This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Penney, Stephens, Akins, Hall, Jones, DeSelm, Middleton, Brown, Yowell Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4209.2 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. December 22, 1904. "Carrier Examination".-- An examination for mail carriers was held at Sidney, Saturday. A. C. Penney and C. W. Stephens of Sidney, and M. C. Akins, J.E. Hall, E. B. Jones, D. DeSelm, C. L. Middleton and Mrs. Albertine Brown, of Hamburg, took the examination. The only vacancy at present is the route between Hamburg and Sidney, recently vacated by the resignation of James Yowell. N.B.: This sounds like the same kind of set-up for mail delivery as that between Sidney and Tabor! Surely, there were rural free deliveries made on routes other than those which served only the rural portions of Fremont county.....Is this why some routes were called STAR routes?--W.F.