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Show lfy"'r' : ; '6 . X a ;." . Adi,"t::e on-t'tng on-t'tng Clock to L Their Effort - C .iln our issue of lest wf i 'wieMed at length a ts t:. c ttx'shng at the U" , r t c ..Jt " . j poorly addressel ' 'tr 1 to ! "t efforts were it i-ijcrel ftj the L , . i ' . and bcl 3 J t lJ an r y io b(,eak , were th'oW i addressed to "Mr. JentM-n, I Vyon," t" , I - "For a moment we decided to i '? ( the postmaster, id bis difficulty a..l .. were On the' vsrge of tcfling 8' t a f : Mr. Jusee-; weknew, but a!j, . ' e . thought of, three at the same tr t, .! and hot being a mind reader, the pc t . Blaster didn't know winch Jensen .' send the. letter to, and thus it, rhaincd a the postoffice. ; v v ' .; There' certainly must be -a xtmv 'y 1 i , for Jlie existing conditions: concern ;.' ing" tolsntaxkd 'inaib-.. Of coutbd, there la Jhe-regular channel, namely " ', , the sending of, the letter back to the , . sender'fofbrope'r, address ' ' ';,'But ''the .local authorities io not ' , ' re to resort to this method of pro- ' cedure, as " it causesiclay, v and in many eases the letter, contains yalu : v , able news. n " : " " . . From the standpoint of, the .. Lay " - , man, the' only course to pursue in as ' . listing the carriers in bringing the ' . - -delivery to" a miximum of efficiency ' . is to notify your, correspondents of, . the number of your house.-. " i I . And now we come to that part of ' the story in which e are going to take the liberty of suggesting a prob- ,. able j-emedy, and that is, to number every house in the camp. The houses , in' the city limit j are already nuinliui-. : ed, but after you pass the California ,, . Rooms on Main 'street, and lut'tle oridce .on Carr Fork,' the numb-ts - ' cU'sUiiv1l)!tte1fie'ad,r be k ptau ' ' ible reason for Copperfield and High-.. :: x ' land Boy being without numbers, and , ;;" ; here 'is the proposition: Let us 'get the county officials out here, and look over the situation, and send a representative repre-sentative to -number , all the unnum- ' bcrvd houses, and let the tenants pur chase their own numbers in an effort to assist in this needed improvement. "',' For instance: If the number at the - t California Rooms is 590, then let the y 1 first house in Copperfield be numbered, number-ed, say,' 700, thus showing that it is. " Copperfielil "and . jttoi' . in Bingham propel, i;v.y ',,,;-:.',' . . . ; The isame tul would hold good In ! c Highland Boy,.'and , in a very , short time, the carriers .of'-' these routes would be able to, give better and fst-. 'eKfryicei en4 not Jiave to stop every Jensen-they meet ion the street if lie it"" expecting ' i dpt'tei-- from Kokonto . or some other suoh 'town, y . - |