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 312 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY • his term the office again became third class, six rural routes were established and the service generally improved. In 1908 S. B. Scott succeeded to the office and still holds it. Under his management many new improvements have been made and the service generally rendered more efficient. For the vear 1908 the receipts were $5,400, the largest in the history of the office. The office has become an important junction point, receiving and dispatching mails on the Chicago Great Western, C, M. & St. P. and Chicago & Northwestern Railways. ■ - DISCONTINUED POST-OFFICES. Aspelund. — This post-office, which was located in AYananiingo, was established early in the sixties and conducted about thirty years, being discontinued in consequence of the establishment of rural mail delivery. Ayr. — This office was located in Cherry Grove. It was estab- lished in the sixties and served its patrons for about thirty years also. Belvidere Mills. — This office, located in Belvidere, was one of the earliest offices in the country. It was established about 1855, with N. B. Gaylord as postmaster. He served the public in that capacity for more than forty years. The office was discontinued about five years ago. Burley.— This office, which was located in Featherstone town- ship, had a very short career. "When established it supplied a considerable territory, but rural delivery being introduced soon afterwards, its usefulness was early at an end. Burr Oak. — This office was located in Belle Creek township, being established in 1854. It was on the line of the old St. Paul and Dubuque stage route and when that was discontinued about two years later, the supply being cut off, the office was discon- tinued. Later it was re-established as Belle Creek post-office in the southern part of the town, which office was also discontinued and its place supplied by Ryan in the east part of the town, which served its neighborhood up to a few years ago. Eidsvold. — This was an office in Holden township, established about 1875. It had a life of about twenty years. Fairpoint. — This office, in Cherry Grove township, was estab- lished in 1858 and discontinued in 1861, and later, being re-estab- lished, did service for a little more than thirty years, rural deliv- ery also supplanting it. Forest Mills. — This was a small office in Zumbrota township, a few miles east of Zumbrota. It had a career of about fifteen years.