Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1898 — Gravel Roads in Union. [ARTICLE]

Gravel Roads in Union.

B. D. Comer, Trustee of Union Tp., is likely if he keeps on to get the title of “the good road trustee.” In the fifteen months he has been township trustee he has built four miles of good gravel road and is now working on the fifth mile; at this rate it will only be a short time until he will leave a line of gravel roads across his township. The two main roads are the Parr and Aix roads. These roads are so located that all his township passes into Rensselaer over them. He has opened three gravel pits in the township. Ono on D. H. Yeoman’s farm, one on Joseph William’s farm and one on Jno. Harriott’s farm. Fully half of this work has been done by donation. The trustee taking charge of the work and paying the men half price. On all this work the township will not owe a dollar by June 1, 1899.