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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Entered a* Second Class Myil Matter
at Portofflca, LoaksriUa. N. C.
PRICE—Dally deUrarod by carrier
tee year *5-00; 6 month*, $3.00; 3
brouth 91.35; 1 month 45c. 10 cent*
per weak. ,
Porei'gYi Rcifresentative—'Thomas F.
Clark Co., 141-145 West 30th St,
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lation of 17,000.
SATURDAY, JANUARY. 36, 1034.
LOCAL MAIL
CONDITIONS
The business at our local post
offices, both at Spray and Leaksville.
is ever on the increas.
Facilities that were sufficient a year
or so age, will hardly meet the re
quirements today. As the town’s
business grows and the population
increases, the business handled by
local offices grows proportionately.
And, of course, we who live in this
community well know the steady
growth of population and business.
Some of our post-office patrons
complain of the post-office service
rendered as do patrons of a news
paper or telephone service, but there
should be- a strong distinction made
between post-offices and these others.
Our postmasters have conditions to
contend with, over which they have
jjo control. They can only do that
which the post-office department au
thorize* them to do. They are limit
ed in clerk hire and although addi
tional help may be needed ever so
badly, they can not engage this help
until the department at Washington
gives the order. The department at
Washington is also subject to Con
gress. And while the department may
khow the necessity' for better facili
ties, more clerks and better service,
they too, must conform to what Con
gress decides.
We believe it unfair to the post-1
office department, especially local |
post masters, unless it can be shown j
the fault rests on him and within his;
power to remedy.
The Spray office has 367 lock boxes:
rented and application for 120 more.
Steps have been taken to add 96 new
boxes, 24 short of the applicants for
boxes. The 96 new boxes will fill all
the available space for boxes and
then the capacity is reached.
Another thing which shows the
business increases at this office dur
ing the past year compared with 1922:
In
. 1922 1923 crease
Registered letters .. 614 724 110
Insured .1,024 2,172 1,148
Money Oders issued 7,102 8,704 1,602
Money Order paid.. 936 1,104 168
International M. O... 3
There is on an average of 22 bags
of mail received daily, and 13 bags
V dispatched.
Postmaster Rowe and his assistant,
Mr. Franklin, handles this great
volumn of business. That more help
is needed, seems very evident. Much
j& the same condition obtains at the
i Leaksville post-office, although we
I have not before us the actual figures.
These will be obtained and then post
office patrons can decide what steps
should be taken to improve local
facilities for handling mail.
SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE,
SOMEHOW
(By Wickes Wamboldt)
Not very long ago a baron and a
baroness committed suicide on the
grave of their son who had been dead
four years. They left a note saying
they had nothing to live for. It was
a sad instance and the more so be
cause it indicated the baron and the
baroness had lived without knowing
why they were living or what they
were here for.
We are not put into this world to
get what we want but to get what i»
good for us. Many times the worst
thing that could happen to us would
be to get what we want, like the baby
who cries for Hie wasp on the windotr
pane or yells for its father’s raaor.
We art net neceearOg put here to
eiijoy life or to be in such locality as
jtjfpeala to us ?r to be with the people
that attract us. We are put here to
Work- W are put here to broaden.
to do required *elf-eoatrol and «f a» '
the things we human* mad aeif-con- ,
trol is paramount. Give a man self
eeatrol and he cm brine *11 othei
thing* te him. Let the man with self
eontrol b« convinced of lie doty *»d
b* wiB do it.
* Tha baron and the baroness lacked
self-control when they destroyed their
Uvea on tieir son’s gras*. They play
ed hookey because the problend get
too hard. Probably wherever they
are now they wish they had remained
here and finished the education that
this World would have given then.
The boy in school on a summer day
when the birds are singing, the
breezes blowing and the fish biting
nay think he has not much to live
for—particularly if he did not get his
lessons the night before. He would
like to quit schot. Lots of them do
end regret it years later.
Civilization starts when nan begins
to control his circumstances instead
of letting them control him. It is only
when hie realises tbs nbcesity of turn
ing his back 0n the (nth of least re
sfcthnc* that he begins to assume
imtiini Man is not intended in
Mid 'world te spend tee »eeh tine
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We aan net get eu» ktnMH
itteUn* eur hooks inta the toe
tilling ourselves en senthbiy1*
nave. We have thing* to lean M*
tern them wa must, sometime, some
to
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where, somehow.
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orhsadache—rabtbeforahsad
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PHONE 46*
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ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
if the estate of Theresa Hopper, de
ceased, late of Rockingham County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at Leaks
ville, N. C., o nor before 1st day of
Tanuary, 1925, or this notice will be
(leaded in bar of their recovery. All
tersons indebted to said estate will
(lease make immediate payment.
This 1st day of January, 1924.
A. T. HOPPER,
Admr. of Theresa
l-6,12,19,26;2-2,9 Hopper, dec’d.
(Continued From Page One)
Read Your County’s Dally Paper First.
Ninety per cent of the
business failures the
past year were firms
that did not advertise.
Do you, Mr. Merchant,
want the business that
is now going out of
town?
You can get it, if you
advertise consistently!
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TODAY
HERBERT RAWUNSON
IN
A Million to Bum
Mmi mllttia in couldn't spend • ssilllon at a dialer,
vUsatar. dialer pea than "Herbert Rawlinson" doaa la tUa .
exciting, adventurous picture!
Heart-interost, romance, love—and laughs!
"Hava you aver wanted to be an aetrsss?"
"Would you be happy if you ware a millionaire?”
•11 you are married do you wish you were single?”
“Do you want the things your neighbor has?"
If you do, sea "A Million to Bum” at the Boulevard Theatre,
tonight.
Alto Baby Peggy in “TIPS”
If you can stay away tonight with "Baby Peggy" in town
you had better see your doctor—honest Injuns!
• .OHlIIIUUIIIIIUMIIIIUIIIV
MONDAY
Elliott Dexter in
“An Old Sweetheart of
Mine”
The drama of a love that knew no ending.
A tale of love that was true.
And to dream the old dreams over in a luxury divine—
When my truant fancy ^tenders with that old sweetheart
sweetheart of mine.
—, It’d a-Metro, AUo
Ruth Roland in the "Haunted Valley"
Don’t stay at home tonight.
STEAM HEAT, TOO, AT
THE BOULEVARD
THEATRE
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The home of real entertainment
The beet pictures in the beet
surroundings
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