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Postmaster Quinn Gives lips On Handling Christmas Mail To The Editor: As the volume of mail to be han dled by the postal employees will be so greatly augmented during the approaching Christmas season, they greatly need and desire the co-op eratioft of every patron of the of fice and its various routes. By the careful observation of a few simple and fundamental principles, suen as legible writing, correct and com plete addressing, proper wrapping and tying, and attaching return ad dresses, all mail could be handled correctly and expeditiously. These points carefully observed, there would be few delays and losses in the mails. I Things To Remember. Post and Christmas cards, mailed loose, require one cent postage; | mailed in an unsealed envelope, ! they require one and a half cents; ; and if mailed in a sealed envelope, they require two cents, i City carriers are not required to stop at residences to pick up letters for dispatch but, if they have mail for a house, they will take up such letters. Drop boxes are provided on the streets for letters for dispatch. Please use these. Do not expect the city carriers to take up your mail unless they are delivering mail at your house. Always stamp your let ters before dropping in street boxes Do not drop money in street boxes for stamping letters. If you expect city service, you must provide a receptacle for same or cut a slot in cr near your door. This requirement must be complied with. There are numerous streets in Shelby that need and desire city service but can not get it until they are qualified by having paved streets or improved sidewalks. When these improvements are ex tended the post office department will consider the extnsion of the city service. All the rural carriers from the Shelby post office arc suppled with stamped and printed envelopes for their respective routes. All patrons should keep a supply of these on hands. It is a material delay and annoyance to the carriers to stop to sell a stamp or envelope every tlnvj you have a letter to mail. The habit of putting pennies in mail boxes for stamps should be discontinued at once. It is a source of endless an noyance and delay. it, is no pan, oi me aury oi a ru ral carrier to stop to write a card or a letter for a patron. When he does so he Is Infringing upon thi government’s time. He is delaying the delivery of the mail of other patrons who are expecting him on shedule time. A general delivery clerk is not re quired to open boxes for patrons who come without their keys or to hand out mail at window from Iocs boxes, but he is called upon scores of times every day to render this service, while patrons who are en titled to window service must stand in line and wait. This is unfair to the clerk, an injustice to the wait ing patrons, and an Imposition upon the government. It should be dis continued and no longer tolerated. Some people buy a stamp every time they mail a letter thus sub jecting themselves and the clerk, or rural carrier, as the case may be, to the loss of time and energy m sell- ! lug stamps and making change, In stead of buying enough stamps, or better, stamped envelopes to last them a while. It costs no more in the end, to keep a supply on hand than to buy every time you need one. f Our city patrons should remember that city carriers are not required to handle add sel. stamps or stamp ed envelopes and they should not be requested to furnish stamps or to stamp letters mailed without stamps. Very often this office receives letters correctly and completely ad dressed to persons living on streets that are without city service. As we have no means of delivering these letters at the houses named, they must go to the general delivery to await a call from addressee and the addressee docs not call because he has given his correct address, as he thinks. Consequenly these letters must go to the dead letter office. Tf you are not served by a city carrier, then let your correspondents know where and how you get your mail. If you mail cards or letters in quantities you can greatly assist your office and hasten the dispatch -of your mail by tying in bundles or by handing them in at the general delivery window instead of dropping in box. In such cases letters and cards should all be faced the same way. If you are doing a large quantity of mailing, please do not dump it all in the office at one time but distribute it throughout the day. You will greatly aid us and hasten the dispatch of your own mail. To handle the great volume of mall which must pass through this office before Christmas passes, we will greatly need the cooperation of oui' patrons at every turn. If you failed or neglected to mail that letter or parcel that you as sured your friend or creditor that you would mall. It Is a pretty slick way of shifting responsibilities and covering up one's own shortcomings by saying '*1 mailed it and the post office 1ms lost it." The post office suffers often for the sins of others Remember there will be no car rier service, city or rural,, on Sun day, December 22, nor on Christ mas day, except special deliveries. Remember the malls will be greatly congested on 2?sv and 24th To in sure delivery in lore Christmas, by all means mail early and often. Hundreds of Christmas cards wl»l be mailed by teachers to their pupils within a few days. The greater part of these children are unkonwn to the employees of this office and to Insure prompt delivery they must be completely addressed and sent In care ot parent. If every clerk in office could review every piece of mall passing tr.iough the office, possibly every addressee would be known by some one, but that is physically Impossible and unthink able. In the main they must be governed by the address given Then let's be on the safe side by giving everything that tends to identify the child. Some patrons think that letters which are incompletely or incor rectly addressed, many times giv ing the post office only, should be Inspected by every man in the of fice to see if any one knows ad dressee before such letters arc re turned to the writers. But we re cive hundreds or so addressed and to take this course in each instance would mean a great loss of time and a heavy expense to the govern ment. The department expects every patron to so address his mail that any clerk in the office will know w’here it goes. This expedites deliv ery, saves expense to the govern HERES A GREAT CHRISTMAS RADIO OPPORTUNITY ■ ~ ~ 1 — 1 I " ~ ~ ~ ■ ~~~ f tea. us pat orr. SCREEN GRID YOU can give no finer gift than Radio ... you can give no finer Radio than Ward’s New 1930 Air Iine-9 Screen-grid! In this—our greatest radio achieve* i Also Sold on Easy Payments ment—we give you Radio performance unsurpassed in sets costing up to $100 more! 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Push-pull system of amplification gives practically equal tone value to all notes over the entire «n»»^l range. Reduced now to a price that brings the finest Radio performance within reach of alL $90.50 FREE DELIVERY FREE INSTALLATION FREE SERVICE f STORE HOURS: 8 A. M. to 6 P. M ISO-HI S. LaFAYETTE ST, 8 A. M. to 9 P. M. SATURDAY. SHELBY. N. C. PHONE NO. 167. merit, and saves a criticism of the sfflce. Despite our most careful atten tion and our most earnest desire to render efficient service, some let ters will get in the wrong boxes. We would not be human were we to make no mistakes. When you find that we have made a mistake. Just | remember that we handle thousands | correctly to every one that is incor rectly handled and ask yourself if you could have done as well. When anything is unsatisfactory at your office, tell the postmaster—not the other fellow—and give him a chance to correct it, if possible. We are i anxious at all times to render efft- j clent service. Please help us to do j it. J. H. QUINN, Postmaster. j Shelby, N. C. If You Can’t See Red, It’# Too Bad _ I Optometrist Says Indirect Color j Vision Test Reveals Bodily Ills. Cincinnati.—“The newest method.1 of diagnosing the ills to which the flesh Is heir is by charting defects In the Indirect color vision o' the human eye," It was stated here by Dr. W. Jerome Heather, .read of the Pennsylvania state school of optometry, in an address before Cincinnati optometrists. •'The indirect field of vision in cludes all colored objects seen at an angle," he explained. “White ob jects should be seen within a nine-, ty degree arc; blue should be clear at fifty-four degrees; red at forty one, and green at twenty-four. “Elaborate clinical tests have demonstrated that many individuals have narrowing of these fields of vision and this constricture always indicates some disorder of the tod;/. “Thus alteration In the red vi sion field Indicates systemic toxe mia; alterations In the green vision, a focal infection like a bad tooth or tonsl, and so forth.’ After successfully defending a man accused of theft. Attorney J. W. Morin of St. Paul was robbed of his fur overcoat by his client. Notice of Sale of Certficate of Stocks Under authority given to the un dersigned executor of the will of E. A. Hamrick, deceased, the under signed Will offer for sale at public auction to the.highest bidder for cash at the court-house door in Shelby. N. C., at 11 a. m. December 21. 1929, Twenty (20) Shares of Preferred Stock of the Stone Cutter Mills, together with all rights be longing to same, par value of rame being $100.00 per share. This December 7th, 1929. UNION TRUST COMPANY, Lattimore Branch, Executor. Newton Sc Newton, Attys. COMMISSIONER S SALE OF LAND. By virtue of a decree made in special proceedings entitled, "P. I-I. Mauney and wife, Mittie Mauney and others, versus. Mary Liizlc Lee and others,” which proceeding is of record in the office of the clerk of the superior court of Cleveland county, North Carolina, I, as com missioner, will offer for sale at pub lic auction to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Shelby, North Carolina at 12 o’clock M. on the 30th day tt December, 1929 the following described real estate: Lot No. 1. Beginning'at a stake, corner of James Elmore and Leroy Ivester, and runs north 68-50 weit 239'-i feet to a stake; thence -outh 86-50 west 198 feet to a stake: thence south 75-50 west 169 feet to a stake; thence south 20-25 west 334 feet to a white oak: thence south 57-40 east 191 feet to a white oak; thence north 79-30 east 250 feet to a water oak: ihenec south 61-50 east 225 feet to a stake; th nen north 12-10 east 425 feet to the place of beginning, containing 5.75 acres, more or less. Lot No. 2. Beginning at a stake in the road, corner of the anull tract sold to Tom Mauney. and runs thence south 3-95 west 330 feet to a stone; thence south 12-45 east 137 feet to a white oak; thence south 69-10 west 935 feet to center of the river; thence with the cen ter of the river as it meanders 330 feet; thence north 85-40 east 660 feet to an oak; thence north 65-50 east 447 feet to a stone; thence north 83 east 132 feet to a stake: thence north 10 east — feet to a white oak: thence north 31 west 730 feet to a stake; thence north 30-50 west 376 feet to a stake in line of lot No. 1; thence south 12-fO west 110 leet to a stake; thence south 61-50 east 30 feet to an oas; thence south 22 west 226 feet to an oak; thence south 1-10 east 293 feet to the place of beginning, contain ing 2514 acres, -more or less. Lot No. 3. Beginning at a ‘tone in line of lot No. 3 and corner of Horace Mooney, and runs -outh 65-50 west 447 feet to an oak; thence south 85-40 west 640 feet to the cen ter of First Broad river; ihence with the meanders of said river 1880 feet to a s* >ne. corner of Horace Mooney; thence south 40 east 714 feet to a stake in center of said river; thence with center of satd river in an easterly direction 323 leet to a stone, comer of Horace Mooney; thence north 33 vry. 229 feet to a walnut; thence north 33 east 333 feet to a stone; thence north 35-40 east 1030 feet to a stor e pile; thence N. 3-10 W. 615 feet jo the place of beginning, containing 37.6 acres, more or less. Terms of sale: 1-3 cash on day of sale, the balance in two (2) equal annual installments. Right-of-ways shall be reserved to the lots No. 1 and No. 3. This November 29. 1929. P. M. MOONEY. CunmnuaunM. . It’s Christmas Time At THE SMOKE HOUSE Merrick’s FINE CHOCOLATES A Creation For The Connoisseur These Chocolates are not only as good as the best that are made—but a North Caro lina product. We recommend and guarantee every piece of MERRICKS’ to be the very best. A complete line to suit the most fastidious for the holi days. Bide Ridge Ice Cream The Smoke House serves Ice Cream. We recommend BLUE RIDGE because it is made of pure fruits and pure cream—it is not only good, but it is nourishing, refresh ing and healthful. MADE IN SHELBY. We have it in bulk or in brick. Please let us serve you. PIPES Cigar and Cigarette Holders, Cigar and Cigarette Lighters FOR CHRISTMAS. Cortez Cigars (For Men of Brains)' Permit us to recommend the NEW CORTEZ—the new shapes and sizes are appeal ing to most men who appre ciate a real good cigar. Your favorite brands and a most complete line will be found in our stock. (Cigars in Condition.) FRUITS From the Carolina Fruit & Produce Co. The very best the market af fords at all times. Fruits are almost a necessity at Christ mas time. Smokers’ Articles And Candies For Christmas — PERODIC ALS — A complete line of Magazines to choose from. If we do not carry your favor ite number we will be pleased to order and reserve for you — However, we believe we have as complete a line as is to be found in Shelby. DAILY and SUNDAY PAPERS. A complete line of CHELSEA HOUSE BOOKS on display—All new—No reprints. WESTERN—Love and ROMANCE at popular prices. A suggestion for the Holiday Gift. 9 THE NAME SMOKE HOUSE The name SMOKE HOUSE has caused some confusion to the people of Shelby— and especially among the lady prospective customers who enjoy their daily refresh., ing drink or Ice Cream and at this season a cup of Hot Chocolate, Coffee or Boullion, or one of our HOME MADE SANDWICHES. The Smoke House is a Confectionary Store for Ladies and Gentlemen. We solicit your patronage. QUALITY-SERVICE-APPRECIATION CURB SERVICE AT ALL HOURS. West Wr'-ren St. Phone 454-W. Opposite Hotel Chariot
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