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POSTMASTERS AND POSXQEEICES-ERQM 1882 TO THE PRESENT
Memory and Documentary Fragments Supply Interesting Data Down
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j The Bay St. Louis postoffice dates I back to many years, and since 1882 land before that time the memory of ; man runneth back.
| Bay St. Louis has had white andt ; colored postmasters and postmis-
POSTMASTER LEO G. FORD
appointed. This was in 1898.
Following McKinley, Grover C land made another comeback, Joseph E. Saucier was recomme by his Congressman and again pointed to serve.
Then Teddy Roosevelt came power and Louis J. Piernas and postmis- a^jn anointed. This was in ; tresses, the colored serving under j and again in 1906>
. Republican administrations. Of this ; Richard Mendes, former city s j race the one serving the longest and ■ jary an(j au(jitor was recomme j for several years at a time was Louis | by Congressman E. J. Bowers, i jj. Piernas, today living, and whose; ttie Taft administration and wa ! services were always efficient, be it! pointed.
said to his credit and in justice to the |	^	Hart, local newspaperm
; man.	j the time, was appointed unde
Before 1882 the local postoffice [administration of President Ha: : was served by Eldredge McArthur,: ancj jater under the administrat: when the postoffice building was lo- j President Hoover, Harry C. G : cated on the pier of the old Crescent iwas offered the position, follr j Hotel, (later the Pickwick) at the, j^r. Hart’s resignation, and wn i intersection of the beach. This was : pointed.
i a novel postoffice building—on the j For the past four years or ! edge of the land and over the water., Leo q pord, present postmaste j He was succeeded by Edith Ross,1 served and the postoffice, after | who resided corner Second and State j located for many years in a bu I street, and had the postoffice at her; specially constructed by the Ha ! residence.	|	Bank, Main street, located ii
In 1882 Mrs. Annie E. Avery, sister ‘ government-owned building pre ; of the late Miss Josie Welch, served j on Main street.
, as postmistress, the office located at j This building is a handsom<
' her residence on Union street, east of. substantial one, modern anc the present Locust cottage, and prop- \ some thirty-odd thousand doll
■	erty now belonging to St. Stanislaus:	This about chronicles the
! College. The postoffice then was i postoffice and postmasters to ; fourth class.	i	best of the ability of memory
In 1886 Miss Ella E. Ioor, succeeded; from documentary fragments. Mrs. Avery, and conducted the post-! office from her residence, corner!
Beach and Bookter avenue. The' building was a two story one, and one j entered from the end of the porch to' get to the business window. It was; still a iourth-class office, and did not! become a third-class office until 1892,: the yeac The Sea Coast Echo was established.
General Postmaster John Wana-maker administration, appoined Louis J. Piernas postmaster under President Harrison’s administration. The post-office was then located on the beach front, opposite the present property of Mrs. George Planchet.
Later, in 1892, when Grover Cleveland, Democrat, was elected president, Joseph E. Saucier, former sheriff and tax-collector Hancock county, and for many years justice of the peace, was appointed postmaster. He carried on the business of the office in a building on the beacb,
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