The Snowflake herald., 1913-12-26
MRS. FISH TO RETIRE AS
POSTMISTRESS ABOUT
JANUARY FIRST

With the resignation of our very eff
cient postmistress, Mrs. Adelaide S.
Fish, the HERALD is glad of the oppor-
tunity to express appreciation of her
services, which have been given for so
many years.
The postoffice came to Mrs. Fish on
the 1st day of July, 1901, upon the rec
ommendation of Bishop John Hunt. At
the time, the government had asked for
good permanent office at Snowflake,
and Bishop Hunt, with his keen fore
sight and sound sense of judgment at
that critical period, readily foresaw the
advantages of Mrs. Fish's location and
also of having the postofice connected
with the telegraph Office, where Mrs.
Fish was and is still stationed as gov
ernment telegraph operator
Upon the hearty endorsement of the
citizens of Snowflake, which was taken
by an open vote at a public meeting
held for that purpose in the Snowflake
Stake house, and upon the direct sane
tion of the people, Mrs. Fish was at
once appointed postmistress by Presi-
dent Mckinley, although the Office came
unsought and even as a great surprise
to her, the lady not even being present
at the public meeting where she was
nominated and sustained.
Upon the wish of the people, how
ever, she determined to do her duty and
to prove faithful to the calling imposed
upon her. At her own expense she
sent to Kansas City for first class
postofficc cabinet in order that Snow
flake might not be behind the offices of
other towns; and one of the first rulings
after she took the office was to have
regularity and regular system of Office
hours. BY some, this movement was
very much opposed at first, but now all
unite in agreeing that it is better to
have office hours, and to be able to de-
pend on the office being open then, than
to have a'careless, haphazzard system
of all hours of the day, and patrons
finding the office open one minute and
closed the next, as chance might be.
After a few years, when the tele-
phone line was established here, Mr..
Fred Nelson, who was then the presi-
dent of the company, asked Mrs. Fish
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advantages of having the central Office
connected with the postoffice and tele-
graph office, was invaluable to the COM
pany, as well as to the public. The
work of the three Offices together, how
ever, proved to be too much of strain,
with the result that she suffered Sc
we're nervous breakdown last year. On
account of i'll health, the telephone
Office was given up. But her health
still continuing poor, she has found it
necessary this winter to also resign the
postoffice.
Mrs. Fish has given faithful service
in the performance of her duties as
postmsitress for twelve and half
years, which was greatly appreciated
by the Postoffice Department. At the
time of her resignation all of her books
and accounts for the hast twelve and a
half years were in perfect order, as
shown by the report of the department
Inspector, and the department would
have been glad to have kept her in the
position.
The HERALD. in behalf of the pnblic,
desires to express it's appreciation of
Mrs. Fish's services. She may have
had her faults in different ways, (for
who of us have not) but we all can well
afford to look over any of her human
frailties, in exchange for her faithful,
honest, prompt and efficient service,
together with the extra work of acco-
modation and attention so often given
after office hours, and for the reliable
performance of duty given to the pub
lie for so many years.
Mrs. Fish has always been modest in
regard to her abilities and each and all
of the offices which she has held, have
come to here entirely unbidden and un-
sought. We wish to express our graft
tude for kindnesses shown, and also our
sympathy for the good lady in her i'll
ness and we hope for her speedy return
to health and unbounded success in any
endeavor she may have life. Any man
or woman who has given the best years
of their lives for the benefit of the
public in return for meagre livelihood,
and especially one who has broken her
health thereby in earning subsistence,
cannot be too highly praised and appre-
ciated by the public.
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