Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1915 — JASPER COUNTY’ TAKES ACTION [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY’ TAKES ACTION

Committee Appointed On Dixie Highway to Represent Jasper County. Thomas Follen, Albert E. Weigle, David Boyle and George D. Franklin of Lafayette, were here Monday, with others, to interest our people, in the Dixie highway project. C. H. Peck of # Remington, came over with them, and a meeting was held in the court house and the commissioners asked to appoint a committee of three from this county to act with similar committees from Boone, Clinton, Tippecanoe and Lake counties, to work for the proposed highway from Indianapolis along the old “Bluebook’’ route to Chicago. The commissioners appointed City May,or C. G. Spitler, Attorney E. P. Honan and C. H. Peck, as such committee. The i state officials heretofore appointed to act on the committee to locate this highway, will meet in Chattanooga, Tenn., on May 20 to officially locate the route, and strong efforts will be made by local committees to have the route go through Lebanon, Frankfort, Lafayette, Wolcott, Remington, Rensselaer and Hammond. Boosters of what is called the central route, running from Indianapolis through Logansport, Rochester and South Bend, on the old “Michigan Highway,” will also put np a strong claim for their line. It is claimed that the route through Rensselaer js considerable shorter than the central route, and it is hoped that we may be successful in landing it here.