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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 4,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>PRINCETON HAS TRAINS GOING AND
COMING</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Regular Freight Schedule Inaugurated, First Train to
the East Being Run Yesterday</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Princeton now has trains going and
coming. Yesterday a regular freight schedule was inaugurated and a freight
in charge of Conductor John Kelly and Engineer Jacobs was the first regular
train to the east from the county seat. Aboard the train in the caboose
attached to the rear were a number of passengers, Superintendent Johnson and Mr.
Taylor. The train was pulled out of the town about 8 o'clock by engine No.
303 [<EM>Microfilm blurred. Best interpretation shown.</EM>] and was made
up on coal cars and construction cars. The train was expected to return to
Princeton last night at 9 o'clock.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Mr. Poston, of the Princeton Grocery company,
said yesterday over the long distance 'phone that he understands that the train
yesterday is the first to make a regular trip to Roanoke and he is informed that
now a regular freight schedule will be maintained daily. Passenger service
will be inaugurated on the 15th, but it is understood that previous to that time
tickets for eastern points may be purchased from the ticket agent, O. L.
Waldron, subject to the delays which are expected on a mixed freight and
passenger train.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Sunday [<EM>Feb. 7, 1909</EM>] Princeton will
receive the first mail that has ever gone to the town by train from any part of
the world. Commencing on that day the passenger train from the west
will carry a mail car and everybody will have an excuse to go to the post
office, if only to look for souvenir postal cards from their friends. This
convenience will be greatly appreciated by the business men of the county seat
who have always been at a disadvantage when it came to mail service. In
speaking of this matter yesterday Mr. Poston said the postoffice department
will probably institute a railway mail service from the east shortly after the
inauguration of the passenger service from Roanoke and the east.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Princeton is to be congratulated on having at
last received the same advantages that her sister cities have had for a long
time and the town well knows now that everything comes to him who waits.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>