The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-06
GENITAL BRANCH NEWS.
3. r. T. Initiates New Mem bers-
Other Items.

Greenleaf May 6.-Mayf1ower lodge.
| No. 459, B. R T., of Greenleaf, initial
ed 10 new candidates in the order OF
the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
at their last meeting. This is the only
| lodge of the kind on the Central Branch
| division of the Missouri Pacific and
numbers % members.
Ed Dobyns, of jamestown has been
appointed night operator here succeed
ing John Bridenstein, who is transfer
| red to jamestown.
The Central Branch has adopted the
! tonnage hauling system, taking effect
| on and after May 1.
John Hanson, the third oldest conduc-
| tor on the Central Branch, is making
| a tour of Kansas with the state board
| of railroad assessors.
| Ed Fowler, brakeman on the local
| freight between Atchison and Greenleaf
/ met with a painful accident, spraining
! his left ankle while on duty switching,
which will lay him up for some time
Mrs VIM. Pugsley, of Chicago, is Wis
4 iting her brother, J. c. Brouse, conduc-
/ tor on the local freight on the middle
| division.
DR.. E. Armstrong local surgeon of the
! Central Branch in Greenleaf, is on q
| visit to Chicago.
Freight engine, No. ia on the middle
| division has just returned from Atchi-
| son shops, looking bright as a new dol
! lar
Conductor ]. C Brouse of the middle
| division has become so much OF an al
! falfa enthusiast that he is negotiating
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/ leaf to raise alfalfa.
| Dell Ames, brakeman and extra con-
| ductor, and T. J. Scott, brakeman on
| the run Around the Horn from
! Stockton, Downs and Lenora, are the
/ delegates from Mayf1ower lodge, B. r.
/ T., of Greenleaf to represent the annual
| meeting in Toronto, Canada, which con-
! VeneS May II, and have started on their
| trip. They will visit several points of
! inerest in Pennsylvania and York states
The state board of railroad commits
! IT. f-f4
| their tour of railroad assessing
| J. r. LOOMS, who was the first sta
/ ton agent on the Central Branch at
| EfHnghan7, way back in 1866, is now
! prominent citizen and banker in Os-
| borne City. For years the railroad Off
| Gals kept Mr.. LOOMS to the front and
| he opened the stations of MuscOtah,
| Whiting, Wetmore. Centralia. Water
| Vile, Greenleaf, ConcOrdia, Beloit. and
| later years opened stations on both the
| North and South Solomon branches.
/ J. w. Bartlett, agent for the Central
| Branch in COncOrdia, has presented
more railroad checks to be cashed than
| any other agent on this line. He was
| chief dispatcher in AtchisOn in 1877 and
/ '78 In seniority OF service he beats all
| others, having been with the Central
| Branch since 1876.
] Chas. V. Fletcher, who resides in
Atchison, is the oldest conductor on the
/ Central Branch in seniority of service.
| He runs the passenger train between
! Atchison and Stockton. He was brak
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| He came from the Hannibal road to
the Central Branch NJ. J. Mitchell also
| passenger conductor is credited as being
! the next in continuous service.
! Geo. Moore, brakeman on the Prosser
| branch, who was severely injured sew
| eral weeks ago by being pinched be-
| tween cars is getting longso slowly that
| he has been sent to the Missouri Pacific
| hospital in Kansas City.
| Mrs. Minnie Redd the accomplished
| daughter of J. w. Bartlett of the Mis-
souri, Pacific at Concordia was married
| Sunday to Chas. Marshall. a promis-
| ing &oung business man Of that town.
/ Division superintendent of the Cen
] trail Branch I. H. Luke who has resid-
/ on a west bound train, returning home
| from a trip over his division, and while
| he sat in his seat reading a daily pa per
| he was accOsted by a stranger, who
| had found out where Mr.. Luke lived
| and asked him if he knew whether
| Cullum Bros, Circus outfit was there
| yet. Being informed by Superintend-
/ ent Luke that they were not and to his
! knowledge they never had been in Con
| cordia and that he had never before
| heard of any such outfit. the stranger
/ looked at him with amaZement. and
| said TO Mr.. Luke, Yes, there was such
! a company. that they had Wintered in
/ COncordia,' and produced letters to that
/ effect Getting off the train Superin-
! tendent Luke made inquiries and found
| out that the stranger was correct and
| that the BOYS with Cullum Bros Circus
| had hired out at different avocations
| one was working in a barber shop, an
other was a boot black, third was a
! peanut venders while the others were
| following various other means of gain
| ing a livelihood.