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"Galnvesvllle Advocated- Gainesville, Kiss Mississippi Archives on microfilm
April 8, l8Jj**T'^
Mail arrived from North via Columbia, Riceville & Hotolochitto every Sunday evening at 5 o'clock.
Departed same evening for Pearlington, Shieldsfcoro and Pass Christian
December 6, 13^5 -
Editor ccmnlains rail from Nev Orleans (65 miles) takes ten days and from Jackson, Miss. (150 miles) two weeks.
December 20, 18^+5 -
Editors C. E. ^veritt and T. D. Harper propose since the New Orleans to Jackson, Miss., mail now takes three weeks;
Change by going first to Gainesville, Miss., and then upriver which would take only four days.
Recommend to their readers to oetition for a Post Office at the Rigolets for having mail dropped off of Nobile and New Orleans ste.^’Tiborts for this section instead of as now at Pass Chrirtian.
Boats frequently can not deliver at Pass Christian "on account of there not being sufficient water" then frequently mail can not "be trar.snorted across Bay St. Louis in stormy weather to Shieldsborough."
On the other hand "from the Rigolets mail could be transferred to Pearlington in an open boat in sny kind of weather."