Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-06-03
Jones P. 0. Discontinued.

Jones, Worcester Co., Nd This post
Office was closed May 18th, 1905, but
whoNrecommended it closed? We are
all well aware that the direct orders to
discontinue the post Office came from
the Post Master General. But who was
the one from this immediate district
that recommended its discontinuance
All intelligent people know that a Post
Master General would never establish
or discontinue post Office unless some
representative from that immediate
district was to recommend same. Was it
the Republican State Central Committee
man from Berlin that recommended the
post office discontinued and route
established to run direct through our
village to bring the mail to his Office ?
We asked the fourth assistant Post
Master General for a route from our
Office, and he promised to give us route
if we were to send in petition proper
ly filled out with the necessary number
of patrons and endorsed by representa-
tive in Congress. All this was complied
with as demanded. We pay for the
running of the post offices as much as
any other place. and we need one just
as bad as Berlin does, as we have about
sixty-five members of the Peninsula
Produce Exchange, and we are shipping
from two to three refrigerator cars
here daily, which is more than any other
station on this line is doing. We find it
very inconvenient to have no post Office
as we have enjoyed the convenience of
one for years, and to be cut off as we
now are, when we are trying to build
up our station and our places, we can
not call it anything but robbing us of
our rights. To show you how the peo
pie felt, the late Post Master here in
forms us that Notwithstanding there
was one route running through our
village the last quarter our office was
open, another running within three
hundred yards of it, while the third was
less than two miles away, our office
paid better that quarter than it had
ever done before, and the last half
quarter it was opened, when the fourth
route was put on from Berlin and also
ran directly through our village, making
four routes in all within mile and a
half of our Office, it paid still better.
We should bear this in mind at all times
from now on. that it takes just as long
for our mail to reach the Postoffice by
r. F. ID. routes as it did to send a let
ter to Philadelphia and get an answer
from it, and if our neighborhood did not
need a postoffice, and there was not
business enough here to justify the
governments in paying sixty dollars a
year to our Mail Messenger, who car
ried the mail to and from post Office to
station, why is it that we have four
routes that run through our neighbor-
less than two thousand four hundred
dollars a year? We say to the patrons
of this late post Office to remember
who discontinued it when they are
having so much trouble to get their
mail from their shipments, on account
of it having to be directed to so many
post Offices, and by so many different
routes, when if our route had been
established as asked for, it would have
covered practically every shipper from
this station, and they could all receive
their mail through one post Office and
by one route. (Signed)
| A PATRON OF THE LATE p. o.