The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-28
FOR DAILY MAIL SERVICE.
Cook County Patrons Will Ask for
Needed Improvement.

| A petition is in circulation in the
county, to lie presented the Post.
office Department, praying for I'M
provement in the mail service fol
this county. Several copies of the
petition are in circulation, with the
purpose of giving verybody in the
county opportunity TO sign. A copy
has been sent to each postofiice III
the county for the convenience OF
all who may wish to sign This pro-
posed improvement is of such vast
Importance that every postoffice pat
ron should seek an early opportu'
nifty to attach his or her signature,
and then do so. Ask at your post.
office for the petition.
The changes in the service to be
asked for are: That service by the
Lake Superior route for all post
offices in Cook county be dispensed
with; that an exclusively overland
service between Cramer and Grand
Portage, Minn., be substituted, and
that daily mail service over this
route be established.
The grounds upon which the pe,l-
ton are based are as follows:
"The mail service throughout said
county now depends upon delivery dur
ing the summer mon tbs by Booth line
steamers on Lake Superior, and during
the winter months by stage line con-
Meeting with the railway at Cramer,
MINI.
"The service during the summer
months, by steamer, is irregular, unreIi-
able and unsatisfactory. Excepting
two months during the excursion season,
the summer schedule calls for but two
deliveries a week; three deliveries per
week being made during the other two
months. Because of stormy weather,
and for other reasons, these deliveries
are irregular, sometimes being omitted
altogetker. The!on}y harbors farefugs
in this county is at Grand Marais; and,
especially IN stormy weather when the
steamer cannot safely approach docks
in the open lake, the only means of
landing mail at the other postofices in
the county is in small boats, which is
sometimes impossible.
'The winter service three deliveries a
week.-Mrs. for several years past been
uniformly regular and punctual, wholly
satisfactory, so far as 1t goes, to post
office patrons in this county.
'Dnring the winter period mail for all
points in Cook county is delivered by
train daily, except Sundays, at Cramer;
and three such deliveries each week are,
under present conditions, held up and
delayed at that point twenty four hours,
and mere.
':During the last two years work has
been in progress standard1zing the pub
lie highway from Cramer, along the
north shore of Lake Superior, to Grand
Portage. This work, upon which more
than 1925, 900 has already been expend.
ed, is done under the direct supervision
of the State Highway Commission. It is
now in good condition for automobile
and wagon traffic over the entire dis
tance from Cramer to Grand Portage
and will be completed this season to the
Canadian line to connect with an equally
well-built highway from Port Arthur
thus affording highway communica ton
at this point between the States and
Canada; which latter fact, it seems to
us, has some bearing on the matter of
local postal service. Every postoffice in
Cook county is located on this road, and
practically all the people of the county
reside along and convenient to the
same. By the use of mail boxes alon g
the route the overland service affords ia
rural settlements some ADVANTAGES of
rural free delivery service.
"Desplte the handicaps of frontier
condltlons' Cook county is making
steady progress. Every year marks
in increased proportion growth
OF population and develop
ment or material resources. The pros
perity of this community would un-
doubtedly be materially enhanced by
improved mail service"
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