Carried Mail 1887

BROWN

Posted By: Gloria Dodds (email)
Date: 10/29/2002 at 18:25:12

Thursday, August 15, 1935 The Keosauqua Republican Page Forty-Three 80 year Anniversary 1855-1935

CARRIED MAIL 1887

On July 1,1887, N.A. Brown, Stockport, and his brothers, started carrying the mail from Wilsonville through McVeigh, Utica, and Pierceville to Bentonsport. For eight years, every day except Sunday, Mr. Brown carried the mail over this Star route. If the carrier did not get through with his mail, no matter what the conditions of the weather or roads, his wages for that day would be docked. If he made no attempt to get through three day's wages would be taken away from him.