Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — Advertised. [ARTICLE]

Advertised.

A new and verdant postmaster in a small rural town had received Instructions to advertise all letters uncalled for at the end of a certain length of time. He obeyed orders by Inserting the following advertisement In the village weekly paper at the end of the first week of his term of office: There are ten letters in the postofflce that nobody has called for. If them they belong to don’t take notice and call by the end of the month the letters will be sent to the dead letter office. Anybody expecting letters they alnt got can come and see If any of these letters belong to them. All take notice.