Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1901 — Another New Post-office. [ARTICLE]

Another New Post-office.

Still another new poet-office has been established in Jasper county, and like all other very recent new offices, it is on the Gifford railroad system. The name of the new offioe is Aspbaltum, and it is located at Col. Gifford’s new town, of that name, at the northeastern terminus of the recently completed oil field branch of his railroad. It is in Walker Tp., bat jast on the line of Gillam. The postmaster is Geo. M. Comer, who has bad a store a half mile sonth of Asphaltum but who has moved or will move it to Asphaltnm. The largest and most complete stock of ladies’ cloaks ever shown in town at the Chioago Bargain Store.