Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1919 — USE AXE ON COUNTY ROADS [ARTICLE]

USE AXE ON COUNTY ROADS

' PETITIONS TO IMPROVE FIFTY MILES OF ROADS GO WEST. At a special session ■Friday afternoon the county council in secret session behind locked doors in the county auditor’s office voted to kill the movement to improve.' 49.55 miles of roads in this county under the county unit law passed by the last legislature. It is understood that four members of the board put themselves on record as opposed to the building of any roads under this law. The names of the roads, their location and mileage, as furnished us by the county surveyor, are as follows: Edward Tanner, 1.86 miles, Barkley township. Harvey Davisson, 4.01 miles, Walker and Gillam townships. Elias Arnold, 5.55 miles, Barkley and Union townships. Ernest Comer, 2 miles, Union township. Alfred Duggleby, 9.02 miles, Wheatfield and Kankakee C. C. Parks, 9.08 miles, Newton township. Charles Brand, 2.01 miles, Milroy township. —William B. Fisher, 2.76 mil es, Milroy township. .... . TJT L. Parks, 2 miles,Milroy and White county line. J. F. Mitchell, 4.05 miles, Jordan township. Edward R. Cook, 5.22 miles, Hanging Grove township. Thomas Murphy, 1.99 Union and Newton townships on township line.r Total, 49.55 miles.