Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-01-25

 of heavy trucks.
 Phillip Bloom has resumed his duties on the rip track.
 The latest and neatest thing out is the Cotton Belt calendar.
 MT. Will Langston has secured a position in the machine shop.
 Mir. Jack Day has returned from q business CD trip to Philadelphia.
 Fireman Crowley can now be seen shoveling on passenger engine 112.
 Fireman ". B. Mathes has resume ed his duties after lingering illness.
 Mir. George Opell has accepted a position as timer in the tin depart ment.
 A large bolt cutter belonging in the mill is in the machine shops undergo ing repairs.
 Conductor Holmes is now running bet tween New Lewisville and Shreve- port on the branch.
 The pay car will arrive Tuesday, J JaR. 24, and pay the boys off for the month of December.
 Trainmaster r. s. Rawlins has re turned from a business trip over the ,,.,.l ,.e
 Six helpers in the round house were layed off last week to reduce the ex- pense in that department.
 Fireman A. E. Simpson had the fn| luck of getting slightly burned by hot water while on his run.
 Engineer Jim AtkinsoE has return ed from trip to Hot Springs, where he went to regain his health.
 T. II. Osborne, general forem HI the ear department, is in Ft M4i !, Texas, on important business.
 The lightning flasher ". J Aa- Hams, at these shops is now ceaIl- ed to his home with Ia grippe,
 MT. E. N. Martin, floor foreman in the machine department. has resum- ed his duties after a week 's illness.
 Mir. George Hall, who broke his arm last month while firing on the road, will soon resume his duties.
 Conductor Holmes spent few days in the cfty on business last week. He returned to Texarkanu Saturdy.
 Messrs. Ned Bowen aad L. k. Richards. two freight brakesmen on the south end, leave Monday for Waco, Texas.
 The yard around the new stole room is now being leveled with clay and gravel and the tracks though out inc entire yards are being raised a few inches.
 Fireman Lee Martin ani wife re- turned Saturday from a months visit 10 Galveston, Texas.
 Engineer Dick Johnson. who had the misfortune to injnre his foot last week, was able to be out Saturday.
 Mir. Clarence Bloom, night operator at Ford5 cc, had the misfortune last Sunday to run rusty nail iii his foot.
 A large smoke stack is being erect ed in the boiler shops. II is to go over the large furnace in the black smith shop.
 Mir. Jack Dillon, formerly night yard master in the yards here, has been transferred to the same duties at Gray's Point, Mo.
 Mir. Frank Dobbins, coach var nisher of the paint shops, has been confined to his room for the past week with fever.
 F. NJ. Strader, dispatcher of OllCSONlCg d00 AllOfGh iilS AeAlAllf here. He was recently transferred from that place to this.
 The office of Superintendent Win. Coughlin and his clerks have been removed from the frame building to the new office over the store.
 MT. Saunders, an operator at the Western Union office, has been filling q vacancy in the office at these shops for the past week.
 Earl Joyce. fornely switchman here, has accepted position as brakesman on the Pee Gee road from Shreveport to Lena, Texas.
 Mir. William Gossett, after n few days visit in this city, has returned to Dallas, Texas,'to resume his du- ties as machinist in the Katy"