The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-03

The postal savings banks pay ?
per cent on deposits, and the
amount each person can deposit is
limited to $1,000 However, when
the deposit reaches $1,000, the de-
positor has the privilege OF purchas-
ing every six months postal saw
ings bond, which pays interest at
the rate OF 2 II per cent.
There are four classes of post
offices The first class is an office
with gross receipts OF $4,000 or
more The second class is an Of
iice with gross receipts $4,000 or
more. The third class is one with
gross receipts of $1,000 or more.
The postmasters of these offices
are appointed by the president. The
appointment must be confirmed by
the senate to become operative.
Any postoffice with gross receipts
Of less than $1,000 is a fourth-class
office. The latter is appointed by
the fourth assistant postmaster gen
eral.
The state of Nevada has 554l7,-
746 acres of unoccupied public land
Michigan has 76050 acres, subject
to entry; Kansas, 75,2l4; North Da-
kota, 493,667; South Dakota, g.
8S0828; Alabama, 47,940; Arizona.
. 36Sl0,327; Arkansas, 278.l33; Cali
fornia, 2O,625923; Colorado, 1885,
ia; Florida, 26S,48+; Idaho, TO-
213273; Louisiana, l0l0l6; Mime.
sofa, 943.83l; Mississippi, 36S82;
Montana. l9,O65,l2l; Nebraska
/ l9235S; New Mexico, 27,788,357;
/ Oklahoma, 42,l77; Oregon, l,l44,-
COS; Wisconcin, 675S; Wyoming
30.920,969.
The United States has no coat
OF arms, but the expression is
sometimes enormously applied to
the great seal of the United States,
as affixed 10 treaties, commissions
to office and other official docu-
ments. What is sometimes called
the coat OF arms OF the United
States is fac-simile or perfect rep
resentation OF one side of the great
seal of the United States adopted
in 1882, and not changed since. On
the day the continental congress,
representing thirteen colonies,
adopted the Declaration OF Inde-
pendence, July 4, l776, it appointed
a committee to report a device for
national seal. Different devices
were considered, but none was
adopted until June 20, 1872, near
the clase OF the Revolutionary War.
lis main feature was sprcad-eagle
bearing on its breast a shield with
thirteen stripes, alternate red and
white, like the national flag, hold
ing in its right claw an olive branch
as the emblem of peace, and in its
left claw thirteen arrows, typical
of war whenever necessary. The
e device is still much used as an en-
blem of national authority.
Section 50 OF the army law now
in force reads; The vice e-president
Of the United States, the officers,
judicial and executive, of the gov
ernment OF the United States and
of the several states and territories ;
OF the United States; customs house
clerks; persons employed by the
United States in the transmission
of the mail; artificers and workmen
emplayed by the United States in
5 the armoreS, arSenals and navy
E yards of the United States; pilots
q marines actually employed in sea
service of any citizen or merchant
within the United States shall be eX.
empt from militia duty without re.
;, gard to age; and all persons who
e because of religious belief, shall
claim exemption from military serv.
o ice, if the conscientious holdings o.
such belief by such person shall be
c established uuder such regulation,
as the president shall prescribe
c shall be exempted from militia serv.
ice in combatant capacity; but nc
h person so exempted shall be ex.
empt from militia service in any ca,
|, pacity that the president shall de,
e clare to be noncombatant.