Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1903 — Sharon To Be No More. [ARTICLE]

Sharon To Be No More.

The post-office of Sharon, some 7 or 8 miles southeast of Rensselaer, and in the southeast corner of Marion township, and right on the line of Milroy Tp., and less than a quarter of a mile from the northeast corner of Jordan Tp., and which thus served residents of three different townships and mighty few from any of them, is >to be discontinued. The fiat has gone forth from Washington, that on Monday, August 31st, 1903, the office will cease to be, and that the star route there from • Rensselaer will be discontinued, and the fixtures of the_ office will be brought to Rensselaer. y 31i v 1 3 Bid wherefore of this order is found in the fact that no one is now willing to act as postmaster for the little money and less honor to be had for soj doing. Jake McDonald who has been conducting au all-around store there and holding the office of postmaster for some time past has closed the store and is now engaged in the more strenuous and more lucrative occupation of putting up hay on the Kankakee flats, and don’t want to be postmaster any longer. The offioe was established in 1896, largely through the efforts of Rev. Peter Hinds, of blessed memory, now gone to his reward in the green fields of Jennings county, if he hasn’t emigiated again within the last year or two. It is probable that the people of the vioinity will not lose much in the discontinuance of the offioe, for a movement is now on foot to * have a rural route established which will take in the Sharon

neighborhood, in the course of its ramifications. The route as now talked of wonld go south from Rensselaer over the raDge line, or College, gravel road, and return over the Pleasant Ridge gravel, road. There is undoubtedly good territory for a rural route out in those directions.