Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Public Service Commission Orders Thayer Depot Opened. [ARTICLE]

Public Service Commission Orders Thayer Depot Opened.

The public service commission of Indiana has returned a decision in the case of James R. Craig et al vs The Chicago, Indianapolis & LouisMlle Ry. Co. The case as filed by Craig et al asked that the depot at Thayer be reopened and put in a state of repair and maintain in reasonable condition its combined passenger and freight station in Thayer. The station whs closed down on May 1, 1914, and since that time the citizens of Thayer have been forced to go to Shelby or Roselawn ta transact business with the railroad company. Prior to this date the company had maintained an agent at the Thayer station for twenty years. The complaint ’says that the volume of business coming from Thayer and the surrounding territory was of a sufficient amount that the petitionerswere justified in asking that the depot be reopened. The hearing was held on June 26, last. The following decision was handed down by the commission: “It is therefore ordered by the Public Service Commission of Indiana, that The Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville railroad shall, on or before October 1, 1917, repair and maintain in reasonable condition its combined passenger and freight station at Thayer. “It is further ordered by said commission that said railway company shall install an agent in its combined station at Thayer on or before October 1, 1917.