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Letters to the Editor
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NOTABLE AMERICANS WHO
BEGAN AS RAILROADERS.
Reprint from The Train
Dispatcher by permission.
Like many other successful
businessmen, Richard H. Sears
spent his childhood working on a
farm. When he was 14 years old, his
father, who was in ill health, bought
a farm near Huron Lake, Minn.,
believing that life in the country
might benefit his physical condition.
During that summer and the next
Dick ran the farm alone, hut in the
autumn of Dick's fiReenth year, his
mother recognized that the boy had
no talent for farm work and did not
like it, so she encouraged him to seek
further schooling or learn a trade.
Accordingly, he talked to the railroad
agent at Huron Lake and made a
deal whereby the lad would help
around the station by doing odd jobs
such as sweeping and running
School Levy Queston
Before You Vote Against The Levy
Dear Sir:
Recently the West Virginia
University Extension Office was
reopened after ten years without a
full time agent. Extension service
has made a commitment to develop
a strong presence of it services to the
citizens of Summers County.
Extension programs have always
functioned with the collaboration of
other agencies in the county. In order
for the office and its programs to be
effective there is a need for monetary
• resource to support the
programming efforts. As members of
the Extension Service committee we
want the citizens of this county to
think about the programming
potential for not only Extension but
who oversees the Agricultural
Programs, Dewayne McGrady,
Agent for Youth at Risk programs,
an office secretary and a Nutrition
Educator position to be named. It is
our hope that the citizens of this
county will take into consideration
the benefits that all of us will receive
from the resources that this Levy
will generate if we VOTE YES on
November 20th.
Carl Amick, President Summers
County Extension Service
Committee
HC 76 Box 42, Hinton
Susie Ward, President Summers
County 4-H Leaders Association,
412 Cedar Ave•, Hinton
also the other agencies that the Levy Money*.
will be supporting such as the
Health Department and Library.
Have yoq, your.,vonr qhen .... Mo y! ...........
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materials, rsources, servzces and,/
or znzormatzon on the following
so busy and tired they neglect the
most important thing in their lives,
the proper training of their children.
Children do not know what
manners or respect are. Parents
send little Mary and Joe offto school
and expect the teacher to teach them
when they'll not stay in their seats,
sass the teacher and some bite and
kick them.
A teacher cannot teach without
discipline. Yet if she tries she's
criticize, sued and sometimes loses
her job. Why should she care if they
learn or not? Simply because there
are others in the class who are eager
to learn.
If you want to learn, you can
regardless of how poor you are. I
picked berries to buy my clothes,
school books and paper. I walked to
school except the last 2 years.
We have fewer schools today. This
does away with indoor and outdoor
maintenance, cooks, janitors,
teachers, prinpals an ecretaTis.
Think how man ]Ye t tJV
because of consolidatidn. '
It is surprising how many
children cannot read, write or spell-
much less do arithmetic! What
would they do if the power went off
and stayed? They cannot even count
your change back to you.
Modernization is all right when
it works. I think it's time we go back
to the basics as a part of a child's
education.
Passing school levies is not the
secret to teaching or learning.
I will vote no - Saturday Nov.
20th. on the school levy.
If you cannot be near your polls
then be sure and go to the
courthouse and pick up an absentee
ballot and vote. I believe you have
until Nov• 13th. to do so. Check to
be sure.
Sincerely,
Edith E. Adkins
107 Park Avenue, Hinton
topics? Farm Issues, Soil Testing,
Pruning Trees, Drought Assistance
and Information, Gardening
Questions, Canning and Food
preservation questions, Stain
Removal, Pond Construction and
related issues, Drying herbs, fruits
and vegetables, Energy Express -
summer reading program, 4-H
Clubs, 4-H camp at Camp Summers,
Diabetes Education, Community
Education Outreach Service CEOS
(formerly known as Extension
Homemakers), Community Design
Team - Recruitable Communities
These resources are just a few in
comparison to what is available to
every citizen in this county. Bonnie
Hunley our new Extension Agent
and County Program Coordinator
has been working in the county since
March to re-establish Extensions
presence so that, we the citizens of
Summers County can once again
have the full benefit of all the
resources that West Virginia
University has to offer. Since March
she has created two full time job
positions with full benefit packages
thus decreasing the unemployment
rate in the county. In addition to
Bonnie's program areas which
include Family, 4-H, Youth and
Community, Economic and
Workforce Development, the office
staff also includes David Richmond
Dear Editor:
Where does it all come from??
Poor taxpayers of course!H
I recently read where West
Virginia is to receive a $5.99 million
federal grant to improve student and
adult reading skills. It was
announced by the state Department
of Education.
Why would this be necessary if
the job was done in pre-school,
kindergarten, grade and high
schools? Remember it says students
and adults.
The secret is learning is not
money!!! When one is born we're
dumber than cattle or livestock• We
have to be taught how to eat, crawl,
walk etc..
Cattle and lives.tock can stand
immediately. It takes humans from
9 months to a year or more to do this.
Learning begins in the home. I
was taught to obey and respect my
elders. I looked "up" to every teacher
I had except one in North Carolina
who punished me for being smart
enough to do a crait project by myself
and beating her "pet." I hate her to
this day• Even her dead bones. She
was wrong.
Today with the cost of living so
high and wages so low in the middle
class, both parents have to work to
keep the wolf from the door. They're
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Ed. Note: More letters
concerning the county school
levy can be found on page 5.
errands in return for this agent
teaching him telegraphy.
Richard Warren Sears was born
Dec• 7, 1863, at Stewartsville, Minn.
His parents were of English descent,
and his father had been a
blacksmith and wagonmaker.
Because of the father's ill health and
inability to work, young Dick was
very anxious to qualify as an agent-
telegrapher in order to contribute to
the support of the family. He was
able to learn telegraphy and station
work quickly, and at the age of 17
he got a job on the St. Paul & Duluth
Railroad at North Branch, Minn. He
did well in his job as agent. He was
an excellent telegrapher and kept
his station in tip-top shape. Within
a short time he was offered
promotion, first as a dispatcher, and
later in the auditor's office of the
railroad in St. Paul, Minn. But Sears
wisely decided he still had much to
learn about railroading before
accepting responsibility in other
phases of the work, so he contented
himself by applying for an agent's
job in a larger station. Consequently,
at the age of 19, Dick Sears was
appointed agent at North Redwood,
Minn., a village ofabeut 100 people.
Agent positions were appointive;
union agreements requiring the
bulletining of jobs and assignment
on the basis of seniority, were not yet
in existence.
North Redwood was located on a
rail line which was later to be a part
of the Minneapolis & St. Louis
Railroad, and more recently the
Chicago & North Western. At the
time of Sears' assignment (1882) the
depot had living quarters above the
waiting room, and Dick brought his
family, consisting of his mother and
two sisters, to live there with him.
(His father died in 1879). The
number of people depending upon
him for support made it desirable for
him to augment his income, and he
did this by shipping into his station
and selling coal, wood and lumber
to nearby farmers, and by buying
nd.pipting,tp, dealet ,q ,city,
,e.0i@ cgbr ries al, t hqr,
prodUcts which he bought from the
Indians located in the area.
During his first year at the
station, a shipment of watches
arrived at the depot and remained
there unclaimed. The wholesaler
who sent the watches had followed
a practice which was not unusual in
those days. He sent the watches,
unordered, "on consignment" to a
local jeweler, to be sold on
commission. But the Redwood Falls
jeweler, to whom the watches were
sent, did not pick them up. Sears
ascertained from the wholesaler the
price wanted for the watches, then
wrote a few letters to fellow agents
along the line, and sold the watches
for a $12.00 profit. He ordered more
watches from the same wholesale
firm, and continued to sell more and
more at what he considered a good
profit.
Business became so good that
Dick Sears resigned from the
railroad in 1886 and moved to
LIGHTING FUND
The Leon Pivont Christmas
Lighting Fund is now in progress.
Donations are being accepted to help
HArCC BOARD MEETING purchase new lights and other
The Hinton Area Community Christmas items to light up the
Center's Board of Directors meet on downtown area.
the second Tuesday of every months Send donations to: Ruth Pivont
at 5:30 pm at the Community or Larry K. Meador, Treasurer, P O
Center, 310 Second Ave. Box 606, Hinton, WV 25951.
All meetings are open to the All donation will be greatly
public, appreciated.
Minneapolis where he established
the R. W. Sears Watch Company,
whose business was selling watches
all over the United States by mail.
In less than a year after moving to
Minneapolis, Sears moved his
business to Chicago where, because
of the more central location of that
city, he could give better service to
his mail-order customers.
His policy of guaranteeing
satisfaction resulted in a small
number of watches being returned
during the warranty period, making
the services of a watch repair man
desirable. In 1887, Sears advertised
in a Chicago newspaper for a
watchmaker, and a man named
Alvah C. Roebuck answered the ad
and secured-the job. Roebuck was
then in his twenties and was
employed as a watchmaker in
Hammond, Ind., at a salary of $3.50
per week. Four years later the two
men joined together in business and
the corporate name of the firm
became Sears Roebuck and
Company. Utilizing the advantages
of volume buying, the railroads, and
the post offices, the mail order house
filled a real need of rural America
whose inhabitants were otherwise at
the mercy of the high retail prices
commanded by the small-town
merchants.
Dick Sears, the former farmer
and small-town railroader, was the
guiding genius of the new firm. He
knew farmers, understood their
needs and wants, and could write
advertising copy for his catalog that
made farmers send in their orders
and dollars. In 1893, the year Sears
reached 30, sales topped $400,000
and in 1895 they exceeded $750,000.
Sears catalogs became known as
"wishing books" and.the early issues
have become collectors' items.
Among the growing-pain-
problems of the Sears firm in the
early days was attaining efficiency
of operation in its mass mailings,
with no experienced experts
available to set up methods to insure
accuracy of procedureq,,.,Fft
example,, the archives of the rm's
headquarters in Chicago contain the
yellowed, handwritten original of
letter written about the turn of the
century, "For heaven's sake, quit
sending me sewing machines. Every
time I go to the depot I find another
one there. You have shipped me five
already.
"-. LETTERS POLICY
Letters are welcome, but no more
than one letter each month will be
accepted from the tme writer. Pref-
erence will be given to letters of 300
words or less. Longer letters may be
shortened or rejected. Letters must
be signed and must include an ad-
dress and phone number. The tele-
phone number will not be published.
Letters will be edited for grammar,
spelling, taste, syntax, and libeL
Names will not be withhelA
Address them to Letters to the
Editor, P. O. Box I000, Hinten, WV
2595 I. "
Plld PoUIIJ Advertising
VOTE FOR
THE LEVY
November
Pol. ad paid by Cleo Mathews
LETTER TO THE EDITOR #
Dear Editor:
October 20, 1999 at 3:15 p. m
someone called Dorothy Adkins a
work, said she was Ms. Andersoz
and she was representing Ruby Gill
Wanted to ask me one question. Dk
I supply Stephen Adkins witt
alcohol the night he was killed, ther
hung up the phone.
I am daring this person to com
to my face and say that. You kno
who you are and I know who you are
A liar and a coward making photo
calls like that says you are the wors
human being on earth. You can tel]
your lies and pull your little dirty
tricks, use the phone for protection,
Have your fun but just remember
that in the end the truth and good
will out weight your lies and all of
your coward little tricks. My
grandson is in heaven• He went to
work for God, like I told his kids. I
i took care of him for 21 years, God is
taking care of him now.
No one can hurt him no more. God
knows the truth, the truth "J, ll set
you free. Keep your coward, lying
mouth offmy grandson, let him rest
in peace.
MaMa
Dorothy M. Adkins
Hinton
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Will Lowering
Cholesterol Reduce
the Risk of Stroke?
In addition to reducing the risk
of heart disease, the National Cho-
lesterol Education Program now
reports that lowering total blood
cholesterol levels may also de-
crease the risk of stroke. In some
persons a healthy cholesterol level
is acheived through dietary habits
alone. In others cholesterol-lower-
ing medicines may be needed if
dietary measures alone prove to be
inadequate.
' ! Tw0 prescriPtion medicines re-
cer/fly approved by the US Food
and Drug Administration for stroke
prevention are pravastatin (prava-
chol) and simvasatin (Zocor).
Medical researchers believe ,that
these medicines, and possibly oth-
ers in the same category, help sta-
bilize plaques of cholesterol in
blood vessels, preventing plaque
rupture and the formation of clots.
In a recent study of 4,159 persons
who had experienced heart attack
in the last two years, those treated
with pravastatin experienced a 26
percent reduction in the risk of a
stroke. In a larger study, persons
treated with simvastatin daily had
28 percent fewer fatal or non-fatal
strokes and transient ischemic at-
tacks than those not treated. Stud-
ies evaluating whether or not these
medicines can ward off a second
stroke are ongoing.
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