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At the expiration of Mr. Haven's term of office there were nine candidates in the field for the appointment of postmaster, and on February 15, 1899, William Kaiser was appointed to suc- ceed him. The following article appear in the Faribault "Re-
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publican" at the time of his appointment: "At last-William Kaiser has received the appointment of postmaster for Faribault and will succeed Mr. Haven, who will have held the office upon his retirement, about a year and two months beyond the time for which he was appointed. Mr. Haven has been an efficient officer and gives way to the unwritten law of politics. The unsuccessful applicants for the position, it is understood. are : A. T. Brandvold. Mrs. S. I. Pettitt. L. Hawley, E. L. Kinsey. C. E. Smith, E. N. Leavens, H. G. Rising and C. D. McKillip. Mr. Kaiser is of the firm of Bieter & Kaiser and is a well known young man of good business capacity and possessing the quali- fications for filling the office to the satisfaction of the people." Mr. Kaiser took charge of the office on April 1. About six months before the appointment of Mr. Kaiser. Inspector C. E. Gordon was in the city looking up bids for the re-rental of the postoffice, and quite a number of places were offered. In the new bids the department requested the lessor to figure on heat- ing and lighting the office in addition to furnishing the fixtures. The bid of Donald and A. J. Grant was accepted and the office was moved on May 1. 1899. to its present location on Central avenue (Main street), between Fourth and Fifth streets. The new postoffice room was 44 feet wide and 70 feet long and was equipped with 500 small keyless boxes, 108 larger keyless boxes. and 30 10 by 5 by 131/2 locked drawers, and 18 10 by 10 by 131/2 locked drawers. The removal was made in the evening, after all the mails were in, and the office was opened the next morn- ing without delaying the delivery of any of the mail. The official force at the time of the removal of the office to its location were : William Kaiser, postmaster; E. N. Leavens, assistant postmas- ter : Mrs. Nellie Bemis, money order clerk : Samuel A. Metcalf. mailing clerk : Edwin J. F. Kickenapp, stamp clerk : E. J. Healy. Jr., John J. Van Sann and Peter M. Stone, carriers.
On August 3, 1899, an additional clerk was allowed the office. and William P. Townsend, who had taken the civil service ex- amination and who had served with Company B in the Spanish- American war, was appointed to the position at a salary of $400 per year.
On Monday, June 4, 1900, the first rural route was estab- lished in Rice county, with James W. Parshall as carrier, at an annual salary of $400. The length of the route was twenty-two and one-sixth miles, and was laid out to run east from the city through the towns of Cannon City and Wheeling, and covered an area of forty-one square miles ; population served was esti- mated at about 500 people.
On September 1, 1899, an additional carrier was allowed the office, as the business had grown so that the three carriers could
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not cover the territory in the allotted time, and the mail service was also extended to the east side of the river.
On January 24, 1900, the Faribault postoffice was allowed a janitor, whose duty was to take care of the building and help about the office. To this position Ira C. Aldrich, an old soldier, was appointed at a salary of $400 per year. The constant in- crease in the business of the office necessitated another increase in the force, and Edwin J. F. Kiekenapp, who had been en- ployed temporarily as stamp clerk and who had taken the civil service examination, was appointed to the position on July 2. 1900, at a salary of $400 per year.
The rural free delivery route which had been established on June 4, 1900, had given so much satisfaction that Postmaster Kaiser made application for additional routes. Special Agent Howard was sent to investigate, and after careful study recom- mended the establishment of five additional routes, which the department authorized to be established on February 15, 1901. The salary was raised to $500 per year, and the following car- riers were appointed : Route No. 2, Lyman Hawley ; Route No. 3, John Ottem ; Route No. 4, Elliot G. Hathaway ; Route No. 5, George F. Kester; Route No. 6, Harry B. McIlvaine.
On April 1. 1902, the department authorized the establish- ment of a postal station at the School for the Feeble Minded. This station was known as Station A. A complete box outfit was installed and stamps were sold. Letters were registered and money orders issued. The mail was received and delivered from the main office twice a day. Miss Ella Misner was the first clerk in charge, and received a salary of $100 per year, but soon resigned her position, and on July 1 of the same year Miss Eva P. Ober was appointed to take her place.
The mail for the city carrier had increased so fast in the past few years that the department was requested to appoint an addi- tional letter carrier in the city, and upon the recommendation of Inspector Lance an additional city carrier was allowed on August 1, 1902, and James P. Flynn, who was acting as substitute car- rier, was appointed to the position.
Upon the recommendation of Inspector Gilbert Gutterson. who had visited the office at the request of Postmaster Kaiser, an additional rural route was authorized, with a re-arrangement of Route No. 3. The new route, known as Route No. 7, was established February 2, 1903, with Michael A. Walrod as carrier. On January 1, 1903, the salaries of the rural carriers were raised to $600 per year. Postmaster Kaiser was re-appointed as post- master, April 1. On June 16, 1903, Ira C. Aldrich resigned his position as janitor and Edward E. Norton was appointed to his place at a salary of $500 per year. Upon the recommendation
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of Inspector H. Harland, Rural Routes Nos. 2 and 5 were re- arranged on October 1, 1903. On February 1, 1904, an addi- tional clerk was allowed the office, and John E. Cook received the appointment at an annual salary of $600. On May 1 Miss Eva P. Ober resigned as clerk in charge at Station A, and Miss Marie Dummer was appointed to take her place. In October of the same year Miss Dummer resigned and Miss Olive J. Lewis was appointed in her place.
The failure of the First National Bank occurred January 3, 1905. Postmaster Kaiser had $1,629.90 of the postal funds on deposit, and upon taking up the matter with the comptroller of the currency who had charge of the bank's affairs, to see if the government's money could be held, he was informed that the postmaster was responsible for the money and that the govern- ment was not a preferred creditor, consequently the postmaster would have to stand the loss personally. That being the case. Postmaster Kaiser was compelled to make good this amount to the postoffice department, and upon failure on his part to do so, he would be held by the department to be short that much in accounts. The money was paid to the department on the 6th day of January and he was compelled to stand the loss. On account of this failure, which was the cause of several other failures in the city, the business of the postoffice fell off over $1,000 for the next year, and not until 1908 did the business of the office increase very materially.
In the fall of 1904, Inspector John P. Boylan was sent to Faribault to establish a county system of rural free delivery. In- spector Boylan spent about three months carefully going over every road in the county and mapping out the county system, with the result that twenty-eight rural routes were laid out in Rice county, ten of which were to originate in the Faribault postoffice. This would increase the routes out of this office from seven to ten.
The rural routes were established as follows: Dundas, two routes ; Faribault, ten routes ; Lonsdale, two routes ; Morristown, two routes; Norstrand, two routes ; Northfield, eight routes, and Webster, two routes-twenty-eight in all, covering a total of 7267/8 miles in length, and an area of 532 square miles, serving 2,786 families and an estimated population of 13,930 people. The routes from Faribault, Morristown, Norstrand, Northfield and Webster extended into or touched the adjoining counties. Routes from New Prague, Montgomery, Kilkinney, Waterville, Waseca, Medford, Kenyon, Dennison and Stanton extended into or touched Rice county. On January 1 of 1905, the salaries of all rural carriers were advanced by an act of congress to $720 per year.
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The county system which gave Faribault three additional routes was ordered to commence June 1, 1905, with the following letter carriers: Route No. 1, James W. Parshall; Route No. 2. Eben H. Pentz; Route No. 3, Lyman Hawley; Route No. 4, Harry B. McIlvaine ; Route No. 5, John Edward McLean ; Route No. 6, Michael A. Walrod; Route No. 7, Frederick Jones ; Route No. 8, George W. Sellers; Route No. 9, Marvin E. Reynolds ; Route No. 10. Charles H. Hill.
In February Olive J. Lewis resigned as clerk in charge of Station A, and Guy R. Robie was appointed to her place and served one year, when he resigned and Mrs. Susie G. Holterman was appointed, who also resigned August 17, when Miss Jean Monty was appointed as clerk in charge.
On April 1, 1909, an additional city letter carrier was allowed this office, and Ole Olin, the substitute, was appointed to the position with a salary of $600 per year. On April 15, Edward E. Norton resigned as janitor and Louis O. Grendall was ap- pointed to take his place.
Rural Route No. 2 was amended on August 16, 1907, so as to cut out fording Straight river, which at certain times of the year was impassable.
Postmaster Kaiser was reappointed as postmaster in Decem- ber, 1907.
Eden N. Leavens, who had served as postmaster of Faribault for sixteen years, and as assistant postmaster under Mr. Kaiser since 1899, making twenty-six years in the postal service, was compelled to resign his position on July 1, 1909, on account of rheumatism in the knee, which incapacitated him from service. At the time of his resignation Mr. Leavens was eighty-two years of age and during the time that he was in the service he made an enviable record. Frederick Laufenberger was appointed to take his place.
On February 12, 1910, the Faribault postoffice was visited a second time by fire. It was on Saturday evening at 11:10 o'clock that fire was discovered in the rear of the postoffice building. An alarm was at once turned in, to which the depart- ment at once responded. Upon the arrival of the department the entire rear portion of the office was on fire. A line of hose was run through the front of the building and brought through the carriers' door, and a stream of water was played upon the fire from the front. By this action on the part of Chief Kelly and his men a great deal of mail was saved from being soaked and destroyed. After a hard fight of about two hours, the fire was extinguished. The entire working room of the office was badly burned and scorched. The windows on the southwest
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end of the building were all broken and the frames burned. The ten rural carrier cases were either entirely destroyed or nearly so, and most of the mail in these cases was burned. The clerks and carriers' wardrobes were so badly burned that they had to be replaced, and the city carriers' cases were ruined by water. The paper on the wall, where it was loose, and the paint on the steel ceiling was burned off. Of the 150 lights of glass in the overhead partition, not one remained whole; the heat was so intense as to crack them all. Papers and long envelopes that protruded from the boxes fifty feet away from the blaze, were scorched and burned. Hlad there been a delay of ten minutes. the entire office would have been a seething mass of flames. Postmaster Kaiser, with the assistance of the firemen, removed the pouches and two sacks of mail that had arrived on the 9:45 Rock Island train, and those which were to be taken on the 6:18 train in the morning. The cause of the fire was a mystery and remained unsolved. Considering the intense heat and the immense amount of damage done to the building, the loss of mail from burning was slight. A large amount, however, was watersoaked, but was dried and delivered on Monday. Sunday morning the entire office force of clerks and carriers was put to work and got things in shape, and the incoming Sunday morning mail was taken care of and delivered at the usual hour, as though nothing had happened. All of the stamps and stamped envelopes were saved, as also were the money orders, money order forms and registered letters. Just a few of the envelopes were damaged by water. It took over a month, however, to get the office cleaned up and put in shape, meanwhile the work in the office of taking care of the mail continued without inter- ruption.
In the year of 1908 Congressman C. R. Davis succeeded in getting a bill passed by congress, appropriating $50.000 for a new government postoffice and site. The site was purchased that same year. The property on the northwest corner of Third street and First avenue East, was bought at a price of $9,000. It consisted of two lots, 165 feet facing on Third and 132 feet on First avenue East. In the spring of 1910, Mr. Davis succeeded in getting an additional $20,000 for the building. Meanwhile nothing had been done in regard to the plans of the building, as the additional appropriation was being waited for. It is ex- pected that the plans will be drawn and bids called for so that the foundation can be put in during the fall of 1910.
The postal receipts of the office for the past twelve years are as follows: 1898, $15,674.25; 1890, $17,052.06: 1900, $17,462.90; 1901, $18,497.96; 1902, $19,711.88: 1903, $21,167.99; 1904, $20,-
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956.87 ; 1905, $19,817.14; 1906, $20,449.36; 1907, $20,981.24 ; 1908, $24,576.15; 1909, $26,077.87.
The money order business for the same period was as follows : 1898, $94,598.90; 1899, $103,674.68 ; 1900, $102,183.08; 1901, $144,- 090.18; 1902,
- -; 1903, -; 1904, $199,954.66 ; 1905, $206,120.04; 1906, $203,810.94; 1907, $197,790.00; 1908, $215,412.74 ; 1909, $218,686.64.
It is estimated that over 3,000,000 pieces of mail were handled in the office in the year 1909.
The official roster at the present time is as follows: Post- master, William Kaiser; assistant postmaster, Frederick Laufer- berger; money order clerk, Edwin J. F. Kiekenapp; mailing clerks, Samuel A. Metcalf and John E. Cook ; stamp clerk, Will- iam P. Townsend; substitute clerk, Walter A. Leach; clerk in charge Station A, Jean Monty ; city letter carriers: Ole Olin, James P. Kennedy, John J. Van Sann, James P. Flynn, Peter M. Stone and E. J. Healy, Jr .; substitute carrier, William Hiensch ; rural carriers, James W. Parshall, Frederick Jones, Lyman Haw- ley, Harry B. McIlvaine, Charles H. Hill, Michael A. Walrod. Marquis E. Dickey, George W. Sellers, John Edward McLean, A. J. Plaisance ; substitute rural carriers, Jackson Jones, William HI. Kiekenapp, William B. Dickey, Oscar E. Sanborn and Ellen MeIlvaine ; janitor, Louis O. Grendall.
NORTHFIELD POSTOFFICE.
In the fall of 1855 a postoffice was established about a mile and a half west of Northfield, called "Fountain Grove." Charles Wheeler, who was the second sheriff of the county, was the post- master. After some months it was removed to Northfield. Charles Knight was afterwards postmaster. It was kept in a shanty on the land owned by William Childs, and remained there until the summer of 1856, when it was removed to a lean-to con- nected with Jones' store, and John E. Kennedy was commissioned to handle the mail. Mrs. Hattie Kingsley was next in order and held the office for a number of years. In the year of 1869 J. W. Sibbeson was appointed as postmaster and was followed by Walter Cutlar in the year 1872. In the year of 1876 Henry S. French was appointed. It was in the fall of this year that the famous bank robbery by the James and Younger brothers' occurred. The bank was located in the building where the post- office is now situated, and it was in this building where Jesse James shot and killed Assistant Cashier J. L. Heywood, and where E. E. Bunker was wounded when he made his escape out of the building. Mr. French held the office for a term of twelve
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years, and in 1888 J. E. Kennedy was again commissioned to handle the mails. He held the office for a term of four years and was followed by A. W. Dampier in 1892, who was followed by T. J. Dougherty on April 1. 1896. Mr. Dougherty served the people of Northfield until April 1, 1900, when the present post- master. Charles H. Pierce, was appointed.
Gross receipts at the Northfield postoffice from 1900 to 1909, inclusive, or since Mr. Pierce took charge of the office. Previous to this the records are incomplete: 1900, $9,260.95; 1901, $11,- 580.17 ; 1902, $12,536.10; 1903. $13,239.06; 1904, $13,213.76; 1905, $11,343.14; 1906, $12.216.46; 1907, $13,111.24; 1908, $14,215.61 ; 1909, $14,795.87.
Below is given a record of the receipts for the years of 1889. 1890 and 1891, all that can be found that is complete: 1889, $6,272.37 ; 1890, $6,522.57 ; 1891, $6,193.50.
Mr. Pierce took charge of the postoffice, with W. H. Revier as assistant postmaster. The clerks employed are Charles E. Wat- son, Frank P'. Brown, Carrie E. Ellis and Roscoe R. Revier. City carrier service was established December 16, 1902. The carriers are E. H. Vollmer, Michael Espeland and George Alexander Law; Fred S. Sommers, substitute.
During Mr. Pierce's term of office, including 1909, the money order business of the office was as follows: 1900, received, $22,- 964.26, paid. $26,992.86; 1906, received, $37.051.70, paid, $37 .- 132.04; 1907, received $37,135.86, paid, $43,293.66; 1908, received, $34,432, paid, $79,588.63; 1909, received, $32,789.72, paid $62,- 098.38.
Rural Routes. Rural Route No. 1 was established May 1. 1900, with Nelson C. Kinsey as carrier. Route No. 2 was estab- lished September 15, 1900; A. H. Weiby carrier. Later this route was changed to No. 5, and March 15, 1901, Routes Nos. 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 were established. Route No. 8 was established June 1, 1905.
Our present carriers are : Route 1, George A. Budd ; Route 2, John J. Austin ; Route 3, Russell A. Whitson ; Route 4, Jacob E. Crosby: Route 5, Robt. W. Whitson; Route 6, John Tosney ; Route 7 John E. Ferguson ; Route 8, Roger W. Cressey. Number of boxes erected, 559. Number of families served, 584. The fol- lowing is a report of the money order business on the eight routes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909: Number of orders, 1,277 ; amount, $5,927.21 ; fees received. $60.03. Estimated number of people served from the Northfield postoffice: By rural delivery. 2,900; by city delivery, 2,750; by general delivery, 450; through lock boxes, 550. Estimated number of pieces mailed monthly, 110,520: estimated number of pieces delivered monthly, 100.000; number of mails received daily, 9; dispatched, 9.
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MORRISTOWN POSTOFFICE.
This postoffice was established in 1856, Walter Morris having been appointed postmaster, with power to appoint a carrier at an expense not to exceed the net proceeds of the office, whereupon Dr. Dard took the contract and continued to carry the mail from Faribault until a mail route was established and M. O. Walker commenced running his stage from Hastings to St. Peter. Owing to the rush of immigration in 1856, Mr. Morris deemed it best to run a stage from Hastings to this place, whereupon he purchased stock and commenced running a conveyance twice a week, and continued until M. O. Walker began running his stages over the same route.
Nothing definite can be learned in regard to the office until several years later, when Charles Adams was postmaster, keeping the office in his store on Main street until 1879, when Walter Morris was again appointed postmaster and moved the office to his store on Division street, where the office is kept at the present time. August 2, 1880, the money order business was installed in this office. July 15, 1883, the store and postoffice, with all fixtures and records, was destroyed by fire. Mr. Morris then opened the office in a small room in the rear of his brother's meat market, on the corner of Main and Division streets, continuing there until November of the same year, when he resigned and A. H. Ridgeway was appointed, taking charge of the office Novem- ber 7, 1883, moving same into his store on Main street, next door east of where Mr. Morris kept his office. Mr. Ridgeway con- tinued the office in this place until March 1, 1887, when Charles Bird, who had been appointed postmaster, took charge, moving across the street, in a small room adjoining Laabs & Bonin's store, where Mr. Bird kept the office until July 1, 1889, when J. A. Russell was appointed, moving the office on the west side of Division street, where he continued to keep the office until October 1, 1891, when F. W. Ridgeway was appointed post- master, moving the office into his store on Main street, where Mr. Ridgeway continued the business of the office until October 1, 1893, when Charles Bird was again appointed postmaster, taking charge of the office and moving it to a room on the east side of Division street, where he conducted the office for a short time, afterward moving to the west side of Division street, where the Morristown State Bank now stands. Mr. Bird kept the office until October 16, 1897, when Mr. J. P. Temple was appointed, moving into the furniture store ocupied by Mr. Bowe, and it remained there until January 29. 1900, when the building was destroyed by fire. Mr. Temple then moved the office into A. J. Speckren's store on South Division street, remaining there until
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November, 1901, when he moved to his building, on the corner of Franklin and Division streets, where he remained until April I, 1903, when William L. Eddy, having been appointed postmaster, took charge of the office, continuing in the same building. On December 5, 1904, the safe in the office was blown open and robbed of stamps to the value of $370.56 and $129.12 in cash. In July, 1905, the office was moved to C. E. Dorn's grocery store, on the west side of Division street, where it remained until June 10, 1907, when it was moved across the street to the present loca- tion. The receipts of the office have increased from $534 in 1888 to $1,600 in 1909.
WARSAW POSTOFFICE.
This office was originally established in the year 1856 and J. D. Polar was first appointed to handle the mail ; it was on the old Faribault and St. Peter road, the mail being carried by C. E. Hess. At first the mail carrier went on foot, but Mr. Hess soon after procured an old mule that he took turns in riding, sometimes going on foot and sometimes on muleback, thus accelerating his speed. At times the various inhabitants of the postal district would go to Faribault and bring the mail to the office in a grain sack. On one occasion Henry Platt, in company with several others, started for the mail, and upon arriving at Faribault they found that there was to be a dance that night and they deter- mined to stay and "shake the light fantastic toe" with friends in Faribault, so they got the mail sack, and when they got to the dance hall they "fired" it under the benches and went on with the dance. They remained until daylight and then took the mail to the anxious waiters at Warsaw. Until the year 1860 the mail was weekly, and after that date until 1868 it was made daily, and afterwards daily from east and west. The office was first estab- lished in a log building, on a high knoll, on the north bank of the Cannon river. It is not known the length of time that Mr. Polar served, but he was followed by M. Nye, who in turn was followed by J. C. Turner, who is now a justice of the peace in the city of Faribault. Mr. Turner was followed by W. F. Sloan ; then came C. D. Hastings, Walter Clayson and J. B. Gowen. During Mr. Gowen's term the office was moved to the south side of the river, in what was called the Tucker store, which was built by Gowen. During the time when Sloan served and up to Gowen's term mail was carried from Faribault to Kennyville twice a week on horseback or by team. After Mr. Gowen J. W. Outhouse was appointed postmaster. Then came J. B. Gowen again, who was followed by Edward Hollister, who moved the office to his place of business in the northern part of the town. Mr. Hollister held the office until June. 18SS. His records
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show that the business of the office from July 1, 1887, to June +, 1888, was $102,91. After Mr. Hollister's time Willard Hughson hield the office until July 1, 1889. During the time he was in office the business of the office amounted to $100.93. On July 1, 1889, James H. McNeil took charge of the office and held it until January 18, 1890, just a few days over six months, doing a busi- ness of $43.56. Mr. MeNeil moved to California and became a ranchman. Mr. McNeil was succeeded by J. W. Outhouse. The records of the office show that the business of the year 1890 amounted to $91.53. Mr. Outhouse is now a resident of the city of Jackson, Ga. On January 1, 1896, D. W. Powell took charge of the office and held it until April 10, 1903. During this period the office was again moved from the north side of Cannon river to its present site in E. A. Pittelkow's store. On May 2, 1898, the Warsaw postoffice was made a money order office and money order No. 1 was issued to D. W. Powell and made payable to Dr. J. H. McLean. The business of the office from January 1, 1896, to July 1, of the same year, amounted to $70.52, and from July 1, 1896, to July 1, 1897, was $174.41, and to July 1, 1898, was $148.13; to July 1, 1899, $144.28; to July 1, 1900, $154.88; to July 1, 1901, $173.85 ; to July 1, 1902, $150.03, and to July 1, 1903, $124.22. On July 1, 1903, William R. Aldrich became postmaster and held the office until February 10, 1908. When Mr. Aldrich became postmaster he moved the office again into the Tucker store. It remained there for about two years, when Mr. Aldrich purchased the stock of Mr. Powell and removed the office again to its present location. The business of the office under Mr. Aldrich was as follows: From July 1, 1903, to July 1, 1904, $165.88: 1905, $169.74; 1906, $162.18; 1907, $160.85, and to Feb- ruary 10, 1908, $98.78. On February 10, 1908, E. A. Pettelkow was appointed postmaster and holds the office at the present time. Mr. Aldrich retired to a farm near Morristown, Minn. The business of the office under Mr. Pettelkow's term to the present time was as follows: From February 10, 1908, to July 1, 1908, $71.90; to July 1, 1909, $195.51, and to July 1, 1910, $188.14.
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