Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1910 — “Mr. Pyles, Jr.,” of Colburn, Ind., Cannot be Located by Postmaster. [ARTICLE]

“Mr. Pyles, Jr.,” of Colburn, Ind., Cannot be Located by Postmaster.

Lafayette Courier. -• “Mr. Pyles, Jr.,” the young man who addressed a letter-to the census bureau at Washington recently and offered, to marry any woman in the department who cared to accept his heart and hand, giving his address as “Rural Route No. 2, Colburn, Ind.,” has not yet been located. The postmaster at Colburn is still looking for him. There is a great stack of letters at the Colburn postofflce waiting for Mr. Pyles.* The letter written by Mr. Pyles caused a great flutter in the census office and some newspaper man thought it good enough to publish. It was sent out from Washington in a special dispatch and appeared in nearly every paper m Indiana, the Courier included. Even before its publication letters began to arrive at the Colburn postoffice from Washington addressed to Mr. Pyles. The publication stimulated the correspondence and the letters have been coming ever since. Some of the letters have been at Colburn so long that the return limit has expired and they haw been sent back to Washington. But as fast as one goes back a dozen new ones come to take its place. Colburn only has one rural route and that is No. 19. No Mr. Pyles, Jr., lives on that route and his name does not appear in the Colburn directory. Neither has Mr. Pyles, Jr., called for his mail or sent word to have it forwarded anywhere. All of the letters addressed to him are sealed and the Colburn postmaster is ignorant of their contents. He does not know that the mail situation is becoming serious.