Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — JACKSON HIGHWAY BOOSTED [ARTICLE]

JACKSON HIGHWAY BOOSTED

Plans Made for Maas Meeting at Rensselaer Wednesday. A large delegation of Jasper county citizens were in Lafayette Wednesday to lay plans for a campaign in behalf of the Jackson which runs frqm Indianapolis to Chicago, through Lafayette and Rensselaer. The plan is to hold a mass meeting at Rensselaer next Wednesday, at which resolutions will be adopted asking the state highway commission to designate the Jackson highway as the state road between Indianapolis and Chicago. It is said that the line is the most direct from Indianapolis to Chicago* and would save more than 8150,000 in construction costs.—lndianapolis News.