Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-08-10
COTTON BELT ITEMS
A BATCH OF BREEZY MEL ANGIE FROM A RTTsY
 BEE HIVE OF
 INDUSTRY.
Interesting Personals Of Rail-
 road Men.

E. w. HOltEclaW, tfaNellnS Audit or for this company was in the city this week on business.
 W. V. Powell, Grand Chief of Rail wPy Photographers and Secretary of the Federation of Railway Employ ees and also one of the most active and energetic Union men in the country will be here soon to address the tabor unions.
 nductor.LeBosque has returned from a brief trip to De Moines Ia. where he went to attend the funeral of his father.
 MT. Edward Moore, machinist.at the shops, left yesterday on visit of several weeks to friends in Cleveland Ohio.
 Mack HuDter, formerly of the Bluff Ciry Lumher Co. has accepted pc sition in the tin department.
 Mir. Frank Langston has returned froma q brief visit to Hot Springt.
 The company has received a large duantity of slack coal for the large furnace and also d supply of lump coal for the stationary engines,
 A small locomotive engine is in the shop for repairs, it is the property of the Ogemaw and North western Lumber Company.
 McNeil station on this road has been discontinued.
 Supt. Kenward has returned from a business trip South.
 Mr. Will Furgerson has again ne eepted a position in the Boiler De partment.
 Jack Shannon, painter at the shops. has returned from the Com pany's Hospital where he was fo several days quite i'll.
 Our handsome Store room clerk was heard to remark as he took an envelope from his pocket, ''the letter tha II longed for, came at last"
 J. s. Evans, carpenter, mashed his finger very badly Wednesday while at work on a pilot. these shops but now an employe of the shops at Jonesboro, is visiting friends in the city. 
 Louis Jones, of the tin shops, has been promoted to stationary engin- eer in the car department.
 The shed on the rip track is being enlarged in order to makemor room for cars that need repairing.
 MT. Frank Schmitt, has been ap- pointed foreman of the machine shops, during the absence of Mir. Oli- yer Galbraith, who is taking q few weeks lay off.
 Garland KaTanaugh again had the misfortune of receiving injuries while at work. He burnt his hand very badly in picking up an iron chain that he thought to becold, but was still red hot.
 The many friends of MT. Herman Walters, who formerly worked in these shops as timer and copper smith, will be greatly surprised to hear of his marriage, which W as sol emnized at Bloomfield, Iowa. 
 Mir. Bert Wright has accepted a position as helper in the boiler de- partment.
 John O'Neil, the boiler maker who recently mashed his toe with a large steel bar, is rapidly improving.
 Conductor Neimeyer, who is talk ing a long needed lay off, left last night for Missouri and Illinois, where he goes to spend several more weeks among friends.
 MT. Alvin Weaver, who has had charge of the tin shops in the Santa Fe shops at Galveston, Texas, is here visiting relatives. ! ago lost one of his fingers which was caught in the big square shears and who has been at the company hospi- tai for short while, has returned and will soon resume his duties in the boiler department.
 Mir. Edgar Mahar is now employed in the B. and B. department as a tinker.
 The handsome and ever popular Garland Bird has returned from q lengthy stay in Camden.
 Engineer Bob Rue is at his throt- tie again after brief lay off.
 Several of the shop boys left fast evening on the Waco excursion.
 Mir. Arthur Loving, chief clerk in General Foreman Osborne's office, has resumed his duties after briei l Iay nff