Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1918 — MOTOR TRUCK MAIL ROUTES [ARTICLE]

MOTOR TRUCK MAIL ROUTES

SERVICE TO BE ESTABLISHED BETWEEN INDIANAPOLIS ‘ AND CHICAGO. f • . Charles S. Myers, representing the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, was in Rensselaer today and informed a reporter for the Republican that he expected to have a motor truck mail service in operation between Indianapolis and Chicago in a very short tiptie. There is to be three divisions in this route. A truck is to leave Indianapolis each morning at 5:00 o’clock, and 4s to reach Lafayette by noon. Another truck is to leave DeMotte each morning at 6:00 o’clock and arrive at Lafayette by 12:00 noon. Another division is to operate between DeMotte and Chicago. The route will require the services of six men- They will receive $4.00 per day but will be employed every j other day. They will be furnished i trucks by the government. The men are to be selected by Mr. Myers. The route in Jasper county will be from Remington to DeMotte via the Jackson highway. All of the post offices on this route will be served, and anyone washing to mail letters, papers or parcels may do so by hailing the motor car as it passes. No mail is to be delivered to patrons on the routes. This system has been worked out in Pennsylvania and has proven to be very serviceable and there very popuar.