The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1899-12-29
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.

DIM WILL u hIuhiPS.
Agent and Mrs. A. ]. Tint were a
headquarters, mid-week.
Brakeman L. A. Hurlburt is off duty
for awhile OH account OF the illness O.
his wife.
Conductor and Mrs. George Beck ar
rived home, Saturday night. from their
Omaha visit.
Agent o. P. Yarger departed on Mon.
day morning, for his home in Rockford
South Dakota.
Brakeman F. S. Curry and family are
visiting with Benkelman relatives and
friends, this week.
Fireman Harry Kingsbury's little
daughter Margie is very i'll with an at
tack of scarlet fever.
Fireman Roy Dixon came up from the
Oxford Wymore run to be with the folks
at home over Christmas.
A new stove of the Burlington's ap-
proved pattern, has been placed in Train
master Kenyon's private Office.
Walter Sayers and sister, Mrs. Mae
Clary, are visiting in Des Moines, Iowa,
leaving for that city, last Friday.
Fireman and Mrs. E. E. belong
have been entertaining their niece, Eva
Mitchell of Red Cloud, this week.
Fireman and Mrs. Otis Shaffer were
up from Hastings. Christmas, the guests
of Engineer and Mrs. c. K. Coleman.
Conductor T. E. McCarl has Conductor
Knowland's car and Brakeman E. A.
Owen is with Gilcrest on the Imperial.
Conductor Frank Kendlen and family
were in Lincoln, Christmas day. Con-
ductor Curran was on his run meanwhile.
The company has equipped Receiver
Stayner's Office with a ire-proof safe in
which to store his ''cash and valuables."
Conductor c. E. Pope is in Kansas
City on personal business, which will
keep him ont of town for about ten days.
Day Foreman J. H. Patterson and
family are in Cameron, Missouri, on a
two or three weeks visit to relatives and
friends.
Receiver Stayner can hello at pleasure
to the trainmen now: a handsome desk
phone has been placed in his Office, this
week.
Engineer Ellis Ford, who is pulling
the construction train on the St. Francis
line, visited his family here, Monday
and Tuesday.
w. H. Johnston, Master Mechanic
Archibald's chief clerk, ate his Christ
mas turkey and cranberry sauce in
Bloomington.
Conductors v. H. Solliday and J. E.
Beyrer, together with their wives, and
Miss Millicent Slaby. were Christmas
guests of relatives at Red Cloud.
Switchman J. F. Utter is day foreman
during the absence of ]. H. Patterson in
Missouri, and Switchman F. w. Peirsall
is on the night force in his place.
]. M. Starr, who is out on the line
with the telegraph gang, came in from
Yuma, Colorado, Saturday, to spend the
festival.ti time with the home folks.
One of the Christmas presents most
priced by T. H. French's little daughter,
May, is a gold band ring sent from the
Klondike. The ring is formed by three
nuggets of gold.
J. G. Goldtrap has gone into the rail-
road service in Colorado somewhere and
Mrs. Goldtrap and the baby are making
their home with her father, Engineer c.
K. Putnam for the present.
Engineer and Mrs. Frank Hawksworth
spent the Christmas-tide with his par
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w. Hawksworth, in Plattsmouth, going
down Saturday night and returning
home on Tuesday.
Engineer NJ. R. Gates has purchased
the handsome and cosy little cottage
built by A. Barnett during the past sun
mer, but couldn't begin housekeeping in
his new home until a celebrated Majestic
range was duly installed therein.
Agent and Mrs. Mark Lawritson of
Indianola were guests of his brother,
Clerk Mathew Lawritson of Supt. Camp
BELLS Office, Christmas day. Mrs. Law
ritson came up on Sunday night, and
the agent on Monday noon; both return
ing home on 6, Monday night.
Conductor Nose Carmony took advan-
tage of the absence of the family, first of
the week, to paint the kitchen aoor-and
he has wished several times since that he
hadn't. He was taken with painters