Bio: Christensen, Harold (Post Office Retirement – Dec 1967)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Christensen, Albert

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 04 Jan 1968

The Post Office personnel held a farewell party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Christensen at the Florena Supper Club at Medford Saturday night. Harold is retiring after serving 40 years as a rural mail carrier. James Albert will carry mail until another carrier is appointed.

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Bio: Christensen, Harold – 50 Years as Mail Carrier (1978)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Christensen, Cattanach, Earle, McCrave, Bulgrin, Wendt, Kline

----Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 22 Mar 1978

Thursday morning, March 23, 1978 will mark the 50th anniversary for Mr. Harold Christensen, Withee, as a rural Owen and Withee mail carrier.

He started carrying mail on March 23, 1928 on Route 2, Owen. When he started the Owen Postmaster was L. W. Cattanach, and the post office at that time stood in the now empty lot between Rave’s Variety and Whitey’s Bar. The post office burned down one winter and was replaced on the corner, where the new Post Office now stands.

The two other carriers in 1928 were Fred Earle and F.F. McCrave. The clerks in the office were Les Bulgrin, his former wife, and Clara Wendt. Harold Wendt’s sister.

When he started as a mail carrier the mail was carried with horse and buggy, and sleighs in the winter time. The Route was about 24 miles each day, with two miles of gravel road, and he lift the office about 8:30 a.m. and was back in the office at about 4:00 p.m.

In the early days he stopped for lunch and to feed his horse at L. I. Kline’s place, a mile north of the Hoard Cheese Factory. He carried his lunch and oats for his horse, but only had about 15 minutes to eat and rest before he had to start out again. Some years later carries used old time snowmobiles for their routes, then of course automobile.