The Semi-weekly Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 1923-19??, 1932-07-08

Balmy days in the fall,
The faithful old postman
Never failed in his call.
So here's to the postman,
And here's to his steed,
And the loved rig we lost,
Through our passion for speed.
Beryl Hoff.
Frank Wright, who has been con-
nected with the Postal Service at
West Jefferson for the past fifteen
years as carrier on Route l, has been
retired from the service and will not
be on the route any more. He auto
matically goes under pension. Her.
bert Allerton, world war veteran, has
been named as temporary carrier until
changes which have been planned are
completed.
Frank was engaged in newspaper
work before he started carrying mail
and will again take up this occupa-
tion. He will become associated with
the Labor Review, a paper published
in Columbus.
In an interview with Press re-
porter Wednesday, Mr.. Wright said
that there had been many changes in
his route since he first entered the
postal service.
At that time he said there were no
macadam roads, but all were gravel
with plenty of ruts to contend with.
He recalled times when he battled
with rain, hail, and snow drifts. TAX
ing it ell in all he says a carrier has
many ups and downs, and ins and
outs. Now and then, however, a ray
of sunshine crossed his rugged path,
when he stopped at mail box and
found spare-rib or something else
good to eat in the box. Oh boy! that
always frightened the rest of the way
in.
The "kids" who came to the box for
mail when he first started on the route
are now men and women with families
of their own.
He was one carrier who never car
ried a watch, for his route took him
over two steam railroads and one cleo
trio car line, which roads he crossed
seven times day, SO he had no trou-
BILE in checking his time. But those
conveyances have almost faded from
the picture, and now he goes the route
without seeing train, and checks his
time of aeroplanes which are nearly
always on schedule. In fact, Mr..
Wright has been so prompt in deliv-
ering mail, that the farmers on his
route set their clocks by his arrival at
their mail boxes.
In his experience on the route he
has seen many faces come and go.
Some he hated to see go, for it was
like bidding some old friend goodbye
forever. Some, however, he was de-
lighted to see go, while others he did
not care whether they came or went.
An idea of the distance he has
travelled in the last fifteen years is
rather staggering. Twenty-Five miles
a day, which was the length of his
route, with three hundred and six
working days in the year in fifteen
years-with only three days lost time
makes total of 100,980 miles he
has travelled, which is more than four
times around the earth at the equa-
tor. Counting the expense per mile
at ten cents, which is very reason
able estimate for operating an auto
mobile, barring accidents, he has paid
out in cold cash for automobile ex-
pense while on the route, the sum of
ten thousand and ninety-eight dollars,
most of which he has spent in the
little town Of West Jefferson.
Mr.. Wright had contemplated to
take a trip this winter into the Arc
tic regions among the Esquimos, up
where the girls wear fur B.V.D's, and
make study of those people, think
ing they may be an offspring of the
ancient Carib Indian race which came
down from the mountainous regions
Of South America and took every
thing in their path, among whom he,
at one time, spent several months.
His rough and tumble existence
among the Caribs Indians of the Or
inoco plains gained him a member
ship in the Worlds Adventure club of
New York City.
But he has abandoned that trip for
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