Show THE ubiquitous SMITHS n bow the name shrewd lu im Pro falon avor the entire country there is hardly a state in the union that has not a post office with the n name ame of f smith in it somewhere says the boston advertiser and there are fifteen hundred postmasters and post office employed emp loyes named smith illinois kas has for instance a smithfield a smithdale a smithboro Smith boro a smithshire Smith shire a smithson and a smithville Sauth ville then there are smiths creeks smiths fords smiths ferrys ferlys smiths mills smiths graives gri croves ives smiths valleys smiths crots cross roads smiths lakes smiths landings smiths corners smith rivers hs flats fiats smiths ranches Smith bures burgs smiths basins smithtown smiths branches smiths roads smiths forks smiths points and down in south carolina smiths all post offices too from maine kalne to california and the lord only knows how many smith places there are that are not post offices in michigan there is a smith in st clair county and one in saginaw a smith corners in sanilac and oceana counties then there are smiths creak two smiths crossings smiths siding and smithville four of them post offices two smiths in michigan aria ara postmasters and among business businessmen men there are about one hundred in detroit in business twenty five fire in grand rapids twenty two in the two aws to only seven in the two bay cit cites vs lousing lansing has four kalamazoo eight ypsilanti six adrian seven and on down to adair a small town of sixty or sev enty five people where there bisone isone these are the figures of two years ago and of course they have increased because the smiths are prolific and progressive gres gre sive asive we are entirely safe in sayin ing there are upward of fifteen thousand smiths in the state of michigan alone in other states they are proportionately tiona tely numerous in the national capital a city of two hundred and fifty thousand people there are over twelve hundred smiths a smith ratio of one to two hundred and fifty not counting the children and the children ire are features odthe of the smith family j d |