[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 144 (Wednesday, September 26, 2007)]
[Senate]
[Page S12138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  RECOGNIZING THE CONRATH POST OFFICE

 Mr. KOHL. Mr. President, I would like to take this time to 
recognize and congratulate the Conrath Post Office, located in Conrath, 
WI, on its 100th anniversary.
  In 1904, the Conrath brothers settled in what would later become the 
village of Conrath. Located in northwest Wisconsin, the village sat on 
the Wisconsin Central Railroad line between Owen, WI, and Duluth, MN. 
In 1905, Frank Conrath sent 10 possible names to the railroad general 
passenger agent for the naming of the village. The general passenger 
agent decided on the name that still stands today: Conrath.
  Mrs. Frank Conrath wrote to the postmaster general in 1905 to request 
that a post office be established in the village. The post office moved 
into the Rusk Farm Company Store where George W. Kendall became the 
first postmaster in 1907.
  The first rural mail carrier in Conrath was Joseph Hahn, who 
delivered the mail in a single-cylinder, chain-drive, high-wheel-car. 
Throughout the past century, there have been 21 postmasters and 
postmistresses, as well as numerous rural route carriers, who have 
diligently served the residents of Conrath.
  Just as Mrs. Conrath did over 100 years ago, residents in Conrath 
have continued to express the need for the Conrath Post Office as well 
as value the service and benefit to their community. That is why I am 
proud to have worked with the residents of the village in support of 
their efforts to maintain this post office. When they told me it might 
close, I worked with residents to convey these concerns to the U.S. 
Postal Service in order to ensure that this historic post office 
remains open and that rural residents continue to have effective and 
consistent postal service.
  On behalf of our State and Nation, I congratulate the Conrath Post 
Office on its 100th anniversary and send my best wishes to all 
residents of the village of Conrath.

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