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Show HEAVY MAILS BEING RECEIVED BV THE LOCAL BFFICES I Six clerks, six carriers and four wagons wag-ons have been added to the emergen cy force at the local postoffice during the past two days and several more clerks will ! given employment tomorrow to-morrow ami Wednesday The business busi-ness is now beginning to reaWi Itfl full height and in volume is much ;brger than was anticipated a week it?.o, owing to the seemingly inevitable I holding back of parcels until the last ; possible moment by the Christmas i ers. Two social delivery boys also have ben pressed into service and are be Ing kept busy handling the'mail of the oer anxious As In other years. Assistant As-sistant Postmaster Rufus Garner stated sta-ted this morning, there will be one delivery on Christmas day, as it has been found more convenient for the employes of the office as wen as to the public to follow out this system. At the parcel post terminal. Chiel Clerk W F Bangasser has 41' men employed, as well as If. regular clerks who are acting as helpers, and who are having their layoff period at this time but are giving their assistauce on account of the necessity of having ! plenty of experienced men at the ter- minal at train times The terminal report for last week was to the effect that 8810 sacks of I paper and parcel post mail had been , handled The record of parcels alone handled waa 80.22L' pieces. In addition addi-tion to this the clerks distributed 10.105 packages of lotters. On Saturday, Sat-urday, train Nro. 9. westbound, carried twelve cars of mail Into the city and this morning eight cars were brought in from the wt over the Southern Pacific The eastern trains have been delayed de-layed for a number of hours ever;, day for the past four days. No. 19 was due at 7.05 this morning and did not reach the city until nearly 1 p. m Train No. V due at 3.20 p. m , was scheduled to arrive at 8:45. The delay is ausexl by the transfer of mails east of Omaha, at Omaha and ; other cities en route. The Southern Pacific trains are running nearly on time |
