Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1917 — RALSTON NAMED OFFICIALS [ARTICLE]

RALSTON NAMED OFFICIALS

Gathered Much Valuable Information, Force of Which Is Seen In Good Roads Ideas. When Samuel M. Ralston gave over his duties as Governor of Indiana to James P. Goodrich, there parsed from the service a rear good roads enthusiast. The work Ralston did for good roads will be long remembered. Much of the enthusiasm of the present day for better roads and the belief that Indiana should have a highway department, with the state deriving the benefit of Federal aid, comes from the missionary work done under his administration and under the spirit of his enthusiasm. The report of the highway commission, appointed by him June 22, 1914 —the report being made Dec. 26, 1914— was one of the forward steps toward the consummation of an ideal system, of main market roads in Indiana. ,It is the idea of the men behind the State Highway Department bill to make those roads a reality. e Qn that commission was the late Addison C. Harris, jurist, publicist and diplomat; Thomas Taggart, exSenator; Leonard B. Clore, William H. O’Brien and R. L. Sackett. On the advisory committee were Lewis Taylor, Newburg; Prof. E. R. Cummings, Bloomington; Albert P. Fenn, Tell City; I. Newt. Brown, Franklin; William P. Franklin, Danville; Maurice Douglas, Flatrock; Clarence A. Kenyon, Indianapolis; John H. Retherford, Muncie; D. F. Maish,Frankfort;,J, G. Short, Hillsboro; Mike Duffey, Fowler; William Jones, Fairmount; Oliver Kline, Hunfington; \Senator George V. Kell, Ft. Wayne and Aaron Jones, South hbmml y ■