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NEWARK

Village or Hamlet

SMALL HAMLETS.           1203

Newark Store is located on the east and west center line of Newark Township and within a half mile of the west township line. A country store has been maintained at that point from time immemorial, as one might say. Newark post office was also a fixture there, or in that vicinity, for many years, but was legislated out of business when the rural route system was inaugurated. The locality is now served from Ithaca, by carrier on route 1. The Newark post office came into being August 28 1857, by the appoint­ment of John H. Shaeffer as postmaster. The office was discontinued May 21, 1860, and reestablished June 18, 1861, with Abram M. Butterfield as postmaster. The following then came on in their order: Ebenezer W. Kellogg, December 8, 1863; Oscar C. Bates, December 11, 1876; George E. Blain, March 28, 1879; John H. Shaeffer, September 13, 1880; Bingley Russell, February 6, 1882; Albert D. Perkins, September 16, 1884; Samuel E. Sower, January 14, 1892; John G. Iutzi, October 30, 1894; Frank H. Rice, May 22, 1897. Discontinued April 30, 1902.

1204       HISTORY OF GRATIOT COUNTY.

The present proprietor of Newark store is S. P. Jones, and he has been on the job since 1903, successor to I. E. Chapman, a well-known citizen, formerly of Seville, who died in Newark in 1903. Mr. Jones carries a good sized stock of general merchandise, and is ably assisted in his work by his energetic wife. The store is located eight miles from Ithaca and four and a half miles directly north of Middleton, in the midst of one of the very best agricultural sections of the county.

 

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