The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-11-19
IMPROVEMENTS In
POSTAL SERVICE
OUTGOING MAIL RECEIVED TILL
NINE THIRTY p. NJ, AND
GENERAL DELIVERY
OPEN AT NIGHT
This Service, Which Win Be Inaugu-
rated at Once, Wall, it Is BE-
ieved, Meex Demands of
the General Public.

The improved postal service which
Postmaster Wood has been promising
as for several months is to be estab-
fished at once, and, beginning to-
morrow night, the postoffice will re-
ceive outgoing mail until $40 p. N.
and all mail deposited in the Office
up to that hour will be dispatched on
the night trains. These hours will
be observed on all except Sunday
nights, when outgoing mails will be
closed at nine O'Clock, as heretofore.
There are four trains leaving the
city between eleven p. NJ. and seven
a. m, two on the Mobile & Ohio and
two on the Southern. The two trains
on the Mobile. & Ohio leave at IL: so
.. M. and $40 a. M, and the two on
the Southern at a. m. and 2 a. M.
Mail deposited in the postofflce up
to $50 p. N. will be dispatched on
these trains. and no time will be lost
in the transmission of letters. There
are likewise four incoming mails at
night. and during the early morning
hours, two on the Southern, at Z
and $3.50 p. M, and two on the Mo-
bile & Ohio, at one a. IN. and five
8. m. The mail brought in on the
Southern trains is distributed i'm
nediateIy upon arrival, while the
mail coming On the Mobile & Ohio
trains, both of which arrive after
Enidnight, are distributed early the
following morning, and the letter
carriers start out on their trips at
seven p. M
In order to accommodate travelling
men and residents of the city who
are unable to visit the postOfiiSe dur
ing the day time, the general deiiv-
cry window will be kept open from
s:3o until 3 O'Clock each evening,
Sundays included, and stamps will
be sold during the half hour that the
window remains open This will en-
able travelling men reaching the city
as late as s-3e p m TO secure their
mail, answer same and deposit their
replies in the letter box at the post
Office before the hour for closing
sutgoing mails arrives
Mr.. w. p. Pollard, who has had
position as clerk in the local post
ef6oe for the past three months. has
rendered his resignation and left
last week for Charlottesville, Ark,
where he goes To accept position in
the railway service. Mr.. Allen Wal
ton who worked In the postofHee last
sum mer and who for the past three
months has been in the employ OF
Mr. LIB. Dlvelbiss, has been APP
pointed to the clerRship made vacant
by the resignation of Ar. Pollard
A rearrangement OF hours obviates
tMe necessity for an additional clerk. |
and the work will be kept up by the |
present force. As soon as the busi-
ness of the office increases TO such |
aa extent as to require a larger force |
tAe postmaster will take the matter
up with the postal authorities at |
Washington. and make an effort TO
secure an appropriation for another
clerk.
Child Drinks Kerosene.
John McLachlin, Jr.. the bright |
little son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Nc
Lachlin. came very near bringing his
yoang life TO an untimely end last
puesday night by drinking half a
tumbler OF kerosene. Mrs. McLach-
Lin on the previous day had had oc-
sssion to use some kerosene for do
nestle purposes, and had left tumb-
Ter about half full OF the fluid sitting
on table in her bed room. About
six o'clock Tuesday afternoon her
son became thirsty, and thinking that
the kerosene was water proceeded to
drink it. He was taken i'll almost
Immediately, and suffered intensely
for several hours, having finally pass
cd into commissions. DIR. R. C. Mol
10y. who boards with Mr.. and Mrs.
administered emetics, and
snally succeeded in relieving the suf-
ferings OF the little fellow.