MYRA Post Office
Contributed and transcribed by Woodson County Commissioner Bill Linde.
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				MYRA Post Office

	With the closing of the Belmont postoffice in 1878, the people of 
that vicinity had quite a ways to go for their mail. It was on the same site 
and probably the same building that on 03 March 1884, another postoffice was 
established by Wm. L. Bradley and was given the name of Myra. Bradley also 
kept a small general store on the crossroads where the settlement of Belmont 
had once been. And we believe that the people of that locality referred to 
it as the Belmont postoffice in later years.
 
	 Bradley kept the postoffice and store until about 10 years later, 
when it was taken over by R.L. Sievert on 14 April 1894. The postoffice was 
discontinued and papers to Yates Center effective 31 March 1895. Mail had 
been brought from Yates Center on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The Yates Center 
News of 11 March 1887 carried this item: "The first letter with a special 
delivery stamp on it was received at \'b7Myra postoffice last week. Nasby(?) 
had to wade through mud a half mile to deliver it."