The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-09-02

CHIC engineer, retuTutu yeSteTudg lTOul
visit to Chicago, Cincinnati and
Louisville. He was absent two weeks
and had a splendid time. He resumes
work tomorrow.
John Dean, late a conductor on
the NJ, K. IL T., has been heard from
at Salt Like City. He is looking up
a location for himself ard Charlie
Keifer, and will go as far west as the
Pacific coast before he squats
Tom jones and G. NJ. Reed, the
we'll known postal clerks, leave today
for Denver, Col, to attend the six
| tenth annual convention of the
United States Railway Mail Service
Mutual Benevolent association.
M. Leonard, former conductor
on the west end of the Missouri Pa
cific, and now running on the Santa
Fe, was greeting his old friends here
yesterday and left list night for ST.
Louis tn attend the o. K. &. union
meeting to-day.
Ben Bowen, formerly foreman of
the Missouri Pacific carpenter shops,
has accepted the position of mister
car builder of the Cotton Bet road,
with headquarters at Pine Bluff, Ark.
He will he succeeded here by Mr..
Robert Berry.
Conductor w. E. Reynolds, with
his wife aud two little daughters left
last night for st. Louis. Mr.. Rey-
nolds will attend the union meeting of
TIE o. r. q. today, but Mrs. Rey-
nolds will remain for an extended
visit.
w. j. Cornelius, late passenger
conductor on the NJ, K. & T., who
recently disposed of his property here,
will remove with his family to Nevada
tomorrow night. and will carry with
them the best wishes of a host OF Sc
dalis friends.
Frank McNally, formerly engi-
neer for the fire department here. and
now running an engine on the Fort
Scott and Gulf rosd. passed through
Sedalia Friday night, in company
with Engineer Wolfe, en- rolte from
Kansas City to New York City.
Elmer S. Hughen, one of the
very clever operators at the Missouri
Pacific telegraph office, leaves to-day
for a two weeks visit at Murray, Ia.
his old home. He will also take in
the state fair at Des Moines, aud the
BAzoo feels SAT isfied he will have a
pleasant visit.
Quite a number of local coDduc-
tors, together with representa- ives ofthe
o. r. G. from different points on the
Gould system, passed through Sedalia
yesterday and last nj ght, en- route to
st. Louis to attend reunion meeting
of the order to-day. Bob Richards,
of the middle division, was at the
head of the Ssdalia party.
An important meeting of engi.
neers, conductors, fremen, brakeman
and switchmen will be held held here
September Z for the purpose of dis
cussing the sdvisabiiity of federation
among the different branches of The
train service on the Missouri Pacific
and Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail-
ways.
George D. Maxfeld, who chap
eroned the Fl~mbeau club to Wash
ingtnD, ID. c., has been appointed
district passenger agent Of the Wa
hash at Indianapolis, in place of
Frank Wade, who goes to the Mis-
souri, Pacific at st Joseph. Mr..
Maxfeld was formerly with the Mis-.
souri,, Kansas and Texas and the
Santa Fe.
Capt. James Lyle, the oldest
conductor in point ofservice ON the
Erie, died lest week at Middleton, n.
Y, aged 73 years. He entered the
Erie's service shortly after the road
was opened from PiermOnt 10 Goshen,
in 1871. As the read was extended
from point to point, Captain Lyle
was honored with the duty of running
the first passenger train at the official
openings of the road to these respec-
tive stations.
There will arrive In Sedalia over
the NJ, K. & T., from the north, at
Glib o'clock this evening, and leave
at z o'clock tomorrow morning for
Texas. a special train of 81 cars of
barbed wire, from the Baker Wire
Co., of Lockport, ILL.,, destined for the
Lone Star site. The train will be
handsomely decorated, and every per
son visiting it along the line of the
route will be presented with a hand
Gonna onnrapir