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Hinton, September 28 through
October 5
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HEALTH TIP OF THE WEEK:
Research shows that most people eat
an average three servings a day of
fruits and vegetables. That's far
short of the 5-9 daily servings
recommended. Ideas: Add fruit to
cereal at breakfast...snack on raw
vegetables instead of potato
chips...visit the salad bar at lunch
Letter To The Editor
'In Response To
Letter
Dear Editor:
In response to the letter to the
editor entitled To The Cowards,
.published in the September 21st.
issue of the Hinton News. I would
just like to clarify and let it be known
to the public before anyone gets the
wrong impression about the Hinton
Police Department. That the
services of the Hinton Police
Department were refused and a
sheriff's deputy had to respond
because the State Police was
unavailable at the time.
And everyone out there in
summerland should know this when
it was broadcast over the air which
at that time the responding city
officer was I minute away. And even
though they don't receive the respect
they so dually deserve "I too know
how they feel because I work with
When Railroads Were The
Victims
Jesse James - reprint from The
Train Dispatcher with permission.
The present state of airplane hi-
jacking, bomb threats and random
demands reminds us that crimes
against passenger-carrying facilities
are not a new phenomenon.
Probably the first was pricy on the
high seas, and the railroad industry
was less than 50 years old when it
fell prey to passenger-train holdups
on a rather widespread scale.
Among the best-known of such
criminals was the notorious Jesse
James. The first train robbery that
can be traced definitely to Jesse and
his followers took place on Dec. 12,
1874, on the Kansas Pacific Railroad
near Muncie, Kan., a flag stop 10
miles from Kansas City, Ms. There
were six men in the gang then, said
to have been Jesse and his brother,
Frank James; and two other of his
relatives, Cole and Bob Younger, and
Clell Miller with a renegade
switchman named Bud McDaniels.
McDaniels had learned from
other railroad employee that a train
leaving Denver, Colo., with a
shipment of gold dust would pass
through Muncie at 4:45 p. m. The
six horsemen, armed with rifles and
heavy revolvers, masked with red
bandannas, rode to Muncie and got
to work. As an opener they robbed
Purdee's General store of $24 and
forced the unhappy proprietor to
help them pile a lot of ties on the
track. They set a flagman in front of
the station to make sure the train
did not get by tlem. On the train's
arrival, the engineer, Bob Murphy,
ground to a stop. While one bandit
climbed into the cab and covered the
engine crew, the others subdued the
trainmen and passengers. A freight
train was due close behind, so
conductor Brinkerhoff started back
with flagging equipment. One of the
outlaws yelled for him to come back,
and fired a shot into the air.
Rocky Cut Otterville, Ms. The take
from this robbery was believed to be
about $16,000.
Subsequent holdups were staged
and the last under Jesse James's
leadership was believed to have
taken place on Sept. 8,1181, when
a Chicago & Alton train was robbed
at Blue Cut, Ms. Included in the
gang which participated in that last
train robbery were two other
brothers, Bob and Charles Ford.
James lived in a small house in St
Joseph, Ms., under the name of
Thomas Howard. He was visited in
that home by the Ford brothers, and
when Jesse laid aside his gunbelt to
dust a picture on the wall, he was
shot in the back by Bob Ford.
L&N's "Railroad Bill"
In the decade 1890-1900 an
outlaw called Railroad Bill attained
a degree of notoriety on the L&N.
He was described in a review of a
ballad written about him as a
"mighty bad man. He carries mean
hardware, steals the wives of men
and is a mankiller with the police
after him.
His real name was believed to be
Morris Slater. He became involved
in his first trouble in the early 1890's
when he had a run-in with a section
foreman on the Pensacola and
Atlantic Division. Armed with a rifle
and two large revolvers, Bill
threatened the section foreman' s
life. Bill was described as a black
man, about five feet ten inches tall,
weighing 175 pounds and between
38 and 40 years of age.
In March 1895, a conductor and
engineer on a way freight fotmd Bill
asleep at the Tensas, Fla., water
tank. They approached cautiously,
and managed to get his rifle and a
pistol, then awakened him at gun
point. But he had another pistol, and
opened fire, making the trainmen
surrender their arms, and made
them take him out of the area by
tram. Some distance away, he
dropped off the train and
by an ordinary bullet.
In 1895 Railroad Bill shot and
killed Sheriff Edward McMillan of
Escambia County, Ala., while
resisting arrest. Following that
incident, the L&N offered a reward
of $1,250 and a lifetime pass for the
capture of Railrm.d Bill.
The end came when the legendary
outlaw was shot dead by Town
Constable Leonard McGowin in
Atmore, Ala., on March 7, 1897. The
body was taken to Brewton, Ala.,
where it was embalmed, and then
put on public display at
Montgomery, Ala. A fee was charged
to view the remains, and the money
was offered to Sheriff McMillan's
widow. She became upset at the
offer, and made it known that she
would not accept the money or any
charitable donations.
...sip juice instead of coffee, tea or them behind the scenes and I get Brinkerhoff tried to explain but disappeared into dense woods.
soda. Source: The Health Promotion verbally abused five days a week. So the gunman, who obviously knew. He later shot and wounded a
and Wellness Letter (September-,. $her.[]gla'seelpK.aukhor ,,th;,, of,.ilron,,-h,res still deputy sheriff in Flolaand!k]lied
1998 issue. " '"" .... : ......... tild uitsh • protected. Then the switchman Bud an Alabam a deputy sheriff. The man
it aftefkbowing fliat biC. of McDaniels explained that the "'*asin
NOTICE information.
The Jumping Branch-Nimitz So in closing, lwouldliketothank
Public Service District office will be the Hinton Police Dept. and say keep
open part time until further notice, up the good work guys. Because even
Those customers that are delinquent though they're few and far in
between, it's the thank yous that do
for the July water bills need to pay make the job worthwhile.
immediately. Thank You.
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Doctors Select Safer
Medicines for Use
During Pregnancy
Some prescription and over-
the-counter medicines often can
be used safely without danger to
the unborn fetus or the mother.
Therefore. Dr. Sandra Kweder, Co-
Chair of the FDA Task Force on
Pregnancy Labeling, suggests
women who are pregnant should
not be deprived of medicines that
are really needed. Conditions that
existed before the pregnancy- such
as epilepsy and high blood pres-
sure- must be managed effectively
during pregnancy, And many times
medicines are needed to best man-
age these conditions.
It may be necessary for physi-
cians to select medicines that tend
to be safer than those used before
pregnancy or to lower the doses of
currently used medicines. The
challenge for physicians is to con-
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mother and child, taking into
consideration the risk involved.
For example, some medicines
used to treat epilepsy are known to
cause birth defects. Yet, a seizure
by an expectant mother can cause
brain damage to the developing
baby. In this situation, most health
experts agree that the benefits of
medicine use outweigh the risks.
Fortunately, very few medicines
available today in the US are
thought t.,> be extremely damaging
to developing babies.
Jason Richmond
212 Ballengee St. Apt. 1
Hinton
CONCORD BOARD OF
ADVISORS WILL MEET
OCTOBER 6
The Concord College Board of
Advisors will hold a regular meeting
at 2 p. m. on October 6, 1999 in the
Concord Room of Marsh Hall, the
campus administration building, in
Athens. The meeting will be open to
the public.
conductor just "wanted to head off
another train to keep it from
crossing into them."
Meanwhile, the crew had been
forced to uncouple the express car
and pull it a short distance away
from the rest of the train. The looters
obtained $39,000 in gold dust,
$20,000 in currency and jewelry
valued at about $5,000.
Following the Muncie job, the
James gang crossed over into
Missouri and Jesse laid low for some
time, living with his wife under an
assumed name at Nashville, Tenn.,
where their only son was born on
April 21, 1875. Before the baby was
11 months old Jesse decided he
needed more money and rounded up
the gang for another strike. This
time they held up an Iron Mountain
(now Missouri Pacific) train near
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Last 3 weekends
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5 miles east of Hinton on Route 3
regularly robbed boxcars and steres,
terrorizing anyone who got in his
way. He escaped capture so oRen,
often under fire, that all sorts of
legends grew up about him including
the story that he couldn't be killed
NOTICE
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival services will be held
September 27th. - October Ist. at the
Brooks Baptist Church, Brooks.
Services will be held 7:00 p. m. each
evening. Speaker will be
Christopher Brown, Pastor of
Bellepoint Baptist Church.
Special singing and nursery
nightly.
Robbie Merritt, Pastor invites
everyone to attend.
LETTERS POLICY
Letten are welcome, but no more
than one letter each month will be
accepted from the aamo writer. Pref-
erence will be given to letters of 300
words orle. Lnger letters may be
shortened or rejected. Letterl must
be signed and must include an ad-
dress and phone number, trim tele-
phone number will not be published.
Letterl will be lited for grammar,
pelIin&. tute, Wata=, md libel
Namea will not be withheld.
Addreu them to Letters to the
Editor, P. O. Box I000, Hinton, WV
25951.
Highway News
W. VA. Dept. of Transportation
Division of Highways District Nine
Lewisburg. Week of Sept. 27 tnru
Oct. 1st.
MONROE COUNTY: Mowing
(various routes). Pull Shoulders &
Ditches (CR-7) Wayside-Creamry
Rd. Shoulders Stabilization (CR-7)
Wayside-Creamy Rd. Culvert
Installation (CR-20) Crowder Road.
Seal & Surface Treat (CR-4/2)
Hollywood-Glace. Other
maintenance projects that should
not delay traffic.
SUMMERS COUNTY: Pull
Shoulders & Ditches (CR-257)
Ellison Ridge Road. Blading
Roadways (CR-712) Hump Mtn.
Road. Other maintenance projects
that should not delay traffic.
All scheduled maintenance work
is contingent upon favorable
weather conditions.
COMMUNITY CHORUS
The Hinton Community Chorus
under the direction of Mrs. Christine
Wong will meet on Thursday,
September 30 at 7pm First
Presbyterian Church, Hinton.
Auditions (new members only)
Thursday, September 30 at 7pro
Thursday, October 7 at 6pm.
Alderson Livestock Market
Alderson, West Virginia
FALL SPECIAL SALES
Monday, September 27, 1999 - 7:30 p. m.
Monday, October 4, 1999 - 7:30 p. m.
Monday, October 11, 1999 - 7:30 p. m.
Monday, October 18, 1999- 7:30 p. m.
Monday, October 25, 1999 - 7:30 p. m.
For more information, please call:
AIderson Livestock Market .......... 445-2945
Dean Hanson ................................. 497-2421
Billy Morgan .................................. 645-4625
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