Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1908 — TO NUMBER COUTRY HOUSES. [ARTICLE]

TO NUMBER COUTRY HOUSES.

Indiana Legislature May be Asked 15 to a Maaitoiv> A. L. pancroft, the California man who recently unfolded to the Indiana, Congress of Farmers a plan tot naming country roads and numbering country houses, has - prepared A bill which he will have introduced at the coming session of. the Legislature. It provides that county commissioners be given the optional right to introduce the system into their counties and to force And maintain it. plan is novel and appears to be practical, and was recently described at length. Its aim is to make locations quite as definite in l the country as they are in towns anil cities where numbering of houses is established. Where the courthouse is centerally located in a county the people are advised to take that as the pivot "or base for numbering. All roads are to be named and all accurately measured. Each mile of “road front” ’IS* divided into ten technical'*“block” and the numbering is designed 1 so'that ft not- only indicates whether the house is -oni the right or left side of the road, but also the exact distance from the pivot,'evefi to the'tenth of a mile.; The' country • house ' htttnbering “ bill will at least attract a tfreat deal of attention; and may have the support of the Indiana Farmers’ Congress, Which meets during the Legislature.