Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — ESTABLISH NEW RURAL ROUTE [ARTICLE]

ESTABLISH NEW RURAL ROUTE

Route No. '1 Out of Fair Oaks to Regin •lime I. Rural route Xo. 2 out of Fair Oaks, Jasper county, has been ordered established and same will begin June 1. The name of the carrier has not been given out as yet. ~t ;. has not been selected. The route will serve 101 families, but we are unable at this writing to give the line of the route, although it is all in Jasper county, we believe. The establishing of this route will give Jasper county, which is the second largest county in Indiana, in area, but having the smallest population per square mile of any of the 92 epunties in the state, a total of ! f rural mail routes —4 each out of Rensselaer and Ramin stun. 1 fc j : h out of McCoysburg, Parr, Tefft and Wbeatfield, and 2 out of Fdir Oaks. Nt bite county, on the ea--. ! more than twice this number of rural mail routes, yet is much smaller in area than Jasper county. R has, however, about one-third more inhabitants than Jasper. The route runs 3-4 mile north rom Fair Oaks, to the Otis ranch; ,1 mile east to Erwin corner; 2 miles norsh to Fay corner; 2 miles east to Virgie: l mile north to northeast corner of old E. Sayers" farm; T, miles east; 3 miles south to Laura: 4 miles west; ] mile north to Canady school house; mile west; % mile sputh; 1 mile to Virgfe road; 1 mile soufh to Cover's corner: 1 mile west to Kauffman corner: 2 miles south to Joe Brown corner; 3 miles 'Vest to Fair Oaks. The new route will accommodate a ilarge number of people wfio, since the abandonment of the Virgie postoffice, have been obliged to get their mail at Kniman. It will also accommodate >everal in about Laura.