Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1910 — POSTOFFICE SECBETS. [ARTICLE]

POSTOFFICE SECBETS.

They Are Revealed at Denver In Effort to Improve Conditions. The use of private letter boxes of the Denver post office by young girls and women has been restricted by the raising of rents from $1 to $2 in each case. Most of the women have used these boxes to ply their trades along lines that require secrecy. Scores of schoolgirls have been using them to conduct a clandestine correspondence, which in many cases has led to their downfall. It was learned that one girl would rent a box and then permit a number of schoolgirls of her own age to have mail addressed there under fictitious names. Business men and professional men tried in vain to rent boxes, but because they had been engaged by women or girls could not engage them. Girls have been known to come to the offices with notes pretending to be signed by their mothers, engaging boxes for them, while as a matter of fact it was part of a plot hatched by schoolgirls of impressionable age. All sorts of methods were devised to get rid of them, and all having proven failures, the raise in the rents of the boxes was hit upon The revised list starting out on the new year shows that many of those who had rented boxes for several years past were miffing from the rolls. Federal officers believe that it was fright in a good many cases, the renters fearing a general movement against them, the first step being the raise in rents.