Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — RENSSELAER RURAL ROUTES [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER RURAL ROUTES

Have Been Extended to Make Each About Thirty Miles Length. The four rural mail routes runhing out of Rensselaer have been extended and will each be about thirty miles in length hereafter. Routes 1 and 3 were extended to take effect September 1 last, and the extensions on 2 and 4 will take effect today, November 1. No patrons or territory is cut off that was heretofore served, but new patrons have been taken on. Route 2 now runs a mile further west, passing O. J. Kenton’s farm and through Surrey; thence south one mile and thence back east again to the old route.

Four miles are added to route number 4. The extension is west on the Hill stone road in Jordan township and thence south passed Egypt school house, thence east to the Rensselaer-Remington road, coming out at the Jake Wright or old Morgan Dewey corner. In order to serve patrons who are cdt out by this change the carrier, after going south, east and north to the Joseph Adams farm, comes west to the Remington road again at the Julius Huff corner.