The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-05-17
GREAT GROWTH
MADE APPARENT
A Very Interesting Document
Showing Indiana Postal
Business in April 1927.
RICHMOND RECEIPTS LOW
AMOUNTED TO s165.25 BUT COM.
PARED FAvORABLY WITH REC.
oRDs MADE BY OTHER HoosiER
CITIES.
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Indianapolis, May ia special dis
patch from Washington says that E. L.
Williams secretary to Representative
Overstreet, has discovered, in rummag-
ing through a lot of old government
records, time stained volume which
is of great interest to Indianians as it
gives the receipts of all Indiana post
offices during the year 1927 with other
data bearing upon Indiana postal aft
airs at that early date. That was be-
fore there was such a city as Chicago
at least the same volume contains no
mention of postofice at Chicago.
In that year there were 1876 post
offices in Indiana Their total re-
ceipts were $5,670.36. The receipts of
the indianapolis postoffice for the en-
tire year were $372.36. An idea of the
growth of postal receipts in Indiana
polls may be obtained by comparison
with the recent reports. The receipts
of the Indianapolis postoffice for the
single month of April, 1906, were $751;
500.09 or over twelve times as much
as the receipts of all the postoffices in
Indiana for the entire year of 1927.
Harmony was Second.
1t is interesting to note that the
town of Harmony was next to Indiana
polls in the volume of it's postal re.
ceipts in 1927. Its receipts, as report
ed to the general government, were
S2S396. Madison came next with re-
ceipts footing up $262.30. Other Indi-
ana postoffiees reported receipts for
the year as follows:
Waterloo, $5.O5; Shelbyville, s34S0;
Lawrenceburg, $167S1; Charlottesville
$11O23; Fl. Wayne, $123,43; Corners
vile, 134.34; Brookville, $169.05;
Bloomington, s134.60; Vevay, $121.04;
Terre Haute, $200.77; Salem, s202.16;
New Albany, $157.11; Richmond, $685.
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/ The old volume dwells on the i'm.
portance of the National road as a
mail route and contains the following
interesting memorial from the legista-
ture of Indiana.
! Legislature Interested.
Whereas a direct mail stage route
upon the located line of the National
road through Indiana and Illinois to
Missouri would not only enable the
general government to save a large
amount of the sum now expended in
/ having the great western mail carried
but would also greatly subserve the
convenience of the people of Indiana
by shortening the routes and facilita-
ting the reception of nearly all her
mails and, whereas, the necessity of
of prompt means of correspondence
with the general government and COM
mercial cities is daily becoming more
important by the utmost unparalleled
increase of population and business of
the state, therefore:
Resolved, by the General Assembly
of Indiana, that our senators in con-
gress be instructed and our represen-
tatives requested to use their best ex-
ertions to procure an appropriation
from the surplus funds of the general
postoffice or from any other fund to
open a practicable stage route through
Indiana upon the line of the National
road as located and practicable mail
route through that part of Illinois and
Missouri to effect so desirable an OBJ
ject."