The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-08-21

changed to the new without an hours
interruption of the office service. The
new fixtures enabled us to give the
public more liberal hours, on Sundays
open, something which our business
men have found of great convenience.
Through persistent effort new rural
routes have been added until they
are now seven in number. Later the
first opportunity was taken to secure
city free delivery and three carriers
now cover the city with efficient serv-
ice. Through system the work Of
handling the mails has been lessened:
outside papers have been encouraged
and assisted in routing their lists so
that they can be handled without loss
of time: by special favor Of the post
Office department, Denison has been
made one of the few offices where the
experiment of not understanding let
ters has been tried and this has en-
abled the Denison office to handle the
heavy morning mail, arriving after I
O'Clock, so that it is ready for the car
riers and for the public by o'clock
The office windows, formerly closed
during all mail distribution, are now
left open throughout the day, regard
less Of incoming mails, SO that the
people need not wait to transact bus
inessj In many other ways we have
tried to aid the merchants and bust
ness men of Denison and we believe
they appreciate our efforts. Above
ALL we now have a corps of faithful,
intelligent, loyal helpers. 1t was not
the pay which drove the rural carriers
to risk lives and property during the
bitter days of last winter to pillow
through the drifts at 40 below zero.
1t is not the pay which makes the city
carriers slip in forbidden overtime
work rather than to see their routes
neglected, it is not the pay which
makes the Office force put in from ten
to twelve hours a day. 1t is the
esprit de Corps" the pride in the
work, the loyalty which makes the
office act as a unit in providing the
best service it can.
This sounds very much like blow
ing ones own horn, but having re-
signed, we can have no Interior pur-
pose,l and we, believe that the entire
Office force is entitled to this state
ment Of the absolute fact that the
work is now at the highest point of
efficiency ever known in Denison and
that the Office will compare very fay
orably with offices of like size
throughout the country.
The change Las been made on our
part simply because we believe and
sincerely hope that we have found op-
portunity to better our condition and
to perpetuate we'll established bus
mess where conditions seem highly
favorable.
On account of continued i'll health
the owner of the Marshall Herald has
felt compelled to part with what is
a thriving business. He will continue
to assist us for some time and will at
IF hi. wi
perience and his knowledge of local
affairs. The Herald is an eight-page,
home-print paper. Politically it is of
exactly the same stripe of republican,
ism as The Review. Its competition
is a democratic weekly, edited by
man who is reported to be gentle
man and a reliable business man.
There are but four other papers in the
county.
Marshall is city of $500, the coun-
ty seat of Clark county, III. 1t is
about 175 miles south of Chicago and
but S miles from the Wabash river,
which forms the boundary between
Indiana and Illinois. 1t is in the midst
of fine agricultural country and it
is also in the center of the Illinois
oil fields, which add much to it's
wealth. Being considerably south of
here its winters are not SO severe and
It's summers are somewhat longer.
1t is pretty city, with number of
fine homes and many good business
houses The business streets are
paved with brick and the outlying
streets are, many of them, gravelled.
1t has two railroads, the Big Four and
the Vandalia. Politically, the county
is close with the advantage seemingly
in favor of the republicans.
This is the community with which
we have decided to cast our lot, and
we go with the determination to work
hard, to give the people the best there
is in us, to benefit by the mistakes of
the past and to build home and a