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Show MRS. RAINES TO RETIRE AFTER 30 YEARS' SERVICE Mrs. Lucille Raines, a "fixture" "fix-ture" in the Milford post office for the past 30 years, will "lick her last stamp" and retire on Saturday, December 31. Mrs. Raines first began serving serv-ing the Milford postal patrons on December 13, 1919, when she moved here from Salt Lake to e'ccept employment as a clerk in the local office. Steve Stoker was postmaster then, and Mrs ' Raines has served under four 1 other "chiefs." "Cap" Jon succeeded Mr. Stoker, and v-' followed by C. T. MarMn, Ca Root, and our present postm; ter Rue Nielsen. Mrs. Raines was born in i Springfield. III., and spent h early life there. She married-James married-James Albert Raines and they moved to California in 1915. where Mr Raines was employed ; as a telegrapher on the o'd Si!' Lake and San Pedro rai'road. ! now the Union Pac.fic. About 1916 they moved to Salt Lake, and Mr. Raines was as-signed to the Salt Lake depot for the same f railroad. In 1918 Mr. Raines contracted influenza, and died during the epidemic that swept the nation that year. . In October, 1919, Mrs. Raines learned there was an opening for a clerk in the Milford post-office, post-office, and moved here to work under an old family friend, Mr. Stoker. At that time civil service serv-ice examinations were not given, giv-en, and clerks "were just hired and went to work." When civil service was inaugurated Mrs. Raines successfully passed the tests, and since that time has been local secretary for the civil service board. Mrs. Raines has two children, J. Albert Raines, an engineer on the Union Pacific working out of Milford, and Mrs. Audrey Skillicom of Milford. During her 30 years in the community, Mrs. Raines has been active in the social and civic life of the city. Now holding hold-ing the office of senior vice president pres-ident of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, she has also served as president of the Ladies Auxiliary to the B of L F & E, and for several years was vice president of the Milford Business and Professional Profes-sional Womens Club, when that organization was active. Mrs. Raines plans to spend i the remainder of the winter resting at her home in Milford, then next summer visit her old home town in Illinois and enjoy trips to national parks and other interesting places she Ijas "always "al-ways wanted to see" but never managed to find time to visit. She will be missed back of the window at the Milford post office, especially by her hundreds hun-dreds of friends who always received a little extra service from the courteous little lady who made out their money orders or-ders and sold them their stamps for more years than some of her patrons have lived. |