McCLain, Lottie - fem rural mail carrier - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Crawfordsville has the distinction of having a female rural route carrier, one of a few in the whole country and the third woman in Indiana to take up that kind of work. Her name is Miss Lottie McClain and she is substitute for William P. Daggett on Route 2. During the two weeks’ recent illness of Mr. Daggett, she took entire charge of the route and managed it to the entire satisfaction of the post office authorities and the patrons. She says everybody in the office and along the route treated her with the greatest consideration while she was learning her duties, and she is highly pleased with her success. Miss Lottie is a pretty little brunette of twenty one summers, a graduate of the Ladoga High School. Having been raised on a farm she understands horses and drives fearlessly in all kinds of weather. When not on the farm, she makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Daggett on East Market Street.