Show HANCOCK MONUMENT l AT WASHINGTON + 1 r It fh i r < > J > < j I t i e w 1 I t m g t a rl + 1 xrh it 4 yx by hw 4 k t ar a s ENTIRE TOWN UNIQUE DISTINCTION OF J R MECK OF MECKVILLE PA Postmaster Is PoohDah of Only One Man Power Community In the CountryAll Houses In the Village Vil-lage Owned by Him Meckvllle aIn this northwestern part of Burks county at tho foot of tho niuo mountains lives Jacob R Meek who can boast the ownership of an entire village the only one tnau power village In this country lIe conducts the post office and It Is named after him tho farmers bring their milk every morning to the creamer which Is run by the postmaster post-master the village store Is under tho same management and while tho village I vil-lage Is small this mercantile establishment establish-ment Is one of tho most enterprising found In the country districts of forks county BO feet square three stories high and packed full from cellar to garret with all sorts of goods from the tiny row of pins to grain drills and harvesting machines and commercial commer-cial fertilizer While the village does not boast a hotel the village owner has a wholesale whole-sale liquor store Besides the business part of town the village contains half a dozen houses all owned by Mr Mock It was established In 183G by Michael B Myers and In 1871 n brother of the present proprietor became be-came part owner and the place was called Mcckvlllo In those early days tho business of the placo was tanning leather In 1879 Mr Meek the present owner own-er became proprietor of the entire village and postmaster and has been holding the dual honor ever since The community Is thickly settled and the young folks needed some employment em-ployment other than work on the largo farms and for months Mr Mock studied how ho could keep them In the neighborhood so one day he drove half a dozen stakes on one of his corner cor-ner properties and now it Is tho site of an enterprising shirt factory Mcckville is near tho Lebanon county coun-ty line and across the border Mr Mock has operated a creamery and canning establishment at Fredericksburg Fredericks-burg for years Doing all this keeps a proprietor of a village rather busy and yet Mr Meek finds time to travel never misses a worlds fair or exposition and the jovial llorka county prince of county merchants always finds a into ate or two to pass a Joke whothjr speaking with friend or stranger |