Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1909 — LAWSHE TO QUIT POSTOFFICE JOB [ARTICLE]

LAWSHE TO QUIT POSTOFFICE JOB

Third Assistant to Hitchcock Finds Health Is Bad. CANNOT UVE IN WASHINGTON Official, Who Is an Indiana Man, Decides That Best Thing For Him Is Permanent Residence In the Dry Climate of New Mexico Was Recommended by Taft When President Was Secretary of War. Indianapolis, Oct. 15. —Information has been received here that Abraham L. Lawshe of Converse, Ind., had resigned as third assistant postmaster general on account of ill-health. Lawshe has Just returned to Washington from a two months' vacation, spent at Eort Bayard, N. M. He went there hoping that he would be restored to health and that at the end of the two months he might resume his duties in the department. Sunburned and sturdy looking with his 200 pounds of flesh, as he Is today, Lawshe has confided to his friends that he Is far from being a well man. As he desires* to return to New Mexico in the immediate future, he will ask that he be relieved of his duties as soon as convenient No attention has been given to the selection of a successor, it is said, either by Post master General Hitchcock or by President Taft, and hence it is possible that a new third assistant postmaster general will not be named before congress convenes. The position of third assistant postmaster general has been held by Lawshe since 1907. * He was appointed upon the recommendation of President Taft, then secretary of war.