PROVO POSTOFFICE IS NOW CUSS Postmaster A. O. Smoot has Just been notified that the Provo postoffice is now placed In the first class column instead of the second as heretofore. The direct cause of this change in classification is due to the fact that last year the sale oi stamps amounted to considerable over $40,000 and the box rentals Increased nearly 2 per cent. The department made a careful investigation to ascertain whether this i growth was simply caused by nome un-j usual affair or .whether it was a normal growth of the city. After deciding that It was a healthy growth they notified Postmaster iSmoot that this city should become an office of the first class, on July 1. Some might get the Impression that this was caused largely by the increased in-creased revenue because of the three-cent three-cent postage which has been put Into effect since last November, but the results re-sults from this three-cent postage was only in effect two months of the twelve in 1917. - Under the present' classification clerks and carriers will be able to draw a maximum salary of $1200 in place of $1000 as under the old classification. classi-fication. Under ordinary conditions the postmaster would be given a raise, but a ruling was made at the beginning begin-ning of the war that no postmaster should be granted a ral3e on account of reclassification of their offices. The gross receipts mentioned above of $40,000 does not have anything any-thing whatever to do with the money order department. The postmaster states that a very marked increase has been noted in all the departments of the office, showiig that our city is taking on a bigger and better growth In all lines. . . Uader- -the new classification the assistant postmaster, J. W. McAdam, will conduct the examinations for the clerks Instead of Chief Clerk Imus conducting them as heretofore. At the recent examination held in the Provo office the clerks passed an exceptional high average, these being 99 per cent. As another evidence of the growth of our city those who supply house to rent find that there is an Increasing' demand and the number of houses are growing very scarce. .Especially is this true of modern nouses. The Utah Coal Road, the Goddard Packing plant md other growing industries of the Garden City are partially responsible for this healthy growth of Provo.