News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-12-02
VERMONT POST OFFICES.
LamoiIIe County's Presidential Offices
Make a Good Showing.

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statistics regarding the postofiices II
Vermont and their records for thu
last fiscal year.
There are AZ postoffices in Vernon
of what is known as the presidential
class. There are three differen
classes of these, first, second anc
third, according TO the amount o
gross receipts, but the postmaster
of all of them are appointed by thu
President and confirmed by the Sen
ate The amount of money taken il
at these 47postohices during the pas
fiscal year was SAT-, 1858. This
is by far the largest amount of gross
receipts ever recorded by Vernon
postofices of the presidential class
Forty eight per cent. of this money
or $214,613.23, was retained in the
State, being the aggregate ofexpense'
for running those Offices, leaving 6
net revenue of $233,122.60, which
was turned back into the fedora
treasury and which was, sooner OF
later, applied to paying bills for mai
transportation by railroad stage
coach or in other ways. The ag.
gregate total expenses of these offices
comprised the following items: Post
masters salaries, $81 400; clerk hire,
$6O,36O.03; rent, light and fuel,
$14,5 1886; incidentals, $2,867.S1;
and free delivery in towns and cities
$55, 471.53.
These figures are all the more in
teresting when compared with the
figures for the previous fiscal year,
which were: Gross receipts, $413,-
1878; postmasters' salaries, $78 :
900; clerk hire, $52,219.44 rent,
light and f,el, $13, 924,02 inciden-
tails, $3,227.24; free delivery in
towns and cities, $50, 014.62, max
ing the total expenses $2OO,985,3
or 40 per cent. of the gross receipts,
and the netrevenue $212, 952 81. 1t
will be noted that all the figures for
the last fiscal year are larger than for
the previous year save for the unim-
portant item of incidental expenses.
Aside from these At presidential
Offices there are 491 fourth class post
offices in Vermont. Fourth class
postofices pay no revenue to the gov
ernment, the postmaster being given
the amount of stamps cancelled for
his compensation. OF these 491
postof1ces IS paid the postmaster a
compensation of$5O or less year; IS
paid the postmaster all the way from
$50 to 100; 40 of these offices paid
their postmasters all the way from
$1OO.O1 to $500; while 1875 of these
Offices paid salaries ranging from
$2O0O1 to $500, and Sc of the Of
fees paid salaries ranging all the
way from $500 to $1,000.
Burlington which is the largest Of
fee in the state pays salary OF
So, 200 and shows net revenue OF
$40, 3O3.38. Rutland comes second
with a salary of So, 900 net revenue
500, 499.99 Montpelier is third
salary $4,000; net revenue $12, S7S.-
IS.
Lamoile County has four Presi-
dental postofices, but as Stowe has
only recently been advanced to that
class, there are no statistics for that
office for last year. The other three
Offices are;
Morrisville-Gross receipts, ST.
641.68; salary $500; net revenue
$5,379.24.
HYDE Park-Gross receipts 81, 924.-
Ga; salary $1700; net revenue So
972.09.
Johrson-Gross receipts So, 145.-
rs; salary $1,000; net revenue ST.
O25.51.
Wages have been reduced in many
of the cotton manufacturing cities
OF New England, owing to the in,
creased price of the stable. The
cause of this increase is due at least
in part to the ravage OF the cotton
ball weevil, an insect that hascaused
a loss this season to the Texas
planters Of fifteen million dollars.
The seriousness Of the situation
is shown from Investigations made
by the Agricultural Department at
Washington. No preventive has
been discovered, and the Depart
ment officials express the fear that
the weevil will in time spread over
all the cotton fields of the South.
In that event, the annual damage,
basing the estimate on the loss this
year in Texas, will amount to two
hundred and fifty millions, or one
half in value of the cotton crop. The
only remedy suggested is the use of a
rapid-growing variety of cotton,
which must be planted early,
thoroughly cultivated, and the crop
picked before the insects get in their
destruc tive work.
MARRIAGES.