ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. I TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1933 - 1938
POST OFFICE (Cont'd)
1933 - H&G Oct. 11: 2/2 - In a letter to the editor, Thomas J. Allen
of Brecksville says: "The communication headed 'A Specimen of Democracy,
I and signed 'A Freeman, I stated that Mr. Young received the appointment
of Post Master in this township through the request of the
late Post Master (myself) .•..
"This is to say to you, and the readers of your paper, that the
statement is unfounded in truth, and I think the signer of that article
was well apprized of the fact. " (3)
POSTAL SERVICE
1934 - H&G Jan. 9; adv:2/6 - Post Office Notice - Letters and packages
designed for Middleburg in this county should be addressed Berea, Cuyahoga
county, Ohio. This is the only post office in the township. If
addressed Middleburg, they often go to Logan counly, and frequently.to
Middlebury. This office should be distinguished from Barry for which
it·· is sometimes mistaken. H. O. Sheldon, postmaster. (verbatim) (2)
1935 - H&G Jan. 11; ed:2/4 -The frequent failure of the mail from Buffalo
is getting to be intolerable. Two successive mails have failed to
bring anything from beyond Erie. We have a theory on this subject. It
will be remembered that the distributing office at Erie was discontinued
on Jan. I to the great indignation of the citizens of that sleepy borough.
It was bel ieved here that the mail from Buffalo to this place
would be quite a-s regular, an::! a trifle more expeditious in consequence
of avoiding the detention at Erie, but somebody seems determined to con:
vince us on the route that Erie is an important place and that if the
mails may not be distributed there, they can be hindered some way or
other. -(5)
1936 - H&G Jan. 16; ed:2/2,3 - We learn that the post office at Erie has
again become a distributing office. We hope that the mails may be distributed
from that point with more dispatch and regularity hereafter. We
see no reason for detaining the Buffalo mail at that office from ten
p. m. to five a. m., as we learn was recently the case. "Go ahead" should
be the motto in these stirring times. (verbatim) . (2)
1937 . H&G Jan. 17; ed:2/4 - "As a specimen of the irregularity, not to
say the total failure of the mai Is from the West in 1838, we state the
fact that the only Detroit paper we have received since Jan. 1st, were
of the 2nd, the 6th, and the 8th." (1)
1938 - H&G Jan. 31; ed:2/2 • Tons of mail have accumulated at times at
each end of the Black Swamp road, and the people of the Maumee valley
and Michigan. have for the most part of the winter been cut off from intercourse
with the east, except through an occasional steamboat communication
with this city.
"Anathemas will not mend the road, and the importance of this Channel
of travel toa large portion of the West during the season when Lake navigation
is suspended, calls loudly for a State or National appropriation."
(4)
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