An order from the post office department posted in the office at this place, notifies the public that the stage route from this place to Coloma, will be discontinued after Saturday, January 14th. There seems to be no reason for the discontinuance of the route further than there has been for the past two years. The line carried from here about twenty-five families before it reached the territory of the rural route from Coloma, some of these people live from eight to ten miles from a postoffice, and as no provision has been made for a rural route to take its place, will suffer a great inconvenience in getting their mail. Business men at this place will also be at a great inconvenience in getting mail to the eastern part of the county, as with the stopping of this route, it will take a letter three days to get to Spring Bluff, ten miles east of here, and three days to return, six days to get mail twenty miles. All the rural routes starting from Westfield, Coloma, Oxford and Hancock will find themselves in the same predicament. It will be mighty inconvenient all around, while the railroad when it gets here, will make great changes in the mail service, we can't see why the department could not have left alone as important a route as this until that time at least. We look for so large a remonstrance to be filed that the authorities will take some action toward having it reinstated.Back to menu
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