The Springdale news., 1918-07-12
SPRINGDALE POST
OFFICE MOVES UP
Local Office Advanced to Grade of Sec
Ond Class, Change Being Brought
About by Increased Business.

At the beginning of the fiscal year
July l the local post Office was advanc-
ed to the grade of the second class,
this change being brought about by
the marked increase in the amount Of
business transacted. The transactions
the past year were by far the largest
of any year in the history of the Of
flee, N both the postal and money or
der departments. While this increase
was brought about principally by the
business of the Home Protective As
ISOLATION, this concern transaeting as
much business almost as the entire
town, there has been healthy in
crease generally, indicating that
Springdale is growing and expanding.
The change in the grade of the office
makes many changes in the routine
OF the office. All the employees are
in the classified service, and none are
required to work more than eight
hours per day. None are required to
work on Sundays or holidays, except
to receive and dispatch mail and
work" incoming mail into lock boxes.
As result the general delivery Win
dow will not be open on Sundays in the
future. For all work done on Sun
days and holidays employees are Civ
en- exrta pay, or allowed compensatory
time, which means they will be allow
ed that much time off during their
regular working hours. The clerks
also get a decided increase in pay, one
clerk now receiving as much pay as
the entire allowance for clerk hire be-
fore the Office was advanced. VIM. B.
Simons and Raymond Stafford, the
old clerks were automatically indicted
into the classified service as result
CT their long connection with the Office,
but at some future time an examina-
ton will be held and an eligible list es-
tablished, and from this list future
employees VIII be selected Raymond
Stafford resigned to enter the Navy,
and R. A. Millikan, railway mail clerk,
accepted the place, but after working
a week went back to the railway mail
service, and is now on a run from
Monet to Paris. The only addition
al help allowed the office so far is an
auxiliary clerk, which position is fill
ed by Miss Cessna Stafford
Under ordinary conditions the sal
airy of the postmaster would also have
been increased with the change in
grade, but Congress enacted law
prohibiting the increase in salary of
any first, second or third class post
master during the continuance of the
war, so Springdale, like many other
towns throughout the country, has
second class postmaster and third
class salary. There is only one other
second class office in the county, Fay
etteville Taking Springdale out of
the third class leaves only one Office in
the county of that grade, Prairie
Grove, the others being fourth class
offices.
1t is thought that the amount of
business done at the local Office enti-
ties Springdale to free city delivery
also, and the local postmaster now has
the matter up with Congressman Till
man and tie department at Washing
ton and hopes to succeed in securing
this convenience for Springdale peo-
ple. Some of the requirements will be
continuous sidewalks, streets lighted,
names of streets shown at intersec-
items and houses numbered. The Diet
rartment has beea assured that
Springdaie will me these conditions,
and The News fsl sure it will.
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