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Show 1 Mailed on June 8, It Is Received B, 1 - by the Addressee on ; ' ,1 DURING ALL THAT TIJIK 1 J 5 IT LAY IX POSTOFFICE Salt Palace Company Attempts H i j' .to Send Check (o Utah Elcc- trio Suj)i!y Company.. H "Artful Artie" is trying to ouldo B 4 himself. Time wns when if. took a H jj letter six mid a Iialf weeks to cross H , j the continent, but it is only recently J ;' j tii.it the chief of the Salt Lnko post- K: If oflice managed to get a letter across H ' his own building in the snnio time. It H, 1 1 1 is doing well, say the recipients of r -j' f this excellent scrvieo; especially ina city where the Federal Government H 4 i; has erected n modern building to fa- H : cilitntc matters. Such things, they de- i I claro, holp business and work for a (i J : greater Salt. Lake. B '. The latest case, and the one which B ,; establishes this record, reached its, H i "consummation two days ago. Tho management ot the Salt Palace H j - mailed a check for $65.50 to tho Utah B ij Electric Supply company,' 15 West First . I I South, on .Mine 8. On .Inly 24, after 9 t the bill had been sot tied on tho B I bonks of both companios, Mr. Mills, tho 1 manager of tho Utah Electric Supply H V I company, found the check in his box af at tho " postoflice. There is a little A I ' history to this caso that shows how "y, ' , inconvenient it is to have the mail X it "artfully" handled. 1 !' t'tah Electric Supply company ll i' it- nris dnn considerable work at the 1 i (T .ifjalt .Palace during May. As the 10th j .' of .Tunc was paj- day, and it is a busi-i busi-i ncss rule with that firm to pay and ri j , have bills paid on the 10th. tho post- H; hi I master, notwithstanding, Mr. Mills Hji U called on tho Salt Palace people, lie Hft 'j, 't was told that the check had been t j ' mailed to him on June S, and was HE j I shown the stub for it in the check i book. Thinking that the trouble lav H ; - in the oflice, Mr. Mills made a thorough H' i investigation, but found nothing like a Hl,, t ? $G5 check from the Salt Palace. ', ' Tlion. on Juno Id, tho Salt Palace pco- H' ( llo called at tho bank for cancelled H' 4 fc; .checks. On July 1 they did likewise, 'i , ' but neither time" was a check, like the n fi ;.one mentioned, found. On July 15 Hj.L' the Salt Pnlnco managers issued a HIU I duplicate check, and tho account was !,( I f settled. All told it must have taken H, j about three hours for the pcoplo con- ' i I ' corned to look into the matter. H,' ( ' jl The question thon is, does it pa' HK r ' tjj.wait six weeks to have a letter cross- ilHlr- i I' ",a building, or is it bVter to pay a r messenger 25 conts and have tho errand f i . 'done in half an hour? i Even though the letter received such 'I . onarked attention, and such prompt de- H i j ! Oivery, it did not stay in tho postoflico H,' '; i -long enough to bo properly stamped. Bjj j. The date stamped on tho front of the H j ,onveIope was almost illegible, while H! ' there wasn't oven a black mark on the !'! ' -.'back. j J j To eompensato for this -deficiency, i I ( 'there was a big red "Hit" on the It power left hand comer. It was learned H'.if! - that the "II" was the particular Hhj !;r mark of a checker in the oflice. |