Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1919 — ANYWAY, JUST SO IT’S NEAR FOWLER. [ARTICLE]

ANYWAY, JUST SO IT’S NEAR FOWLER.

Benton Gounty Tribune-®- # The national-state highway proposition is being discussed by th% various towns interested, and Fowler is standing pat on the proposition that it wants the highway, and is willing to extend its sympathy and aid in anyway that will bring about that result. Kentland wants a line that would pass west of Fowler, and before it got to Lake county would look like a streak of lightning against a dark back-ground. Goodland is asking us to meet them in a discussion of the most direct line on the map. It -is to run from Lafayette to Oxford, then a jog to Fowler, and from there to Thayer, where there is another jog of one and one-half miles, straight into Crown Point. This highway would follow the line of road past the Dinwiddie farm, just east of Fowler, and would pass Goodland about one-half mile west of the town. Mr. Washburn, an expert in that line, of Goodland, has drawn a very fine map of the three proposed routes, including the one from Lafayette by way of Rensselaer. We aTe for all of them if they come near Fowler, but some of them look more like a profile of Snake river than a public highway.