Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1908 — TRYING FOR ANOTHER RURAL ROUTE. [ARTICLE]

TRYING FOR ANOTHER RURAL ROUTE.

A petition is being circulated by Lem Huston of Rensselaer for another rural mail route out of Rens-( selaer on about the following route: Leaving Rensselaer and going east on the Pleasant Ridge road 1 mile,’ thence south 1 mile, thence east 2 ’4 miles, thence south 1 mile, to the Crockett cemetery, thence east I mile, thence south % mile, thence east % mile, thence south 2% miles, thence west about 1 mile, thence south 1 mile, thence east 1 & miles, thence north 1 mile, thence east 1 mile, thence north 1 mile, thente west 1 mile to the Milroy Baptist church, thence due north about 3 miles to the old Fritz Zard farm west of McCoysburg,'' thence west 2 miles, thence north 1 % miles to Pleasant Ridge and thence due west to Rensselaer. - The proposed route would be a little more than 25 miles in length and serve for most part a lot of fanners who live a long ways form town. The only place it doubles another route is from Rensselaer to the Gangloff corner. «