Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — Unique Industry. [ARTICLE]

Unique Industry.

“My town,” said Henry Burkhart, editor of the Windsor (Mo.) Review, at the Laclede, “has one distinction, at least, and that is that it is the home of more United States mall contractors than any other two or three towns on earth. We have there a half dozen or more large firms which control nearly all the star routes in the country. I don't know how it happened that this peculiar enterprise should have sought Windsor as its base of operations, unless it was that by accident, perhaps, one Windsorite got interested-in the business, made money at it, and others seeing his fortune piling up, fell in line. They all appear to be getting rich, and not one of them has yet had any sort of trouble with the Government. Contracts are let at Windsor for carrying the mails in Maine, California, Texas and Montana, and thus is the name of our town known from one end of the country to the other, though our population is not much over 1,600.” —[St. Louis Republic. Three generations of Dabolls have continued without jinterruption for 122 years the annual publication of the New England Almanac and Farmers’ Friend. David A. Daboll, the present editor, has made all the calculations since 1864. He is now eighty years old. His grandfather, Nathan Daboll, began it in 1772, and hia father, Nathan Daboll the second, continued it. David A. Daboll has kept a daily jsurnal of the weather for forty years, with the exact position of the sun and the moon.