Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — Little Girl Mailed Home For Twenty-five Cents [ARTICLE]

Little Girl Mailed Home For Twenty-five Cents

Hammond, Ind., Jan. 13.—Opal Davis, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Davis, of Brownstown, has reached her home after being mailed there.- She had been visiting relatives at Clear Springs. When it was time for her to return home the roads were in such a bad condition that no one wished to drive through and the railroad service was such that she could not very well be sent that way, so her aunt decided to send her by mail. The child was taken to the postoffice and was found to be within the weight limit of the first zone; It took 25 cents' worth of stamps to mail her, with her clothing, and she made the trip to this place with Gilbert •Ball, rural mail carrier. After the postoffice had taken due note of her arrival, she was permitted to go home.