set of officials whose duty it shall be to superintend the ou’ding in thei rrespective counties. In a few days a meeting will be called in the court house and the officials for Jasper county will be elected by the veople and everyone is especially urged to attend and help elect the officers. The week from Aug. 7 to 12 will be given over to the making of the in each county between Chicago and Nashville by the citizens.- • . • The visitors remained at the Makeev ;r house over night and were taken on to Lafayette by E. P. Honan, Leslie Clark, C. G. Spitler, Abraham Halleck and A. E. Shafer. Three cars from Lafayette also met them, and they were dined this noon at Lafayette at tiie chamber of commerce. Cars from Lebanon and Frankfort will

• meet them at Lafayette, and take ■ them on to Indianapolis and from 1 there they will be taken to Salem, Ind., and Louisville, Ky., and from there to Nashville, Tenn. A. E. Shafer, of Rensselaer, will accompany the tourists to Nashville.