Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1917 — JACKSON HIGHWAY MEETING [ARTICLE]

JACKSON HIGHWAY MEETING

Held Last Week at Birmingham, Alabama, Was Well Attended. Lafayette, January 13.—A meeting of the officers ’of the different states through which the Jackson highway passes was held .in Birmingham, Alabama, on Tuesday. Indiana was represented by D. M. Boyle of this city, who is the Indiana vice-president of the association; One of the objects of the meeting was to complete the location of the permanent route from Chicago to New Orleans. The route from Nashville, Tennessee, through Mississippi, was located some weeks ago, but many o£ the delegates felt at that time that there should be an Additional territory added by. making a route thro'ugh Alabama, that would extend as far south aS Montgomery and taking in such cities as Huntsville, Decatur and Birmingham with a view of some time extending this line east through Georgia. Perhaps later down the west coast* of Florida. At this , meeting this additional branch was added as a part of the Jackson highway. The route was extended to Selma, a small town about thirty miles south of Montgomery. '? .

L. T. Haney, formerly engineer of * the Kentucky highway commission, was elected field secretary. Mr. Haney will go from one division of this highway to another to assist in rebuilding any of the roads that may be required. Hte should prove a valuable man to the association. It was proposed to raise the sum of $7,000 for field and office expenses for the year 1917. Perhaps Indiana’s share in this will be about' SI,OOO, this being divided between the twelve counties through which the highway passes.

There was? a full attendance of all the officers from, each state except Indiana., which was represented by Mr. Boyle. He was allowed to cast the full vote? of the officers in the full vote of all the officers in this state. The South is fully aroused in the matter of road building and the A people are studying the question from every angle. President P; L. Atherton and the delegation who, made a trip through here last summer have? not ceased to speak in praise of our roads and their treatment by Hoosiers.