Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-08-31

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 around the Cotton Belt Shops
 Engine 5l is pow in the b ack shops for repairs.
 The pay car was a welcome visitor Wednesday,.
 A large number of iremen are on the sick list.
 Velour Hyslop is now the messen- ger at the shops.
 Engineer s. A. Williams was on the sick list last week.
 Willow Chute has been opened as a freight and ticket office.
 This road for the past week has done tiourishing business.
 Mir. Jud Langston has returned from a flying trip to Hot Springs.
 The depot is said to now possess the handsomest clerks in the state.
 IL. Tracy, paymaster over this system. was in this city last week. A new Time Table isnow out but all trains are running the same as ever. A new track is being laid near the office for the purpose of switching ears.
 Coach 74 was turned out of the paint shop this week looking like a new one
 Willie Thayer, a blacksmith, has returred to a visit to relatives at Anna. III.
 MT. Alexander Rowell, formerly night clerk in the yard office, is now at the Trulaek.
 Mr. Malachi Donnoyan, a maehinist at the shops, Is quite i'll at his home on Second avenue.
 MT. H. H Ginger, of this city, is now employed at night as yard clerk Tt the shops
 An Athletic club is being organized at the shops and there are about sixty-ffve members so far.
 Jack MeGlnnis, an expert maehin- ist of EIdorado, Texas, has accepted a position with this company.
 Foreman Frank Schmidt accident ally dropped heavy coupling pin on his foot, causing a bad wound.
 Edward Moore, machinist of the back shops. has returned from lengthy trip to Cleveland, Ohio.
 Mir. Booth Clegg. the efficient sten- ographer for Supt. Kendward, left Saturday for Little Rock. his home. Chas A. Linsinge arrived here yesterday from Little Rock and will on Monday work for this conlt,zt5,y.
 The eyer-smiling Chas. Caldwell, brakesman on the local, has been laying off for few days recuperat- ing.
 Virgil McAdams. formerly messen- ger at the shops has been promoted to Roadmasrer clerk at Brinkley, Ark.
 Oliver Galbraith. foreman at the machine shops, has returned from few weeks trip to Salo Lake City, Utah.
 Mir. Porter Shelby, carpenter on the rip track, has been quite ill at his home on West 3rd avenue for the past week.
 MT. Edward Whitteombe. paint CT. left last night for Fort Madison, Iowa, where he will be gone for several weeks,
 J. w. Beachtold, an cmploye of the blacksmith department, has severed his connection to accept a similar position in St. Louis.
 General Superintendent, J. A Ed son was here last week, arriving in l illS SpeCidI CdIs luG IcAOo ledliSGiJ on important business.
 F. C. Smith, foreman at the round- house, left yesterday for Salt Lake 1 City, Utah, to be gone for several weeks on pleasure trip.
 R. NJ. WooGall, young man em- ployed at the shops and a member of several lodges, IS very low at his home with typhoid fever.
 J.E. Osborne, of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern road, was In the city yesterday to transact business with his company. The friends of William Fisher, of the Mountain shops at Little Rock, will be glad to hear that he is back from the company hospital.
 S1OO Reward, $1OO. The reader of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dls,