Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1916 — HIGHWAY BOOSTERS IN CITY [ARTICLE]

HIGHWAY BOOSTERS IN CITY

Her© Sunday Euroute from Chicago to Jacksonville. Charles M. Hayes, president of the Chicago Motor club and the Chicago Public Safety commission, and A. O. Parker, chairman of the signboard committee, were in Rensselaer several hours Sunday. They left Chicago at 6 o’clock that morning and intended driving over the route of the Jackson highway to Jacksonville, Florida, making a survey of the route. The thip was being made In an Elgin Pathfinder, manufactured by the Elgin Motor Car corporation, which concern is IWfrafcing the expenses of the trip. / While the real purpose of the trip Is to mark-4he bad turns in the highway and the bad stretches of road, both men are making talks at various stops, In which they advocate good roads, especially on all the accredited highways. They carry letters-from Governor Dunne of Illinois to the governor of Florida and ,from L. G. Steveson to the mayor of Jacksonville