Sharp - Ira - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Leslie Cooper, Tom Rice, Marquis Moore and Ira Sharp went up against the rural route examination at Crawfordsville Saturday. There were 10 applications filed but the others failed to come to the scratch. -- kbz

Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, Feb 23, 1950

 

Effective as of Jan 31, 1950, Mr. Ira J. SHARP has been  retired from the mail service after 33 years as rural route man.  He entered the service Jan 31, 1917 when it was necessary to use  a horse and buggy part of the time when the roads thawed out in  the spring when old dobin was sometimes put to, to make the 28  miles of the route in a day. After the roads and the automobiles  were improved sufficiently the two routs out of Waveland were  united and renumbered he took the present route of 70 miles and  was seldom relieved because of sickness or for other reasons  except for vacation. In this manner he managed to unwind a lot of  highway and wear out a number of automobiles. But for the last  several months his health has not been good, though he is greatly  improved, he does not feel capable of tackling his old job as  mail carrier where his patrons will regret his retirement. John  Gilliland, who has been acting as assistant will be acting  carrier for the present. Note: Fred Bazzani received the highest  score of the civil service test and took over this route later  that year. - kbz