Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1902 — FOR RURAL FREE DELIVERY. [ARTICLE]

FOR RURAL FREE DELIVERY.

Poetmaster General Pnyne Wants an Appropriation of $12,000(000. Postmaster General Payne will ask Congress for $12,000,000 for rural free delivery for the next fiscal year. The appropriations available for this year are $7,500,000, which will doubtless have to be supplemented in December by a deficiency appropriation of about $500,000. This service started in with an experimental $25,000, and in the fiscal year, which ended in July, 1901, only $1,700,000 was exp*''-’"’