The midland journal., 1901-07-26
Rural Free Delivery r,ail Service.

| most enterprisrg development has come tC
light this week. After much effort and work on
the part OF several citizens and dilgent co-opera
| tion on The part of ofCongressman Blakeney, a rural
| free delivery route, running east from Rising
| Sun, has been established, and not ore applicant
makes application to carry the mails over it.
| 1t certainly must be on account of one of three
causes. Either the people have not fully consid.
cred it for want of full information or they have
not heard of it, or they do not "know good
thing when they see it
| The Inspector went over the route on Tuesday
and pronounced it Il most elegant one and the
| best he had inspected. About % miles long, 1SO
| families on the line, with hours from u. M to
3 p. N.Y. to perform the service. 1t appears that
Cecil county is the only county in the State of
Maryland without free rural delivery route,
several counties having more than one, some half
dozen. The Inspector recommends another to
connect with one from Por; Deposit and one from
North East, all meeting at certain point ito
exchange their mills which feature facilitates
the best and most prompt delivery
For this service the Postal Department pays the
sum of $500. Service to be rendered six times
per week. How many thousands are performing
similar work on Star routes for one half the
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about mile of Rising Sun as the starting point.
His start is not early and his return is in the mid
die of the afternoon. He must have substitute
bonded and sworn IN like himself to carry it in
case OF his i'll health etc. He is not required to get
out of his wagon, as all persons on the route
wishing service must put up box he can drive
within reach Of and it must have a signal on it
if mail has been deposited tor collection and if he
deposits mail therein he must put up signal
Hence If no signal appears on a box and he has
no mail for it he can drive by without IL stop,
which will be the case very often. Again car
rier can take newspaper agency and sell news
papers on the Ioute and make perhaps more than
another $780, And if he establishes charge of a
dime for every commission his patrons ask of him
he can perhaps make by that in 3l3 days more
than 500, making an income perhaps of over
800, depending on the enterprise of the man
altogether After all, as in everything else it is
all in the man. farmer may take it who has a
son 16 years of age or more, for n substitute and
several horses; has the outfit complete and is well
equipped by using his horses alternately or every
third day. Many do not do as we'll we have their
own declarations for it. This gives chance for
morning and evening work of three or four hours
and has the advantage of schedule, preventing
procrastination, which is the "thief of time,
How many let it rob them of hours every day
because time is their own.
Any one desiring this route can make appoa-
tion to the undersigned, or to the Postmaster a
Rising Sun, Md, and if not too late will receive
due consideration. 1t must be awarded soon or
abandoned. The route makes start eastward
from Rising Sun, reaching Calvert by various
meanderings, then towards Lombardylle around
to Zion. by England valley to White Oak school
house, then Pennington and Gathers corner,
Barnes X roads, FRANKLIN school house to Rising
Sun via South Queen street.
Rising Sun, Nd, II, II, HAINEs,
Z "a 1891.