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Show DEWEYVILLE DOINGS- Touch Postal Facilities FiirinB ou IH Mountain Tope. The corn stalks in the fields along the railroad from Dcweyville to Collinston look rather dwarfed and choked up from lack of water. The past few months of rainless weather has done its work. The grain fields around here are not producing the crops expected of them. Some of the farmers are disappointed over the showing that is being made. If I lived here in Dcweyville and was compelled, year in and year out, to trudge way oil out of town (almost to Collinston)every week to get my maihl would buy an armful of postal cards and send Uncle Sam a vigorous kick on one every time I went to that out-of-the-world postofiice up at Garmer's. It is a disgrace to the postal service that the large majority of the people peo-ple are thus inconvenienced. The very idea of a postofiice being located three or four miles away from the center of the community! It is the height of folly and the depth of nonsense combined. I have not heard whether the school teacher has been hired for the winter or not. At any rate a competent person should be engaged., en-gaged., Even though the children are small they should have the best of instruction, just the same. Remember, l,As ihe twig is bent so is the tree inclined." See that the twigs are properly bent. The sidetrack here without a railroad station does the people about as much good as their meeting meet-ing house would without a roof. Some of the farmers in this neighborhood are reclaiming the waste places, cultivating gardens and building houses almost lo the tops' of the mountains. And Box Elder peak, near hcre,is over 0,000 feet high, too, I understand. Pom roy. Dfwf.yville, Sept. 1st. |