Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — A NEW PLAN [ARTICLE]

A NEW PLAN

To Improve That Jordan Townshlp*Road. THREE TOWNSHIPS ARE TO UNITE. Petition* Now Being Circulated For Elections in flarton, Jordan and Carpenter Townships. It being found that the proposed plan of improving that three miles of notorious bad road in Jordan tp., would not do, as the county could not appropiate money for the improvement, a new plan has been devised by which the three townships interested will bear the expense—Marion, Jordan and Carpenter—and petitions to that end have been circulated this week and will be presented to the commissioners at their session next week, asking for an election to vote on the proposition. The petitions are being generally signed by prominent taxpayers of all the townships interested, and if the election carries this section of the most extensively traveled road in the county will be filled in with gravel and an eyesore to the county removed. In the event of this road being improved, it is probable that Jordan tp., will go ahead and build an east and west road from the Range Line road to the Newton county line. Because Jordan township has been reliably democratic for many years —we know of no other reason—our republican friends have poked couoiderable fun at that township, but for some years Jordan has raised the best crops of any township in the county, and her people generally are as wideawake and prosperous as are found anywhere, and when it comes to improvements that are beneficial to the people they will not be found backward. The only reason this section of road has not been improved long ago is because of the few people of that township who use it and the fact that there are few people living on the road. Some of the heaviest landowners along the line are good republicans who did not want the improvement made because it would hit their pocketbooks a little. By the proposed plan it will be a very light assessment on everybody in the three townships, and it is hoped that it will go through. S. A. Brnsnahan, of near Parr, finished threshing Tuesday and his yield was a trifle under 40 bushels per acre, a very good yield considering the wet season and the lay of the land in that section.