Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1903 — Plenty of Rural Routes. [ARTICLE]

Plenty of Rural Routes.

A. W. Machen, general superintendent of rural free delivery, authorized the Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Sentinel to’stnte that he expeots to have the state of Indiana completely covered with rural mail routes by one year from the first day of the ooming July. He says that Indiana will be oqe of the first states in the union to have complete rnral service. There are now three other states ahead of it—lowa, Illinois and Ohio in the order named.