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With $900 in his pocket one would think he could have went further than Chautauqua Springs.
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Where was Chautauqua Springs located?? This is a new ghost town that I haven't heard of before.
I think Chautauqua Springs may be the original name of the town of Chautauqua. The springs are/were located four miles east of Chautauqua.
Chautauqua Springs had a newspaper, Chautauqua Springs Spy. The Kansas State Historical Society lists it under Chautauqua which would seem to reinforce they were the same town.
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Chautauqua is about a block off K-99 south of Sedan and US 160.
There is nothing left of the downtown area except for a still good looking empty bank building and a couple other structures. I have always thought the bank would make a good exterior for an early 20th century movie.
Chautauqua does have a post office.
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What about Niotaze? Do they get their mail out of Sedan also?
Also, within the past few months, anyone in Howard wanting to mail a card or letter to someone else in Howard has their communication go to Independence that evening and then (hopefully) it is returned the next day to the proper box.
What happened to cause that action? How about Severy or Sedan? Does the same thing occur?
Under this routine, it would seem that there are no more US mail cancellations for Howard zip code 67349.
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What is amazing to me is that mail that is deposited in the Severy or Piedmont Post Offices reaches me in 2 days. If it is mailed in Howard it is 3 to 5 days and if it is mailed on Rural Route, it sometimes takes even longer. I believe the Independence mail goes to Ft. Scott and the Piedmont/Severy goes to Wichita. Have no idea how it is handled after that.
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back in the 70's and early 80's when I worked at the school in Severy and reports, etc. needed mailed to the unified office in Howard, 11 miles mind you, it usually took 3 days + to get there. Now with all this new automated equipment, higher postage, and more streamlined service, it sometimes takes a week for a letter to get from Severy to Howard, and vise versa. AND when I worked at the Co-op from 1995-2005, there where letters mailed in Howard that NEVER DID get to Severy, and maybe come in a month after they were mailed cause I would check the post marks, and most of them had checks in them. And this mailing a letter to someone in the same town and having it go out of town then come back is a bunch of government crap. All those in favor of the pony express say AYE ! ! !
And they call it progress. YEAH --- RIGHT !!!
When I was on my mission in Italy. I served for a while on the island of Sardinia, in the small town of Quartu Sant Elena about 5 miles from the larger town of Cagliari. Letters from my mom in California typically came in seven days, but once I got a letter from Grandma Gladys that had been mailed only 4 days before and it was postmarked Howard. I would bet that you could not "overnight" a letter that fast between those two small towns half a world apart.