The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-10-21
RAILROAD NEWS.
work train went oUt Tuesday.

A work train went OUt Tuesday
The pile driver has been sent east.
The steam pipes to the depot are
being laid.
Dave Jones, the insurance man, was
here this week.
Mrs. Burt Jacobs left for Iowa Tues
day to visit relatives.
Wednesday was payday, and many
hearts were made glad.
Mrs. James HeatOn returned from
her visit in Iowa Tuesday.
a large rattIesnake was killed on the
depot platform the other day.
Freight business Is on the boom.
Passenger traffic Is also good.
Engine 557, Engineer Morris pet,
viii be given a general overhaul
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. E. L Mercer of
this city, Friday, October Il, q girl.
Mrs P. K Ryan and daughter, Myrtle,
are visiting friends at the Springs
Three men have quit the Rice sec
ton gang and gone husking corn.
Girls Kumm has been sick and laying
of Won't 90 to Topeka any mOreI
Fireman Harry Mcclure has been
visiting friends at Denver this week.
James Zimmerman now holds a posi-
ton in the water service department
George McCants and family have
returned from an extended visit east.
Mrs. ". p. Brinker and children re
turned Saturday from an extended
visit in the east
DISPATCHER Rowe has moved his fam
lily here. They have moved into the
Bsgley residence.
Jack FairaIl and wife returned last
week from q visit to Chicago and the
Omaha exposition.
II. ". Daub, superintendent of water
service west Of the river, is here over
seeing the laying Of the steam pipes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Radcliffe of Olney. ILL.,,
father and mother of Conductor Art
Radcliffe, are in the city visiting their
son.
There we're two sections of No. >
Monday night. Freight Conductor Bill
Usher was in charge Of the extra
section.
Ed King, brakeman on Conductor
Stephens car, went to Colorado
Springs Wednesday night to spend a
few days.
Mrs. Agnes Weber of BIuffton, Ind.
is in the city, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
" R Morton. Mrs. Weber is a sister
Of J. n. Justus.
Charley Sharrah is now an engineer.
He brought engine so down from the
Denver run Tuesday. BrOSSO, the regu-
lar engineer, having laid of.
Dave Null, formerly a freight con-
ductor in the employ Of the Rock
Island out Of GOOdland, vas renewing
scouaintances in town yesterday.
Two girls were heard QuaTTeliuG the
other day. discussing which of their
HhOneys" held the most responsible
pOsition-the brakeman or the fireman.
Gene and George Usher OF this city
brakemen on the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio railroad out of
e Psso, Tex
J. R Morris left Wednesday for
TiskiIwa, Ill, to make an extended
visit with his father He was accOmp-
anied by his wife and Miss Myrtle
Critchf1ld. They viii also visit the
Omaha exposition
Mrs @. l. BaRley and children went
70 PhillipsburR Wednesday. where they
vii make their home for the present
Mr.. Bag1ey is conductor on the local
and has his Sunday lsyOver IN Phil
hpsburg and the move Is made so that
Mr. Bagley can be with his family
Sundays
william COrrelI, fireman on the
Rock Island between HeringtOn and
Horton, WIS killed while leaning out
Of the gaDgWay Of his engine at bridge
s., between Alma and Holland. he
vss struck on the head, crushing the
skull, breaking his left arm and leg
and causing almost instant death. Mr.
Corrsli was q new man on the road
about . years old and unmarried.