Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1910 — RENSSELAER POSTOFFICE NOW SECOND CLASS. [ARTICLE]

RENSSELAER POSTOFFICE NOW SECOND CLASS.

Postmaster Murray Notified that Receipts for Last Year Justify Boost In Rating and Salary. The Rensselaer postoffice receipts for the past year were enough to cause the department at Washington to direct that the office be raised from the third class to the second class, which means that the postmaster has a fixed salary, and that the salary is fixed for his deputy and clerk. The salary of the postmester will be $2,000, that of the deputy from S7OO to SBOO and that of the clerk SSOO. The postmaster will hereafter lose the money order fees which he secured in the past, but the boost is - very acceptable. The year showed business aggregating to more than $8,400. In order to have free delivery of mail in the city the receipts would have to exceed SIO,OOO and this point ought to be reached in a few years. !