Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1914 — Crown Point Uncertain How Free Delivery Will Be. [ARTICLE]

Crown Point Uncertain How Free Delivery Will Be.

Crown Point Star. Our people will have to “wait and watch” before they judge the free maul delivery. It is found by a canvass that 700 homes and business places are on the walks that will get the delivery, and approximately 150 are on the outskirts of the city where there are no walks and they will not be blessed. The three, city papers will be obliged to come out early to get their papers in the afternoon delivery, and ft is believed there will be too many for the carriers to “tote” at one time. The Star for instance will put in enough in the city delivery (600) to weigh close to a hundred pounds, and with the other two papers added, all coming out the same day, it seems it will be a heavy burden for the carriers. These papers heretofore have been delivered free of postage for the publishers and from now on the same rate of postage will be charged as for those going to any state in the union. That-will be no feathers in the printers’ hats. Many are yet undecided on keeping their boxes or drawers in the postoffice and to tell the truth Crown Pointers will have to try the new tangled scheme before they know where they are at. It is a new thing for “old sleepy hollow” to digest and we must have time before a verdict is handed in.