Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 26, 1921, Page 8

PACE FICHT FA REGEIPTS sHOWSLUMP OF $1,000, REPORT Larger Discrepancy Expected and Loss Is Charged to Cold Weather, Says Douglas Manager. Despite predictions to the Wyoming state fair this year ex- Terienced but a small falling off in attendance as compared with the peak attendance which was recorded last year, according to the’ statements of Otte H. Bolin, the efficient manager of the state institution. “[ was very much discouraged,” he eaid. “when the weather turned out to be so cold and stormy on the op- ening day of the fair. It is-really the first day’s weather that determines your attendance. “When everything was said and Gone, however, we found that we did not havs so much to complain about in the matter of receipts for admis- sions. The t shows less than $1,- 000 aiffeience than the receipts last year and when it is considered that &. great many people sat tn automo- Dies instead of using grand stand geats and others parked their cars outside the gates, which had never been done before, the actual difference Petween the number of people in at- gundance at the fair this year was very small.” Mr, Boiln was particularly weil Pleased about the fair when he con- sidered that fairs of similar character im many sections of the country ex- perienced great cuts in the attendance figures. MAN ACCUSED MISDIRECTED MAIL RESULTS IN GRIEF FOR POSTAL EMPLOYES AND PATRONS ALIKE, IS REPORT Laxity on the part of patrons of the Casper postoffice, already taxed to capacity to handle the postal requirements of this community, is costing the government $325 a month, and is requiring the attention of the clerks at the institution whose time could otherwise be given to facilitating the han-| dling and dispatch of mail here. iu According to data which has been he contrary | collected at the Jocal office under the| the abbreviations of "Pa." direction of .\cting Postmaster Bean, there are about 1,800 misdirected let- ters, constituting an alarming per- centage of the business of the office sent from Casper daily. About 3,000 letters are being re- turned to writers here each week be- cause people do not supply proper ad- dresses or the addressee does not call for the mail. ‘A good clerk in the office can han- dle‘ about 70 misdirected letters each hour, The volume of misdirected mail thus requires the full eight-hour service of two expert clerk and five hours each day of another clerk. This is a cost of $325 a month which ts placed on the local office correcting simple errors made by other people. The tremendous handicap which such a condition places on the local office is seen in the tremendous vol- ume of business which is handled here with limited accommodations and which should have the service of the men who are now employed in hand- ling misdirected letters. e To show the large increase in the postoffice work here, one department alone, the parcel post department, now handles over 100 sacks of. par- cel post mail each day. ; In connection with the misdirected mail in Casper an item taken from the Official Postal Guide of the gov- ernment contains interesting informa- tion. The suggestion of the article tf closely followed will enable everyone to know the method of correctly ad- dressing mail. If one person out of the thousands of people who read this article heed the suggestions, the say- “BY YOUNG GIRL FOUND GUILTY J.-S. Wilson Faces Peniten- “tiary Term on Conviction by Jury in Court Late Saturday. J. S. Wilson, 63 years of age, Sat- uarday night was found guilty of the charge of intent to commit assault mgainet a seven-year-old girl, 12 min- sates after the case had been placed in the hands of the jury in district court. The law provides a maximum penalty Sf 14 years in the penitentiary and the convicted man probably will be sentenced early this week. The Wilson trial closely followed commission of the crime und was the Iast case on the criminal docket at the present term of court. ing in time in the postoffice will be well worth the space and for this pur- pose it is reprinted: “Tt seems almost inconceivable, but it is reported as an official fact, that 350,000 pleces of misdirected malt are | handled daily atthe New York post- office, which includes Manhattan only. This means thet 127,750,000 misdirect- ed pieces ure handled every year in this one metropolitan center. It re no imagination to appreciate means by way_of hamper- ing and slowing down the postal serv- ice. Great armies of postal clerks, who might otherwise be engaged in facilitating the general service, are thus tled down to the problem of rec- titying the mistakes and supplying the omissiors that are chargeable to careless correspondence. We Amer. feans sort of take our postal service for granted. We kick like steers when ane letter out of the millions handled daily goes astray or is delayed a few hours; yet we are so neglectful of our own responsibilities in this con- nection that we pile thousands of stance, contemplate the similarity in for Penn- sytvania, “La.” for Louisiana, and ‘Ia’ for Iowa; also ‘Col.’ for Colorado apd ‘Cal.’ for California. Uniess all the letters in these abbreviations - are written very plainly, there is danger of mistakes. Street are often omitted (also the direc tlon—NE., SE.. NW.,\SW., on city mail); obsolete mailing lists are the bane of postal existence. “All things considered, it is really a wonder that the postoffice makes as few mistakes as it does. When o thinks of the 5,000 misdirected pleces of mail in Grand ‘Rapids daily —and 350,000 pieces in New York— and when one multiplies the average figure by the number of post offices in the country, it is necessary to con- fess that the people do not do their whole part in the matter of-postal ef- ficiency. If we are going to throw stones, we mustn’t live In glass houses. We are all demanding of the postoffice department that it ‘turn over a new leaf’ under its peppy new Washington chief. Let us ‘turn over ® new leaf,’ too.” With the postoffice here facilitating service in every possible way, and with Mr. Bean securing the utmost co-operation from the clientele of the office “he will be able to inaugurate further tmprovements that have al- ready been worked out during his regime in the office. Be sure your letter is correctly addressed. Always take the opportunity to inform your correspondents of your correct ad- dress and much of the useless waste of time tn the local office will have been done away with. —— [FUGITIVE WANTED 18 COLORADO CAPTURED Al Scrimsher. wanted at Buenr Vista. Colo... charged with escapine from an officer there After he ho" ‘een convicted of-a crime was ar rested here yesterday and is bein~ held by the county authorities pend Ing ‘the arrival of officers from the adjoining state. The Colorado officers. it is said were particularly interesting In get ting Scrimsher in jail again, ‘The crime of which he was- originally con- victed is not known here. poh i ae a NOMINATIONS MADE. | WASHINGTON. Sept. 26.—Nomina tions of Fred M ffarrison and Gilber B. Stevens of Alaska to be, respec two minor exceptions convictions were | Postoffice and expect that the postal) for the fourth division, were reporte! obtained in all criminal prosecutions, including three murder and assault YOUTH EXTENDED MERCY FOR THEFT ON ACCOUNT OF CAIPPLED CONDITION Granted leniency because of phyai- cal hand.caps due to an injury which he recently suffered Everett Clarke, the youth who was arrested Friday charged with stealing clothing and other valuables from freight cars and the freight depot while holding a po- gition at the latter place, faces a thir- ty-day sentence in the county and must pay a fine of $25 and costs. ‘The original charge of grand larceny ‘was reduced with the consent of the railroad company to a petty charge 4m order thei Clarke would not have to be prosecuted with a term in the state penitentiary the only alterna tive if he were convicted. When ar- raigned on the lesser charge he plead- ea guilty. ce eee Linseed is the nearest approach to| handling. Abbreviations in the names, of firms, postoffices, and states are milk in composition of any natura? vegetable food. machinery can and must in some way surmount our own negligence. “The New York situation is merely typical 6€ the situation in every other city in the land. Take Grand Rap- ids, for example. Postmaster Hoga- done says that, as nearly as can’ be estimated, the local postoffice handles 5,000 pieces of misdirected mail eyery 24 hours; and, in addition thereto, about 20,000 pieces of mail are re- ceived without street addresses. It requires the full time of five clerks here in Grand Rapids alone to cor- rect the addresses on misdirected mail. The mail without complete address causes loss of time to distributors who could otherwise have been em- ployed in handling properly the fully adcressed' mail, thereby making it possible in‘many instances to give an earlier delivery. We who constantly yell for ‘greater economy’ and ‘great- er efficiency’ in the public service may well pause and ask ourselves whether it wouldn't be a good thing, a con- sistent thing, if we took a little more care in making ‘economy’ ahd ‘ef- ficiency’ in the public service pos- sible. Some of the more common mis- takes, jOcally observed, in addressing mail are noted as follows: Addresses are written hastily and illegibly, oft- en in lead pencil; pencil addresses be- come obliterated in the course of confusing and invite trouble; for in- PAIR SEIZED AT ‘SANDBAR TAG’ NO ONE HURT IN SATURDAY DUEL The propensity of the chameleon to change color was out- | ¥, favorably today by the senate judic! ary committee despite opposition made by local Alaskan interests. COULDN'T ANSE HANDS TOHEA Seattle Woman Declares Tan- lac Gave Her the Happiest Surprise of Life. “I am entirely free from rheum»- tism now, but when I began takin Tantac I couldn't raise my hand. t comb my hair,” said Mrs. W. A. Moh: 2630 Holly street, Seattle, Wash.; wife of a well known florist. “I had suffered for years, and the worry and pain were so great I was almoat a nervous wreck. I had X- rays taken and, was given treatments of all sorts, but none of them reache¢ my troubles. I had a sluggish liver and dizzy spells too, but. my worst troubles were rheumatism and nerv- ousness. “I had rheumatism ‘especially bad in my arms and legs. For about a year I could hardly get about at all and it was simply torture for me to walk. My arms were in such a ter- rible condition I thought I would nev- er be able to.use them again. Nobody could have been any more despondent than I was, as the future seemed to hold nothing but pain and misery for me. “But Tanlac gave me the happiest surprise ofsmy life. I haven't a touch of rheumatism now, and I could laugh hen I think how nervous I used to . for now I courdn't tell I ever had done by Ray McShane and Virgil Roe, negroes, who were jany nerves. Tanlac has improved me: arrested by the police department Saturday night while en- gaged in the playful occupation of firing .45 c: aliber bullets | 224 “igestion. in every way, including my appetite It certainly is a medi. cine without an equal.” | tively, federal dimerict attorney for the With one or| pisces of misdirected mail into the! second Alaska division and marsha | * at one another. & post behind a laundry wagon. Both of the men were so scared or @uch poor marksmen that the extent Roe is said to have taken as his hiding place ‘Tanlac is sold in Casper by The Cas- per Pharmacy and by leading drug- gists everywhere.—Adv. ofthe damage was to perforate the Yaundry wagon and to shoot the win- @om out of an adjoining house. “The police interrupted the game of “Sandbar tag’. as it has been termed. Both men were disarmed and taken to the county jail where they are booked for investigation. Each man stoutly charges the other with responsibility for the shgoting and for starting the runipus. They Bave ‘not admitted whether moon- shine, woman or gambling was the fricentive for the warlike demonstra- ‘ons. - ———___—_ CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank our many friends and relatives for their kindness; also for the beautiful floral offering during the sickness and death of our baby | daughter and_sister. | MR. AND MRS. R. E. WELSH AND FAMILY. 9-26-1t¢ | NOBODY P SHIKANY’S SPECIALS FOR TUESDAY Potatoes (White Downings), Per hundred .-.. Oa > Fancy Concord Grapes, Per basket Fancy Blue Per crate .... 8 Bars Classic Soap for —_.. aie Large pkg. Gold Dust Washing Powder “SHIKANY'S _ 85e ____... 50e 30c PHONE 474 “The Store Accommodating” Every Shopping Day Is Bargain Day at Webel’s CLOSING OUT SALE ‘ The time is getting short. Our store will soon be closed to the Casper public. Do not delay. 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