"Early was a post office on the north line of township two north just west of John Day River. At Early there was a flour mill where early-day farmers obtained their bread-stuff, and I am told the name was given because garden sass became edible early when grown there...it would be a quiet and peaceful spot in which to return from the cares of the world, the Russians, bureaucracy, radio, U.N.R.R.A, the ships and scorns of time, the unworthy spurns that patient merit takes."

The Post Office at Early was closed August 30, 1919