The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1915-07-13

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lettered routes will be $500 yearly.
and the carriers will be required to
furnish motor driven vehicles in the
service of the routes. The carriers
for the new routes will be selected
from an eligible list to be created
by civil service examination to be
ordered by the Civil Service Commits
sion at Washington. 1t is said that
the new examination will be much
more difficult than any previous one,
and that it will take a well-informed
person to successfully stand it. All
of the rural carriers who have been
suspended are eligible for the new
examination. The examination will
be called for some date in the near
future. In the meantime Postmaster
Cheatham is instructed to appoint
temporary carriers to serve the routes
from Aug. until the regular car
riers are appointed and qualify. Post
master Cheatham informs The News
that he will appoint these temporary
carriers from the list of the suspend
ed carriers if they will accept the
temporary appointment.
The rural carriers of the county
who have been so unceremoniously
suspended by their big chief, Post
master General Burleson, are bitter
in their denunciation of the unfair
ness and heartless injustice of his
act.
The rearran cement Of the routes
and schedules and the necessity for
the changing of the mail Of patrons
who formerly received their mail
from the three Terrell county towns
to Dawson will seriously inconven-
fence many people, and there will be
many subsequent vigorous protests
from an enraged public that will help
to enliven the dull moments of the
postmaster general and the congress
man, who will be appealed to for re-
lief.
1t is said that this change was
brought about by congress forcing
the postmaster general to increase
the salaries of the full route carriers
to $1,000 per year. This action Of
congress, it is said, piqued the post
master general into taking advantage
of the clause in the postoffice appro-
priation act permitting him to estab-
Iish a few 50-mile routes for an eX-
pertinent. He seems determined to
make all of the routes an experiment,
and thereby turning the joke on con-
gress by decreasing the compensation
of some carriers by paying one ear
rier $500 for serving two routes in
stead of paying two carriers 400
for serving the same routes.
The Dawson carriers say that 1t IS
not practical for one man to serve a
route of so miles and more with from
200 to 800 stops daily, even in good
weather and make a regular sched-
ule. and that it will be impossible
to do so during the rainy months, be-
sides the mental and physical strain
of the extended daily service.
The following is the official de-
scrfption of the routes from Dawson
as thew will be travelled after July
31st:
Route No. 1. Old No. 6.
Starting at the postoffice the car
rier will go thence north to Jays cor
ner. northwest tc Myrick's corner,
south to Fitzpatrick's corner, west TO
Rass' corner. north to cross roads
north of railroad track, east to jar
nings' corner. north to KenyOn's and
east to SCOTS store, south to Yeo-
mans corner, east to Tedder's cor
ner. south to Snellgroves corner
west to McLeods corner, north to
Yeomans' corner again, west to OK
ford's corner, south to Raines' cor
ner. east to Powell's corner, south
west to postoffice. Length of route
29.15 miles.
Route No. 2 Gold No. y will not be
rearranged, but will be served as al
present.
Route 4.
Starting at postofffce the carrier
will go thence north and westerly to
J. A. Ferguson's corner, thence south
east and south by Dismuke aud
Hayes cross roads, west by Harris
corner to Doverel, north and north
east to Ben Dismukes corner again,
northwest to Wolf creek corner,
south to Graves Station, west to
Cobb's corner, north and northwest
to FIetcher's corner, northeast and
east to Chambliss' corner, retracing
north to Wolf creek corner, north
west to Jewellers corner, east to
Jackson's corner, southeast to Mar
;halPs corner, southwest to Albert