The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1902-06-20
RAILROAD SPIKES.

Tuesday was pay day for employees Of
I the Rock Island
Conductor S. B. Hubbard has pur-
C based a VOse piano.
Fireman Crist Kumm has gone to
I Denver TO spend few days.
Painter J. II. Harvey was off duty
I this week to enjoy a brief vacation.
Division Superintendent F. c. Smith,
Of Colorado Springs, was here Tues
day.
Engine $50 arrived here Wednesday
and SIS was sent to tfe southern di-
vision.
G. c. Young, manager Of the Depot
hotel, was a business visitor 10 Denver
Tuesday.
Dispatcher W. A. Bonnie, accomp-
anied by his family, lef5 yesterday for
a visit in Minnesota and Illinois.
Engineer R T. COOts received the
/ largest check pay day of any engineer
on this division. The check called
I for 500 %.
Chief Dispatcher " A Young re-
I turned from Minneapolis, Mimi, Sun
| day where he spent a short vacation
with his family.
Engineer Tom Kelly and Fireman
/ Tim Foley were here from the Lin on
Denver run yesterday for repairs for
their engine, No. so.
Dave Pringle, formerly an engineer
on the Rock Island with a run out of
GOOdland, is in town. He is now en-
plOyed by the Missouri Pacific at
Pueblo.
Engine 523, which has been in the
shops for a long time. is about com
plete and will be turned out the latter
part of the week after receiving a gen
eral overhaul.
a Rock Island painting gang were
repaintiug the interior of the lunch
room Of the Depot hotel the first Of the
week. They will return next week and
do some painting IN the hotel and
depot.
". A Young, Jr-, son Of Dispatcher
I Young, recently graduated from the
I high school OF Minneapolis, Mimi,
with honors at the head Of a class Of 46
graduates He Is Il years Of age and
| stands six feet In his stockings.
The report that Herbert Mstlock,
I son Of y p. MatlOck, had a leg cut of
/ by a street car at Kansas City recently
| where the family are visiting was
| grOuudless, though the child cut his
foot badly by stepping on a brick.
Engine sQ5, Engineer Mason, broke
down at Mattison, Col. Wednesday
morning while coming east with No. 6.
I Engine 907, Engineer Tom Kelly, Of
! the LimOn-Denver run, brought the
/ train to GOOdland in the place of the
/ S95.
/ F H Schermerhorn, Of Chicago, rep
resenting the International Core
/ spOndeuce school, of ScrantO1. Pa. ,hav-
/ ing charge Of the instruction depart
ment on the Rock Island system west
Of the Missouri river, was stopping
here a few days this week
Machinist Foreman Theo- Kribbs,
Machinist German and Blacksmith
john Shuster, of the back shops, ten
deTed their TesignOtiOns Wednesday
morning Shuster will 90 to his farm
in Oklahoma and Kribbs aud German
will look for employment elsewhere
Mnt Peterson, member Of the griev-
ance committee Of locomotive firemen
Of this division, came home Saturday
from Chicago. He viii return TO Chi
cagO in a few days to complete his
/ work with the management of the
Rock Island together with other repre-
sentatives Of firemen Of other divisions
A number Of new and improved ma
chimes have been ordered for the HOr-
ton machine shops, and will be placed
in service at once, says the Horton
n Commercial. One of these Is a new
compound air press-One OF the finest
made. 1t will take the place Of the
two small presses in the car shop en-
CINE room. The other new machines
are for the back shops, where work Is
increasing rapidly as the Rock Island
| extends her lines.