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Show .-vMAI.IilW JIOMJY (Mtllllll O.N KI.TUHH What Is piobahly the smallest moi'iej older on record was Issued by the Pleasant Orovo postolllco this week. It was for :i contH and was drawn b tho Johnson Investment company lu favor or tho state treasurer. Tho state iieastirer wrote Hint It required IS cents to balance Hie amount due lu settlement, and the. remittance eoulil be made either b postolllco money order or-der or bank draft As It would re. qulio a trip of about four miles to get a bank draft tho secretary or the Johnson company lllled out an appli cation lo Rural Carrier Hen W'nlkoi and the latter turned It over In Post mistress Luellu H. Tliorno, who made out tho money order, mid it Is pre-binned pre-binned Hi'- state treasurer's hooks now balance. , It cost the state treasurer a two rent stninp. one cent's worth or atn tlonory ami ten cents worth or time lo write ror the three eeuls. It cost three ei'iits ror tho money order, a two-cent stamp, one cont'n worth of stationery and ten cents worth or (line to sond It. It cost 2f cents or Ihe reporter's time to write thin article and Is taking $1.2G worth of our vain-able vain-able space to publish this account, so tho total cost connected with Ibis 3-cenl 3-cenl money order is 1.7'J, and tho end may not bo yet |