This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hardy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4209 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. August 9, 1900. -- W.M. Hardy, who drives the hack and carries the mail on the free delivery route between Sidney and Tabor, week before last handled 670 pieces of mail. One hundred and seventy persons along the route receive mail. There are 52 mail boxes, about one-third being regulation boxes, the remainder homemade. N.B.: Note the date of August 1900! This quote speaks of a rural free delivery route between Sidney and Tabor. THIS, in spite of the fact the Free Rural Delivery route NO. 1 out of Sidney dates from 1901.....Perhaps, with study, these facts could be "made straight", but I can't do it from the top of my head. I do remember puzzling once up a time about a so-called Start Route between Sidney and Tabor. --W. F.