Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — A Post Office In Gillam. [ARTICLE]

A Post Office In Gillam.

Gillam and Jordan are the only townships in Jasper county wholly without a post olhce within their imits, and in the case of Gillum this condition is not likely to last much longer. A movement for a post office to be located at the Gillam or Mason school house has been underway for some time, and the final report and maps etc., required by the P. O. department have just been sent in by J. J. Hunt, acting for the petitioners. John Kimball has a store there and the peoplo want a post office also, and they ought to hav'p it, and are pretty sure to get it. What name it will go by is still unknown, but Mr. Hunt’s report will favor the name of Gillam. But the department is rather cranky about names of now postoffices and if a proposed name ca/i possibly be written so ns to resemble in appearance the name of any other post office in the State, it will be rejected. Where the new office, if established, will get its mail from is uncertain, but probably the present route to Valina and Pleasant Grove, from Rensselaer, will be extended to take in the now Gillam office. McFarland & Henkle nro giving away some fine silverware to their cash customers. Don’t forget to ask for tickets when you purchase goods. $25.00 in tickets gets a fine piece of silverware at McFarland & Henkle’s '