Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1900 — The Rural Delivery Route. [ARTICLE]

The Rural Delivery Route.

ft Will Soon Be In Ruuning Order. The first rural mail delivery route in Jasper Co., has been established and will be in operation in a short time. Possibly in less than two weeks. John T. Daugherty, of Rensselaer, will be the carrier and J. A. Ramey, the substitute carrier. It will be about 25 miles long. Tha carrier will start from Rensselaer at 8:30 o’clock, every morning except Sunday and must be back to Rensselaer before 5 o’clock p. m. The route will be known as Rensselaer Delivery Route No. 1. | The mail is taken and delivered | free, but every family or group of families, must have a box, and the I boxes must be of metal, and uniform in size and in make. A sample of the boxes recjm mended is now at the Rensselaef post office. Thdy will cost 50 cents 1 and are large enough to hold pieces of mail as large as the Ladies Home Journal. I < 1 The carrier will not stop at houses but will deliver and take up mail only at the boxes.. These boxes will not be locked and the patrons are supposed to collect their mail soon after the carrier passes their way. At several prominent places along the route, 5 or 6 miles apart ■ will be regular U. S. letter boxes, where anyone who passes can mail their letters Of course the regular patrons along the line are supposed to put their letters in the boxes for the carrier to gather up. ' Persons on or near the route wanting to receive their mail by it, should have the word Rural, or the R. D., for Rural Delivery placed on their mail, as part of their regular post-office address. Thus; , “John Jones, Rensselaer, Ind., :R.D.” The service is not confined to persons living right on the route, i but those half a mile away can establish boxes, if they wish. The ■ boxes must, of course be on the route. Briefly described, the route is as follows: Leaving Rensselaer on the gravel road running north, to Alf Donnelly’s corner, 2 miles; then east 2J miles, entering Barkley tp., at Groom’s bridge. Then north | mile, east |, north |, to the corner of the John English and F. M. Parker farms Then east 1 mile to near Valma P. 0., north 1 mile, east |, north 1 to Center school house. Then west {, north 1 mile, west 1| passing Cosey Palace school house. South I|, west 1, to Burns school house. South I|, west J to the Pullins or Stackhouse bridge, where the river is crossed again into Marion tp. Thence on west 1| miles further in Marion tp. to Union school house, then south I|, east J, south west | to Bowling Green school house. Thence south 1 mile, east I, and south 1 more, which brings it back to Rensselaer over Matheson Ave. In no part of the route is the going and coming over the same road. The persons or places are on the immediate line of the proposed Rural delivery route, or very close to it, and nearly the order that they will be passed by the carrier. A. Donnelly - Susie Moneghan P. Marlatt J. Donnelly Lucy Clark S. A. Dowell Wai Parkison John Groom John Pullins Alf Collins J. Moore John Norman Sam English M. E. Henkle Murray Bros. W. W. Murray Shook Bros. J. N. Sample Alva Nichols 8. R. Nichols 40 rods west of Valma P. O. Chas. Randle G. W. Payne Center School House Wai Nichols Squire Lewis

Wm. Gratnet J. L. Nichols Anson Pottj John Lewis C. W. Wray Elias Arnold G. W. Ott S. N.*Hopkins Cosy Palace School House Wm. Daniels G. W. Jenkins A. Jenkins Jesse Jenkins W. A. Green John Shroyer Burns School House Andrew Arnold J. C. Frazee Emmet Pullins Chris Morganegg Robt. Shock Wm. Augsperger Chas. Pullins Alex Hurley The Pullins Bridge I. Saidla J. S. Clary . M. H. Hemphill’s place Union School House J. B Freeman Wm. Greenfield D. C. Hopkins C. F. Stackhouse J. N. Knowlton Jerome Andrus Jerry Shea Fritz Zard Bowling Green School House The Churchill Places Wm. Coen James