Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — JACKSON HIGHWAY BOOSTERS COMING TO RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

JACKSON HIGHWAY BOOSTERS COMING TO RENSSELAER

Will Re Here Next Tuesday and Mass Meeting Will Be Held Tuesday, Evening. E. P. Honan is in receipt of a letter from D. M. Boyle, the wideawake county highway superintendent of Tippecanoe county, enclosing a letter from P. L. Atherton, president of the Jackson Highway association, the new national highway which it is proposed to build from New Orleans, La., to Chicago via Louisville, Ky., where a branch will extend to Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Boylo is the Indiana vice-president of the

Jackson Highway association. The proposed line of the highway through Indiana is via Columbus, Edinburg, Franklin, Indianapolis, Frankfort, Lafayete, Rensselaer, Crown Point and Hammond. The two letters follow: Lafayette, Ind., June 9, 1916. Hon. Ed. P. Honan, Rensselaer, Indiana. Dear Honan: I am enclosing you a copy of a letter received today from President P. L. Atherton. I am also in receipt of a letter from Roscoe Woods of Hammond in which he says that the boys up there will look after the southern guests in true Lake county style. I infer that they will be right on the job, so it is up to us.to take care of our end of the line. We sure can do it and we will. Have outlined to the Motor Age of Chicago that we would leave Hammond on Tuesday, June 20, in time to reach your city for a night meting. Wednesday would run from Rensselaer to Indianapolis, stooping in Lafayette for dinner with the chamber of commerce. We want you and your boys, as many of them as can to come as far as Lafayette and farther if they can and be with us at the noon day eat. It would be a nice trip if one of your number at least could go as far south as Maysville as Mr. Atherton invites. if ydu have not already had the “J. H.’’

placed on the poles I wish it might be done before the 20th. I have marked our line through Tippecanoe. I will write you as soon as I get anything more and will keep you posted. Yours sincerely, D. M. BOYLE. Copy: Jackson Highway Association Louisville, Ky., June s, l'jl G. Mr. D. M. Boyle, Lafayette, Indiana. Dear Sir; I am arranging to go to St. Louis to the Democratic convention on next Tuesday and will be there the remainder of the week. From there I will go to Chicago, reaching there probably Sunday morning, the 18th, and will be ready Tuesday morning, the 20th, to start on the inspection trip. I don’t think I can do very much automobile riding, but will try to make the different towns by train for the meetings, and suppose this can be done without much trouble. I will be at the Blackstone hotel in Chicago and the Marquette hotel in St. Louis and will be glad to hear from you, of course, at either place. 1 have written some of our people in Shelbyville, Frankfort and Lexington, Ky., about an inspection trip from Louisville to Maysville on the the Indiana trip, and in fact propose, if it can be done, to take the same party over the road from here to Maysville, adding some few’ Louisville men, if possible, and some of the representatives of our local papers. We would like very much to show you something of the roads in Kentucky, although in two or three places between here and Frankfort they are working on this road. I believe if you and some of your Indiana associates can spare the two days—the 23 d and 24 th—that you will enjoy the trip very much. Of ccAirse, we will furnish the machines here to start the trip, and relay along the route as you propose to do in Indiana. I will hear more definitely from our Kentucky people in the next few days, but in the meantime will be glad to hear from you. I am sending a copy of this letlet to Mr. Crim, Mr. Creveling, Mr. Brown, (Frankfort, Indiana.) Received your remittance for stencils, and also remittance from A. P. Jones for White county and Ed. P. Honan for Jasper county. Hoping that you can arrange to go these two days through Kentucky. Yours truly, P. L. ATHERTON, President.

MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Frank Hart of Demotte was in town Tuesday on business. John Lanam, who has been working at Carbon, Ind., is home for a few days’ visit. Brooks Lanam and family and J. M. Anderson visited friends in North Judson Sunday. M. M. Ocker and family left Monday for their new home on the lake shore at Glen Mere, Mich. The dry land dredge owned by Elmer Coburn is progressing fine and is now below Lew Selmer’s. Miss Olive Dunn, who has been attending school in Jacksonville, 111., returned home Friday evening. Elmer Coburn and family, Mrs. Kruger and Herman Kruger of San Pierre visited at the home of Bivin Coburn over Sunday. Word has been received here that Mrs. H, C. Schott has gone for a visit to the home of her sister, Mrs. A. Hyde, of Sarton, Va. Mrs. Everett Montgomery left Monday evening for her home in Jackson, Mich., after a few weeks’ visit with friends and relatives in and about Medaryville. Misses Clara and Emma Busch went to Michigan City Saturday to visit relatives, the former returning Sunday evening and Miss Emma remaining until Tuesday.

Miss Vera Guild and Roy Comer, who have been attending school at DePauw, returned home Friday evening, and Lloyd Young and Clarence Hansell returned home Saturday evening. Miss Hayner of Sturgis, Mich., well known here, having taught in the local high school, was married the 24th of May to Mr. Charles Base, and is now residing on a farm near Sturgis. »

Thursday night during the severe electric storm that swept this section, A. B. Schoonover had two nlules struck by lightning and killed. The mules were insured for S2OO, so the loss was not very great.