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2 Hinton News Tues. April 26, 2016
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I as steam locomotion, 1manuallcy;
' operated interlocking p ants, an
CW State le I oil—burning signal lanterns have
TEAR&MA|LTO. I largely disappeared from the
railroad scene in comparatively
recent time. One example which
I falls in this latter category, and
I whose life span on the rails was not
_j more than a century, is the railway
post office car, or RPO as it was
generally known.
It was about the year 1860 that a
man named George Armstrong of
the Chicago, 111., post office had the
idea of devising a system of sorting
mail in transit, out of which idea
blossomed the RPO car. He was so
sure it would work that he
personally paid the expenses of a
trial run of a post office on wheels
between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa.
The date of the first run was Aug.
28, 1864. This date is taken as the
official birthdate of the Railway Mail
Service, a service which served the
nation well until the use of RPO cars
was discontinued a few years ago.
Even though Armstrong is widely
credited as the author of the idea,
the trial run he paid for was by no
means the first time U. S. mail had
been carried by train. The
government started shipping
pouches of letters on railroads as
early as 1834, and in 1838 Congress
declared all railroads to be postal
routes. And neither was the Chicago-
Ulinton experiment the first in-
transit sorting of mail that had been
tried. Shortly after the outbreak of
l the Civil War, a postal clerk named,
VWilliam Davis of St. Joseph; Mo.,‘
‘iiad tried 'dut the idea en‘a lesser,
scale, and in a quite unofficial
manner. Davis should deadhead east
from St. Joseph on the Hannibal &
S. Joseph Railroad to Palmyra, Mo.
There he would board the
westbound mail car, open the
brassbound mail sacks, take out the
California mail and have the Pacific
Coast pouches all sorted are
bundled, ready for the pony express
)Pol. ad paid by Cadidate
letter to the Editor
Support for Kristin
Cook for Prosecutor
Dear Editor:
I am writing to support Kristin
Cook as candidate for Prosecuting
Attorney of Summers County. I am
a Physician Assistant at Summers
County Appalachain Regional
Hospital Rural Health Clinic, and I
have known Kristin long before I
came to work in Hinton. We became
friends when worked together at
Bellacino’s in high school. After she
graduated, she coached my high
school soccer team, later was my
roommate in college, and we are still
road trip buddies as adults. Kristin
has always been a leader, a captain,
a coach, a person who brings others
together.
I have witnessed Kristin’s journey
to become the assistant prosecuting
attorney in Summers County and
seen how she approaches the
position. She is an advocate for
victims who depend on her, and she
works to fight for the most
vulnerable. Kristin has been
involved in working for victims in
some of the most heart-breaking
scenarios. She stays strong for these
people when it would wear others
down, because, if she has an “off
day,” those who she lights for lose.
She is strong willed and outspoken,
but open to the ideas of others if it
helps make her community a better
place. She considers being
prosecuting attorney her calling
rather than her job. '
I am blessed to have a best friend
like Kristin. She has been there for
me and my family when we were at .
our weakest. She is a valuable asset
to the citizens of Summers County
and your communities are stronger
when they have Kristin lighting for
them.
Sara Cales, MMS, PA-C 118
Daniels
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The Meadow "Creek Public
Service District meets the second
Tuesday of each month at the Green
Sulphur District Volunteer Fire
Department at 6 p.m. Meetings are
open to the public.
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PIPESTEM RURITAN CLUB
The Pipestem Ruritan club meets
every fourth Saturday at 6:00 p.m.
We have a wonderful dinner before
our meeting. We would like to invite
anyone interested in learning more
about this service club to come and
join us. We have a gospel sing the
Friday before our meetings.
Come join in the fun and
fellowship. For more information
RAILROAD
when the train got to me
distributing post office in St. Joseph.
Since this began in mid—1862, there
are some post office historians who
believe that Davis, rather than
Armstrong, should be called the
father of the RPO car, if anyone is
going to be called that.
To try out Armstrong’s idea, the
Chicago North Western remodeled
a mail agent’s car, installing several
banks of letter cases with 77
pigeonholes in each bank. A select
group of letter sorters, and a cluster
of business men and reporters got
aboard to ride as far as Dixon, Ill.
Among the press representatives
was Joseph Medill, editor of the
Chicago Tribune, who opined “Why,
Mr. Armstrong, your idea is the '
craziest idea I ever heard of. If it
were to be generally accepted by the
Post Office
‘ Department, the government
would have to employ a regiment of
soldiers to pick up the letters that
would blow out of the train.”
Three days later, Armstrong’s car
began regular service on the Chicago
Clinton line. In October, the
Armstrong plan was tried on the
New York Washington route, and
by the end of the year, traveling post
office cars were operating on two
more routes out of Chicago. Joseph
Medill amended his comments and
became an enthusiastic supporter of
the post office on wheels. .
A refinement added to
Armstrong’s original RPO was a
device with which to pick up mail
' pouches at way stations, while the
train was running at full
speed. The device was called
“Ward’s Mail Catcher” and it was
remarkable chiefly for its simplicity
and effectiveness. It operated in
conjunction with a crane on which
the postmaster at the way station
would suspend the outgoing pouch
shortly before the train was due. An
apparatus attached to the side of the
car would catch the pouch and swing
it aboard the train. The catcher
consisted of a large, twopronged iron
fork with one arm gonsiderably
.~ longer than the other.~The shorter
arm was attached to the sideof the
car, just outside the door. When the
device was ready for use, the
operator would turn a lever, causing
the longer arm to project from the
pouch; from the iron grasp of the
carrier and drop it in the car. Before
wayside cranes were built, the pouch
being picked up was sometimes held
in the hands of the post office
thout visible means of support who
in the city.
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employee. There was considerable
hazard in this method, because if a
miscalculation caused the person
holding the pouch to be struck by the
catcher arm, sever injury or death
could result.
On a cold, stormy winter night,
considerable skill was required not
only to operate the catcher, but to
throw off the pouch containing the
mail for the station. The RPO clerk
had to have a good firm grip on the
iron bars at the side of the door when
leaning out to see how far it was to
the crane. And the pouch being
thrown off had to be hurled with
considerable force, lest it be blown
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- Admitted to bar 1983
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- City Attorney/City Prosecutor for the City of Hinton
— Appointed as Family Law Master by Governor Arch Moore
— Former Trial Examiner for WV Workers Compensation Fund
— Litigator- in Private Practice in Hinton
— Appeared in Municipal, State 8: Federal Courts throughout
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