Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — A Disgrace to Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

A Disgrace to Jasper County.

The high water occasioned by the heavy rains of the past few weeks undermined one of the abuttments to the bridge over the Hoover slough on the Remington road, rendering the bridge unsafe for traffic, and a detour either east at the Kolhoff corner or west near Tom Cain’s farm has been necessary for the past week. The damage has not been repaired as yet and The Democrat is unable to learn when it will be.

This is the most traveled road anywhere in this section of the state and it is a burning outrage to have it closed for traffic in this manner without providing a decent road tc get around it. The east detour is said to be the better road, although it is not good and is considerably farther than the west detour. A very few dollars intelligently expended at a sink-hole on the west detour would have made 'that road in very good condition. A large number of automobiles—many of them tourists—have got mired down on the west road and they have had to be pulled out with teams of horses. It is said that five cars were stuck in there at one time one night last week and they worked until 2 o’clock next morning in getting them out. There is no reasonable excuse for permitting such things to exist, and the closing of such an extensively traveled road as that between Rensselaer and Remington for so long a time and without providing a reasonably decent highway for a detour is a disgrace to Jasper county.