The Wainwright Star WAINWRIGHT, ALBERTA   WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1929.

Using The New Postal Building

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C. T. Lally, postmaster, who lost the building which housed the old post office, in surveying the loss on Monday found it was confined to a small quantity of recently arrived mail and parcels in the sorting rack which caught fire as it was being drawn out of the burning building. Sacks of outgoing mail on the rack were saved although on fire in several places. Mr. Lally moved into the new government building which is scarcely out of the hands of the contractors and dispatched the Monday noon mail from the new quarters. Registered mail, stamps and office dating stamps were saved, so the name of the town goes out on letters as usual. Whatever supplies were needed to "carry on" were brought down from the city on Monday.

Petrie and Perras, of the Alma Meat Market, were among the first of the those who suffered in Sunday’s disasterous fire to hang out the "Opened for Business" shingle.

With their premises on Main street burned to the ground, the two owners took imeediate action Monday to "get going" again. A small building on adjoining lot, a former garage, was hastily removed to the front location, six carpenters were put to work, and within a few hours, a perfectly good meat market was ready to trade.

Supplies having been ordered from Edmonton, the shop was ready to cater to its customers by the middle of the afternoon.

This was also the case with the Model Meat Market where Bill Daugherty in his new "plate-glass fronted" is doing "business as usual" opposite the post office.