Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1919 — MEETING OF RURAL CARRIERS [ARTICLE]

MEETING OF RURAL CARRIERS

Monday, September 1, the plural Mail 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 to take precedence over the business side, which it amply did. Nine carriers and families responded, arriving shortly before noon with well-filled baskets and prodigious appetites, and when the dinner was spread in the shade on the poroh the heaped up plates of chicken, fried to just “that golden brown,’’ cake that would melt in the mouth and—and —(well, who can name it all?) —was sight enpugh to make water drip from a hungry mall carrier’s mouth like that from the sap spile in sugar.making time. Then, after dinner, here comes John, surprising us with some excellent ice cream. Oh, my! At such times one is so tickled all over that he is a mail carrier. The afternoon was spent in pleasant conversation and exchange of experiences, pleasant, amudlng and otherwise, that falls to a mail carrier’s lot, after which Mr. ‘Hayes was given a vote of thanks, and with best wishes for those that were ■not present as well as soy those that were, we betook ourselves home, longing for the next similar meeting, to be held not tar away. • *