The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-03-19
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Midlothian March 10 The most
/ interesting meeting psYhaps we have
ever held WIS on Tic evening Of
March loth Ia this city THO house
was called 70 order by the president.
W. C. Gardner. or Forresion ard
MAYOR seweli welcomed the visitors
In his own cheerful way. telling them
the bes' We bad vas none TOO good
for The servants ~ Uncle sam y.
T BruudaRe responded in behalf Of
| he carriers and ia neat speech
thanked the mayor for the cordial
greeting
Prof J u Cogbian was listened
70 With great interest and hts speech
on Progression" was the kind that
at once enlisted The sympathies of
his hearers and especially do the rur-
al carriers love to call him their
friend, for such he is
W. H. Hawkins brought down the
house ia a speech on Multiply and
| Replenish and all OF our meetings
/ at this place would have been iucom-
/ plete without MIR Hawkins
/ Postmaster Cogeroye Of Venus sus.
| iained hts reputation as a speaker
and his spicy savings We're well re-
| eeived
But the most interesting of the
program was the lecture OF Mr.
I ong. a rural route inspector from
indianapolis, Ind Mr Long gave
/ the boys good practical advice along
/ The lines Of improving the service,
aging the carrier who did more than
/ was really required OF him was the
/ one who would first he promoted and
/ urged a close attention TO duty and
strict obedience to the postal laws
and regulations ard advises that we
work in cooperation with the pat
+ rons Of our routes with a view of BET
/ tering the road conditions, and fur
| Their he stated that EVERY carrier
should belong to the association. :"
(Please Keep this last statement in
your mind, bovs1
Personally | regard the association
as educational in its nature and pur-
pose and believe Il man can fit him
self to become a better carrier by be-
longing to it, visiting meetings and
keeping himself thoroughly posted
on all laws. rules and regulations of
the department But / am getting
Off the subject. The entire bunch of
carriers present expressed them
selves as being benefited BY MI
Longs advice and suggestions, and
after few short pointed speeches
by Mr. Street of Ennis, Messrs Har-
ris and Cosgroye Of Venus a sugges-
ton was made about someone being
hungry This started the committee
on eating and the entire audience
was invited to the dining room which
was already arranged to"aecommodate
twenty-four carriers at a time The
table was heavy laden with most
tempting edibes and still more and
more was placed on when the visitors
had finished and number of old
true and tried eaters like Jim God
frey, Burr Martin, Bud Barnett. DR..
Sewell, Prof. Coghlan,. r. +. John
son, Sci Moore and Mace Hawkins
made a combined attack on the bill
of fare aud still many baskets of frag-
ments We're gathered from the bat
tie ground
At late hour on Saturday evening
il was learned that Judge Hawkins
could not be present which was quite
disappointment. as he was on the
program for q speech on good roads.
and the carriers from italy tele-
phoned that they intended coming
but missed the train The next meet
ing viii be held in Waxahachie May
80 AT l:30 p. m, at which time every
citizen Of Ellis county is invited to
be present, and especially do we de-
sire TO meet every rural carrier, every
1 road oVerseer, every commissioner
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