Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1907 — Just Claims Eor Train Service. [ARTICLE]

Just Claims Eor Train Service.

The people of Lake Village, in northern Newton county, have appealed to the Indiana Railroad Commission, to order the Indiana Harbor road to give the town a depot and other proper railroad facilities. The . Commission is al. ready moving in the matter, hav ing given the railroad company five days to answer. A public hearing soon to be held and no doubt the railroad will receive a prompt and positive order to give the place the depot. When the Village was refused a depot at the time the road was built, it was a matter of com mon report that the powerful financial influence of Mrs. Conrad, founder of the town of Conrad, was the cause of the Village being shut out from the railroad. It was also widely heralded that Conrad was to be the Gary of Newton in its wonderful growth and prosperity, and a modern Athens in its “culcha” and another Atlantic City in its moral standing. All of which predictions seem to have been somewhat slow of realization, and that too, ih spite of a highly cultured and presumably very religious, booze joint established a year or so ago, to keep the good citizens of that town from wandering down and spending their money among the contaminating influences of Lake Village.