Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1901 — DIFFICULTIES OF RURAL FREE DELIVERY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DIFFICULTIES OF RURAL FREE DELIVERY.

This is the season of the year when the new rural free delivery system of the I’ostofflce Department is put to its most

severe test. In many parts of the country the roads are blocked by huge drifts of snow and the carrier who starts out on a ride of thirty or forty miles through a thinly settled section must make elaborate preparations for his personal comfort and safety. In spite of blizzards and extremely cold weather, to say nothing of the snow drifts which greatly impede progress, the department has so to keep

up with the service with no serious delays or stoppages. The picture is from a photograph of a rural carrier who makes his headquarters at Bowling Green, O. For several days the mercury there marked ten and fifteen degrees below aero, but he never failed to make his regular trips.