Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1901 — Jackson Township Wants Tippecanoe Route. [ARTICLE]

Jackson Township Wants Tippecanoe Route.

Jackson tp., Newton Co., including our prosperous and progressive neighboring village, Mt. Ayr, voted Saturday on the proposition to vote a subsidy to the proposed east and west road, the Chicago k Toledo Transfer R. R., hereafter to be popularly called the “Tippecanoe Route.” The proposition carried by a majority of 54. The vote by pyeoinots, was as follows: West Precinot For Tax 31 Against Tax 49 Majority against 18 East Precinct For Tax 119 Againt Tax 47 Majority for 72 Net majority for 54