Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL — 4 ■ Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. WILL MAP FdEEDER ROUTES Pathfinder Car of Defense Council Committee to Start Out. Washington, February s.—To map out feeder routes from manufacturing centers in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, to the two official highway routes from Detroit and Buffalo to the Atlantic seaboard, the pathfinder car of the highways transport committee, council of national defense, will start out this week. The pathfinder will go. as far west as the Mississippi river. V When the trip is completed, today’s announcement said, the government will have four main highways forming connecting links between the great manufacturing centers of the country and the Atlantic seaboard. Motor transports on their way to France will (follow these routes and carry cargoes to relieve freight congestion.