Show HE RESIGNED how the postmaster at pony montana did it in the early days of pony a mining camp in montana the postoffice post office consisted of an old tea box into which all the letters were dumped the citizens helping themselves says an exchange there were only forty citizens in pony and there being no money in the office it was with considerable difficulty that the storekeeper was persuaded to accept the one day a stranger rode into camp and called on the post postmaster st ter dont yon xou know he began sternly that it is illegal to allow people to pick out their own letters like that waal stranger said tho the postmaster 1 I dont know that it is any of i your business how this office is run but k am a united states inspector in this case said the postmaster ter we will finish up this postoffice post office right now he took the tea box placed it in the middle of the road and with a good run kicked it clear across the gulch I 1 wow now then he resumed you go right back to washington and tell the department from me that the accounts are closed and the postmaster at pony has resigned |