Looking Back

100 Years Ago

April 1, 1915

Retires After A Long Service

Charles W. Johnson who today retires as postmaster here, has made a remarkable record in serving Uncle Sam and the people in handling the mail. He has been connected with the postoffice in Pine Bluffs nearly twenty-three years and has served as postmaster here continuously for nearly 17 years.

Mr. Johnson was born in Sweden in 1874 and emigrated to the United States in 1880 and settled in Saunders Co. Nebraska. He came to Pine Bluffs June 16, 1886. At the age of 14 he began work in the postoffice here under Wm. Rutledge; from 1890-9...