Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-15
Thirteen New Routes Ordered
Established by the Post
office Department
TWO ARE OUT OF THIS CITY
Reorganization of the Mail Routes of
the County as Outlined by Special
Agent Boylan, is Favorably Report
ed by Observation-Disclosures of she
New Routes.

Republican by its Washington CORE
] spondent, Reorganization of the coun-
ty, according to the pans as outlined
/ by Special Agent John T. Boylan, after
several weeks work, has been per-
| fected. Two of the new routes are OUT
of this city. While the dispatch does
not state the time the new reorganSza-
t>tion is to go into effect, it is presumed
| master Saint has received notice to the
/ effect that the two new routes from
/ this city will start on that date.
/ The new routes. with their numbers,
length, area and population served, are
as follows:
Albion No. length. twelve miles;
area, nine and one half square niles;
population. 295: fifty nine families.
/ Beaman No. 2 = Length, eighteen
miles; area, twelve square miles. pop
ulation. 355, seventy-one families.
Clemens No. Length. twenty
| five miles; area, twenty-one square
miles; population, 5d5, 1o1 families.
Gilman No. - Length, twenty four
and fve-e ighths miles, area, twenty
two square miles: population, $50,
ninety-eight families.
Laurel No. - Length, twenty five
miles; area. twenty-three square
miles: population. 1876. eighty-seven
families.
LeGrand No. - Length, seventeen
miles; area, nine square miles; popu-
lation, 425, eighty five families.
Liscomb No. z Length, eeven
and ne-haif miles; area, ten square
miles; population. ESQ. fifty eight fam
lilies.
Marshalltown Nos and lie ngth,
| twenty FIVE and one quarter and fif-
teen and one-quartei' miles; area, both,
/ tWenty-six square miles; popula toll,
both, $40, 1852 families.
Melbourne No. 2--Length, twenty
i five miles; area, twenty-one square
/ miles; population, 425, eighty-fiye fam
| lilies.
Rhodes No. Length, twenty one
and one half miles; area, twenty
| square miles; population, 500, 100 fam
! lilies.
/ State Center Nos. and 3-Length,
twenty-five and oneshalf and twenty
six miles; area, both. fifty-one square
miles; population. both, 975. 1875 fam
/ lilies.
Postmaster John @. Saint received
\ today from the fourth ass slant
postmaster generals division of the
postoffice department. orders autaoriz-
ling him to extend the rural free de-
livery service out Of this city, by es-
y~fie n.
4 on May l6. The new routes will be
/ known as Nos. 6 and Z. and will run
southwest and northeast out of Mar
| shalitown. The carrier Of route No
I6 is to receive an annual salary OF
5000, and that of No. Z. $500, both In
Guiding horse hire.
In addition to fleauthorizatiollto ex-
Itend the service Mr.. Saint received the
notice OF the Encouragement of routes
Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 5, as laid down by
/ Special Agent John I. Boylan In his
report OF March 5.
Postmaster Saint is directed, by his
orders, to see that the rural carrier
ON No. leaves the postoffice for the
delivery of his mail at 1880 a. NJ, and
returns with his collection in time to
dispatch mail by $3.50 p. m. Carrier
j No. Z leaves the postoffice at 1880, AMI
returns with his collection In time to
dispatch mail by IL O'clock noon. The
establishment of the service must not
be delayed for any reason, or the routes
as outlined changed without the d.
l1ect authorization of the department.
The certification of the two new car
riers, by the department, will be made
| in ample time to allow them to begin
their work.
| Tho New Routes.
| The two new routes, Nos. ard Z, as
arranged by the department, cover
respective areas OF 1875 and square
miles. Route No. 6 serves a I'opula-
| ton Of 500, with 100 houses on the
route. Number has sixty houses on
it. and serves a population of 500.
The line of Route No. s starts from
the postoffice and runs southwest to
the city limits, one and one-halt miles,
south one-half mike, west one and one
quarter miles, south one half mile, east
three-quarters of a mile, south one
mile, west one-half mile, south three
quarters of a mile, west one mile, south
one and three-quarters miles, east one
mile, south one and one-half miles,
east one and one-quarter miles, south
three-qua -ers of a mile, east three
quarters of a mile. south ne-6uarter.
east to junction of Gilman No. !, route,
one mile, northwest by winding road
to the center Of section No. rs two and
three-quarters miles, north TO city
limits four and one-half miles, north
west to postoffice. two miles, a total of
twenty five and one quarter miles.
Route No. Z begins at the postoffice
and runs northeast to the city limits
one and three quarter miles, thence
east, crossing the Iowa river al Mich
olson's bridge and continuing by a
winding. angling road to the church
on the east line of section %. dis
lance Of four miles. north one and one-
quarter miles, west one mile, south
ee-uuarters OF a mile. southwest to
the forks of the roads on the southeast
quarter of section 10, one and three
eighths miles, north seven eitshths of
a mile, west to the junction of the roads
on the north line of section %, two and
one quarter miles. and south to the
postoffice two miles, a distance OF fir
teen and one-quarter miles.
The other routes. as rearranged,
cover area, serve population, have