Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1901 — Rural Routes. [ARTICLE]

Rural Routes.

Congressman Cromer, who is a member of the house committee on posts, has a new idea on the rural free mail delivery system that be will endeavor to get the postoffice depart ment to adopt. It is to make each county seat the headquarters for the routes of the county and allow no single route to extend outside the county. Where a route in one county leaves off it is to be so arranged that another route in adjoining county will begin. Congressman Cromer wants it tried in Delaware county as an experiment. All routes will begin in Muncie for Delaware county and will go like spider webs to all parts of the county where there are not railroad facilities. He hopes to have the local system in operation within a few weeks. Mrs. P. W. Clarke and her sister, Miss Grace Pulver, returned from Hammond Saturday. They brought back with them the infant son of their deceased sister, Mrs. Myrtle Veach, to whom Mr. and Mrs. Clarke will give a home.