Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — FREE MAIL DELIVERY IS NOT DROPPED [ARTICLE]

FREE MAIL DELIVERY IS NOT DROPPED

Council Now Having Map of Town Made So That Numbers Can Be Put Up. f Republican: What has become of theproject for free rtia.il delivery in Rensselaer ? That matter, as w& understand it, is not dead by any means. The city council has passed an ordinance providing for a uniform system of. street numbering and now is having a map of the city made for the purpose*of s 1 ’owing where to place the names of the streets. These signs will be paid for by the city but the house numbers will have to be bought by the property owners. The city will probably recommend some particular kind of number but it will not be compulsory upon the property owner to buy that pa'rticular kind. The postoffice department requires the houses to be numbered and certain other conditions to be complied with before establishing free delivery. After the houses are numbered the matter will be taken up with the department and free delivery will probably be ordered established here.