Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-24

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able and 456 petitions are pending. In
Iowa 71.06 per cent of the applications
have been considered.
The table shows that in Iowa the
work has been more Systematically
carried out than in any other state
lin the union, that it has been the pol
| icy to consider the state by counties
with the view of completing the service
| for whole counties at time and that
nineteen counties in Iowa are now ful-
lily supplied, while applications pend
ing when acted on will complete the
service in majority of the counties
| in the state.
| The increase in the number of routes
established in the state has been over
| so per cent in the past year.
| No other state makes as favorable
| a showing in number of routes applied
for and reported favorably by inspec-
| tors as Iowa, but in two other states
the total number of applications filed
exceeds the total in Iowa. Illinois has
filed 2.O07 petitions and Ohio 1853.
Nevada is the only state that has no
rural routes.
New Rural Routes.
| Rural free delivery has been estab-
| lished, to commence January l, as fol-
lows:
| Blencoe, Monona county, one carrier
Length Of route, 24A miles: area
covered, II square miles; population
served. 42S.
| Castana, Monona county, one carrier
Length of route. 231a miles: area
covered, 90 square miles; population
served. $50.
Dickens, Clay county, two carriers
Length of routes. 45h miles; area COW
Tered, 46 square miles; population
served. LOGS.
Early, Sac county, two carriers
Length of routes. 4SA miles; area COW
cred, AZ square miles; population
served, LOGS
Hartley. O'Brien county, three car
lriers-Length of routes, IS miles; area
covered, 81 square miles: population
served. 1,1S9
| Linn Grove, Buena Vista county, one
carrier-Length of route, % miles; area
covered. q square miles: population
served, 47O.
Mapleton, Monona county, two car
|riers-Length of routes, 49X miles,
area covered, 46 square miles; popu-
lation served, 945.
Onawa, Monona county, two carriers
| Length of routes, fifty miles, area
| covered. forty-one square miles; pop
| lation served. 7T9.
| Peterson, Clay county, one carrier
| Length of route, twenty four and five
| eighths miles; area covered, twenty
| four square miles; population served,
/ 504.
| Primghar, O'Brien comfy, two carri-
ers-Length of routes, forty four and
one- eighth miles; area covered, fifty
one square miles; population served
| 794.
| Person, Woodbury. county, one car
rier-Length of route, twenty-fo
miles; area covered, twenty-three
square miles; population served. 391.
| Schaller, Sac county, three carriers
/ Length of routes, seventy-four and a
| lalf miles; area covered, siXty-four
square miles; population served, 1,105
| Sloan, Woodbury. county, one carrier
| additional service)-Length of route
twenty-one and three-eighths miles:
area covered, twenty square miles;
population served 49, Postoff1ce at
I.akeport to be discontinued.
Spencer, Clay county, two carriers
| additional service)-Length of routes
| forty-eight and a half miles; area COW
cred, fifty-three square miles; popula-
| ton served, 77S.
| Sutherland, o'Brien county. one car
| rier-Length of route, twenty five
miles; area covered, twenty-seven
square miles; population served, 4S3.
| Wall Lake, Sac county, one carrier
| additional service)-Length of route
! twenty-four miles; area covered, TWEEN
| ty-five square miles: population served
AL
| Whiting, Monona county, one carrier
| additional service) -Length of route
twenty-fiv and a half miles: area COW
ered twenty-five square miles; popu-
/ lation served, 353.
Gabriel Peterson has been appointed
postmaster at Waterloo, Allamakee
| county, vice B. M. Botolfson, removed
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the Des Moines National
Bank of Des Moines as reserve agent
| for the First National Bank of Dixie
J.. Garfield Greenbe has been ap-
pointed a rural letter carrier at Belle
PLANE, with r. f. Greenbe as substi-
| tute.
The postmaster general has ordered
the establishment of Station No.
Mount Ida) of the postofflce at Dav-
export on jan l.
Pensions to lowans.
| Pensions have been granted to
Iowans as follows:
Increase, reissue, etc.-Gottlieb Ruge
| Stuart, SO; William III. LAWS, Foote,
| SIS; Edward ]. Younglove, Corning,
$40; Tyler e. Spragus Alta, s12; Nor
gan Davis, Usage, SIS.
| Widows, minors and dependent rela-
| tives-Lucinda c. Bonsfield, Council
Bluffs, s12: Eliza j. Conway. Stiles,
S12; Sarah J. Parsons, Des Moines, $12'
| For Over Sixty Years
Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup has
been used for children while teething,
1t sooths the child. softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind collie and is