Two New Rural Routes

TWO NEW RURAL ROUTES

Have Been Granted to Ann Arbor

THEY WILL RUN NORTH

One More is Wanted to Take in Pittsfield and then the Farmers in this Section Will All be Happy

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Two new rural routes have been granted to Ann Arbor to be known as rural delivery routes No. 5 and 6. General Supt. A. M. Machen notified Congressman H. C. Smith to this effect last week and the congressman has just forwarded the information to Postmaster Pond. These two new routes are north of the city and will start operations April 1. The exact routes cannot now be given as the inspector who laid them out has not yet furnished the local office with maps of them. They deliver mail, however, in Ann Arbor town, Northfield and Webster and include Fosters in the route. 

The one route south through Pittsfield, which was desired has not yet been granted. This route is one of the most needed as the mail on it would be much heavier than that on most of the other routes and it is hoped that it may yet be granted to complete the rural delivery service in this section. There is a dispute between the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti offices over half a mile on this route,  which both offices need to make up a proper route, and it is probably this dispute which has delayed the laying out of this route south. 

After April 1, Ann Arbor will have six rural mail delivery routes. As has been said above, when it sets seven this section will be pretty well covered.