Butts-Sumter County GaArchives News.....Walter Jester -  A Bright Boy February 10 1891
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Middle Ga.Argus – Week of February 10,1891
Little Walter Jester, son of Mr. R. T. Jester of this place began work with Mr. 
R. E. Stanfield at the East Tennessee depot about a year ago as an office boy.  
He at once began to watch the instruments in the telegraph office and listen to 
their mysterious clicking.  He had a longing to know what they were saying and 
at once put his wits together to learn.  So at every idle moment between the 
chores of the office he would set with eager determination over the operator’s 
table and listen to tic, tic, tic, as the news was flashed from one side of the 
world to another.  He soon learned to read the alphabet of telegraphy and 
within twelve months time could receive and transmit messages with almost 
perfect correctness so fast did he learn this mysterious science that others 
heard of him  and last week he was offered a lucrative position in the Western 
Union office at Americus Georgia where he began work on Thursday.

He is an unusually bright boy and is claimed to be the finest telegrapher of 
his age and experience in the world.  Mr. Stanfield saw that he was possessed 
of a keen talent and to him is due the praise of Walter’s rapid progress and 
good position he now holds.



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