The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-25
FAIR ST AMPS
viii BE PLAc Ed ON sALEs3a AZ. 81
81 THE LOCAL POST oFFtC 10
APRIL BOTH,
WHICH is THE OPENING DAY @ s
THE GREAT ST. LOUIS *
POSITION.
PEOPLE WILL WATCH EAGERLY
FOR STAMPS AND MANY'WiLLs III
BE KEPT AS SOUVENIRS

The Fairmont Post Office mas re-
ceiyed from the Post Office Depart
ment at Washington suppl ". Oh
Worlds Fair Stamps, the same being
a special series in five denominations
Ito comm emorate the Louisiana Fur
chase of 1903, and known as the com
mernorative series of 1904, and viii
be placed on sale at the local Post
Office on Saturday. April Goth; which
is the opening day of the great St
Louis Exposition. This series OF
stamps will not be issued In book:
form, and there will be no comment
oratiye issue Of stamped envelopes,
newspaper wrappers, postal CARDS.
special delivery or duestampssIh es
stamps of the commemorative Sc
ries of 9Ootrn1 eat Ss.ss hrntatS
ries of 1904 arc not to be sold exclu-ss
siveIy in place of the stamps Or the the
regular issue from, April Both TO De-
cember 1st, but supply of the lat
ter will be carried in stock by all
stamps, or the regular issue will be
supplied according to the preference
Of the purchaser. The deno 1illsLi1s a.
tons and SUBJECTS of the new stamps
arc as follows:
Oue-cent. green; subject, Robert III;
Livingston, United States Min1sterZtoo4
France, who conducted the negot TIA
tons for the Louisiana Purchase.
Two cent, red Thomas Jefferson
President of the United States az t the
time of the Purchase. Threecef11L,3s
mrple: James Monroe, special EN-
bassador to France in the matter OF
the Purchase, who, with Liyingst ton,
closed the negotiations. Five cent cent,
blue; William Mckinley, who as Pres-::
ident of the United States approved
the Acts of Congress. officially con con.
Meeting the United States Il. Coy Ill-8i
ment with the commemorative eSes
nosition. Ten-cent, brown United
states may showing the TERRITORY Oh;
the Purchase.
The Post Office Department Is ar
ranging to issue new Domestic Re sspI
Postal Cards of the one-cent deho1
ination: these cards will be ISSUED as
soon as the old supply at the several AZ
distributing agencies are exhausted
Observation-Disclosures Card----In the
upper right hand corner IS q porttrrsasi1tl
of the late General William II sner-s
man facing left; above the portrait Is
name SHERMAN" With the years { OF 1:
birth and DEATH 1920 and 1S9l re-
spectively, on either side Of the nam g Is
and below the name appears the de-
nomination one cent. United:
States Flag and the end of the statf5
of another appear on either side OF the
border. In the left corner is a scroll
surrr1 ot1nted by United states
shield Within the scroll appear tnes
words in white capital letters, Y nlted3
States of America. Postal Card VIII With
paid .epIy." Under the scroll are the
words. "This side is for the address
only"
Description of Reply Card-T lse1t de-
sign is similar to that of the message &
card described above, except that q 4
portrait of General Phillip II I. Sher-s,
idan is used, with the name Sher-s
;dan,' beneath it. and the years OF
birth and death, 1881 and 1883, re-!
spectively, on either side OF the name
while the lettering within the scroll ei
in the upper left corner reads, p: 1ltea
states of America. Reply card
Albert T. Watson returns to ms dll7s
ties in Baltimore tonight