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- Age-Herald, Birmingham, Alabama, Tuesday, October 25, 1898
Bass Resigns
Was Chief Mailing Clerk at the Post-office
Willis O. Bass, chief mailing clerk of the Birmingham postoffice, on account of ill health yesterday tendered his resignation to Postmaster Hughes, which was accepted.
Mr. Bass is at present confined at his home and has recently been compelled on account of his health to lay off most of the time, and in justice to himself and to the office decided to resign. He has for the past nine years been connected with the Birmingham postoffice, having served under Postmasters Huston, Copeland and Hughes. As a mailing clerk he has few superiors in the United States, and Postmaster Hughes regrets exceedingly that he was compelled to resign. He speaks of him in the very highest terms and, accepted the resignation reluctantly.
Mr. Bass? efficiency as a postoffice man is characteristic of his family, he having several brothers connected with the department, Jack Bass, and elder brother, is a postal clerk in the railway mail service. J. W. Bass, another brother, is a postoffice inspector, who has an enviable record. He was promoted in less than six months after entering that department, and is destined for further promotion. He is now in Georgia investigating, and has arrested several persons on the charge of defrauding the government by a hitherto unknown scheme. The plan was to get a special office established in some county and have the same class of offices established in every direction, forming a little circuit. The mails would then be padded from one office to another, thereby swindling the government in cancellation and on mail contracts.
Willis Bass was very popular among his fellow employes, who are sorry to see him go.
Postmaster Hughes has not as yet appointed his successor.
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