Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1915 — DIXIE HIGHWAY THROUGH CITY [ARTICLE]

DIXIE HIGHWAY THROUGH CITY

Our Citizens Should , Get Busy ancf Try to Secure Great North and South Automobile Route. H. C. Ostermann, council at large for the Lincoln highway, and another gentleman, driving a big Stutz car, stopped over night in Rensselaer Friday. They were on their way to Chicago, and Mr. Ostermann while here, mentioned the advisability of Rensselaer people getting busy and trying to secure the “Dixie Highway.’’ He said that it would be of great value to our city and that we were on the logical route for it. Lafayette and Hammond are working to secure the highway through their towns, and our public spirited citizens should get busy and join with them. South Bend is pulling for the highway through that city but Lafayette and Rensselaer make a more direct and therefore a more logical route and we have the advantage in this. 7 The proposed Dixie highway is a national higihway across the\country similiar to the Lincoln highway, but running north and south, and it will be traveled greatly by tourists, in fact, will be the official automobile route between the North and South. These tourists spend a great deal of money in the way of automobile supplies and for board and lodging, and it would mean the leaving of several thousand dollars each year of outside money in Rensselaer, if we could secure the highway through our city. It will cost us nothing to make the effort, and we should get busy and pull every string possible to secure it.