Historical Clippings Book (HC-11) (314 pages)

81 Year Old Graniteville Postoffice Will Close Tuesday GRANITEVILLE, Nevada Co.—The 81 year old Graniteville Postoffice will close its doors, perhaps forever, on ‘Tuesday. i The reason for the closing, ‘according to communications from the office of the postmaster general, is that the office has shown an annual cost of. $827 and annual -receipts of only $123 during recent years. : The annual loss of $704 is deemed cause to close the office. \ Touch Of Irony “There is a sad touch of irony in the closing of a small town postoffice because in the last few days before the closing there is .a tremendous volume of mail from stamp collectors who,, somewhat \ghoulishly, wish to add a closing day pgstmark to their collections of mail covers. . Mrs. Myrtle Clift, acting! ‘postmaster, “Within three or four years they may be forced to reinstate the postoffice,” he said. “In the last year several families have bought homes inside or near the town and many inquiries have been received.” Daily Average Recent records of the ofIt all adds up to the fact that if the Graniteville Postoffice had the daily volume in the last year that it will have on closing day it would not have to close. Therein lies the irony. Six By Six Office Mrs. Clift, who became postmaster-a year ago on the retirement of Mrs. Margaret Travis, operates the office {which is a six byysix foot cubicle built into the front porch of the Clift home. _ “The closing of our postoffice marks the end of an imlife,’ said Mrs. Travis. portant part of our social. fice show a daily average .of’ 21 pieces of mail received and 12 dispatched. During the summer months the mail truck comes three times a.week, but in winter when deep snow blankets the town, the mail is brought in on skis from North Bloomfield, 10 miles to the south. _“When the mail truck ar-. In theggreat storms of 1952 rived nearly all the residentsithe to was buried under of the community, four in the. more than 20 feet of snow winter and 25 during the sum. g nd the hardy winter resimer, rushed to the postoffice gents went in and out of their to receive their mail and talk ‘homes via second story winwith their neighbors. dows. Only Social Outlet Former Name . “Actually it is our only sO-* The town was founded in cial outlet because we have 1950 under the name of Eureno clubs, lodges, schools, hoka South. In 1878 the name is preparing to stamp the last day postmark tels, taverns or even a grocery store where we can meet our large bundles of self ad-\ friends.” officially .was changed to Graniteville. It lies on one branch of the now abandoned Henness Pass Road which dressed letters from all parts} of the nation. Mail covers. have been received from such distant places, as West Vir‘ginia, Arizoria and South Dakato, of the Eureka Bras but I’m sure they when they wanted t Sweet, anyway, t folks as they waltze Blow 'em sweet, blow 'em low, goes the saying. Ican't guarantee that the boys Still another view was eXpressed by her husband, Archie, who considers himself a newcomer in the communi. ty because he did not arrive until 1900. : once teemed with traffic and freight from the Marysville, Yuba County, steamboat docks en route to Virginia City, Nev. ' led the Fourth of Ju s Band blew ‘em low, could blow ’em sweet O. othe ears, of the: young doverthe clean-swept ‘thealtos, the tubas ‘floor above the Livery Stable at Eureka South-Graniteville as the Post Office Department called it later; you see there alwas . a P.O up in Humboldt county = ready The Brass Band were institutions in the California mining camps. A town without a band was no townat all. Andt county, from Truckee to Spenceville on the edge of the Sacramento Valley, from French Corral to You Bet and Red Dog, the by the name of. Eureka t >) dent; ae the Furekx band was taken in Graniteville and the Fourth of July yas taken in Graniteville Johnston, Andrew Hippert, Middle row, John Hippert Waldron, Bob Paine's uncle hroughout Nevada son, and Willie Hippert; F Grove Street, Nevada City, master, Bill Flanders, and length and breadth of the County, the bands @-10 liam McLean, Henry Fitter, father of Ruth Chesney of To End Deticit The community once boasted a population of nearly 400 persons and double that number lived in nearby mining and lumber camps. It is a picturesque community of more than 20 homes, steep roofed to shed heavy ‘}winter snows. It is in a set~ ting of tall timber and high mountain meadows, ly parades and played . for the dancers when the stars came out. The gold-braid on the musicians’ tunics Out-glittered any general's uniform and and cornets shone as ‘bright as the eyes of the girls! eta ‘Withthe tenacity of a bulldog, our friend went out and got the identification. through the cooperation of Al Fitter, National Hote] res— So here, of Graniteville. The picture in 1896 on the front steps of Bill McLean's Golden West Hotel: Back row, Henry Tim Coughlan, and Ed Foss; , now in Grass Valley, Will , Jim Cline, Bruce Williamront row, George Berry, Wil§ George Thornbrough, bandEd Hippert. e.

81 Year Old Graniteville Postoffice Will Close Tuesday GRANITEVILLE, Nevada Co.—The 81 year old Graniteville Postoffice will close its doors, perhaps forever, on ‘Tuesday. i The reason for the closing, ‘according to communications from the office of the postmaster general, is that the office has shown an annual cost of. $827 and annual -receipts of only $123 during recent years. : The annual loss of $704 is deemed cause to close the office. \ Touch Of Irony “There is a sad touch of irony in the closing of a small town postoffice because in the last few days before the closing there is .a tremendous volume of mail from stamp collectors who,, somewhat \ghoulishly, wish to add a closing day pgstmark to their collections of mail covers. . Mrs. Myrtle Clift, acting! ‘postmaster, “Within three or four years they may be forced to reinstate the postoffice,” he said. “In the last year several families have bought homes inside or near the town and many inquiries have been received.” Daily Average Recent records of the ofIt all adds up to the fact that if the Graniteville Postoffice had the daily volume in the last year that it will have on closing day it would not have to close. Therein lies the irony. Six By Six Office Mrs. Clift, who became postmaster-a year ago on the retirement of Mrs. Margaret Travis, operates the office {which is a six byysix foot cubicle built into the front porch of the Clift home. _ “The closing of our postoffice marks the end of an imlife,’ said Mrs. Travis. portant part of our social. fice show a daily average .of’ 21 pieces of mail received and 12 dispatched. During the summer months the mail truck comes three times a.week, but in winter when deep snow blankets the town, the mail is brought in on skis from North Bloomfield, 10 miles to the south. _“When the mail truck ar-. In theggreat storms of 1952 rived nearly all the residentsithe to was buried under of the community, four in the. more than 20 feet of snow winter and 25 during the sum. g nd the hardy winter resimer, rushed to the postoffice gents went in and out of their to receive their mail and talk ‘homes via second story winwith their neighbors. dows. Only Social Outlet Former Name . “Actually it is our only sO-* The town was founded in cial outlet because we have 1950 under the name of Eureno clubs, lodges, schools, hoka South. In 1878 the name is preparing to stamp the last day postmark tels, taverns or even a grocery store where we can meet our large bundles of self ad-\ friends.” officially .was changed to Graniteville. It lies on one branch of the now abandoned Henness Pass Road which dressed letters from all parts} of the nation. Mail covers. have been received from such distant places, as West Vir‘ginia, Arizoria and South Dakato,

of the Eureka Bras but I’m sure they when they wanted t Sweet, anyway, t folks as they waltze Blow 'em sweet, blow 'em low, goes the saying. Ican't guarantee that the boys Still another view was eXpressed by her husband, Archie, who considers himself a newcomer in the communi. ty because he did not arrive until 1900. : once teemed with traffic and freight from the Marysville, Yuba County, steamboat docks en route to Virginia City, Nev. ' led the Fourth of Ju s Band blew ‘em low, could blow ’em sweet O. othe ears, of the: young doverthe clean-swept ‘thealtos, the tubas ‘floor above the Livery Stable at Eureka South-Graniteville as the Post Office Department called it later; you see there alwas . a P.O up in Humboldt county = ready The Brass Band were institutions in the California mining camps. A town without a band was no townat all. Andt county, from Truckee to Spenceville on the edge of the Sacramento Valley, from French Corral to You Bet and Red Dog, the by the name of. Eureka t >) dent; ae the Furekx band was taken in Graniteville and the Fourth of July yas taken in Graniteville Johnston, Andrew Hippert, Middle row, John Hippert Waldron, Bob Paine's uncle hroughout Nevada son, and Willie Hippert; F Grove Street, Nevada City, master, Bill Flanders, and length and breadth of the County, the bands @-10 liam McLean, Henry Fitter, father of Ruth Chesney of To End Deticit The community once boasted a population of nearly 400 persons and double that number lived in nearby mining and lumber camps. It is a picturesque community of more than 20 homes, steep roofed to shed heavy ‘}winter snows. It is in a set~ ting of tall timber and high mountain meadows, ly parades and played . for the dancers when the stars came out. The gold-braid on the musicians’ tunics Out-glittered any general's uniform and and cornets shone as ‘bright as the eyes of the girls! eta ‘Withthe tenacity of a bulldog, our friend went out and got the identification. through the cooperation of Al Fitter, National Hote] res— So here, of Graniteville. The picture in 1896 on the front steps of Bill McLean's Golden West Hotel: Back row, Henry Tim Coughlan, and Ed Foss; , now in Grass Valley, Will , Jim Cline, Bruce Williamront row, George Berry, Wil§ George Thornbrough, bandEd Hippert. e.