Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — Postoffice Job Goes Begging In Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

Postoffice Job Goes Begging In Jasper County.

No one seems to want to be postmaster at Aix. For some years the office there was run by James Wiseman, and during the last fiscal year it paid by per cent of stamp cancellation $39. Since then, however, the new rural route has been established out of Parr and as it passes near the Aix office practically all the business has been transferred to it. Postmaster Wiseman resigned but the resignation has not been accepted, the department making an effort to secure a successor to him. By the present ruling all postoffices of the class B are under civil service jurisdiction and the person making the highest rating in competitive examination would be made the postmaster. An examination date was set some time ago, to be held before Postmaster Murray, but no one appeared and now the department has set Saturday, September 18th. Before that date, however, applicants would have to secure application forms from the postmaster at either Rensselaer or Aix or from the United States civil service commission at Washington, D. C. Indications are that the office would not pay to exceed $5 a year now", and the Job will probably go begging and the office be ultimately discontinued.