Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1916 — It’s a Wonder Rensselaer Gets Any Automobile Tourists. [ARTICLE]

It’s a Wonder Rensselaer Gets Any Automobile Tourists.

After a trip over some of the roads in Jasper county in an automobile, and especially the north gravyel to Burks bridge and on past, the road in some places are almost impassible and even when they are perfectly drv they are so rough that only by slow ing down a machine to a very low rate of speed, is one able to ride with any comfort at all. ~ The road question has been diseased time and again, but the solution seems no nearer at hand than it ever did. Jasper county has spent thousands of dollars on her roads, in some instances wisely, and in others very unwisely. Much time and labor has been spent on the college road, which is right now the best road in Jasper county and why continued improvement of it is made, at the neglect of other roads which really need it, is beyond us.