Elmdale - Post Office - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Another event that illustrates the truth that change is inevitable in this life has occurred in our village. For 13 years the postoffice has been occupied by our genial friend Garret Laret, and the idea of the postoffice as separate from him never entered our minds and yet it has come. Political parties rose and fell with the surging pitfall and fickle tide of American civic life; but still Garret Larew retained his position. The aged have died, the middle-aged have taken their places; they who were children when he began are parents now. How many of us have received our first letter from him, love or other, and to him have entrusted our first. Through his hands has passed how much of sorrow and of joy, how much of wisdom and of folly. Goldsmith wept when he returned to the desolate site of his youth and left us his sorrows and emotions in his “deserted village.” Oh, that some bard would record our feelings as we look at the Deserted Post office.  Some affect to believe that Mr. Larew has changed his politics and has resigned this office only to receive another and higher while others say he is more a democrat than ever; that he has held the office for the last four years only under protest and in the hope that at the end of that time he might receive the appointment from his beloved and trusted leader; but that when disappointed in this hope he emphatically refused to continue longer a servant of an hostile party and therefore resigned. Farewell, old friend may your way be cleared of thorns in the future world by miscreant and recreant republicans.