Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — PLAN FOR GOOD ROADS MEETING [ARTICLE]

PLAN FOR GOOD ROADS MEETING

Convention Will Be Held in Indianapolis This Winter. TO IMPROVE THE HIGHWAYS Legislators, Mayors, City and County Officials Are Invited to Attend Proposed Gathering in Capital.

Indianapolis.--—ln the effort to promote sentiment in favor of good roads and bring about immediate results in road improvement the directors of the Commercial club have just taken the first steps toward calling a state good roads convention to be held in Indianapolis this winter, probably in December.

It Is planned to hold the convention under the joint auspices of various business organizations and other bodies interested in the good roads movement. The convention is planned to meet before the next session of the legislature. All members of the next legislature are to be asked to attend the convention. Mayors, members of boards of county commissioners, township trustees and other officials will be urged to attend the convention. In resolutions adopted by the Commercial club’s directors reference is made to the movement for an ocean to ocean highway and to the work being done by the Indiana Good Roads association, for the establishment of a state highway commission and the abolition of the present system of working out road taxes.

Aviator Uses Gun to Hold Back Mob. Hartford City.—When “Professor” Ira Hunt of Indianapolis failed to leave the ground in his aeroplane at Riverside park at Eaton several hundred angry persons, who had paid a ten-cent admission fee, rushed the aviator and made an attempt to throw him into the Misslsslnewa river. The crowd demanded the return of the admission fee. Hunt had a large revolver strapped to his waist and, climbing to the top of his machine, he held the crowd at bay with his gun. Manager Shutterly of the park barricaded himself In the dining room of the park hotel and the mob broke down the doors and overturned several tables at which guests were eating. Shutterly is a cripple. Post Office to Be Closed. Marion.—The post office at Rigdon, a hamlet situated on the Grant-Madison county line, is to be abandoned after September 30. Thereafter residents in that neighborhood will be served by rural carriers from Marion and Elwood. The office will be abandoned, it is said, because of the inability of the postal authorities to find a competent postmaster. The office paid but S9O in salary for the last fiscal year. The Rlgdon post office is one of the oldest In the county. Prominent Minister Dies. Connersville.—Rev. A. N. latt, seventy-seven years old, is dead at his home in this city. He was one of the best-known Methodist ministers in the Indiana conference, having filled appointments at Port Fulton, Jeffersonville, Bellevue, Rushville, Aurora, Franklin, Seymour, Milton, Richmond, Columbus, Milroy, Morristown and Carthage. He was for five years presiding elder of the Jeffersonville district. A widow and eight children survive. Law Checks Limited Train. Laporte.—Although gates protect all crossings, the Twentieth Century limited train between Chicago and New York was forced to go through this city at a rate of ten miles an hour. The Chicago officials were notified by Mayor Darrow that unless a young and competent watchman is placed at the Tipton street * crossing the city ordinance will be enforced. The action was the result of the killing of Silas Shippee there, the twelfth victim of the death trap. Mystery In Train Tragedy. Laporte.—Frank Pattee, thirtyfive, of Akron, employed in the Rumely plant here, was killed Instantly when he was struck by a Lake Shore train, going east at the rate of fifty miles an hour. The police are looking i for a woman with whom Pattee was seen a few minutes before the accident, and who has not been seen sinoe. The man had $l5O on his person when picked up and suicide or. murder is hinted at by the police, who are investigating. Lafayette.—Sixty-one survivors of the Fortieth Indiana Infantry assembled here In annual reunion. Out of the regiment of 1,000 men, but 225 are living, Peter McManzie of Indianapolis was again elected president. Lebanon was selected as the place for the 1913 reunion. Body Is Bevered by Train. Kokomo.—The of an unidentified man was found beside the Panhandle tracks here. It had been "severed just below the waist by a train. No papers were found that would lead to identity. The man was dark complexioned and wore a black hat, coat and vest, striped trousers and new shoes and hosiery. A boy told the officers that he thought the man’s name was Williams and his home on Williard street in Muncie, but authorities there do not know of such a man.