Editor's note: This portion of My Blog Series "My Paper Route" Will end here. The next part of my LILAGCS Blog will go through my Grade School years at Renolds School (the East School) in Spencer, Iowa.
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Last Section about my Spncer Daily Reporter Paper Route
Returning home was always a good feeling and I
enjoyed my paper route because of all the really neat people I met along the
way.
Delivered the Spencer Reporter by
airplane
There are a couple of things I want to add that
were very interesting parts to my job as a paperboy. First, The Spencer Daily
Reported decided to publish a Sunday edition while I was delivering and it was
an extremely cold job in the winter. Secondly I think, not sure exactly of the
date that the newspaper officials decided to deliver the Sunday paper by
airplane. Yes you heard me correctly, by airplane. This was to the rural farm areas. They would
swoop down and drop the newspaper in a plastic bag to the ground below.
I was able to substantiate that event from one of
my future bosses at Wallace’s Farmer Magazine where I worked in the 1980’s.
Mike Ford, my Wallace’s Farmer supervisor)said he
remembered the airplane dropping the newspaper. He lived on a farm in rural
Laurens, Iowa. He definitely remembered when that happened.
I also remember delivering the “Fair edition of
the Spencer Daily Reporter.” It was over 1 inch thick with all the inserts and
advertising. I would get my cousin Webb Summers to help me deliver the papers
that we placed in my little red Flyer Wagon to pull the papers in. It would
more than fill the wagon to overflowing.
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