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/4209.1 Message Board Post: I've been doing some back tracking: In the SEARCH space here on Rootsweb, type in "rural free delivery". Among the results will be a posting entitled "HERALD news for the week ending May 10, 1900", and, in this posting the second entry (2) explains in part what Hardy was doing.....It sounds like the establishment of this "Star Route" (?) had been discussed in previous issues of the HERALD.-- W. F.