Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1914 — Lafayette & Northwestern Ry. Co. Granted Franchises. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette & Northwestern Ry. Co. Granted Franchises.

Notwithstanding the strenuous opposition made by the Indiana & Northwestern Traction Co., to the granting of a franchise to the L. & N. W. Ry Co., in this and other counties through which it desires to run its proposed roadi, the latter seems to have won out pretty generally, as it also did in Jasper county. Concerning the fight over in White county Tuesday, the Monticello Journal says: “Attorneys representing the rival company known as The Indiana & Northwestern Traction Co. were present and made strenuous objections, arguing that the company receiving the franchise should designate the route the road would follow. The objections were not considered weighty, however, and the franchise was granted.”