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BY A. N. McDONALD letter from Windsor on .l•:c:
An examination of 22nd of July.
In August, a letter az
registered mail, received for dressed to the Kint;tll fNo
delivery at, or passing master was signed for bs -A
through as "forwarded" at (Alice) Macdonald, now Mrs
Kintaii post office fifty_ years Thomas Bogie, of Lond:-
ago, may remind Signal -Star who, in 1925 was an assist ar..
readers of "times past". postal clerk at her father
The post office, located in post office in their genera
Postmaster Neil McDonald's store.
general store, 15 miles north In September, registered
of Goderich, was servfted by mail despatched from Kintail •
rural route three. The included letters to: Mr
carrier, or m
oilman was if
� Elliott Miller,' Luckno� ; the
not in 1925, then shortly af- London Advertiser, (one of
terwar,ds, and for over two ., the city's earflier ,daily
decades, Adam MacAdam, of newspapers) ;slued, on the last
Cameron Street, Goderich.
day of the month, a letter was
When first established, mailed to Dominion Road
rural route three was con- Machinery Co., Goderich,
sidered to be "the second
longest rural mail route in October's registered mail
Ontario", covering a distance included a letter for Mrs.
. f over fifty miles, round trip. George Collinson, Kintaii; it
The first entry in the -was signed for and delivered
Kintaii post office registered by a son, Alvin, now living in
letter book was for a letter Goderich. Mrs. Collinson still
addressed to M. (Murdock) lives in Kintaii, with her •
McGregor, of the same ad- youngest son, William, in the
dress, who signed for arid same white frame dwelling
took delivery of it on the last that was once "Young"s
day of February, 1925. hotel".
Registered mail to distant Another letter was for -
points and forwarded' to warded to Goderich for
Goderich, in March included delivery to a Ripley un-
letters. to: Miss A. E. Dalton, dertaker of that era, W. 0.
' Detroit; the Standard Bank, Ball. A recipient of a
Goderich; the, Canadian registered letter on the 20th of
Countryman Publishing Co., October, 1925, was Miss A. M.
Toronto; Rev:. Mgr. , Mollic (Anna Mae) McDonald; it
Fitzpatrick, New York. ' was signed forand delivered
Many of, the registered 'by a brother, D. H. (Donald ,
letters were destined for the "Harry" MacDonald).
two giant mail order corn-
, panies in Toronto, the T: In November, registered
'Eaton company and, its rival, mail at Kintail post office
" the "Rob. Simpson com- included letters to: R. H.
pany," as P.M. Neil Cutt, Goderich; Mrs.. John
McDonald had a habit. of Hussey, Goderich and the
abbreviating it. ' Kincardine ,Review, On
In April, a letter was earlier weekly publication of ,
received for John McKenzie, that town). A letter received
who signed for and took at ' the post office for the
delivery of ft on the 20th day community's physician, Dr.
of the month. The addressee A. A. 3. Simpson, was signed
lived about a mile north 'of for and delivered by a
Kintail on Highway 21. The • brother -in-laws Murdock
property, designated }.as a McLeod.
Century Farm by Ontario '' December's ' volume of
Junior Farmers in Centennial registered mail, more than
year, 1967, is still occupied by doubled that of any previous
John McKenzie, a son of the month in 1925. Some names
' late HughC. MacKenzie. and addresses of people
• A....I.etter for J. A. (Alvin) receiving Christmas mail
'Griffin was received and re- sent from Kintail were; ,Mrs.
registered to Detroit, on the James McConnell, Clinton; L.'
28th of April: The late Mr. E. Dancy, Goderich, (one of
'Griffin, who lived in a white ,.the town's . lawyers half a
',. brick residence about a half- Century ago) ; (Brophy Bros.,
mile south of Kintail, moved Goderich, (an earlier un-
to the motor city some time dertaking. partner4hip.
about the mid -twenties; it, is located on Montreal street);
probable that the registered Chicago . American (a
mail had to be readdressed in 'magazine?) Chicago; Mrs. L.
order to reach., him. The Brooks, Calgary; The Mail
Griffin property'is now'owned and Empire, (a predecessor
' ' by Duncan Simpson, of R. 3, of the Globe and Mail.)
Goderich.
memories.of life 50 yrs. ago
ti e ir, Montreal; Rev. Mr. Harry Long, Goderich; A. J. Anderson, Detroit.
Dcorly, New York; Mrs° Will Allan, Camlachie; A rtgistered letter received
Toronto; David J.
In May, a registered letter 'MacMurchy, Helmsdale,
was received for "Mike" Alberta; Rt. Rev. Nelson H.
Courtney, who lived about a. Baker, Lackawanna, New
half mile north of Kintail on York; Miss Irene McWhin-
the "lake shore highway." ney, Leeburn, Algoma; Mrs.
The late Mr. Courtney, who
was an uncle of Leo Courtney,
of Goderich, signed for and
took delivery of his letter on
• --the fifth day of the fifth
month,•1925.
During the same month,
two letters . were sent -to
hatcheries in the United
States; one went to "Wolf
Hatching Co., Gibsonburg,
Ohio; the other went to Sch-
wegleris Hatchery, Buffalo,
New York."VThe volume of registered
mail in ' July increased
-markedly. Some, names and
addresses of summer mail
handled at Kintail were: R.
A. Parrish, Esq., London;
Prudential- Insurance Co.,
Montreal; Royal Bank,
Ripley; Sterling Bank,
Dungannon; and to the
postmaster, London.
Mrs, Mary Turle, signed for
and received a registered
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