Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — Jackson Highway County Organization. [ARTICLE]

Jackson Highway County Organization.

A meeting of the citizens and tax payers of Jasper county, interested in the Jackson highway, will he held at the court room at 8 o’clock on Thursday evening of this week. It is the desire of the committee that this meeting be representative of the entire citizenship of the county and it is especially desired that the people of bbth the north and south ends turn out a substantial representation. At this meeting a permanent county organization wljl be effected, which will be auxiliary to the Interstate Jackson Highway association, which has general charge of the location and improvement of the highway Chicago to New Orleans. The fortunate geographical location of our county and a reasonable amount of effort on our part will insure us the permanent location of this great highway from one end of the county to the other. Up to this time such roads as there are on the Jackson highway line have been improved by the townships at township expense, and in most instances roain-

tained at county expense. The time is near when the state of Indiana, with financial assistance from the general government, will begin the building of trunk line roads of cement and brick, to the construction of which the local communities will be required to contribute but a very small part. A brick or cement road through the county will be worth more to the citizens than an interurban railroad, and the Jackson highway will be one of the first to be improved in the state. A little effort well directed will keep Jasper county on the Jackson highway map and ultimately bring us the pavement. Crank up your machine and coma Thursday evening and we will talk It over among ourselves.—LOCAL COMMITTEE, Charles G. Spitler, Chairman.