Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1903 — Blackford Postoffice to Discontinue. [ARTICLE]

Blackford Postoffice to Discontinue.

If the people who now get their mail at Blackford, a star route post office in Barkley township, get any valentines by mail on Feb. 14th, they will have to go to some other office to get them. The office has been ordered discontinued by the postoffice department, and at midnight on the night of February 13th, 1903, it will pass into the list of things that were but are not. Theodore Hurley, who baa been postmaster pretty much all the 18 or 20 years the office has been in existence, tendered his resignation some time ago, and no one else having been found to take the office, it has been ordered discontinued. Mr. Hurley, who has had a store there ever since the memory of men runneth not to the contrary, quit that some time ago, and naturally enough dees not want to be troubled with a postoffioe. The Aix postoffice is only about a mile west from Blackford, and the people will probably most of them get their mail at Aix, or from rural route No. 2, which runs through Aix. Rural route No. 1, also, in some of its meanderings, approaches near enough to Blackford, on the southeast, that some of the people can get their mail from that. The mail to Aix and Blackford is now carried by Elias Hammerton. The length of his route will be cut down, and its pay proportionally decreased. Probably after his contract expires it will not be renewed, and the mail for Aix be carried by the carrier on Route 2.