■>> - 14 - as "Chust", as boys we remember him with his massive beard, sitting on the home porch reading from his great Gaelic Bible. POST OFFICE - The first Post Office in DeSable was established sometime between 1852 - 1855 at the home of a Mr. MacKinnon near the site of the school. Mail from Charlottetowri was delivered to the Post Office on Monday and Friday. Meacham's Atlas 1880 names John Dixon as Postmaster at entrance to . Postmaster of 1900, situated just east of school, was John MacDougall , a rather snuffy old scot, known to his neighbours as "The Pepper Box". Rural delivery service came to the district from Charlottetown in 1913 when the last office - Mrs. J. D. MacFarlane as Postmistress, was closed out. 'Little* Neil MacNevin , a veteran mail driver, and John McManus of Bonshaw were the first couriers on the new rural service, followed later by William McManus . These were dedicated men who regarded the delivery V