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Show QUAINT FIGURE " PASSES WITH P.O. CLOSING! RUAN80X, Mo., Of. 2'2. (TT) I The pnrciofflco nfer ill Nof-h," linyj ()z:irk village, Is lo ho -msm1 nd its clusiiiK marks tilt1 inssinn if u I cLarnctor of fiction, -the "1'jnfc Ike" of Humid Hell Wright's tKuk. Tbe Kliopherd of the Hills." "nolo Ike" whop real name Is Levi Morrill Is MO years old has ben postmaster at Notch for 30 1 years. Tourists in the V.nrk country have known "OkIp Iko" nn' thej genial, white - whiskered patriarch who wld postcards, stamps and looked after the mails for Notch , for which be received about $100 a year from the Kovemmont. 'Tncle Ike" whose roal name is out" as the hill folks any. But he's loyal to the government and refuses re-fuses to complain. Wright became acquainted with , "Uncle Ike" when tbe former waj in tbe O.nrks getting local color for bis novels. Morrill came west from New York where he onse set type on the New York Tri1)nrrt)fvbeu Horace-Greeley wad "editor. |