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Subject: [ALBUTLER] The Happy Mail Carrier, 1908
Date: 2 Nov 2003 15:43:49 -0700

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Surnames: Cook, Brodie, Goodwin, Thompson, Hicks, Watson, Gamble, Page, Mixon, Byrd, Stone, BLACK
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August 8, 1906 Greenville Advocate
THE HAPPY MAIL CARRIER [Note by CS: Notes inside brackets are mine]
Editor Advocate:
If you will allow space in your valuable paper I will tell you about things on Route No. 1 from Georgiana. I am glad to say that everything on this route is looking well. Cotton and corn are fine, although the rain laid some of it by and if nothing happens to the crop there will be a large one out here.
I do not think that much corn will be sold this year. There is hardly a man who is not solid for corn another year with cane and potatoes and meat to go with it.
And let me say that out here are some of the best people in the land. They know how to treat a mail carrier, to make him feel good. I will tell you about some of them.
Last week this carrier drove up to the box at N. C. COOK's, and there he found a melon of about 25 lbs.; then the next day a nice lot of apples, and last another large melon. Now who would not like Nathan COOK? A fine Christian man he is. Just before you reach his box you will find E. A. BRODIE, another fine man.
Last Monday one of my patrons, Mr. Clarence GOODWIN, met me with two large melons, apples, and peaches.
But last of all, as I drove up to Mr. G. W. [George Washington, married my gg-aunt Turk BROOKS LEE] THOMPSON's, who is crippled with only one hand and one leg [injuries from Civil War], met me with about a 40 lb. melon. I felt that I ought not to take it but I knew his good soul wanted a hungry man fed. God bless this good, humble man and may Heaven's richest smiles come to him.
Today Mr. J. E. [James Emmitt] HICKS presented me with a bucket of fine peaches. All this makes a carrier feel good.
I am glad to note the good health of the route, although our Dr. R.H. [Bob] WATSON says they are working him down.
We are sorry to note the sad condition of that grand and noble man, S.H. [Sam Houston] GAMBLE. For nearly two months he has been lying at death's door and at this writing is still sicking. Relatives and friends are doing all they can for him.
[He died on Aug. 6, 1908].
Mrs. W.E. PAGE, of Mississippi, is visiting her father-in-law, Mr. J. W. PAGE.
Mr. G.W. MIXON is getting things in shape at his two gins to handle his customers' cotton this fall. Will is a hustler and a good fellow.
The annual protracted meeting of Starlington Church will commence next Sunday. Rev. J.B. BYRD, pastor, will be assisted by Rev. L.M. STONE, of Georgiana.
Mr. L.B. [Lonzo Bennett] BLACK, of Mississippi, is visiting his mother, Mrs. E. L. [Elizabeth Lee/Elkanah L.] BLACK.
We have two routes out from Georgiana, myself on No. 1 and Mr. W.J. COOK on Route No. 2. No. 1 goes west while No. 2 goes east.
With the best postmaster in the county, second to none in the state, with an assistant not one whit behind him, the office at Georgiana moves on well.
---Carrier R.F.D. No. 1
[My g-uncle James E. (Jim) BLACK, born in 1868, was the mail carrier for Route One for a long time, but I don't know for certain if he wrote this. Route One was my address for the first twelve years of my life. My family lived on Route 1 for many years--and some still do.]

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