The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
Government DiscOntinues Many
POstOffices in the State.
Uncle Sam Leaves 1,O72 Offices
After His Annual Cleanup.
Oh, What q Blow to Congress
siOnal Patronage!
Good Roads and Motor Cars
Contribute to Causes.

Kansas has lost 76 perfectly good
postoffices in the last two years. The
government has discontinued the pos
tai facilities in that number of Kansas
towns in that period, according to the
report of Charles Sessions, secretary
Of state. Every two years the secre-
tary Of state gets out a list of the post
offices in Kansas. There are 1,O72
postoffices in Kansas now.
Ever since the rural route came into
vogue the postoffices have been losing
out. AS fast as complete rural service
n established in a county the local
postoffices are discontinued. 1t was
estimated by the postal authorities
here that not less than five hundred
Kansas postoffices have been discon-
tinued in the last fifteen years. (Think
What patronage burden that lifted
from the congressman
The number is getting larger each
year now. not only because of the
rural routes but because of good roads
did not have rural mail service were
glad to have a postoffice near them
by which they could get their mail
regularly without driving consider
able distance to town. The pOstoffice
was always a little country store and
most of the stores business came as
the result of having the postofffce.
Then came the good roads and the
motor cars and the farmers quit both
ering with the country store and went
on to the regular market and got their
mail. The wives and daughters learned
to drive the cars and they often would
go to town on an afternoon. get what
ever little articles were needed and
the mail. AS a result of the good
roads and the motor cars the farmers
had their mail sent to the larger towns
and quit visiting the little country
store and postoffice.
Many of the postoffices abolished
during the last two years were towns
the business dropped off so that the
government refused to maintain them
any longer.
List of Offices.
Among the offices abolished were:
Akron, COWley county; Angelus, Sher-
idan county; Atwater, Meade county;
Bernal. Reno county; Catalpa, Cove
county: Cedron, Lincoln county; Cess,
Morton county: Clare, Johnson county;
Colusa. Haskell county; Dale, Wallace
county: Elkader.. Logan county; En-
pire City. Cherokee county; Ethelton,
Seward county; Example. Haskell
county; Fargo, Seward county; Faris-
Vile. Ellsworth county; Farnsworth
Lane county: FederalE HaNiltorE coun-
ty;i Fletcher, StantoR G9hqfX; ~Floto
Stanton county; Folsom Haskerfs coun-
ty: Gallagher. COmanche county; Gait
Rice county, Glenlock. Anderson coun-
ty; Groveland. Mcpherson county; Halt
Mound, Jefferson county: Hardwood
Haskell county; Helen, Meade county;
Hess. Gray county; Hodgeman. Hodge
man county; Homestead. Chase county;
Hyacinth, Ellis county; Iowa Point
Doniphan county; Jumbo, Gray county;
Kearney. kearney county: Kingsville
Shawnee county; Lakeview, Douglas
county; Laurel. Hodgeman county;
Lobdell. Lane county; Mantene, Ness
county; Mathewson, Labette county;
Midway, Crawford county; Mills
(Miles). Meade county; Millerton. Sum-
ner county; Nadeau. Jackson county;
Norwood, Franklin county; Obern, Sew
ard county: Padonia, Brown county;
Pana, Stanton county; Pierce Junction
Brown county; Point View, Pawnet
county; Roanoke. Stanton county
Rosemont. Usage county; Runyon, Wal
lace county; Springfield, Seward coun-
ty; Stevens. Stevens county; Stickney
Barton county; Stowell. Hamilton
county; Taft. Scott county; Taw, Has
kell county; Terra Gotta. Ellsworth
county; Thelma, Greeley county; Tint
Butler county: Toluca, Haskell coun
ty; Tonovay, Greenwood county; Trav
er. Stevens county; Tweed, Grow,
Verdi. Ottawa county: VOda. Treg,
county: Waterloo. Kingman county
Wilburn, Ford county; Wilsonton, La
bette county; Windsor, Kearney coun
ty: Wittrup. Hodgeman county; Yale
Crawford county; Youngsville, Creole.
county.