The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-07-30

THURSDAY, July -
Two postal cards were dropped in to
day by carfit business men, not ad-
dressed This is an every day occur
renee
Look at your letters just before drop
ping them in the box 10 see If they are
stamped and directed properly. Every
body makes mistakes in these respects.
II the letter addressed 10 b. F. san.
ford, Prairie City, Illinois, dropped IN
today, had stamp on it there would be
no trouble about its being forwarded
1t cannot go unless it is stamped
If the party who dropped in a letter
today which, AS near as can he asccr-
tanned from the miserable handwriting,
is addressed 10 Arthur Harriss," will
call and complete the direction, he or
she will have the satisfaction of know
ing their cpisile has been sent on ITS
way. From the present scratching, it is
not known whether the letter should 90
10 Alaska or Nova Scotia or Florida
Two letters dropped in the Office to-
day addressed evidently with 4 pin
head, or at least a very hard pencil.
The address was so dim that il had to be
guessed at. When they come to be
handled few times it will be impossi-
bic to make out the address, and some
post master or route agent will be ac-
cused of stealing them. Meier, under
aug circumstance, direct letter with a
pencil.
There are dozens of post offices being
established in Kansas every week that
nobody but the people directly interested
ever heard of, and the fellow who drop
ped letter in the Office this morning,
and marked it Hsend as slow as posi-
BILE" and did not put on the county, was
probably accommodated, as every officer
had to stop when he got time, and hunt
up the county 1t pays TO put the county
on your letters, especially if the Office IS
an obscure one.
Don't put "confidential' on a postal
card. 1t retards its progress.
Only one small package dropped in
today without postage stamp. 1t didn't
get off.
business man directed TO Muscatine,
Kansas, ought TO have been Muscatine,
Iowa
In writing it's good idea to put on
the envelope Gin hast" The letter is apt
TO lay over several days unless this is
on the envelope.
When letter is mailed bearing no adj
dress, if the party for whom it is intend
cd will notify the postmaster, it will be
forwarded to him at once.
Boys when writing to their "best girl"
should confine their tenderness" to the
inside Of an envelope Under no cir
cumstances should postal card be used.
The eastern maIl-that is, the one that
goes in the morning at II 80 before din
ner, now goes ut IL 80 1t don't wait
1t don't go at II Al, like it did last
week, but at IL 80, like il does now
Letters coming in along about II, IL 80
| and p. m, that just must go in that
mail, will get left. The mail closes at
the office at Ills, and il is impossible
for us TO hold il back till ~ O'Clock.
It's got TO go. We felt sorry for about
100 fellows who got left yesterday nom
ing.
We would like To whisper in every
bOdy's ear one thing and have them re
member If. Ina addressing letters write
Indiana, Maryland, Nevada, Nebraska,
Colorado and California in full. Md
| and Ind. are often So near alike it is
hard to tell them apart. Nearly every
body writes Col. just like Cal, and Cal
just like Col. and often il is the mcrest
guess work rs To which state they are
directed 10. The same is the case with
Neb. and New Spell these states ont
in full. 1t Will not take a second longer,
and il you do not take interest enough
in your mail matter 20 direct il plainly,
| you ought not to blame others for max
ing mistakes