Milford chronicle., 1901-04-12
Rural Delivery of Mails.

All the preliminary work appears
to be complete for the Inauguration t
of Rural Free Delivery of mail for {
Kent county, and the beginning j.,
only awaits the appointment and
instruction of the route agents. In
performing this work the special
agent for the government drove {
1850 miles making Investigations,
locating homes and roads. There
/ is 1000 miles of roads i'll the county.
When this service goes into oper-
alton there will be nothing superior
to it in the United States. The
! service will cover {. so square miles,
with Al carriers, and Mr.. Smith has
= made a very earnest effort to serve
the people in such a manner as to |
cause as few changes of addresses
as possible.
The carriers are distributed at
D points as follows Dover 7, Wvom-
: ing 6. FELTON, 8, Harrington 6, Far
e mington ?, Milford 8, Cheswold I,
r. Smyrna 5, Clayton ?, KentOn ?,
+ Hartley and Marydel I.
It The following will be made Rural
? Free Delivery Stations Little
IS Creek, Leipsic, Magnolia, Camden,
d Frederick and Whitelysburg.
E I.eiPsic will continue to have two
re deliveries a day. Little Creek one
y delivery and two dispatches. Mag
u nolia two deliveries a day. Freder-
TX lea two deliveries and two dis
a patches. Camden three deliveries
lis daily.
n The following offices will be dis
e. continued Adamsville, Andrew
er- vile, Blackston, Bowers, Browns
y. vile, Canterbury, Cowgirl, Downs
ng Chapel, Edwardsville, Florence
IN, Hazlettville, Hollandsville, Leba
non, Masten, Pearson, Petersburg
IN Rising Sun, Sandtown, Slaughter
lry Thompsonville and Vernon.
RS These will be continued but NJ
es- free delivery Brenford, Houston
mt, Station, Viola and Woodside Al
lie star routes will be wiped out ofeX
The istence. Burrsville will be supple
by rural carrier from Harrington.
has The arrangement of the Rurs
iiet Free Delivery is such as to give a
important parts of the county a
on early delivery and later dispatch
'ere Street letter boxes will be placed /;
"a numerous points i'll which mail ca
on be deposited and carriers will mai
was collections.
age Rural Free Delivery carrie
Ike will register letters, receive app
hdy cants for and deliver money order
one pay money orders, deliver local le
wrist tiers on route, and in short perfor
cou- all duties of a postmaster. Brin
ing ing the advantages of postohi
ID TO to practically all the homes in Ke
Is county.
ivate There will be slight changes
o be the rural routes now at HarringtC
but i'll main they will remain t
ID in same. The Pennington routes W
B, D be extended but will cover the sal
ence. territory as at present:
rt of The FIRST Rural Free DelivC
para county service established was Il
n the of Carroll county, Md. For sh
scrip time the people were very anti
if a onistic but after discovering
cart, good points were very much
lighted
j the Washington county, Pa, ha
It the complete county service which \
4 our established by piece-meal
nnday Thenext was Washington cou
uttOn- Tenn, embracing an. area of
At my spare miles, with IS carriers st
ne is ing 20, 900 people and discount
ans at ing 90 per cent Of the postofi
a man and all the star routes. This
vice went into operation Decem
and IS last, without the slightest hi
week of any character.