Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1920 — EFFICIENT SERVANT TO BE RETIRED [ARTICLE]

EFFICIENT SERVANT TO BE RETIRED

Harry B. Murray, one of the most efficient public servants known to the people of this community, has been notified by the government that on account of his having reached the, age of 65 he will be retired from the service of rural mail carrier .out of this city on January 21, 1921. Mt. Murray will be given a pension of S3O per but would greatly prefer to remain in the service and his retirement is very much* regretted by the patrons, who appreciate his splendid. service. There is a pretty general feeling that his Vetirement should not have been required at this time. Mr. Murray has been in the mail service for some sixteen years. As far as we are able to ascertain he is the first carrier in the county to. be • retired. There are a number in the service in the county, who were serving when Mr. Murray began. Among them are, Grover Smith of Wheatfield, George Jones of Remington, and A. M. Bringle of Fair Oaka." Vernon Harrington, who is the substitute on the route, and is now serving, while Mr. Murray is taking his vacation, may be Mr. Murray’s successor. Mr. Harrington is a Democrat. It is anticipated that other changes in the postal service in this city will be forthcoming directly after March fourth. It has not been entirely forgotten that a most strenuous and finally successful effort was made some eight years ago to retire an efficient servant, whose great weakness was that he was a Republican. There will be a request made that the same standards applied at this time be used again.