Laying Out Mail Routes

LAYING OUT MAIL ROUTE

FARMERS AT YPSILANTI ARE ALREADY BUYING BOXES.

THE RURAL MAIL DELIVERY WILL COMMENCE ABOUT SEPT. 15.  IT IS THOUGHT.

A number of farmers were in Ypsilanti this morning purchasing mail boxes to be used on the rural mail delivery routes which is to run out from Ypsilanti to the surrounding country. There are to be three routes Charles Arnold arid James Bemis have been appointed a committee to lay out and arrange these routes. The routes are designated as the South route, or No. 1, with W. H. Bulan as carrier; the Cherryhill route, or No. 2, with Harry Holmes as carrier; the Rawsonville and Superior town house route, or No. 3, with Eugene Koch as carrier. The carriers after the routes are laid out will take a census of the respective routes and Mr. Arnold will accompany them and arrange for mail boxes, furnishing lock boxes where desired. It is expected that mail will be delivered over these routes by Sept. 15. It was promised for Sept. 1 but it is not now thought to be possible to get everything ready by that time.

All farmers spoken to are enthusiastic over having their mail brought to their doors each day. Ypsilanti is disposed to crow a little over Ann Arbor because she is to have the improvement first.