Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1917 — BAREFOOT GIRL TOTES MAIL [ARTICLE]

BAREFOOT GIRL TOTES MAIL

Traveled Over Lone Mountain Route That Paid Her -Twenty-Fly® Cents a Day. Whitesburg, Ky.—Miss Mary Hall, aged sixteen, is a rural mail carrier on a star route leading from Colly, a village in Letcher county, to Hilliard, Ky., four miles. Over this route little Miss Hall, many times In bare feet, has made the trip afoot over lone paths through mountain fastnesses, with only an occasional farm home on the way, for which she earned 25 cents a day. “To keep the wolf from the door," is the explanation of the young woman. “pother has no one to care for her and is unable to w’ork, being a sufferer from a complication of diseases, and I realized that I must do something for a livelihood. No other work being available, I accepted the rural carrier’s place from a neighbor, was "sworn in, and entered upon my duties to the best of my ability. I have made a patient, regular employee of Uncle Sam, doing my duty at all times.” Her four years’ tenure expired some time ago and Miss Hall said she would not care to enter again for a four years’ term with the United States unless she got a better price for her work.