Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-02-22
A BATCH OF NEWsY ITEMS FROM OUR HUsTLlNG
 SHOP REPORTER.
THE FREIGHT TRAFFIC
Has Been Light the Past Week-The Pay Gar Expected to Arrive
 Wednesday,

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 Two more vestfbule chair cars are being built in the car shops here.
 Conductor ". V. Alexander has resumed his run after a few days lay off.
 Mr. Theodore Nollerman is still confined to his room with his broken leg
 MT. George Hursher has accepted a position in the blacksmith depart ment.
 The Tyler shops have sent an order here for a large supply of Murphy roofing iron.
 The pay ear a1 this road is expect ed here next Wednesday to pay the January pay roll.
 Fireman George Hall, who sprain- ed his arm some months ago. report ed yesterday for duty.
 4 new eiader car has been built at the shops to be used on the cinder track near the turn table.
 Mr A. J. Worehester has accepted position as stenographer tn Super intendent Goughlin's office.
 Mr. John Davis, the tool dresser fn thu biarksmith department, is st=sa=a ing the week in Mobile, Ma.
 Mir. Jack Dunnivan has accep a position as maehinist ta the mazIa- cry departn ent at the shops.
 MT. Elmer Richards. General man ager of the Louisiana $ Arkansas rail V ay, is here on business.
 The freight business for the past week on this road has been much lighter than the previous week.
 Mir. R. c. Wolf. who has been con fined to his room for several days with Iagrippe is again at the bench.
 Mr.C. Fl. BoIIfnger, the= storekeep- CT here, had the misfortune to lose a solid gold band ring 3 few days ago.
 Over fifteen hundred head of cattle was shipped over this road duriug the past week, and still they are rolling in.
 Engineer Henry Wilson and wife have returned from Little Rock where they went to spend Mardi Gras.
 A large number of business men of this city paid these shops a call last week, accompanied by Master Me chanie Galbraith.i
 Mr. A. H. Storm, formerly stock yard foreman at this place. can BOW be seen among the clerks Tn the trainmasters office
 MT. J. B. Kelley, roadma8fer on the north end with headquarters at Brinkley. was in the city last week on important business.
 Prof. Thompson, formerly teacher of Nettleton's college, has accepted a position as stenographer in the transportation department.
 MT. C. E. Bechtold, an employe in the blacksmith department, leaves tomorrow for Rodgers. Texas, to visit relatives for a few weeks, 
 The fll-fated engine I32, which vas run into the turn table pit and dis abled. has been repaired and is again fit to take the local out as before.
 Mir. Billy Nash, who was recently promoted to engineer on the switch engine in the yards here, has severed his connection with this company.
 Mir. W. B. Langston, q machinist here, was sent to Stamps last week to do some work on the Arkansas & Louisiana road for this company.
 Mir. Booth Clegg. formerly steno- grapher in the office of the superin- tendent, has beer promoted to bill and voucher clerk in the transporta- tion department
 Mir. Joe Gonley, a brakesman on this road, had he misfortune to fall from his train,o one day last week and bruise his head and arms eonsidera- blp, but not seriously. He will soon be able to report for duty.
 
 Mir. ". E. Mcdowell, who has been employed as day hostler in theyards for several years. has been sent to Shreveport to run the switch engine at that place.
 Mir. Ernest GaIbraith. formerly master mechanic of the White X Black River railway, can again be seen at his old duties in the machine shops at this place. Mir. q. ". Gage general foreman