Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1908 — Lake Village Wins. [ARTICLE]

Lake Village Wins.

The town of Lake Village has finally won out in its effort to secure a depot. John Hess, J. J. Wilson, Sheriff Stoner and their Attorney, Mr. Isham of Fowler, went to Indianapolis last Friday and met General Manager Hotchkiss of the C. I. & S., and a compronjjse was effected. The railroad company agrees to build a depot and will keep the same open and cared for by the local section men. Mr. Hotchkiss suggested that Miss Lela Cool, postmistress of Lake Village, be invited to move the postoffice into the depot and the company would compensate her for selling tickets until such time as business demanded an agent, otherwise the company will be obliged to make other arrangements. It will be remembered that the railroad company was ordered to maintain a depot by the railroad commission of Indiana, and an appeal was taken to the courts. This case will now be dismissed. While the people of the Village did not receive all they were entitled to, and probably would have received had they pushed the case through the court, yet they gained their main point, the securing of a depot for the accommodation of those doing business there, and a compromise was the wisest course to take. —Enterprise.