Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-03-04
VERNON.
.-non PostotfLee plseontInued.

present week has marked the pass
..t uH puStotiice in the Whitned
known AS Vernon. The cumpensa-
.. the postmaster was not commen-
with the responsibility attached
office. and some time ago POST
.r Elias T.. johnson rendered his
.-.ltiuu Twice the government adj
.. seed THAT am examination Of appH-
would ~ held. hut no person APP
..... .u either occasion ana so the office
.-.uutiuuct March !. The passing
.. office also brings to close a long
... ut public activity i'm the old hotel
.a.ljiug Jas been used as a hotel
. Iastotiice and town clerks office
-ajullly those features i'm its life
... .eru withdrawn, and now there re-
only a small tenement occupied by
Wcatherhedd, i'm what used to be
..rroom.
postotiice i'm the hotel formerly was
.a.y Uu>t'iiice ia town. The people
village To- the North got i'm the
nt putting their mail ON the mail
f the Vernon station or leaving IL
the station agent. to be- put ON the
boy him The agent acted without
...rSttiou. but finally the bother be-
SD great that the government on
..un. established the Dummer post
lu tine Vernon station. This Is now
only poStutiire actually located in
.. ta. office where the South Vernon
i.. get their mail being just across
Massachusetts line and officially
...l West Mortified. That office is
fed iu +. T.. Buffum x Sons store.
...... stands on the line, the stock of
n the north part being i'm Yer
...- and the postofiice and goods i'm the
south part being i'm Massachusetts
s me- time ago. on petition of residents
Vernon and South Vernon. a repre-
.atiye Of the government mapped out
opposed rural free delivery route. This
u'. mas been reported upon favorably.
.r. I- will be established in due time.
-...t..g from the West Northtield post
.t ., 1t is understood that the route
0 not interfere with the Dummer office,
v .I will he maintained as now. The
l... .uuS Of the Drummer poStodice now re-
r,.F. four mails day, whereas they
would receive but one or two if supplied
b.. rsral delivery, and they would oppose
..uuously any plan which contemplated
ais ,utinung the Office
-.. Vernon postofice was established
I.. -. 1870. and Apollos Root was
.-'master. He removed to Spring
q. Mass. and was succeeded as post
- --er June "a 1894 by Cyrus Wash
..r. who served until March .. 1925.
a .. Marshall Whitned was appointed.
tr.- Washburu succeeded Mr. Withheld
'.. H. 1892. ana for about seven months
t.. office was kept in the depot where
Dummer office now is. Mr.. Wash
.ur. being also station agent. Marshall
W5-hed was appointed again Aug. 2N
.- the same year, and since then the
off has been in the Withheld building.
NI.-~aal Withheld was father OF the late
Addison Whithed. the veteran town
clerk and postmaster OF Vernon. Addi-
son Withheld succeeded his father as
postmaster Feb %. 1850. He was sue
.a,led by Fred E, Johnson, now driver
o. ne Brattleboro and Wilmington stage.
and Mr.. Jonnson was succeeded by Elias
p Johnson, who served until the Office
vas discontinued. The whole amount OF
postage received for the first quarter in
1921 was S2l6ia. There was but one
mail a week for several years. the Office
being supplied from Brattleboro by Con-
tractor Skies After the stage began its
daily trips to Worcester the postage be
gan to increase. this arrangement contin-
u.ug from 1888 until the completion OF the
railroad in 1919 The Drummer postoftice
was established about l6 years ago but
so many people had been putting their
mail on the trains that the new office lid
not reduce materially the postage re-
oeipts at the Vernon Office.