Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — THERE’S THIRTEEN MILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THERE’S THIRTEEN MILES

Of the Proposed Stone Road In Jordan Tp., Instead of Eleven Miles. In The Democrat’s mention of the proposed highway improvement in Jordan tp., in Wednesday’s paper an error occurred in not describing all of the improvement. There is 13 miles of it instead of 11 miles,, the two miles not mentioned in our comment being east two miles, from the intersection of Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, which will make it three miles directly east from the Xewton countv stone road with which it connects at the west side at the comers of sections 1$ and 19. The seven mile stretch east and west is one mile north of the Carpenter tp., line and runs to within one mile of the Milroy tp., link and v one mile of the Newton county line. There is then a stretch of three miles north and south, one mile south to the Carpenter tp. line and two miles north to the northeast corner of section 20, where there is another east and west stretch of three miles one mile west to the Xew'ton county line and two miles east to the intersection of sections 15, 16, 21, 22. The following diagram will give a more clear idea of the improvement, jerhaps: