{"id":2686,"date":"2020-03-16T17:18:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T21:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2020-03-17T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T23:50:14","slug":"new-rural-mail-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/new-rural-mail-route\/","title":{"rendered":"New Rural Mail Route Begins Service Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>from the research of Jerry McDaniel<\/h2>\n<h3><em>Nashville Banner<\/em>, November 1, 1936<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/new-rural-mail-route.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2689\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/new-rural-mail-route-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/new-rural-mail-route-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/new-rural-mail-route-840x1024.jpg 840w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/new-rural-mail-route-768x936.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/new-rural-mail-route-1260x1536.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/new-rural-mail-route.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a>A new rural mail route between Nashville and Lexington, Tenn., will begin service Monday, going through Centerville, Linden, Pope, Perryville, Decaturville, Parsons, Beacon, Darden, and Chesterville, it was announced Saturday by W. S. McKinstry, superintendent of mails here.<\/p>\n<p>The change in delivery method was necessitated by the discontinuance of train service between Lexington and Perryville.<\/p>\n<p>The automobile carrying the mail will leave Nashville at 3:40 a. m. arriving in Lexington at 8:45 a. m. The return trip will begin at Lexington at noon, and Nashville will be reached at 5:15 p. m.&nbsp; No deliveries will be made on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/pea-vine-map\/\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Pea Vine Map \u2013 1936<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the research of Jerry McDaniel Nashville Banner, November 1, 1936 A new rural mail route between Nashville and Lexington, Tenn., will begin service Monday, going through Centerville, Linden, Pope, Perryville, Decaturville, Parsons, Beacon, Darden, and Chesterville, it was announced Saturday by W. S. McKinstry,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-government"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Jerry Butler","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/author\/jerrybutler\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/category\/yesterdays\/business\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Business and Industry<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/category\/yesterdays\/government\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Government and Politics<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Business and Industry<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Government and Politics<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"1","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 16, 2020","modified":"Updated on March 17, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 16, 2020 5:18 pm","modified":"Updated on March 17, 2020 7:50 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}