Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-24

flee, has accepted a position ill the agents office at Birds Point. I Mir. Frank Wisdom, who has been behind the desk at the Cosmopolitan Hotel at Texarkana, has accepted position in the office of Master Me- chanic Scroggins at Tyler.
 Trainmaster Day Mills is now at feyarkana looking after the extra passenger trains. Say, Bro. Mills, give lem good run and start this l way.
 The transportation department has ordered cars to be placed along the platforms throughout the entire system to clear away cotton and trash before the holidays.
 Our ever handsome and popular telegrapher, W. J. Williams, who often kills an insulator, left yester- day for Waco, Texas, to spend Christmas.
 Mr. Ernest Galbraith. an old Cot ton Belt boy and an up-to-date ma chinist now employe at the K. ,. r. $. < NJ. shops at Springfield, Mo-, is spending the holidays here with rel atives.
 Our easteemed traffic manager, 4 $ Dodge, of St. Louis, passed through here from Shreveport, where he has been transacting important busi- ness during the past week.
 Bremen who handle the Lidger- wood unloader shall receive com pepsation of fifty cents per day in addition to their reguler pay as fire men.
 Joseph Faueette, maehinist ap- prentice. who sings that song So of ten, All Alone" left this morning for Monticello. He will not be alone any more.
 Mir. Since. an expert sign writer and letterer, has severed his connec- tions with this company and left yesterday for New Orleans, where he will in future reside.
 Hello! what's this2 A fine con- crete floor is being layeds in the paint department. Whats the matter with a few lace curtains for Bro. Roost and his men.
 While talking to number of travelling men recently one of them remarked that the Cotton Belt de pot had the handsomest clerks of any depot in the state. Christmas gift, boys.
 MT. GssC. Moore, day hostler fol this company at Birds Point, spent few days i'll this city, his former home. Mir. Moore cama direct from Clarendon, where he went with the remains of his sister, who recently died at Bird s Point.
 Bids will be open for the next ter day for one brakeman to fill the va cancy in Conductor Buche's crew caboose 22l66 in place of Brakeman J. F. Eehlin, who has been placed oH No. 19 and 20, with lay over at thi: point.
 hr.J. H. Conlan, general road master, after a general inspection O all the lines throughout the Arkan' , sas, Louisiana and Missouri diyis. ions, has returned home and vii remain here until after Christmas before making another general in spection.
 On the m orning of the 2lst on Nc there were two sections of passen ger trains, on the afternoon of tn r same day three sections of No. /; O } the morning of the 22nd three sec 2 tions of No 3; afternoon of same da. two sections; morning of 23rd No. had three trains. Each train wa composed of from eight to fi5tee ? coaches.
 The following joint circular sigDe : by F. II. Sritten, general superif tendent, has been posted, which zoe , into effect the if st of the New Year
 To all employes-The followir . deductions on the company's pa roll will for wages of empIoyes wi be made as follows:
 Ist. For hospital deductions. End. For deductions account suh scrintion to Young Mems Christia Association.
 ; 3rd, For amount due the railwa
 company.
 4th. For watch deductions t time service.
 9th. For amounts due authorizt
 insurance com pany. 9th. For actual board in favor
 parties maintaining eating boar