Big Changes In The Routes

BIG CHANGES IN THE ROUTES

For Free Rural Delivery of Mail.

LONGER THAN PROPOSED

The South Route Takes in Scio Instead of Pittsfield.

Special Agent Hammer, who is here to look over the proposed free rural mail delivery routes, has made several changes in what the boomers had laid out for him. He said he found that the routes did not cover as broad territories as are desirable. The department will strive to include nearly as many square miles as there are lineal miles on the routes. They will be longer than was proposed.

The Dr. W. W. Nichols route east of the city was changed so that it will go around Dixboro and north of the Northfield church and come in on the Whitmore Lake road.

The south route will be more of a southwest route, and will take in Lodi and Scio instead of Lodi and Pittsfield. Mr. Hammer, accompanied by Charles Mills, Henry Depue and Philip Blum, went over this route yesterday. They started out on the Salem road to the Lodi cemetery; thence west two miles; thence one mile north to the Lodi town house; thence two miles west nearly to the town of Freedom; thence north to Mrs. Jacob Jedele's farm; thence east to the Beck place; thence south to Wagner's Corners; thence on Liberty st. into Ann Arbor city.

LATER--Mr. Hammer has selected the southwest route as the one to be instituted.