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Show v Mapleton Also Shows Substantial Increase; Postal Receipts go Up y . A recent count of the people of Springvillc and Mapleton made by I he post office, shows a total of 6543. Of the number, S.r7 live in Mapleton ilci'vmS" tHiSG in Spi ingville. The rural route of the post office of-fice department serves li72 people, peo-ple, mail carriers in the city, 4215, general delivery and box holders at the office. 356. Postal receipts have been comparative com-parative with the increase of population. pop-ulation. Sales for 1030, $7770.83, 1937, 8,944.12, 1938, SU0,5S2.37. Postal sales consist of stamps and envelopes only, and do not include money orders which totaled tot-aled for 1936, $70,902.63, 1937, $75,005.25, 1938, $S2, 408.88. Postmaster reports that postal sales for January and February of this year as $1857.65 compared with $1528.08 for the same period last year, or an increase of $329.57. Since 1930, $206,000 lias been expended in the erection of meeting meet-ing houses in Springvillc and Mapleton, $142,000 for school and art buildings, $300,000 for new homes, more being 'built this year than any other period. April of this year will witness the largest art exhibit in any high school in the United States. Last summer, a tourist who had made a number of trips between be-tween Los Angeles and Chicago, made the statement to the postmaster, post-master, that he always stopped in Springvillc to drink the best, water wa-ter he ever drank. Our city is the most, ideally situated sit-uated in the state, where people take pride in beautifying their homes. |