W. L. HAYLEY, Postmaster, Retires, Runnels & Coke Counties, TX ***************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net 21 Jan 2001 ***************************************************************** W. L. HAYLEY, POSTMASTER FOR 38 YEARS, RETIRES FROM SERVICE NORTON, Dec. 26 - W. L. Hayley, postmaster here since March 1, 1926, has retired after spending 38 years and 10 months in the postal service. Mrs. Inez Daniel has assumed the duties as acting postmaster here. Mr. Hayley, who relinquished the office the first of this month, is uncertain as to what business he will engage in but says "I'm not going to be idle." For 24 years Mr. Hayley was postmaster at Bronte in Coke County. He assumed the job there Sept. 1, 1900 and was in the post office until Sept. 1, 1924. The family later moved here and March 1, 1926, Mr. Hayley again became a postmaster. During the nearly two score years he was in the post office Mr. Hayley recalls only one instance in which he ever made a wrong payment on a money order. This was for $4 and Mr. Hayley reimbursed the government for his mistake. He also says that not one piece of registered mail was ever lost in his office. "I believe the postal business is the greatest in the world and the most efficiently operated." Mr. Hayley said only recently, "It has a more personal contact with our citizens and is closer to the people than any other business." Source and date unknown but believed to have been published in either The San Angelo Standard-Times or Ballinger Ledger about 1940. Permission has been granted from both of these papers to place articles in the Coke County TXGenWeb Archives.