CELEBRATE SPRING AT MILLSTONE POST OFFICE - Over 100 Years Of Operators |
(04/03/2006) |
Submitted by Sue Cosgrove Millstone Post Office is celebrating Spring and the planting season on Saturday, April 8. From 9:30 a.m. until noon, any customer purchasing a book or sheet of stamps or stamped envelopes representing gardening, spring or nature will receive a free plant! Customers may choose from the gorgeous, newly-released "Crops of the Americas" 39 cent book ($7.80), "True Blue Love" (bluebirds) 39 cent book ($7.80), "Lunar New Year" 39 cent sheet ($4.68), "LOVE Bouquet" 37 cent book ($7.40), "Snowy Egret" 37 cent book ($7.40), "Common Buckeye" 24 cent postcard rate - sheet ($4.80) or book ($2.40). A purchase of ten (size #10 or #6 3/4) "Nurturing Love" envelopes depicting a gardener watering plants ($4.70) also earns a free plant. The beautiful "Crops of the Americas" stamps are also available in a coil of 100 for $39. Customers can choose from an assortment of perennial and annual 4" potted plants. Supplies are limited and offer is good while supplies last only. Millstone Post Office is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is located on Hwy. 33/119 near the intersection of Rt. 16 and 33 to Mt. Zion. Readers may recognize (or be related to) some of the names on the list below which shows operators of Millstone Post Office beginning in 1897 through the present. This list is also posted in the Millstone Post Office Lobby. Name - Title - Date Appointed Lizzie L. Lynch Postmaster 06/23/1897 Henry C. Dillman Postmaster 10/25/1899 Worthington Poling Postmaster 07/10/1900 Lloyd Yoak Postmaster 02/23/1909 Worthington Poling Postmaster 07/01/1910 William T. Anderson Postmaster 10/20/1910 Homer R. Lynch Postmaster 03/29/1922 William T. Anderson Acting Postmaster 04/07/1923 William T. Anderson Postmaster 10/26/1923 Henry H. Lynch Acting Postmaster 12/31/1942 Henry H. Lynch Postmaster 11/08/1943 Mrs. Merle W. Lynch Acting Postmaster 04/08/1964 Mrs. Merle W. Lynch Postmaster 12/01/1964 Mrs. Etna E. Altizer Officer-In-Charge 10/15/1981 Mrs. Etna E. Altizer Postmaster 01/23/1982 Linda Hall Officer-In-Charge 09/01/1992 Timothy Romine Officer-In-Charge 01/14/1994 Sherry Butt Officer-In-Charge 05/11/1994 Pamela Bonnett Officer-In-Charge 06/20/1995 Karen M. Queen* Postmaster 10/28/1995 Geraldine M. Parsons Officer-In-Charge 12/29/1999 Paul E. Drennen** Postmaster 05/20/2000 Beverly D. Mullins Officer-In-Charge 10/17/2003 Beverly D. Mullins*** Postmaster 10/16/2004 Susan Cosgrove Officer-In-Charge 09/13/2005
* Currently at Normantown Post Office
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