POSTMASTER.



                  GEN. SMITH TO KY. POSTMASTERS

 Lexington Official Speaks at Louisville and Gives Some Highly Interesting
                               Information.

           Resolution Wired President Taft and Gen. Hitchcock.

             The Seventh annual meeting of the postmasters of
        Kentucky of the first, second and third class was held at the
        Hotel Henry Watterson, Louisville, Monday and Tuesday.
        The convention was called to order by Hon. George Wilhelmi,
        with J. P. Spillman, Secretary. After a formal welcome to
        Louisville by Postmaster Wood, of that city, and some routine
        business transacted, a motion to adjourn for the races was
        voted down
             Postal officials from Washington, D. C., are on the
        program for Tuesday. Postmaster Wilbur R. Smith, of
        Lexington, was called upon for an address Monday and
        replying presented the following resolution and afterward
        gave a brief discussion on prominent suabjects at the Nia-
        tional Association meeting of Postmasters of the firot class
        offices, recently held at Atlantic City. The resolution pre-
        sented by General Smith reads as follows mnd was unan-
        imously adopted:

                           THE RESOLUTION

        President W. H. Taft, Beverlv, Mass.
             The Postmasters of Kentuckby in annual convention
        assembled, congratulate you, thp Chief Executive of this
        great nation of ours on your waise, patriotic, dignified and suc-
        cessful administration, resulting in its greatest prosperity,
        and upholding the constitution, maintaining peace, and com-
        manding honor and influence with all nations. We wish you
        continued success.

            This resolution and one to Postmaster-General Hitch-
       cock were wired to the President and General Hitch6oecc,
       respectively. The subjects General Smith reviewed were the
       Parcel Post, Postal Savings Bank, the proposed bonding of
       postal employees and pensioning of suparennuated em-
       ployees.

     Epoch making history and record of the Lexington Post Office
for the first year and a half of General Smith's administration is
given:

FIVE THOUSAND PARCELS HANDLED MONTHLY IN LEXINGTON
     SINCE NEW REGULATIONS TOOK EFFECT-IN'IERESTING
         INFORMATION OF LOCAL POSTAL DEVELOPMENT.

                   (Lexington Leader, March 15, 1912.)
            That the parcel post has become very popular in Lex-
       ington, and that it has come to stay, is evidenced by the an-
       nouncement given out by Postmaster Wilbur R. Smith Satur-



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