Skull Run Post Office Archives

Archive

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The Great Bend Museum

Name/Title

Skull Run Post Office Archives

Entry/Object ID

1984.07.10

Scope and Content

Internal archives and correspondence relating to the operation of the Skull Run Post Office in Laura Carder's General Store Notes to and from postmaster at Skull Run. Including notes from patrons and post master Carter and Staats. Total of 37 notes. Includes notes to store clerk for goods used on boats. Also includes 2 freight tickets for the Valley Belle - most are notes requesting pick up of mail or packages, some are notes requesting goods from the grocery. All notes are sleeved.

Acquisition

Accession

1984.07

Source or Donor

Nathan "Goff" Carder

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

File, Document

Archive Details

Creator

Laura Carder

Date(s) of Creation

1865 - 1921

Archive Items Details

Title

Note to Post Master - Skull Run

Description

Note from Post Master W.E. McDade to Post Master - Skull Run to please let H.L. (Ritley)? have the mail intended for Portland. Dated 8/6/1910. Note is torn in bottom corners

Creator

Ward Eldo McDade

Date(s) of Creation

Aug 6, 1910

Title

Note to Post Master from W.E. McDade

Description

Note from N.M. Postmaster W.E. McDade to P.M. Skull Run to say that Perry Brimming has been sworn in as mail carrier on Route #31389 from Portland, Ohio to Skull Run West Virginia.

Creator

Ward Eldo McDade

Title

Note to Laura Carder from L.

Description

Note asking Laura to mail and stamp a letter and to please make a phone call saying it will save the author a long ride.

Title

Note: Accounting of Work - March 1898

Description

Note of monthly Accounting that they owe outside workers including William Tumlin and Everett Tumlin [wills?], Johnny Tumlin, Geo Statts, Arch Staats and Rude Staats. For plowing and planting garden.

Creator

William Tumlin, Everett Tumlin, Johnny Tumlin, George Staats, Arch Staats, Rude Staats

Date(s) of Creation

Mar 1898

Title

Note to P.M. Skull Run - John Staats

Description

Note to Post Mail to mail money order for 75 cents to pay S.S. Bigley & Co. for shop work. From John Staats.

Creator

John Staats, S. S. Bigley & Co.

Date(s) of Creation

Oct 16, 1898

Title

Note to P.M. Skull Run - Fithro (?)

Description

Note to P.M. Skull Run - L.E. Carder from Carill Fithro (?) asking if her son, Alvin, can pick up a registered letter for her.

Creator

Carrill A. Fithro (?)

Date(s) of Creation

Feb 23, 1907

Title

Note to P.M. Skull Run - W.E. McDade

Description

Note to Skull Run P.M. to let A.H. Middleswart have the mail for Portland P.M. W.E. McDade, as he is leaving Monday Morning on a train.

Creator

Ward Eldo McDade

Date(s) of Creation

May 9, 1908

Title

2 Notes to P.M. Skull Run - Gorrell

Description

1.) Note for Adaline O'Dell for 1 gallon of molasses is stamped with date on back, is stained and is dark on edges - hard to read. 2.) Dated January 15, 1908 - Wanting Ervin Gorrell to pick up their mail by J.W. Gorrell

Creator

Adaline O'Dell, John Wesley Gorrell, Ervin Gorrell

Date(s) of Creation

1908 - 1914

Title

Note by Post Master - Skull Run

Description

Note written on an old post office department envelope by the post master at Skull Run. Noting delivery of 1 black bull (?) tagged to Kalie Pineal (?) Also wool, 1 piece of white goods - no name. One piece was "cut all to pieces"

Title

Post Master - Skull Run Note

Description

Note on small square of paper from the post master of Skull Run post office (W.E. McDade) to please give mail to E.S. Carney. Signed by McDade. Paper is yellowed and has top torn edge.

Creator

Ward Eldo McDade

Title

Oath of P.O. Employee - Safreed

Description

Form - Oath of Post Office employee to be filed at the post office (Skull Run) paper is torn and date is not visible. Signed by Gwendolyn Safreed.

Creator

Gwendolyn Safreed

Title

W.E. McDade Dry Goods

Description

2 W.E. McDade dry goods bills dated: 10/6/1903 and 4/2/1904. Notes to the postmaster requesting permission to have someone pick the mail - both signed by W.E. McDade.

Creator

Ward Eldo McDade

Date(s) of Creation

1903 - 1904

Title

Skull Run PO Note to Henry Share

Description

Note - Form from the post master at Skull Run to Henry Shafer of a package to be picked up. Post Master - assf. signed was Carder.

Creator

Henry Shafer

Date(s) of Creation

1911

Title

Store/ Jerome B. Price - Portland, Ohio

Description

Note to post master from J.B. Price requesting any mail for them to be sent by Mr. Tolbert.

Creator

Jerome B Price

Title

Note to Skull Run Post Master

Description

Note/envelope to post master - Skull Run from Mrs. N.O. Michael requesting her to let the rural carrier to deliver registered mail in P.O. to her. Dated 1/8.1910

Creator

Mabel A Michael

Date(s) of Creation

Jan 8, 1910

Title

Letter to Supt. of Railway from Skull Run

Description

Letter to supt. of railway from postmaster letting him know that on December 23, 1913, when rail workers threw mail sacks from the train, that one or more had gotten tangled in the cars wheel - come mail scattered and damaged. They collected and sent the mail that they could.

Creator

Laura Carder

Date(s) of Creation

Dec 23, 1913

Title

Note to Skull Run P.M. - Michael

Description

Note from Mrs. N.O. Michael to Laura Carder Post Master - Skull Run, requesting permission for star route carrier to deliver registered package to her.

Creator

Mabel A Michael

Date(s) of Creation

Jun 8, 1910

Title

Note from P.M. W.E. McDade

Description

Note from W.E. McDade to post master - Skull Run for a man named Cline Pence to pick up the mail. No Date

Creator

W.E. McDade