Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-11-27

ness, is convalescent.
 Eari Joyce las accepted a position as watchman on the Valley road.
 Master Mechanic k. NJ. Galbraith has returned from an extensive trip north.
 Mir George Buchannan has accept ed position as cotton clerk at the depot.
 Tine pile driver is engaged in pick ing up piling between this place anG Grace.
 Grey's Point has been opened and trains are now running through that place.
 The pay car arrived last Friday and paid the boys off for the month of October.
 Fireman Vat Whltmore. of the North end, is i'll at his home on West Fifth avenue,
 Thanksgiving day was observed by all the bows. The shops remained closed all day.
 The ever-smlling lightning tapper, Mir. E. L. Morris. will soon take an extensive trip-t?)
 Messrs. Jim Malone aud T. H. Os borne spent Thanksgiving hunting. They killed 75 quails.
 Harry Millner has been laying of for few days on account of the ser ious illness of his mother,
 Mir. Richard Davies, night train dispatcher it the shops, is again on duty after several weeks vacation.
 The yard is now Icing leveied and all the tracks raised. The yard will Rsoon have very neat appearance.
 A coach will hereafter run from Waco through to Memphis on this road to. accommodate the heavy travel.
 The trainmen on the Sante Fe Sys- tenn are stirred up over the discharge of several of the oldest passenger conductors.
 Mir, Harry McGuire the efficient day caller, is now looking very happy and carries a proud smile here of late.
 Nr, Willie MctIinnis, machinist in the ronndhouse, who has been quite ill at his home, is again on duty at the bench.
 Mr Booth Clegg, stenographer in the superintendent office, left yes- terday for Little Rock to vieit rela- tives for a few days.
 A large furnace is being built In the blacksmith department. The front castings and door's are being cast by the Dilley Foundry Co. 1 One of our most handsome con- ductors, Mir. J. W. Dolan, was last week married in Jonesboro, Ark. He is a valued and trusted employe.
 Mir. George Fornsworth, formerly l machinist at this place but now of St. Louis, was shaking hands with old acquaintances here yesterday.
 MT. George Higi formerly a ma- chinist at this place but now of Jonesboro, surprised his many friends by entering into the holy bonds of matrimony.
 A dodger from the Union Steam Pump Co.,, of Battle Creek, Mich, offering $75 for the return of any tools stole from said company, was posted in the shops last week.
 A large amount of Nj. C. B. brasses are being turned out daily to sup ply the great demand along the line as a large number of cars are on the sidings waiting for brassess to be placed on the journals. Owing to the arrival Of the pay car our reporter predicts that large number of the Cotton Belt boys who have been anxious to see a good show " ill take advantage of the En- ma Warren company engagement this week.
 Mir. John Hope, formerly a boiler maker and former resident of this city. who .or the past four months has been in San Antonio on account of his health, will visit relatives ill this city during the coming month.
 The many mechanics here will be glad to hear of tine promotion oi Mir. Nerd Roberts from Division Master mechanic to General Master Mechanic over entire Iron Mountain | xl