The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-17
RURAL MAIL DELIVERY
 TO BEGIN ON OCTOBER 1

the number of houses 1os and the popula- tion reached 515.
 Duties of Carriers. The carriers are required to make trip each day except Sundays and legal holidays. They will carry supply or postage stamps, postal cards, stamped en- yelopes and money order blanks. If pat rons wish to make the carriers their agents by entrusting to them addressed and stamped envelopes for the purpose they can inclose the money order when issued at the postoffice in the envelopes so furnished them and deposit them in the mail.
 Each carrier will be required to fur nish the postmaster with a list of the heads of families served by him. indicate ing approximately the number of persons comprising each family
 |. The carriers will register all lettters rendered them, giving their patrons re- cept for the same.
 Carriers must not act as agents, sales men, or solicitors for express companies. wholesale houses, corporations or firms. but the law provides that carriers shall not be prohibited from doing business of delivering express packages or other packages, as long as it does not interfere with their official duties.
 Section 214 of the postal laws and regr- lations prohibits carriers from holding county or municipal offices.
 The carriers may act as agents for newspapers and periodic als sell papers on their own account to persons living on their routes. or accept or collect sub scriptions for the same. When carriers receive newspapers or periodicals by ex- press or other means outside of the mail ko t@A -~Il 1a1fv will be required to pay the regular post Il rates for sane with the exception of the delivery of country papers which are de. livered freq of charge in the country in which they are published.
 Location of Boxes.
 Eleven United States iron collection boxes will be put up as soon as the sys- tenn is established. They are to be To- cated at the following points: Intersection of the Mobile and Wasden roads; inter- section of the Mobile and Mclean roads; intersection of the Mobile and Faulkner roads; at Anderson's store; at Haigler's store; at Stones mill; at Carter's store: at prison No. 4; at Madison's gin; at Crawford's store, and at Vaughns store.
 In addition 10 these public mail boxes private boxes may be put up at farm houses along the routes.
 hC IdiAiSAS VIII ledF0 tbe pOBtOIICe dC a. m. and are expected to return in time to dispatch mails by 3:30 D. m.
 Congressman A. A. Wiley yesterday re- ceived a communication from Hon. R. J. Wynne, First Assistant Postmaster Gen. eral, informing him of the establishment of the four rural free delivery routes in Montgomery County to take effect on October 1. Colonel Wiley Is taking a deep interest in the matter of securing free delivery mail service in the rural por- tons of his district and has assurances that in the near future several routes will be established in every county of the Second Congressional District.
 Suggestion has been made to the Post office Department that the star route from Montgomery to klondike can be discontinued after the establishment of the rural service and the attention of Colonel Wiley has been directed to the desirability of requesting the department to issue an order discontinuing the post- office at Klondike.