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Delphos Post Office Closes, 1993

STEINMAN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 11/14/2012 at 22:12:00

Mount Ayr Record-News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa
Thursday, November 25, 1993

113 year era ends at Delphos

For 113 years the town of Delphos southwest of Mount Ayr has had a post office, but Friday, Nov. 19, that era came to an end. The post office, which has been located in the Seaton Store in Delphos in recent years, was closed with the end of the business day. June STEINMAN, who has served as postmistress and was in charge of the post office there, took down the American flag in front of the building to symbolize the end of the era.

Delphos residents will be served through the Redding post office as part of a rural route. The Delphos town name can still be used on mail, but it will be with a Redding route number.

Photograph courtesy of Mount Ayr Record-News

Transcription and notes by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2012


 

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