Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1909 — NEW INTERURBAN LINE. [ARTICLE]

NEW INTERURBAN LINE.

Charter is Sought for Road Connecting Lafayette and Hammond. Articles of incorporation were filed in the office of the secretary of state Saturday for the Indiana Nothwestern Traction Company, organized to build, equip and operate an interurban railway from Hammond to Lafayette. The incorporators are William Brucker, Curtis D. Meeker and Jacob L- Timmons, all of Monticello; George Goff, Rensselaer, and George A. Haskell, of Chicago. The concern is capitalized at $50,000. No declaration of the proposed route of the line was filed with the petition for a charter. The central offices of the concern will be at Monticello.