The first Post Office in El Paso Township was kept by CALEB HORN -- in 1850, about two and one half miles northwest of the present Kappa (ADAM STULL now owns the place) and was called ROXAN POST OFFICE. The mail was carried on horse back straight across the country, there being neither fences or hedges to interfere. The first mail carrier was Absolum McClura, and his route extended from Bloomington, via Roxan, to Spring Bay. He made two trips a week. Afterwards John E. Harrison was mail carrier. In 1852 the Illinois Central Railroad Co. built a section house, an agent house, a depot, and afterwards a warehouse, and so, Kappa was born. The section house is still used as a section house, the agent's house is now the residence of Willard Pierce, the depot is as neat and stylish a building as if built yesterday, but the large warehouse burned down in 1875. The Post Office was now removed from Roxan, the residence of Caleb Horn to the new town of Kappa, and William Jones was appointed as first Postmaster, with James Jayne as deputy. On February 28, 1854 Frederick Niergarth was appointed Postmaster and served three years or till March 2, 1857, when Charles Shuster died shortly afterwards, and on December 17, 1857, Milton Camp was appointed Postmaster at Kappa. Dr. Camp is said to have decamped with belongings to the Government and on June 8, 1859 Wm. Everett received his appointment. Everett died in 1861and on May 29, 1861 Ira C. Stone was made Postmaster, which office he held for nearly fifteen years or until Jan. 1, 1876, when George Lallmann received his appointment and still "holds the fort".
The office at present and for several years past has been kept in the rear of Mr. Lallmann's large brick store. It is neatly fixed up with numbered glass call boxes and lock drawers, the yearly income a little over two hundred dollars.
SCHOOLS -- Kappa has long had a reputation for the excellency of her schools. Even the very earliest settlers recognized the value of a good common school education,
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