Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1903 — A Special Meeting. [ARTICLE]

A Special Meeting.

The county commissioners held a special meeting Monday to take aotion in the matter of a bridge across the Kankakee marsh between DeMotte and Hebron. The ice reoently carried away 160 feet of the bridge, entirely blocking the only highway across the Kankakee river between Baums’ bridge and Water Valley, a distance of 20 miles. It is estimated that the necessary repairs will cost fBOO. The comissioners found that there is no appropriation available for such repairs at the present time. To avoid delay, however, the trustee of Keener township was authorized to purchase material and employ such labor as is neoessary to repair the bridge at the earliest practicable date, the cost in excess of f 75 to be paid by the county when an appropriation shall bave been made.