Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1908 — San Pierre Wants to be a County Seat. [ARTICLE]

San Pierre Wants to be a County Seat.

An association has been formed at San Pierre, Stark ceounty, with the avowed purpose of organizing a count; with that place as the county seat, and taking portions of Starke, P.orter LaPorte, Pulaski and Jasper counties to make the new county. L. C. Gilgore, of that place, writing for the North Judson News, describes the difficulties that are encountered by persons in that section when they undertake to go to the county seats, and has the following to say of the difficulties that the North Jasperites experience: *- “Starting from San Pierre they must take the Monon south, run through a portion of Starke county, cross the entire county of Pulaski and a portion of White to .the town of Monon, near Monticello, there await a train on the Air Line to convey them to Rensselaer, or they must take the New York Central at San Pierre west bound,run clean across Jasper county to Shelby in Lake county, there flag a train on the C. I. & L., run up through Newton county and finally if you live long enough,you will reach the county Thlsdifficulty is slightly overdrawn, but it is certain that there is some difficulty In almost every county in reaching the seat of government from the remote parts of it, but if we are fortunate enough to some time get a north and south railroad we will be in better shape than most counties are.