The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-23
Post Office Is .Swamped with
Letters and Packages
Extra Clerks.
TO HELP THE POOR
The Charitable Organizations
Have Plans Worked Out
To Relieve Suffering.

All records Tor the receipt of Christ
mas mail in the Richmond post office
were broken Sunday and today. Rural
and city carriers We're swamped with
letters and packages. Mail was piled
high in all parts of the federal building
and even the office of the postmaster
was used to sort the accumulation.
Twenty wagonsIeight of them de-
voted TO the city~delivery, were kept
busy handling the matter. Carriers
were compelled TO make two and three
extra trips to deliver the mail
The Oldest clerk in the office can
not rseAll the day when there was
such heavy receipts as as poured into
Richmond today. Extra clerks and
carriers were engaged, but they were
unable to tighten appreciably the work
OF the regular men.
The post office officials are awaiting
with dread the influx of mail Tuesday
and Wednesday. The day before
Christmas is regarded the heaviest one
OF the holiday week. and it is believed
that many packages will not be deliver
ed until forty-eight hours after their
receipt.
For Their Employees.
Evidence of the near advent of the
big holiday is also noted in the prepa.
rations which big industrial concerns
have made to remember their employ
, es. The NJ. Rumely company. the
American Seeding Machine company
| the International Harvester company
! and other large concerns will give EN-.
ployes tokens of esteem and apprecia.
ton tomorrow.
Business houses and offices will al.
so distribute gifts to their employees.
! Never before have charitably inclin.
ed persons taken the interest they
have manifested this season in the
poor and INDECENT OF the city. The Good
Fellow campaign of the Palladium re.
suited in the making of a long list OF
| families that needed aid.
The names of scores of families
We're given to charity organizations
and individuals. II is believed that
there will not be family in the city
needing help that will not be supplied
with Christmas cheer
|
their annual custom of sending baskets
to the poor, and of Frightening the
hearts of the poor boys and girls with
| toys and candles. The charity boards
of the UNCONVENTIONAL churches have
listed their poor and will provide for
| them.
! At the Institutions.
| tho a atQrn Indiana Incnifal foy
the Insane, the Wernle Orphans
| Home, the Home for Friendless Wo
men, the Margaret Smith Home fol
Aged Women, and at the correctional
and penal institutions, inmates will moi
be overlooked. Extensive Christmas
programs have been arranged, and spe
cial meals will be served on Christmas
day.
/ College boys and girls began to ar
rive home late last week, and were
still coming in today. Hundreds Of
families will hold reunions. Socia
functions in which old friendships viii
be revived and confirmed are schedul
ed for the latter part of the week.
The Sunday school members of the
First Presbyterian church brought OF
ferings of money. fruits, candies. vege
tables and toys yesterday. The gift,
will be assigned to various charity or
ganizations for distribution among tn,
poor tomorrow and Christmas day.
Admission TO the Christmas cantats
given this evening at the First Chris
tian church will be to buy a toy, Of
gifts of fruit and candies. These viii
be given to the poor.