Show rural free to RURAL 11 AIL SERVICE tle the of american Amei ican progress can be credited with will a more salutary effect upon the march of that progress than alian the corat mail of the post off office bev department ament no other single instrumentality lias has dono done more moie than the rural muil mail service byard toward bringing thi the city to the country and relieving the prosaic ex istance of farm life or has bien as effective effe cu etive in establishing elmer closer contact between the farmer i and his markets it has been beao the ahe most important factor in making agriculture an exacting but ainess instead of its onetime one time precarious classification which conveyed no broader moaning meaning than tilling the soil twenty nine years ago the farmer farmei find and lna wire and children led nr ar ex istance of almost complete esolat ion living upon widely scattered farms some of them miles apart had comparatively comparativo ly little corn com with their heir neighbors or 01 the out he world except that dei dc rived froni weekly t trips rips to 0 tho the idi jacent village villa gp more often of tin that hirmer losta full days das work and lii 10 brolis aei neglected in in order 0 tc ob in 1 ap ted mn it at ane I 1 ost sl ia i i in alii i r atik i a irnia i i i r c ira tui iirth of ol 01 ammu li n f fi I 1 pi ni IV i i annl fl fi rd r 1 tf thy he daiv ii il i iril 1 i anly on n tili lie j jy iv te of 1 il n IK n tail i n c tn i iti til li i co coi 11 1 11 HL j put mat at i t t i i arts i i d 1 aral il no n vs s alio llio nelv ii tj monthly montal f j 3 urn ils nd il ning nii lAll fhi s N and ian es it t f tois ti i arion 11 i the ali vil it LI Hrit and t 1 in n in n tedious saidi h rilent in ill il ci distant city all of thase are aie now nii v brought to his door din or lu tile the bo ox T h few yarl aramia arl Mia the ihira nil V carrier can in is ib tile farmar s post lost office and hh agent through liim him lie he eon conducts ducts transaction for the sale of ins his live livestock stock g brain rain and ando other farni farm produce from him he huys buys stamps and pays 11 his I 1 s bills by p postal mone money aider vorder Ina hoit t the letter earner carrier is the medium th that it has had trans forli led th secluded inhabit antof the rural di district et elizen r tien izen cou with bent and ing a buiu place in it ajl ilie des i ijes of i gibat g eat natian ll it was postmaster ater john buim Wari amaker aniio lio first olli offic cilly lly sw sug gre in 1891 Llie ru euial ral mail id idra to congress the file plan als M fought in the legislative branch otlee of the government f fur or ive five years bif bi before f ore it was given a try ou out t in comparison with the insignificant appropriation of made by congress Con more than a quarter lu arter of a cell tury ugo go to inaugurate the service it now requires an annual of to keep it functioning th first county to be completely cove coerced red by rural mail service wa carroll cairell county maraland Marv land Ilind where county service service was eslia i shed de ember 20 1899 there are aie very few counties in tile the country countr today that anre not honeycombed toabe to the uttermost corners with free fee mail delivery by 1915 fourth class post offices had been discontinued as aa a a result of the extension 0 j the rural mail service it estimated d that an annual saving of was accomplished by the discontinuance of these offices while oaktar off tar or contract routes to save per annum when the service was first inaugurated thesila the salaries ries of rural carriers was only a Q yar They iny row now 1 get as much ws 2160 a yc ar depending on the len length g j 0 1 the routs while the motor routs of 50 miles or more mor pay sul salaries aries of to |