Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-11-09
MORE ABOUT THAT
ROTTEN MAIL SERVICE


weeks ago relative to the mail service
on the Cokeville Star Valley Route,
caused the editor of the Cokeville
Register to have about forteen kinds
of fits, and during the period In
which he was more or less delirious
he reeled off the following:
The Montpelier Examiner man 10 J
peeved abut the rotten mail service
the Star Valley people are now get
ting through the Capitalization
route" and states that he has been
reliably informed of this fact but
fails to state who that reliable In.
frmant is.
One of the main features OF his
grief is that Martin Winters lost .
pile of money on the deal when the
service became so rotten out OF Mont
pelier that our Uncle Sam was forced
to annul the contract out of Montpe-
lier and give it to a bunch Of live,
energetic men-in other words,
Cokeyille.
BY the way, who is Martin Win
tiers, and why should the Examiner
man exhibit such poignant grief for
the reason that he lost his job? Is
he the reliable informant? Is he one
OF the reliable and enterprising men
who help make the Examiner such a
bowling success? It would appear
that Uncle Sam knew his business
when he transferred the route from
Montpelier and gave it to the live
bunch in our hustling city.
Another sore spot on the anatomy
of the Examiner man is the fact, so
he states, that the people of the Star
Valley do no get the Examiner till
Tuesday OF the next week after publ
cation.
This only goes to prove that the
fault lies not in this once, nor in the
Capitalization route, but in the
town of Montpelier. The Cokeville
Register issues Thursday morning
and the people of the Star Valley,
Alton, Smoot, Geneva, and the ranch
men along the route are reading it
that evening. as we. can prove by
dozens of aff1davits.
Let the Examiner clean its own
house, get its business men right,
mail its edition on time, and then it
might 1--WE say mighty have time to
donate to the running of the govern
ment and to the City Of Cokeville.
A careful reading of the above
slush d1scloses the fact that the Reg
lister does not attempt to deny the
Examiners charge that the mail SER
vice on the Cokeville Star Valley
route is rotten and has been for the
past year.
For the beneft Of the Register we
will state that Martin Winers was
not our informant regarding the con
ditions on the route. Our informant
or, rather informants. are reliable
citizens OF, Geneva and Raymond ],
who fail to receive their Examiners
until Monday and sometimes Tues
day OF the week after IL Is published.
It has not been more than four weeks
since one of our Raymond subscrib-
ers came into the Office on Wedncs-
day and asked for copy of the FIX
aminer of the previous week, stating
that the bundle of Examiners OF that
issue had not reached Raymond when
he left there Wednesday morning.
One day this week one of our Gen.
eva subscribers who was in Montpe-
lier congratulated US on the article
of two weeks ago and verified our
statement that the Examiners sell
dom ever reach Geneva until Monday
following the day of publication.
Right here we wish to state that
the remarks of prominent citizen
of Alton were what inspired us to
write the article. He complained
bitterly about the delay in getting
mail over the route. Surely all OF
the good people of the Thomas Forh
country and Alton who have kicked
about the mail service are not liars
At any rate, we will take their word
in preference to that of the Cokeville
Register.
When the Register states tina,
Uncle Sam was forced to annul the
contract out OF Montpelier when the
service became SO rotten" It states
a deliberate falsehood. Mr.. Winters
stands ready to make an affidavit
that during the time he had the con.
tract the mail was delivered daily al
Alton. It might have been . few
hours late when the weather and
roads were bad. but there was not q
single day that the mail did not &C
through.
The Register again utters a false.
hood when 1t says the cause for the
delay in the Examiner reaching its
Geneva and Raymond readers Is ''in
the town of Montpelier" If necessary
We will make an afldavit to the Of.
feet that during the past year there
has not been a week but what the