The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-07-10
HEAVY increase
IN HALF YEARS
POSTAL RECEIPTS
nNlA
Business of Local Office This Year
Exceeds Last Years by
$6,499.45. j
CAIRO HAS SECOND LARGEST
MONEY ORDER P. o. IN STATE
Night Office to be Installed by Oct.
/, Opinion of Postmaster
McManus.

The semi-annual report of Post
master Bernard McManus, Jr..
shows that the business done by the
local postoffice during the six
months ending with June 80 in
creased $6,499.45 over the same
period last year. This years re-
ceipts were s40.460.21: those of
| last year, $33,960.7S. Every one of i,
the first six months of this year
| showed substantial increase over
| the same months last year. those of
| April, S2,096.22. being the highest.
The best month for business this
year was March when the receipts
We're: s79ss.24. The others are
January s65O9.ss. February $685.
OF, April $6465.15, May 6175.92.
and June $7733.01. Last year the
smallest months business OF the
first six was s436s.93 while this
year it was $55S8.01.
This years receipts for the month
OF June showed a steady continua-
tion in increase. The figures for the
last six years are: June 1908,
s3SO1,52: 1909. s4557.90; 1910.
| s464S.93; 1911. S46S4.83: 1912.
s4e10.s0 1913, S606I.0l; 1914.
$1,733.0l. Tho figures have doubled
in six years.
Through the efforts of Congress
man r. p. Hill of this district and
because OF the increase in business,
the postofffce department has added
three new clerks at the local office.
They were appointed to their posi-
, tiOns after taking the civil service
, examination on March 2s. Lyde
, Redman has been appointed money
order clerk and secretary to the
postmaster John II. Foster, broth
er OF Circuit Clerk c. o. Foster, was
appointed as substitute mail and
parcel post carrier succeeding Leo
Spence who was transferred to a
clerkship Richard Walch, brother
Of Dr.. ]. r. Walsh. was appointed
auxiliary clerk succeeding Oscar NJ.
Harrison who was transferred to a
l regular clerkship. All three are
Democrats.
The rostoitce Department at
Washington has assured Congress
man Hill that the appropriation of
$4,000 for the remodeling of the
= Cairo postoffice, as recommended by
the inspectors who were sent here
in March for that purpose, would be
provided for when the general ap-
preparation is made by Congress.
. The inspectors, together with
e Postmaster McManus. recommended
Y, the establishment of an all-night Of
!, tice, but the Department at Wash
ington has notified the Postmaster
that this will be deferred until fall.
In the opinion of Postmaster Nc
n Manus, an all-night office will be
c in operation by October /.
,s The sale of postage stamps from
April ! to June 80 this year netted
:, the office $19.326.16. The returns
:, from permit" matter was $TS4.30
=, for the same period. while the rent
OF postoftice boxes netted Sl36.sa.
The total for the three months was
~ s20.374.0s. ~"wEsu
The salary list carried is very
=, heavy. In the last three months.
=. S1,70S.S4 was paid to ali the EN-
;, ployes Of the local office, S5,14T.90
- was paid out in the three months
to railway mail clerks who live IN
Cairo.
- The local office does a money or
;, | der business which exceeds that
!, d, done in offices in many towns from
four to five times as large as Cairo.
There are Ill postoffices in Illinois.
Missouri, Kentucky and Tanr"-see
that remit their money orders into
% the local office once or twi,e every
week. The money is used by the To-
A. cal office in paying money orders
II. sent into Cairo. 1t is now nasSins
ct any money order not over so days
A old. This became effective July !.
Q, The average number of money or
rs ders paid out each day by the losai
,c Office is 400 day These are cash
A. ed by the three Cairo banks and are
IL taken up by the postoffice. Cairo,
,e according to records, next 10 Chi
er cago, does the largest mohay order
3. business OF any city in Illinois.