Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1915 — Boosters Organize at Lebanon. [ARTICLE]

Boosters Organize at Lebanon.

Ijebanon, Ind., May 1.-—At a con-, ference of citizens and taxpayers of Boone, Clinton and Tippecanoe counties here Friday, an organization was formed to/ present to the Dixie highway commission the advantages of having that highway come over the.route from Indianapolis to Chicago by way of Lebanon, Frankfort, Lafayette and Hammond. The directors chosen for the three counties represented in the meeting are: Boone, Morris Ritchie, John Herr and E. A. Brenton; Clinton, Fred S. Coulter, I). S. Maish and Walter L. Brown; Tippecanoe, George D. Franklin, David M. Boyle and Thomas Follen. The directors elected as officers: President, Thomas Follen, Lafayette; vice-presidents, W. L. Brown, Frankfort; David M. Boyle, Lafayette; Morris Ritchie, Lebanon; secretary, Albert V. Weigel, Lafayette. •••