The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-02-26

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ming from the Owosso Office took effect
on Monday of last week. At the same
time route No. s was put into operation
and Victor +. Josenhans became carrier
No 8. His territory is made up largely
of the territory formerly served by Car
rier No. 8, w. III. Halstead and the
route extends in general northwest
direction, lying west of the river road
and north of the West Main street or
Ovid road.
Carrier No. 4, Phil Shepard, has the
territory Immediately south of No. 8.
is made up of part of the old No. 5,
the west past of the old No. /, and the
north part of the route formerly served
by this same carrier. Joining him on
the south and made up largely of the
south portion of his former route, is the
new No. 5, Carrier VIM II. Halstead.
The latter also has small portion of
the route formerly carried by No. 3.
Carrier Jas. j. Hopkins, No. 3, has
much the same route as formerly except
that he returns to the city by the Frank
Rush farm, instead of around by the
angling road until he reaches the latter
by the Pierpont farm.
A number of changes are made in
route No. adjoining No on the east.
1t is now an all-day route and instead
of the carrier going out on a short route
in the morning and serving this in the
afternoon, he begins this route at once
in the morning as do the others. Car
rier John Sprague, on this route, begins
by serving the Adventists at Middle
town, then going south and east by the
county farm and around to his former
route, by Hartwellville. He still serves
the Maple River section and returns by
the angling road on which he formerly
returned, the road by the Rush farm
where he formerly went out in the
afternoon being, as already noted, now
served by carrier No. 3.
On the north and northeast the chief
changes in the routes of Carriers Nos.
6, 2 and T. Messrs. L. P. Royce, L. M.
Woodin and Glenn e. Blair, are that
they are all very materially shortened.
All were much too long. A consider
able part of the territory served by
these three routes, along what is known
as the Ridge road, and near the former
postoffice of Easton is now being serv-
ed by q new route from Henderson,
with John M. Carmody as carrier,
which started Monday at the same time
that the changes here took effect. A
very considerable part of the former
No. was transferred at the same time
to Corunna No 1 which was relaid in
| connection with the service from this
office and that of two new routes which
were also put into operation from that
Office. The part transferred from Owos-
so No. z to Corunna lies mainly in the
territory north of the Corunna coal
beds. Carrier Blair, on route No. z,
now serves the residents of the East
Main street road between this city and
the Caledonia town house, road which
has been without any service whatever
heretofore
Besides, as already mentioned the
new route from Henderson, laid in con-
nection with these changes, and the two
new routes at Corunna, anew route was
also started at the same time from the
Vernon Office aud the route at Benning-
ton was enlarged from half day route
to full day route.
The changes, as above briefly out
lined, taken in connection with the
routes which are already in operation,
give the county a service which is prac
tically better than an ordinarily So
called county service. In service of
this extent however it is hard to ar
range matters to the entire satisfaction
of all and there are now few matters'
of a minor character which it is hoped
may be adjusted soon, to give the SER
vice to adozen or so families who now
have to go some distance to the nearest
corner to get their mail.
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