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CEDAR POST OFFICE AND BELLE CARLOW Belle Carlow was born on November 30, 1900, the daughter of Albin D. and Mary Ann (Moraisey) Carlow. She lived with her parents and her brother Roy in the house at the top of Gooch Hill on the Cooper Road. Belle's daughter Barbara, widow of Elbridge McArthur, lives in that house in 2010. Belle didn't need to go far to school for she got her education across the road at Cedar School. Belle served as postmaster of the Cedar Post Office from 1926 to 1935. The post office was in a room her father had made off the dining room. She had a desk on which she did her duties as postmaster. Ralph Sadler of Cooper brought the mail by team three days a week from Grove Post Office on Middle Ridge in Cooper. According to a 1927 ''Report of Star Route Service'' for November 1927, it was 5.75 miles from Grove to Cedar. He delivered the mail thirteen times that month and arrived at Cedar between 2 and 2:30 in the afternoon. He left return trip 30 minutes later. Belle had to certify among other things that Ralph was a person of sufficient intelligence to properly handle...the mail.… Cedar served the people from the foot of Gooch Hill, mostly members of the Dwelley family, all the way to George Flood's in Cooper. Belle's Post Office was open all at hours of the day or night. When I asked Belle how she got the job. She told me that someone got her the job's In those days the post office was very political. Belle's father was a Republican, which probably was a factor. After the post office was discontinued, Belle worked for other families, the McGlauflins of Charlotte, the Dwelleys of Meddybemps, and the Crosbys of Cooper. She also worked in Calais at the Gem Restaurant. When World War II came along, she moved to Portland and worked as a welder in the shipyard for three years. She then had a store by the house on Gooch Hill. This store building was moved to Brooks Street in Calais, added onto, and was used as her home for a number of years. During this time Belle worked for Ware Knitters in Calais. And Belle found time during all these years of working to marry twice, to Walter Carlow and to Almond Ireland, and to have two children, Albert who died in Connecticut in 1980, and Barbara. Belle lived at Palmer Lane Estates in Calais and, during retirement, volunteered her time at Barnard's Nursing Home, and for eight years in the kitchen where she lived helping prepare meals for senior citizens. She made dolls and afghans in her spare time. She returned to her home on Gooch Hill to spend her last years and died there in 2003.
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Michael
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