Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — Good Roads Advocate Traveling in Novel Manner. [ARTICLE]

Good Roads Advocate Traveling in Novel Manner.

Col. C. W. Thatcher, small spring wagon and team of burros, all of Virginia, arrived in Rensselaer Wednesday noon, enroute from Chicago to Florida, in the interest of good roads. Col. Thatcher is chief engineer of the Washington Highway association, which plans to build a road practically across the continent, and has traveled extensively in the interest of this organization and has acquired much' knowledge regarding the good roads cause as a result thereof. His small light wagon was filled and covered with various mementos, skins, animal skulls, auto license numbers, etc., placed thereon by friends of the better roads association. Mr. Thatcher made a short good roads talk on the sfreet while here Wednesday.