The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-03
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

Alexander BaIZ Is a late TecT UT LUZ
scrap iron service.
George H. Wood has been put on as
machinist in the water service.
Willie Dix has gone to work as a
Scrapper around the coach shop.
Frank Watkins and L. G. Johnson are
new 1aborers in the water service depart
ment.
Martin Cain, blacksmith helper, is in
trouble.
William Cummins. a trimmer, is at
work after a brief vacation spent in Colo
RADIO.
William West, son of John West of the
coach shop, went on as a coach carpenter
Tuesday.
been transferred to the coach shop from
the sheds.
William Shine an upstairs painter. is
home from Denver. where he has been
for ten days.
G. w. Closson fuel and ice foreman, has
been in Colorado and western Kansas for
a few days.
Henry Ida and o. c. Willsey have been
on trucks in the sheds.
Burton Sanderson, father of Boilermaker
Frank SanderSOn, who has been seriously
i'll for some days, is better.
Thomas Wallace, locomotive painter.
has been advanced to a place in the coach
paint department for brief time.
turned from California. where he has
spent most of the last month.
Charles sandmeyer, who has been. as
sisting in the air brake corner, has been
apprenticed in the machine shop.
Archie Baughman, a brass molder, re-
sumed his place Tuesday after four
weeks travel over the coast country.
Edward Boyer, who used to oil in these
shops, has gone to Horton to work as a
machinist helper for the Rock Island.
The wife of John Kempton, assistant
secretary of the railroad Y. NJ. c. A, has
gone to Chicago for visit of indefinite
length.
Machinist Herman Clinton and wife are
entertaining at their hon home Mrs: John Mel
Malta. Ohio.
Meredith ShocSley and Andrew Meder
are again with the Santa Fe- They quit
a few weeks ago, but again got jobs in
the scrap iron gang.
G. M. Kimplen, jr., son of a machinist
in these shops who responds to the same
machinist apprentice.
Sprague Chase, whose employment in
the water service department was an
morning boiler mounter.'
Gail E. Sporting and Claude Munden
are recent additions to the list of em--
Munden goes on as a laborer.
Ten cars of Topeka ice were being
loaded Tuesday preparatory to shipment
stored for the further use of the COM
pany.
Peter Odernan, general blacksmith, en-
af tseo two Weeks IN sa n He brough h
back with him five pounds more of flesh
than he took west.
There was a considerable part of the
west and north brick walls of the new
power house in evidence Tuesday after
noon, and the masons were continually
raising them higher.
David Holiday, who until recently was
employed in these shops, will now be
found in the mechanical department of
the Wabash at Slater, Mo. He has a
job the floor in the machine shop
Orvill Ice has been put as a ma
chinist helper, and Joseph r. Meakin is a
have a job here and only within the last
two weeks came in from trip to Iowa.
John Gorham, the Usage City fireman
few 1,S weeks ago with one Of the most Sc .
rious cases of typhoid fever that has
been treated an in that institution this sum-
Mrs. Dora Nicoll wife of David T.
Nicoll,. formerly clerk in the Santa Fe
general offices here, but now a student
her husband there after a visit of two
months in Topeka and Wichita
Floyd Jones. foreman of the gang re-
equipment had to lay off Tuesday fore
noon long enough to hold a glad recep-
coming of nine-pound daughter
Mrs. James Smith, of Kansas City, was
a visitor in Topeka the early part of the
week. Her husband was formerly an en-
plOye of the cabinet department, and Is
now employed in furniture manufac-
turing establishment in Kansas City
Gus Avs and Clayton Grout reported
for duty in the water service Tuesday
Avs has been the guest of a brother who
lives at Cedarva1e. and Grout has been
with camping party in the Businesses
of the Rockies for the last two weeks
Robert C.. NicoI who for eighteen
months has held a clerkship in the joint
terminal offices of the Santa Fe and
Grand Island roads at St Joseph. Mo, has
taken a position with the Missouri Pa
cific. Mr.. Nicoll was with the Santa Fe
In the capacity of y general Office clerk
for about three VI s.
At meeting of the membership COM
msttee of the railroad Y. M c. A Tues
day evening the reports showed a grand
total membership of S64, more than ever
has been known since the organization
began its existence There will be a