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POSTOFFIGE SWAMPED WITH MAIL THAU REFUGAL OF RESIDENTS 10 PAY FEE FOR NEW ADDRESS HERE Only Five Percent of Changes Made as Result of Fee to Cover Cost to City; Mayor Pelton Issues Statement to Casper Public Whether it is worth 50 cents a houte ‘to have correct or any. sort of mail service is the problem which is bothering Casper residents, tal officials, and which is receiving the cSnsideration of the city offi- cials. Because the city engineer's office, thru the authority of the city council is charging 50 cents for house address numbers and for supplying the information as to what is the exac, house number, many have “kicked” and in some insta “ioe refused to pay. The result is that only about a percent of the residents in the city| have put their new house addresses} up. Postmaster W. W. Sproul is plain-| ly worried. The postoffice is filling up| with mail; some of it addressed to new} and part to the old addresses. With| pacar some houses numbered by the old sys-| The Methodist men and their friends tem and others by the new, the prob-| entertained last night at the Methodist is a hard one for the pestal au-| church at a banquet. Members of the iia Ladies Aid society of the church ahaa id Mayor Ben F. Pelton explained this| the dinner and it was decided to morning why the charge of 50 cents|Tregular meetings and dinners similar was being made. to the one last night for the men of the ne city engineering department} ¢hurch, mé an accurate and complete survey, H. B. Durham was toastmaster while of every block within the city limits. | geegtipe were made by S. H. Maddox, A large force of engineers were used S. Bailey, P. M Shambaugh, W. J. in doing this work which consumed Bailey, and L A, Toothaker, state Y. nearly six weeks of time. There was|™M C. A. secretary Mr, Toothaker told no provision in the annual budget for;0f What the men could do in church this expense and the additional ex-|Work and described their influence over pense to the city, the city, council) boys. (Mr. Bailey spoke of the Boy decided, should be covered by the pay-, Scout movement. ment of the fee of 50 cents. Music was furnished by Messrs. Hood “Phig includes the information as to) 4nd Wygant. the exact house number—supplied in| short time by calling at the city engi- neers office in the city hali—and the! jing of today is made by a process al. house numbers. These numbers cost most identical with that described by about 1 cents per three numbers. The jyerogotus, mentioned in hleroglyps, 50 cents is not paid in full for the, iq qepicted in sculpture ad old as numbers but largely for supplying thes 999 BG, information which was secured by ac- “” go tual survey. “There is aboslutely no rake-off for At the Shakespeare Hotel in Strat- anybody in this transaction. ‘The coun-| ford-upon-Avon, the rooms are named cil authorized the assessment which is after the plays of the immortal bard. really a direct tax as the most feasible Some are strikingly ~ppropriate; the plan for covering this expense. | dining room is “As .vu Like It,” and “What appears to be a better plan) the bar is “Méasure fort Measure.” for covering the cost has been suggest- ed. It is to charge a certain rate for, supplying -the information regarding} the new numbering, system and the flat rate of 50 cents when the numbers are furnished. { Much of the dispute recently has} because property owners have t numbers and then called up to t what their exact address was. matter of separating the cost of information and that’ of numbers supplied by the city will be taken up at the next council meeting, Monday night. “As in any direct —— EE In Egypt beer has been drunk for and the “busa” of the fel- - ie tax, there is a lot most of the com- le by those wi t® pay the 50 cents most been grown in Egypt & but it was not until a hundred years ago that Jumel, a Pion that ary tioning vous French engineer, sug; ed the intro- duction Of the commercial yarigtiea) To "eens 1822, the famous Am: an sea island cotton was first n. ate! aa given with, the Scalp invigoratoe. 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Its soil Word was received in a message today | produce any crop grown on the earth, from the east that a National Bank! and its mines of gold and silver and = Sa Skilled Opticians charter had been issued to the old) coal have been scarcely touched. : Citigen’s State bank which will now be ae known as the Gitizen'’s National bank.| Finest sponges come from the Red The present. capital under this charter Sea. mae STYLE HEADQU Se ti vere Society Brand Style is harder to get than all-wool HERE would be no distinction for Society Braud Clothes if their only virtue was all- wool. Any maker could give you this if he wished. But style is a matter of creative de- signing and-careful, costly workmanship. Society Brand Clothes FOR YOUNG MEN AND MEN WHO STAY YOUNG . There are: many new patterns for spring—new touches of smartness in cut, new features that you should see to know what’s correct. SAO NSE YOUNG. 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