The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-01-23
THE MAILS I'm THE LOWER
END OF OUR coUNTx.

For sometime past the people of the vii
lagos of Andaiusia and Edgington have been
petitioning the Post Master General for an
order to the Messrs. Ely, mail contractors,
on the Aledo and Oquawka route. directing
them to run their line by the way.of the VII
lagos named, supplying them with a daily
mail, and emitting the post Offices of Pleas
ant Ridge and Hazlitt, the latter offices to
be supplied with tri-weekly mail from Edg-
ington. Their argument was that, two re-
spectacle and rapidly increasing villages
should have daily mail and stage line in
preference to two prairie post offices where
no villages exist, and where no business hon
ses ever will exist; that the population and
business importance of these two villages en-
title them TO these accommodations. while
~1he people of the prairies viii be furnished
livery needed mail accommodation by tri-
weekly mail.
! These arguments seem to have had the
Z desired effect upon our member of congress,
Gen. Harding, and upon the Post Office De-
partment, as orders have been received by
Post Master Copp, at this place. and Post
Master Walker, of Edgington, to make the
change asked for, on the LIST of February
Accompanying this order was the very
sensible one, from the Post Office Depart
-dueat, that the route shall hereafter COM
mence at Rock Island instead of Davenport,
thus saving the expense of one mile oftrans-
portation. where it never was of any earthly
use to run another mail, there being. al
ready, two mails day between this city and
Davenport.
The mail from Edgingtnn to Hazlitt and
Pleasant Ridge, should leave Edgington
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, after
the arrival, at Edgington, of the Rock Island
mail, thus giving the people of Hazlitt and
Pleasant Ridge their mails from Rock Island
on the same day, and giving them their Rock
Island newspapers ON Saturday, the day they
are issued.
Another change is now very much needed,
on the route from Edgington TO Muscatine.-
The mail supplying the post offices of Hi
nois City and Druryto Muscatine, now leaves
Edgington once week, on Thursdays, and
back again the same day. This should be
changed to Saturday, not leaving Edgington
until after the arrival of the Rock Island
mail, or be changed to Monday morning,
thus giving the people of that part of our
county their Rock Island papers as near the
day of publication as possible. The post
masters at Edgington, Illinois City, and Dru-
~, should get the contractor to sign re-
quest of this sort and send it to the Post
Office Department and an order to that eff
feet will be issued.
Another weekly mail also leaves Edging-
ton, on Saturdays, supplying Buffalo Prairie,
Ferdinand, Copper Creek and Eliza, to
New Boston. We are not posted as to the
hour this mail leaves Edgington, but if it is
not after the arrival of the Rock Island mail
the hour should be changed.
We respectfully request the post masters
at the lower end of the county, and the mail
contractors, to unite in completing these ar
engagements, thus supplying every post Office
IN that part of our county with q mail from
Rock Island on Saturdays, and giving the
= people of all parties their Rock Island news
papers on the day they are issued. Z 80
1t would really be a novel thing to bring
Rock Island into such close communication
with the people of the lower end Of our conn
ty, but it can be done, at once, with very
: Little trouble, and no extra expense, if the
post masters and mail contractors win mite
in the effort. .skg
We hope Post Master Walker, of Edging-
ton, who is most central, and who has to put
up these different mails, will take the man
agement of the matter and accomplish it with
as little delay as possible. fs,s