Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1919 — RURAL LETTER CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION MEETING. [ARTICLE]

RURAL LETTER CARRIERS' ASSOCIATION MEETING.

Monday, September 1, the Rural Letter Carriers’ association of Jasper county met at the home of the president, John G. Hayes, in Rensselaer. ' This was the regular Labor day meeting of the association and. invitations were issued to every carrier and family in the county and’ the social side of the association was intended tb take precedence over the business side, which it amply did. Nine carriers and families responded, arriving before noon with well filled baskets and prodigious appetites and when the dinner was spread in the shade on. the porCh, the heaped-up plates of chicken fried to just “that golden brown,” cakes that would melt in the mouth and—and (well, who can name it all?) was sight enough to make water drip from a hungry mail carrier’s mouth like that from the “spile” in sugar making time, and then after dinner here comes John surprising us wfith some excellent ice cream. Oh, my at such times one is tickled all over that one is a mail carrier. The afternoon was spent in pleasant conversation and exchange of experiences, pleasant, amusing and otherwise that fells to the lot of a mail carrier, after which Mr. Hayes was given a vote of thanks and with best wishes for those that were not present as well as for those that were we betook ourselves hqme, onging for the next similar meeting to be not far away.—Contributed.