The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-09
MAIL CARRIERS ARE
TIRED OF THEIR JOBS
After One Week They Find Hard
and Quite Elk
pensiye.
Especial to The Tines-Dlspatch.)

ia
CONFORM, VA July Sat the end Of
the first week of service, some of the
new mail contractors are tired Of and
dissatisfied with their job. and would
CLOSE out ct cost" in a jiffy. If they
after hauling Uncle SANS big pouches
OF mail matter for small-very small
compensation.
Some of them have learned in one
short week that furnishing their own
teams and outfits paying incidental ex-
penses, not before dreamed Of, and driv-s
| Ing forty-odd miles every day under
| scortchng sun, facing fierce storm
for an hour or two. three or four even
ings in week. for smaller net wages
than q good laborer receives for ordl-
nary farm work, makes the job anything
but delightful and funny One OF the
new men, as he Jumped out Of his wagon
| the other day and shouldered a great
big leather bag stuffed with mail, OK
claimed as he entered aRostoffice: say,
/ believe I'm stuck This is blamed
tough job and its got whole lot Of
expenses attached to 1t. Sec what q
big load Of mall I've got
a klnd-hearted farmer, awaiting the
news from the Far East, replied con-
| solingly (): .Why, that's nothing You
| are eating your white bread now. When
short days come around--some times with
billiards and waiste-deep shows; some
| times with mud knee-deep for eight or
ten miles, on a stretch; then at other
i times with the mercury down to zero, and
three Inch icicles attached to your nose
and mustache; navigation closed on the
rivers, SO that you will have to haul tons
and tons OF the mail matter intended &c
be hauled by the standardization these
around YOU will then understand, for
the first time. what 1t means to carry
the mail for small pay--sure."
Mrs. Holiday, wife of Rev. c. T.. Hob.
day OF King George. returned home
Thursday, after a protracied vslt,to hel
father. in Goochand county.
Mr.. Powell Snowden, OF Alexandria, has
been guest OF klnsfolk here for a week
Miss Abble White, of the. Klng. George
Courthouse neighborhood, is visiting In
Culnaper county.
Md, is guest OF his son. Or. ]. L.
Sotheron. at Chatterton. near here, He Is
accompanied by his daughter. Miss Flor
cnca Sotheron.
Miss Euka Rice and little brother, Jus.
Ing their uncle and aunt. Or. Massey and
Miss Martha Massey, near Comorn.
Mr., A. q. Blllngsley and Mr. G, C.
handsome residence for Mr. Lewis Ash
ton, at Waterloo. IN the lower part
OF tho county.
Miss Mamie S. Rogers. who LEFT hero
some time ago, TO SPEND the summer ii
Washinsion came down, on an excursion
20 Colonial Beach Tuesday. and drow
UP from that place to Comorn TO vIsi
her parents few days before returning
to Washington.
Mir. John l., Pratt, son of Mr. Alexan.
DER Pratt, of this county who graduated
from the University Of Virginia last year
has. procured a desirable and lucrative
position With the Dupont Company, Of
A Wilmington, Delaware.
h Mrs Agnes Montgomery and four chill
u dren. Of Washington have arrived her,
n to spend some time at tho summer Ioma
Her husband. Mr.. Victor y. MONTGOMERY
d q prominent business man of WASHING
4 ton; spent "Wednesday and Thursday here
The third quarterly Mnthodist confer
I ence or The King George circuit convened
at Grace Church to-day AT II O'clock
Presiding Elder ] r. Whitley Is prosen
. and will preach to-day and tomorrow.