Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1917 — Lafayette May Revoke Franchise of Railway. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette May Revoke Franchise of Railway.

Lafayette, Ind., June 14.—Acting on instruction front Mayor Thomas Bauer, City Attorney E. Burleigh Davidson last night notified the officials of the Fort Wayne & Northern Traction Company that unless the company puts that part of Main street lying between its rails in the same condition as the remainder of the street, which is being improved with asphalt, a recommendation will be sent to the city council Monday night asking that the franchise be revoked. The board of public works is backing up the mayor and the city council on the action taken. The franchise has nearly seventy years to run. The traction company and the city have been having trouble for more than a year. The traction officials say that the company has not been making any money and that they are unable to make street improvements. , We are doing our best to keep the prices down in our grocery department.—The G. E. Murray Co.