Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 164, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1929 — Page 16

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ADDRESS YOUR MAIL RIGHT IS P. OJfARNING Thousands of Letters and Parcels Go Astray at Christmas Time. Co-operation of the public in reducing the annual volume of Christmas mail which finds its way to the dead letter office was asked by Indianapolis postoffice officials today. Each year a large force of “nixey” clerks is busy for weeks trying to straighten out more than 100.000 letters. Christmas greetings, and parcels impassible of delivery because of incomplete or wrong addresses. Many of these are the result of improper packing of parcels, flimsy wrapping paper bearing the address being torn away. Due to scientific “detective work” of the “nixey” clerks, much of this mail eventually is addressed correctly and forwarded, somewhat late, but the remainder goes to the dead letter office. Make Addresses Right Addresses should be complete, with house number and name of street, postofficc box or rural route number, typed or plainly written in ink. A return card should be placed in the upper left corner of every piece of mail. If a tag is used, the address and return card also should be written on the wrapper for use if the tag Is lost, and a copy of the address should be inclosed in the parcel. All Christmas gifts, greetings, and letters should be mailed at least a week or ten days before Christmas, according to distance, to insure delivery before Christmas day. Persons mailing a quantity of Christmas cards, ten or more for delivery in Indianapolis, can be of great assistance to the postal employes by tying them together, labeling them to show they are Christmas cards, and then deposit them in a street letter or package box two or three weeks before Christmas. Helps In Delivery They then will be segregated; stamped with the date on which to be delivered, and delivery will be made one or two days before Christmas. Christmas cards and gifts addressed to points within one day’s travel should be mailed in no event later than Dec. 20, within two day’s travel not later than Dec. 18, within three days’ travel not later than Dec. 16; and for most distant points not later than Dec. 14. Parcels and envelopes may be marked “Please do not open until Christmas.” For those who find it necessary to make last minute mailings, the air mail and special delivery services are available. The air mail covers great distance in a few hours. Rates are 5 cents for the first ounce and ten cents for each additional ounce or fraction of an ounce. Use of a special delivery stamp will assure delivery on Christmas day, if mailed at the proper time. Special delivery is for speed and not for safety. Valuable mail, in addition to proper wrapping, packing, and addresing, should be registered or insured.

SANDER & RECKER CO. SHOWS LAVISH GIFTS Hand-Carved Telephone Cabinet Is One Striking Present. A handsomely carved telephone cabinet, inlaid with design of handpainted flowers, resis near a display of Czechoslovakian glassware, whose beauty can be purchased at an unbelievably modest price, is a str kJng feature of Sander & Recker’s holiday showing. Lovely modern and antique novelties—such as a glass bird table ornament. with quivering, sparkling plumage: decorative trays, enameled and painted alluringly; a humidor. brass studded, and carry.ng the atmosphere of an old Spanish treasure chest, are shown. The or.ental rugs here are a thing of beauty, including fine examples of these gifts that surely are a joy forever. The Sancer & Recker Furniture Company also has a gift store at 2206 North Meridian street.

WASHABLE TOYS ARE ON SALE THIS YEAR Even Mechanical Playthings Can Be Made Clean Again. Toy manufacturers are providing washable variations of the oldfashioned toys and many new ones besides this year. Many of these need not be relinquished, even when the daily bathing hour comes around, since the sudsy depths of the tub as fresh as their glowing owners. When they become soiled they can be soaked, scrubbed with soap and water, rinsed and hung on the line to dry. if necessary. You can buy washable balls and building blocks, dolls, furniture, rattles, wood soldiers and woolly animals. Even mechanical toys can be washed if they are carefully rinsed and dried. POSTOFFICE ASKS AID Letters Mailed to 6.000 ‘Bosses' Urges Earlier Mailing Co-operation in early mailing oi business letters is asked by Postmaster Robert H. Bryson, in 6.000 letters mailed today to “The Bos* ’ of each business house or office in the city. Bryson asked business men to mail letters at frequent intervals during the day. inst2ad of all in one bunch in the evening, thus reduo ing the evening qostoffice congestion and. at the same time, assuring earlier delivery.

Postal Employes to Get Day of Rest Christmas

Special Arrangements Are Made for Handling of Mail Early. Indianapolis postoffice employes are assured of eating Christmas dinner at home this year, as result of a departmental ruling, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said today. In past years pleas have been been made to the public to “shop early and mail early” so tired postal workers might have Christmas day off, but this year the pastmas-ter-general’s office has directed that the employes, except for a skeleton force of temporary employes, be given the day off. Only “Special delivery matter will be delivered. Asa result, Postmaster Robert H. Bryson and his aids are making arrangements to expedite the handling of the Christmas mail rush so all Christmas greetings and parcels may be delivered by Christmas eve, if possible. The present postoffice force of nearly 1,200 employes Mil be increased by 600 temporary employes, beginning two weeks or ten days before Dec. 25. Employes have started checking and repairing special equipment needed during the rush period. Temporary distribution schemes for rapid separation of mail have been prepared so that inexperienced employes may be utilized in

STRIKING SHOE DISPLAYSHOWN Slippers Are Feature at Marott’s Store. Viewing the lovely shoes at George J. Marott’s, 18 East Washington street, the early shopper feels that many gift problems are solved. On “Slipper Avenue” the store has assembled a most attractive display of evening slippers. A lovely new material is crystal crepe. Buckles on evening slippers are different than in past seasons. For that matter, buckles sparkle on slippers for day wear as well. Cut steel buckles are favored for practical wear. It is in the department of lovely indoor slippers—pajama boots, cut high, with feather trimming, beautiful bits of footwear with flowertrimmed insets, dainty leather things in pastel shades, that the charm of footwear as gifts, makes its strongest appeal. Mules have square' toes and a lovely pair is in irregular modernistic cut with gold and silver leather bits on orange background. Hose at this store are attractive to the early shopper. Mesh hose are excellent for evening wear. Darker shades are favored and a clover leaf design, instead of the V or square cut heel, is anew note on Christmas gift hose.

DISPLAY IS STRIKING Elaborate Toilets Sets Are Shown at H. H. Mayer’s. Modernistic treatment has been applied to many lovely objects for the early Christmas shopper, but rarely does one find such strikingly happy results as in the toilet sets at H. H. Mayer, Inc., 40 West Washington street. Cne lovely example has toilet articles in jade quartz, with gold tracings. Tiny pearls and brilliants outline the edges. A perfume bottle and an atomizer rest on either side. Another set is of amber and ivory combination, against a background of two-toned rose brocade. Boudoir clocks in delicate colorings, some with flower designs, are in the new Christmas stock, and compacts in combinations of bright enamel, bronze, light gold and cloisonne would gladden any feminine heart. Bracelets carry anew note. Old shapes, modernized and set with topaz, amethysts, sapphires and other stones, are clever examples of the jewelers’ art. Many bracelets are matched with pendants. Aside from the jewelry, the comprehensive array of watches, and other lovely Christmas goods, the softly gleaming pewter pieces are among the gifts here that will solve the problems of the early shopper.

STANLEY SAYS: Avoid the Rush and Crush of Last-Minute Shopping j Enjoy the leisure and convenience of early shopping at Stanley's—a i Small Deposit holds any article for Xmas Delivery. | j p ■ —- ipl I 134 WEST WASHINGTON STREET In the Indiana Theatre Building }

making the first “breakup” of the volume of letters and packages. Arrangements are being made by Bryson with the Indiana adjutantgeneral’s office to borrow fifty government trucks to be added to the present fleet of mail trucks. Additional collection routes will be laid out so that mail from the several stations may be taken quickly to the distribution centers.

SAVINGS CLUB WILL PAY OUT MILLIONIN CITY 30,000 Depositors to Get Money for Christmas Gift Purchases. Approximately $1,015,000 will be paid on or about Dec. 1 to 30,000 citzens of Indianapolis for use in purchasing Christmas presents or conversion into savings accounts. The figure represents the total of Christmas Club accounts for 1929. The Fletcher Savings and Trust Company and its subsidiary depositories leads in club members, with 9,389 to whom $236,000 will be paid. The average savings of the 30,000 club members in the several banks is fixed at $33.82 in weekly deposits, ranging from 50 cents to $3. The average saving for 1929 is 42 cents higher than last year’s. 40 Per Cent to be Spent Bankers and merchants estimate that about 40 per cent of the money paid out by the Christmas Clubs finds its way into the currency tills of merchants for Christmas presents. Investments gamer about 30 per cent of the money, savings 13 per cent and miscellaneous items 6 per cent. The largest gain in deposits and depositors this year is the report of the Farmers Trust Company, with 400 members and $25,000 to be paid. The company paid out $5,000 in 1928. Other increases over 1928 are: (First figures denote 1928 payments; second amount, 1929, and the third figure the number of club members for this year.) Madison Avenue State, $20,009 $25,000, 6CO; State Bank of Massachusetts avenue, SII,OOO, $20,000, 400; Brightwood State, $8,500, SII,OOO, 300; Bankers Trust, $35,000, $38,000, 1,000; Postal Station State, $60,000, $68,000, 1,200; Northwestern State, $5,000, $3,000, 225; Washington Bank and Trust, $22,500, $23,500, 730; Marion County State, $31,700, $38,700, 900; Meyer-Kiser, $30,000, $33,000, 1,200. Second In Size State Savings and Trust will pay $75,000 to 2,100 members. It is second to the Fletcher Savings in deposits and club members. The bank’s club is a consolidation, however, of the Christmas savings organization of the Inland Bank and Trust and the State Savings bank. The Postal Station State and the Fletcher American National rank third and fourth, respectively, in amounts to be distributed in the city. Amounts to be paid and members of clubs of other banks of the city are as follows: Peoples State bank, $21,000 to 100 members; Aetna Trust Company, $55,000 to 2.000 members; City Trust Company, $38,000 to 2,000 members; Union Trust Company, $9,895 to 312 members; Fountain Square State bank, $45,000 to 1,000 members; Security Trust Company, $7,000 to 220 members; Fidelity Trust Company, $65,000 to 1,600 members, ranking fourth with the Fletcher American National Bank’s club; United Labor Bank and Trust Company, $3,500 to 100 members; Belmont State bank. $11,500 to 500 members; Central State bank. $10,500 to 200 members: Continental National bank, $35,000 to 1,000 members; Ft. Wayne Avenue State bank, $7,000 to 300 members; Forty-Second Street State bank, $12,000 to 250 members; Virginia Avenue State bank, $20,000 to 600 members. Two Are Missing Two clubs were missing from the list of those in 1928 and they were two absorbed by other banks. The East Side State bank was taken over as a branch of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, and the State Savings and Trust Company bought the banking business of the Inland Bank and Trust Company.

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