Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-02
POSTAL POINTERS.
Something About the Mail Ser.
vice Of the County.
Palmyra Has the Largest Receipts Of
Any ONCE Except Clarksvine-
No Flies on Woodford.

The report that Postmaster Wilcox
is preparing to submit to the postal
authorities at Washington, on the
mail service of Montgomery county
will be interesting when completed.
This report will be the result Of his
recent trip over the county, inspect
ing the offices in compliance with
request from the Postmaster General.
1t will be somewhat elaborate when
completed, and will give much valu-
able Information, if properly used,
acting as good ground work for
better mail service.
AS little as people expect, Palmy-
ra, one Of the oldest towns, by the
way, in the State, will carry off the
blue ribbon for the heaviest country
receipts. B. w. Owen is postmaster
down there, and he keeps the Office
well. The receipts of the Office will
approximate $4,000 per annum, per-
haps little over that amount.
New Providence will rank second
in receipts, but more mail matter is
handled there than at Palmyra.
New Providence handles much OF
what is denominated "district mail"
In other words, it is a distributing
point for Seq, Woodlawn, lakewood,
Jordan Springs and Ringgold.
Every piece of mail that leaves any
of the aforementioned offices passes
through the New Providence office,
and is handled by the postmaster,
and while he has all this work to do,
the postage receipts go to the other
Offices. There is tri.weekly mail to
Woodlawn, lakewood, Seq and Jor-
dan Springs, while Ringgold has a
daily mail. The other distributing
offices are Corbandale, Glenellen and
st. Bethlehem. The Dotsonville
mail, and also a few offices on the
south side of the river in this and
Dickson counties is distributed from
Corbandale. Rossview gets its mail
from st. Bethlehem while Peacher's
Mills, the place where Ed. p. Turn
ley lives, is supplied with the To-
BACco LEAF-CHRoNICLE and other
good things from Glenellen. The
other Offices are supplied direct from
GAINESVILLE.
BEST KEPT OFFICE.
1t remains for Postmaster Miller,
at Woodford, to be charged with
keeping the neatest country Office.
Mr.. Miller is always at his post and
his Office is a model of neatness.
Everything is well arranged, and is
kept as neat as pin. The writer
has had occasion several times with
in the past year of visiting Mr.. Mil
ler's Office and he was not at all sur.
prised to learn that the report under
discussion would pay him this COM
pliment. 1t is compliment that is
deserved, and few men would wear it
more gracefully than the recipient.
AN IMPROVEMENT SUGGESTED.
While Mr.. Wilcox has not yet put
his report in a shape to get every
point in connection with the service
Of the county, one important point
has been learned. He will suggest
an improvement with regard to the
mail from Seq, lakewood, Woodlawn
and Jordan Springs. The mail from
these points reaches New Providence
in the evening, and lies there until
next morning, which necessarily de-
lays its leaving the GAINESVILLE office
until the evening following. The
mail carrier between here and New
Providence makes one trip a day,
going over in the morning and re-
turning before noon. Toilet the mail
from the offices already mentioned
reach GAINESVILLE the same day it
leaves its starting point, the carriers
will have to come on through New
Providence, or the carrier between
here and New Providence will have
to make two trips daily. Either
would remedy the evil. The atten-
ton of the authorities at Washing.
ton will be called to this particular
matter and steps will likely be taken
to better the service. ...
There are other points in this con-
nection that the LEAF-CHRoNICLE
would like to mention, but for the
present it is deemed unnecessary.
Be it said to the credit OF Postmas-
ter Wilcox, that he is taking an in
terest in the mail service generally,
and there is no doubt that his trip
through the country will be of bene-
fit to the service.
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