THE REPUBLICAN

April 23, 1886

 

            Critic in the last Weyauwega Chronicle says:  In your last issue I stated that not much mail matter was carried over the route from Green Bay to Plover, the reason being that nobody thought of sending it through the principal towns in Winnebago County, to the county seat of Brown or Portage county; consequently, papers or letter directed to the offices on the route, were either returned to the offices where mailed, sent to the Dead Letter office, or lost.

            The next move was an effort to get a route from Berlin (Strong’s Landing) to Waupaca, which proved successful; and in the latter part of 1850, post offices were established at Lind, Pine River, Poysippi and Willow Creek.  The Government furnished mail bags and allowed the proceeds of the offices on the route for carrying the mail; all other expenses were paid by the inhabitants, from the time the offices were established in ’50 until July ’52, when mail service commenced by contract with the Government.

            Early in the year of ’51, W.C. Carr and Lyman Dayton, both living in the same town and less than two miles apart, each circulated a petition for a post office at his place.  Their petitions were sent in the same mail, their letters of inquiry came in the same mail, and their appointments, with a mail bag for each office were received at the same time.

            The nearest office to them on the mail route was Lind; and each of them for about two years, came regularly every mail day for his supply of mail.  The office at Weyauwega during this time was supplied in the same manner, except, that instead of a carrier with a horse and buggy and U.S. mail bag, a boy on foot with a carpet bag was employed.  Thus we see, that instead of no post offices or mail routes being established in ’51, we had two mail roués, one running north and south, the other east and west, and ten post offices to accommodate that part of the Indian land detached from Winnebago County to make Waushara and Waupaca counties, which were organized by the Legislature in March, 1851.