Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1918 — HUNDRED ARMY TRUCKS A DAY [ARTICLE]

HUNDRED ARMY TRUCKS A DAY

To Pass Through Rensselaer Beginning Tomorrow. Ross Ramey, local manager for the Standard Oil company, has received notice from his company that commencing tomorrow one hundred army trucks per day would be driven through Rensselaer for the next thirty-six daye—a total of 3,600 trucks —on their way from Chicago to the seaboard. Mr. Ramey instructed to have plenty of oil and gasoline on hand, as the trucks would stop here over night and take on about 2,000 gallons of gasoline and 100 gallons of cylinder oil here each day. The trucks are supposed to be driven about ninety miles per day, and the drivers are equipped with camping outfit* and camp out each night, Rensselaer being their first camping place after leaving Chicago, and on the second day out they will camp some place near Indianapolis. It is probable that the route selected is from Thayer to Mt. Ayr and thence east to Rensselaer, following the Jackson highway from this city to Indianapolis.

B. F. Fendig, Delos Thompson, C. G. Spitler and L. A. Bostwick, who have been appointed by the National Council a county highway commission and. who have been asked to designate a route through this county to be used by the government, made an inspection tour Wednesday and decided to recommend a route coming from Remington on the main stone road, passing through Rensselaer from College avenue onto Washington street, then north on Cullen street to Clark street, then west on Clark street to Mt. Ayr. From Mt. Ayr the route runs north with two turns to Thayer.