Wayne County, NC - Letter about Miss Sallie Cox

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Here is a 1914 newspaper story about my great Aunt Sallie Cox. 

 
                         Miss Sallie Cox
                 Chief Operator at Goldsboro, N.C.
                  who handled Mr. Newell's Call.
 
Bell telephone service furnished by an intelligent, resourceful and courteous 
operating force is seen to best advantage in times of special emergency. The 
Goldsboro, N.C., Exchange, and especially Miss Sallie Cox, chief operator, have 
been complimented upon the very prompt and efficient manner in which they 
rendered valuable assistance to the officials of the Atlantic Coast Line 
Railroad in connection with a wreck near Goldsboro, on the morning of July 16.

Early in the morning a freight train was derailed at a small station four miles 
south of Goldsboro, tearing up the track for a distance of sixty five rails and 
delaying the traffic for hours. General Superintendent Newell, of the Coast Line 
reached the scene of the wreck promptly and found a telephone nearby, but for a 
time was unable to get his train dispatcher in Goldsboro to the telephone. 

Seeing the difficulty, the Goldsboro chief operator promptly came to his rescue.  
The Coast Line dispatcher was quickly gotten into communication with General 
Superintendent Newell and directions followed for the handling of the heavy 
train movement of the railroad.

General Superintendent Newell on the day of this wreck addressed the following 
letter to the Goldsboro, N. C., manager of the telephone company:

     "Rocky Mount, N.C., July 16, 1914

Manager Southern Bell Telephone Co. Goldsboro, N.C.

     "My Dear Sir: I wish to express to you my high appreciation for the kindness 
extended me this morning by your information operator in the Goldsboro Exchange.  
I happened to be the at he scene of a wreck of one of our trains just south of 
Neuse River, and used the phone from the store of a Mr. Moore, and it was very 
important that I get in communication with the telegraph office in the Union 
Station in Goldsboro.

     The kindness of your information operator assisted me very much in lining 
up the movement of our trains, and as indicated I certainly appreciate the 
excellent service.
 
     If there is any charge for the service I will be glad if you will send me 
bill to cover.

Yours very truly,
W. H. Newell,
General Superintendent"

     (Note to reader: this would have been in the Geneoa area, the old store 
there was at one time run by a Mr. Moore, a descendant of John S. Moore, preacher 
at Rhodes Friends Church in the Corbet Hill area of Grantham in the late 1800s)

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