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Pioneer Life in Oceana Co.

quarreled, the captain left the vessel and the owner would not get her out for the promised trip. For several years, Grand Haven was our nearest postoffice, the mails being carried by private enterprise. It cost twenty-five cents besides regular postage, for a letter, and other mail matter in proportion. Previous to the organization of Oceana county in 1855, it had been attached to Ottawa for municipal and judicial purposes and she used Ottawa jail for about three years after her organization.
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