Imminent Elections

We have reached the slow season, but all is not over: the 4th's election meeting will be on Saturday, November 5th.  We will be recruiting/hosting a display at the Puyallup antique show that weekend, with the elections to be held on Saturday.  The positions of commander, civilian leader, and secretary are open.  Mr. Talbot has indicated that pizza will be provided.

The County Election (1852) by George Caleb Bingham

Letters and Stamps

"The practice of inclosing [sic] letters in envelopes is now universal; particularly as when the letter is single no additional postage is charged for the cover. The postage now is in almost every instance pre-paid, it being but three cents when paid by the writer and five if left to the receiver. Therefore, none but very poor or very mean people send unpaid letters. Letter-stamps for the United States post should be kept in a little box on your writing-table. You can get them always by sending to the post-office--from a dollar's worth or more down to fifty or twenty-five cents' worth at a time. In a second box, keep stamps for the city or penny post, which transmits notes from one part of the town to another. And in a third, stamps to go on the covers of newspapers."

--The Behavior Book (1853 ed.) by Miss Leslie