Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-06
Special Agent of Rural Free
Delivery Will Recommend
Complete Service
SUPERVISORS PASS RESOLUTION
Will Make it Point to See That
Roads are Maintained in Best Posi-
Bile Shape-New Services Will Give
County Thirty four Routes Instead
Of Seventeen.

Marshall county'S rural mail delivery
routes have all been plated, and the
entire number, twice that of before, will
be recommended to the department
before the week is out. After siG weeks
of work, Special Agent John Boylan, o.
the rural free delivery service, has
completely covered the county with a
net work of routes, SO that with the
new service installed, on thirty-four
: routes, the number of people who are
not reached will be extremely small.
The routes will probably be allowed,
and ordered established by next fall, or
at the latest by Jan. /, 1904.
The condition of the roads and thu
inclination shown to make them as good
as possible, has had and still will have
considerable to do with the Inaugural
ton of the complete service. This
board of county supervisors and the
township trustees however, rose, to
the emergency when they knew that
it required immediate action to insure
the service. The trustees, almost with
out exception, have filed resolutions
of intent to maintain and improve the
country roads in the best possible man
ner. This is what the question has
been Ringing upon. The officers of the
western division of the free delivery at
Denver. have, however, on account Of
this apparent spirit, ordered Mr.. Boy
Ian 10 report In that city on Marshall
county in person. 1t is known his re-
port will be favorable, and he will leave
for Denver Thursday.
The following resolution passed by
the board of supervisors Tuesday after
noon, is similar in most respects to
others passed, and either forwarded to
Washington or presented Mr.. Boylan
by the different township boards of
trustees.
Whereas. Because OF the defective
condition of the highways of Marshall
county, Iowa, the special agent of the
pestoffice department has refused to
submit a favorable report recommend
ing the installation of q rural free de-
livery service in and for Marshall coun-
~, Iowa; and
whereas, In the event that said
roads are put in a good and passable
condition a favorable report for the es-
tablishment of a complS tie rural free
delivery system may be obtained;
therefore. be it
Resolved, That the roads and high
ways of Marshall county, Iowa, shall be
improved and placed in the best posi-
BILE condition so far as the revenues coll
lected for road purposes will permit, and
by laying the foundation for gravel,
macadan or other hard road material,
1t being the design and intention of this
board to give proper drainage by tile
and otherwise and thereby dispense
with surface water and Go such neces-
sary grading and repairing of culverts
and bridges as shall be required to place
the roads in a thoroughly passable con-
dition; that the said beard of super
visors will further insist that all brush
and noxious weeds shall be removed
from the highways and thereby reduce
to a minimum the accumulation of
snow across the same
c. e. ARNEY,
w. H.JONES,
T. j. SHEARER,
Board of Supervisors.
Marshalltown. Iowa, May 5, 1908.
The Complete Service.
Below is given list of the old and |
the new routes proposed. In several |
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