Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — Milk Train Will Carry Mail. [ARTICLE]

Milk Train Will Carry Mail.

The Republican is glad to be able to state that the postoffice department has at last been convinced of the advisability of putting a regular mail car on the Lafayette accommodation, usually called the “milk train.” Orders to that effect Lave been issued and postmasters and route ? agents notified. The new arrangement will go into effect next Monday, April, 17th, when the first run will be made. As we stated som§ time ago when advocating this move, this new mail route will be a great convenience to nearly all towns between Lafayette and Hammond, but will be especially advantageous to small towns which get but few mails. But it will also prove quite a convenience to Rensselaer people. At present the run will be managed by a single mail clerk, who will make the run both ways six days in the week, or every day except Sundays. The clerk to have this run is none other than our young townsman Elmer Wilcox. It is a promotion for him, and a good one, but it will be a pretty hard place as it gives him no lay-offs. He will be obliged to change his place of residence to Lafayette, and will go there in a day or two.