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In a short while ha fitted out his office with lock and call c...es. The business of the office was increased so that the gross eceipts exceeded that of any other predecessor.
Ths "New ODleans Item’1 reported that he delivered the smallest lettcr.,„thst ever passed through the mails. This letter was' smaller than a (two cent stamp. It va "s just the length of a cent stamp but not ae wide. Ths stamp covered the face of the Ifetter and lapped over on the back, which contained the address. This diminutive letter was addressed to Hr s. Ancle Tartaypulle, and was specially delivered by Matthew Winston, the Assistant' Postmaster.
It is gratifying to note that all of the sureties on Maxon's offic5.al Bond from time to time were colored men and women until the U. S. Government parsed a law permitting s\irety companies to stand Postmaster’s Bond. Then he used a Surety Company in Baltimore, Md.
The Assistant Postmasters in this office serving in such order were:	Eucharist	Thompson
Matthew Winston Rosa Hay Jordan Ruby Baxter
Harriet Elizabeth Maxon Albertins Alexander Eucharist Peters Oliver C. Kcxon vms the Special Delivery und 17ev;;papar Boy.
While Pearlington vac not a letter-carrier office yet, there was a mail carrier in the person of Henry Holmes, a colored man, who was employed by the business men and private citizens of the place. These business men and private citisens filed orders with the Post-Master giving Holmes power to receive any valuable mail for them, such as registered letters, and even to cash money orders. Although Henry Holmes could not read or write, he rarely made a mistake in his delivery. He vas strictly honest and trustworthy.
Hex on vas removed from his office under President Wilson's administration 5_n 1916 but vas re-employed by the s.iaiae ic:JLnistration in 1917 a var worker in the Air Se; -rice Bui-eau uf the War Department at Washington, D, C.
When the Wc.r Department at the close of World War One reduce its staff, Kaxon was transferred to the Department of Agriculture where he vas employed through the 193Or.
E. W. Kaxon was appointed Census Enumerator for the District of Columbia in 1919 ty” Hon. Robert A. Mattingly. He took the census in Enumerator District 77» Washington, D..C., from Januaiy 2 to l8.f2®his was done on hi a r. um>al leave f 1 um his regular job in 1920 for which he 1'c.e.c-ived double pay.
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Maxun has served alternately under £ Presidents:	viz,
Presidents Benjamin Harricon, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft,