Logan Republican | 1914-06-16 | Page 4 | Made a Post Office of a Tree

MADE A POST OFFICE OF A TREE Iowa Pioneer, Just Dead, Carried the Mall In Early Days McGregor, Iowa, Juno 13 Jeremiah Tloser, bolleved to have been the old est resident of, Iowa, Is dead. Ho had lived In Iowa continually for seventy-nine seventy-nine yehrs. When he was sixteen years old ho was a mall carrier, a hole In a treo serving as ono post office. of-fice. In this winter of 1844 and 1845 Mr. Hoser carried the mall on horseback from Dubuquo sixty miles north Into Iowa. Tho first stop on his routo was hu old oak tree by the roadside, uhero ho left mall In n hole cut In tho trunk for tho settlers who had , built cabins In tho timber roundabout