Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1908 — Gifford Road Stockholders’ Meeting. [ARTICLE]

Gifford Road Stockholders’ Meeting.

The Chicago & Wabash Valley R. R. Co., held their annual meeting of stockholders at Kersey, Ind., July 30th, 1908, at 10 o’clock and the following officers and directors were elected for the ensuing year: Mr. B. J. Gifford, of- Kankakee, 111, President; C. W. Hotchkiss, of Chicago, 111., vice-president; C. E. Halsey, of Kankakee, 111., secretary and treasurer; C. J. Hobbs of Kersey, lad., C. E.; F. E. Lewis, superintendent and general manager; Miss May Gifford, of Chicago, 111., and Thos. M. Callahan, of Newland, Ind., tellers; directors, B. J. Gifford, C. J. Hobbs, F. E. Lewis, Hon. Oscar Dinwiddle, Mrs. B. J. Gifford, Julius Wein_t In, Mrs. J. N. Hutchinson, Miss - May Gifford, Mr. M. J. Brown, J. W. lielshaw, C. E. Kersey, Thos. M. Callahan, C. W. Hotchkiss. There was also organized a new company, to be known as the Dinwiddle & Gary R. R. Co., with a capital stock of $50,000, to be twenty miles in length, with the following stockholders: B. J. Gifford, C. J. Hobbs, F. E. Lewis, Hen. Oscar Dinwiddie, Mrs. B. J. Gifford, Julius Weinstein, Mrs. J. W. Hutchinson, Miss May Gifford, M. J. Brown, J. W. Belshaw, C. E. Kersey, Thos. M. Callahan, C. W. Hotchkiss, M. R. Martin and C. W. Farnum. Officers as follows: Benj. J. Gifford, president, J. W. Belshaw, vice-presi-dent, F. E. Lewis, secretary, Mrs. Schooly, treasurer. Work will begin immediately, and will be pushed north as fast as possible, and it is hoped to be able to get to Gary this fall.