The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-01-11
Receipts of Kenosha POST
office for 1911 Set New
Record for Office.
DECEMBER is RECORD MONTH
Greatest Per Cent. of Gain in Postal
Eeceipts in october-Total Receipts
or Year Pass $4,000 Mark-Postal
s Bank to Be Opened Here Soon.

The postofice at Kenosha is expect
ed to rank seventh in the state in the
annual report. that is now being pre-
pared by Earl S. WEIGH, postmaster
at Eau Claire, and which will be is
sued before the end of the present
month. The report of the Kenosha
Office for the year indicates an in
crease in postal receipts over the year
1910 of only little less than twenty
per cent and it is one of the biggest
increases ever reported by the Keno
sha Office. A year ago when the re.
port was made Tonosha was in ninth
place in the state, but with an increase
of more than $4,000 in the receipts
during the year just closed Kenosha
is expected to nose out both Superior
and Eau Claire which had small mar
gin of advantage over it last year and
land in seventh place.
There has been steady increase in
the business since the first of January
of last year and the only two months
Of 1911 that did not show an increase
over the previous year were May and
September May of 1911 showed a
failing off of a little over hundred
dollars from the figures Of last May
and the September balance was $130
less than the balance in the former
year.
The banner month of the year was
December when the Christmas business
pushed the total of the postal receipts
up to $7,519.12. This was an increase
Of more than $500 over the same
month of last year, but at that Decem-
Der did not show the largest advance
in business. October had the palm
with business of $7,288.S0, an in
crease of $2,211.06 over the same
month Of last year. Outside of the
Christmas business October was the
banner month of the year and this is q
hard thing to explain as usually Octo-
Der is one Of the quiet months for the
postoffce department The advance in
The last quarter IS business has been
larger than any advance ever report,
cd In the business of the Kenosha Of
flee and the total for the quarter will
be in excess of $500.
The total postal receipts for 1911
were $75,361.42, while those of 1910
were but 1868, $500, It is thought that
Kenosha will have pretty close to the
largest proportional increase in Wis
c0nsin.
OF course the postal receipts is only
o. part of the business done by the
Kenosha office and there has been a
vast increase in the business of the
money order department. The annual
report for this department will not be
out for some time, but it is declared
that the Office has handled more money
this year than in any previous year and
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transactions of the Office will be con
siderably over the half million dollar
mark. The vast increase in the bnsi-
ness has been brought without any
large increase in the expense of the
Office to the department and for this
reason the Kenosha office has been one
of the most profitable in Wisconsin for
the government.
Inspector Walker of the postofice
department. was in the city on We'd.
nesday and he announced that Keno
sha was one of the cities directly in
line for the opening of postal saw
ings bank. The date for the opening
of the bank has not been definitely set
as yet, but the inspector declared that
Postmaster Baker would be able to an
nounce definitely the date within the
next three weeks. Kenosha people
promise to be good customers for a
postal bank and many of the patrons
IT SAe Office have made repeated en-
qUiries in regard to the time for its
opening. 1t is declared that all cities
with a large foreign population have
proven good fields for these banks and
it is certain that Kenosha will be no
exception to the gule.
The annual report of postal receipts
as compiled by Assistant Postmaster
M. F. Zens shows the receipts for the
months of 1911 as compared with the
receipts in the same months of 1910:
1910. 1911.
January 4.773.21 s 3. 663 10