Newspaper Tidbits from Rick B Friday, March 3, 2006 "The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, October 2, 1897, page 5 GRADING A NEW HIGHWAY. Division and Sumption Prairie Roads to be Connected. Under the direction of Trustee Wheeler, of Portage township, graders began work Monday on a highway that is to connect the Division road with the Sumption prairie road a mile west of the city limits. Thomas McCarthy has the contract. This new highway is to be 40 feet wide and two miles long, and most of it passes through property belonging to Mr. Clem Studebaker. It will greatly accommodate the public.