The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-04
Largest Months Business in History OF
Office.

Office.
Mr.. w. H. HarKrader, Hamilton g
popular postmaster, gives out the in
formation that the month of Janus..y
just closed, was the banner month of
the postoffice in a business way dur
ing it's existence as an office. He
stated that the records will show that
there was twenty per cent more busi-
ness done during January than was
ever done before during any one
month, making it record breaker.
Just at the present time, the office
is overrun with work, as the firm of
Dadant & Sons are getting out their
annual catalogue. They are mailing
out this season seventy thousand of
these catalogues, and the cancella-
ton of that many stamps by hand is
an enormous amount of work. Mr..
Harkrader cancelled thirty thousand
of these by hand just one at a time. BY
that time he had gotten wise and
wrote to the department asking for
an electrotype for cancelling and they
sent him plate that could be put in
to press and cancel one hundred
stamps at time, so that after receiv-
ing this, he was able to do in an hour
and half, what it would have taken
him at least six days to do the former
way.
/ The enormity Of the amount of bust
ness that is done by the Arm of Da-
dant & Sons or the extent to which
! the firm name is known the world
over, is not realized but by a mighty
! few people. 1t has been stated by au-
thority that If a letter was to be drop
ped with the simple address OF Da-
dant & Sons written upon it, in any
part of the world, it would reach
their office here at Hamilton in due
1 time with but little delay. There are
less than a dozen firms doing business
| in these United States that are SO
1 generally known the world over, that
4 this would be possible, and it should
be and is quite an honor for Hamilton
/ to be the home of an industry so wide
i ly and favorably known.
! This firm does great deal of bust
/ ness through the Hamilton postoffice.
Their bill for stamps alone for mailing
their catalogues just being sent out, is
4 seven hundred dollars.
Lomax Man Visits Hamilton.
4 Mr.. Orange Hazen, q L,omaX citizen
and farmer was transacting business in
Hamilton Tuesday of this week. When
4 asked how the city of Lomax was
progressing, he replied that their little
city has already gone far beyond
what he thought possible. and he was
not going to be knocker, and he
4 felt that in as much as the promotes
! had made this great success OF his
undertaking, he might be able to car
ny his entire plan to success.
He stated further that in his judg
ment, Hamilton made great mistake
when not trying harder to interest
Mr.. Love Having the foundation al
ready laid here, to which to add to
and the possible advantages thai
might be had here, Mr.. Hazen felt tha
wonders for Hamilton
Small Pox Again Breaks Out in Ham
iIton.
There are again two small poo
, tquarantines In Hamilton, this tine be
ing clear out in the north outskirts O
; Oakwood. one being the home O
Frank Faulkner which was quarantin
ed last Friday evening and the othel
| that of Robert E. Hall, this being pu
on Sunday evening.
| Present High Tax Promised to b.
Lowered.
The complaint is being heard OF
, every hand that taxes are awful sliigl
in Hamilton this spring, especially il
the Hamilton school district. We PEG
pie in this district have, however
this to look forward to. that another
year the taxes here will be lowered
because of the fact that this year thi!
district levied $4,000 for school pur
poses and $4,000 for building purpose.
10 Cjedl up al dlilOuHl HdiiSllS owe
from last year. This promises t.
be lowered almost $4,000 for the com
ing year which will help some.
Hamilton Has Champion BASKET Bal
Team.
The basket ball teams from Hamil
ton that have been playing the su.
rounding towns have been sk!llfu
enough at the game to win eyerythin.
they have tried for us season say,
one game early in the season, the,
having won the last six or eigh
games straight. The last bunch the,
worked on was Keokuk team las
Friday night. The Keokuk boys, how
ever, are not content to leave it il
that condition and Wednesday nigh
another team which is said to be tn
fastest team in Keokuk are schedule,
| for a game in Hamilton. 1t is of course
their hope to carry away the laurel
> that go with the winning. In this, how
ever they may be disappointed for til