The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-04-06
TRY OUT Eight IN FOUR DAYS
Postmaster Has the Limit in Troubles
Trying to Keep the Rural Routes
Open But Finally Gets Couple of
Men Who Promise to Stick to Job.

Disguised housewives in Kenosha
have had some trouble keeping help
but page your "Uncle Samuel new
record Of the "come again gone
againo class has been established up
at the Kenosha postofice in the past
four days where Uncle Sam has had a
pair of rural carriers day. He hash It
q single one of them left now and just
like lot of people who tried trying
something new now he has gone back
to the first he had. It's another case
of the first being last.
Percy Fuller and R. W. A. Cart
wright went out on Routes No. and
No. 2 of the rural mail system this
morning and they wore a sort of 81
told you sou expression on their faces.
Last Friday Fuller and Cartwright,
who had been working as temporary
rural carriers ever since the other men
went on strike and resigned several
months ago, served notice on the post
master that they were through. By
this time the government had recon-
mended a couple of fellows who stood
high in the examinations, but they
took one trip through the mud of
Pleasant Prairie and Somers and they
came back and told the postmaster
that 5Ae salc4g was too low and the
possibilities of spending most Of their
time in the mud too great and they
directed him to send the commissions
as carriers back to the department.
The temporary carriers quit all right
and then the government got busy.
The routes were left without service
on Saturday and the complaints came
in by letter and telephone so fast that
the postmaster was looking for any
place that would serve as a haven
against protesting rural mail patrons.
He sought the bureau in Washington
and bombarded it by telegram. Long
on Sunday afternoon came telegram
appointing carriers Willems and John
son. The postmaster smiled, thinking
that the troubles were all over but
Johnson and Willems made Just two
trips. One was over the route Mon
day morning and the other was to the
postmaster's Office Monday afternoon
IT, hand in their designations.
German wired the department again
and on Tuesday morning he had as
likely candidates for the positions
Frank Kunny and George Axtell prop
erly certified and appointed by the
telegraph route. They believed that
they were real carriers, but they took
only one trip and Tuesday afternoon
late Postmaster German was again
sounding the S. @. S. toward Washing
ton. The list of eligibles was not
nearly as long as it might have been
and the department flashed back a
message "For heavens sake get that
Kenosha thing settled. Get a couple
OF fellows on those routes who will
stay on.'' just about that time
Fuller and Cartwright strolled into
the Office. Anything doing boss y
one of them said to the postmaster.
"Have cigar boys" the postmaster
responded and then he got confidential
GLOW would you fellows like to go
back to work with the assurance that
you could hold down jobs on the rural
force just as long as you want to?'
German put it up to them strong.
"Roads are too bad" suggested Full
Ter, who is a relative of the famous
chief justice of the Supreme Court by
the same name. go fellows have a
heart' German pleaded and Fuller and
Cartwright smiled and strolled back
to the old desks. They have stood
the roads during the winter months
and it is pretty sureA that they will
stand for them until winter comes
again at least. The patrons out on the
routes are tickled to death that thew
are not to be experimental on any
more.
The postmaster is also tickled and
decidedly hopeful that it will be some
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