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. 1U. LU..- ILJ‘LIL . Rural mail has been in operation for over AC years. UP until then People went to . Tlis meant that mail was not too regular in the hoses. At one time there was a rost office at Ehillinston in the house now owned by _.tc* Tl ' a . a ‘ .. meson, later it was moved to Bethel and the mail was called lor at the house DeSlde the church at Bethel. From detlel the lo:t office was moved to Latta. Later a loat o‘fice was est- abliShed at Halloway and mail boxes were purchased and rural mail followed as we know it. hail Couriers have been Mr. Jim hchullen (Blake Icfiullen's father), Ernest Wilson, ‘ “W I ‘ Fred Carter, Arthur Reid, Don Rose and the Mr- James AAEâ€"Mul'r‘n. present mail man hr. Clayton Reide who purâ€" CH'WGQ c ‘ I Aes,d the store fron the Rose family and who is also the Post master. 0 f _ , It should be recorded that the first mail courier â€" LT. Jim LCLullen drew mall :0? a pcriod of BF years. 1 A ,,/ . P 2.2.,/7é7 Ha//0W\/ [90. Wa.s C/osec/ penmanemtt/ . Mai/ IS "9"”, (/e/u/eref from ROS/1.7: j and shy/m‘éâ€" RRz. Ros/in ma}/ is are/rm“: b Frank Em-rsm and ”'5 5°“ 3"” (“M”) RI? 2. c5{ll‘r/I7sg":na-l 1'5 de/u/ercd b7 Have/J Ju‘SY' Sikh-”2f I58 H"dro was put through this community in 1930 and almost every home was wired. To_dr . . 3y there are 0D17 a Verv few who are not enjoyina the advantages of electricitY- The local doctor â€" Dr. Dan Faulkner of Foxboro â€" was the first to own a motor car around these parts. But Mr. Halter Townsend and Mr. John V. heteheson were the first in the immediate community to own anddriVe cars. Ar. illiam C. jilis brought the first mower into the district. lt was a Buck eye nanrfacture made in the U.S.A. Mr. Samuel fouker lad the first reaper called “Bells of Ohio”, This machine had a reel that tipped the grain over on a table after it was mat and a man stood on a platform and raked with a hand rake, what he thought was enowgh to make a sheaf, and a man or two followinfi DOUNd the loose F1“r ‘. 7 1 r1. . ‘ . m eaves bv nqnq. JhlS w s a very heavy machine for a team of horses to oraw with two men riding. 1e neyt was the self raker, then the self binder. Toâ€"day the work 0? cuttin: and Hireshing can be _h7_