Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1905 — A Rural Route shake-Up. [ARTICLE]

A Rural Route shake-Up.

W. D. MeKorkle, of Ilowaid c >unt v, an oflici il inspector of rural ro ites, is here for several days stay. lie wjll inspect every preen Y vite in J.nperc»l ity, and recommend such changes of present routes and establishing of new ones, as will come as near as practicable to giving the <oaity complete rural route service. There is i o prospect, h»wev«r, of the wrvice being] entirely complete, as many regions of the chanty are still too sparsely populate 1 to mal e it possible to cover tl e e: tire county ander the rules as to distanc > and population now laid down by the department