Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1915 — Dixie Highway Meeting in Lafayette Thursday. [ARTICLE]

Dixie Highway Meeting in Lafayette Thursday.

N. C. Shaffer took the Jasper county committee, consisting of Mayor Spitler and E. P. Honan of Rensselaer, and C. H. Peck of Remington, to Lafayette Thursday to attend a meeting of the Dixie highway local committees at that place:. In speaking of the trip by the Las ayette co mm i t tec last Monday, the Lafayette Journal said: “A big meeting was held at Wolcott and White county named as its directors Truman Holdridge, A. P. Jones and Stuart Uhl. A delegation of Wolcott citizens accompanied the Party to Remington, where another fine meeting was held and C. 11. Peck, S. G. Hand and W. C. Richards joined the party .in the visit to Rensselaer. “The Rensselaer meeting was an enthusiastic one and the visitors were met by a brass band. The county commissioners readily agreed to make whatever improvements were necessary in the roads of that county and directors were chosen con L sisting of Mayor C. G. Spitler, E. P. Honan and C. 11. Peck. The local committee then boarded a train and went to Hammond, where a rousing meeting was held Monday evening. Mayor J. D. Smalley, Roscoe Woods, John Gavit, P. W. Meyn and Murray A. Turner were chosen to co-operate with the directors chosen by other counties. The Hammond meeting was held in the Chamber of Commerce headquarters and was a very enthusiastic affair. “A meeting of the directors who have been chosen in Boone, Clinton, Tippecanoe, White, Jasper and Lake counties will be held at the Lahr house in this city Thursday, at which time the route organization will be perfected and plans will be matured for securing the highway from Indianapolis to Chicago.”