Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1919 — MONON NEWS ALSO COMPLAINS [ARTICLE]

MONON NEWS ALSO COMPLAINS

saYs the mail service is POOR IN THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE. I - - - -- The JI. S. mail service has 'been severely criticised recently on account of its inefficiency by the metropolitan press and some of our local exchanges, and judging from our own experiences with the Monticello post office the complaints are well founded. I Subscribers have failed to get their I papers and correspondence of business men have been delayed. A notable instance is that of L. D. Smith, who moved from here to Monticello Week before last. Before leaving he subscribed for the News, but thus far has failed to receive a copy. - • A card from him Friday noted his failure to get the paper and demanded the return of his money if he could not get the paper. Whereupon Saturday we forwarded him the missing papers and wrote him that his name was on the list arid? the paper being sient as he had directed. To our amazement, the letter was returned Monday, as “unclaimed.” Mr. Smith was evidently not Standing at the genera! delivery window to claim his own when it arrived and before the übiquitous clerk had time to mail it back on the next train. We do not wish to reflect on our life-long friend, Postmaster Simons, for such irregularity, as loose methods in public business would not be countenanced for on'e moment by ! him. We believe when his attention is called to the grievance, as it has been, there will be some civil Service drill that will root out offending clerks, who care less for good service than the meagre stipend they are supposed to earn. The postal system seems to be in danger of meeting the same fate as the railroads, express and wires, which have been so unsatisfactory to the public under government control.

Peter Pappas, formerly proprietor of the Pallas Confectionery in this city, was here today on business. Ray Parks and John Parkison will leave Saturday for Liberty, Miss., for a visit with Harve Robinson, former linotype operator in this office. In the casualty list in the Indianapolis News of Jan. 16, 1919, there appeared the name of Private Raymond Lanlxhm, Rensselaer, Ind., died of disease. The lad is the son of B. T. Lanham, southeast of town.