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Show o Improved Mail Service For American Fork Record Shipment of Parcels Post OTcr $10 lu Stamps Cancelled On One Shipment. Postmaster James H. Clarko, realizing rea-lizing that American Fork Is entitled to tho best that is going, has secured additional mall service for this city that now enables us to get our mnll dlrcpt from all tho cities on tho Salt Lake Routo north of Lyndyl. Hero, toforo this mall had to go past American Am-erican Fork to Salt Lake City, and then back again, making mall from PleasanUOrovo and other towns Bouth front 12 to 24 hours late, Tho public will duly appreciate Postmaster Clarke's efforts. This week recorded tho biggest shipment of parcels post ovor sont out from this office. It consisted of 3,500 pounds of'mcrchandlso sent by tho Chlpman Mercantile company to ono of their merchants in Duschosno, In tho Uintah Basin. It cost tho Am-oricun Am-oricun Fork merchant over $40 lu postago Btamps to get the mcrchau-dies mcrchau-dies Into Uuclo Sam's mall bags, Tho consignment consisted of all kinds of merchandise from plus to sacks of flour, It had to bo done up lu fifty poundfparcols, as this is tho largest sized wolght that will bo accopted. When tho shipment was ready Postmaster Post-master Clarke wolghtedlt and used ono of Chlpman'a big wagons "transfer "trans-fer It to tho mall car. Tho govern-' ment has to haul tho goods to Colton on tho train and then pay a man to tako it ovorland to DubcIiobiio, tho latterpart ofthG-trlp, coatlnamuiore. ihan the original- postage. Christmas parcels nro beginning to movo and keep tho local postal autor-Itlcs autor-Itlcs pretty busy. Tho ptoplo aro heeding tho admonition to mail their packages early. Many parcels post Christmas packages arc going to missionaries mis-sionaries In England. o |
