The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-21

at the family home with complication OF
| typhoid malaria and the grip.
dSTon 6@rg m9or 6av Te bis 6f an
| days for brief visit in Dodge City
on the. eastern division. viii go from her
home in Argentine in a few days for a
visit at Marion
| Harry Wolford, a machinist in the
roundhouse gang, working under Ira Mil
Ter, has taken his place after lay off of
Mrs. Edward Scahill and daughter, Mrs.
Banks, wife and daughter of Engineer
a visit in Emporia-
Bert Bressett and Guy cronenberg.
bsTe Srsn Of o s sheet be%
to be ready for duty again soon.
James E: Larkin, a switchman who was
| his sick mother. has returned and is now
| working in the yards as usual.
| Locomotive. 229; which has been given a
| Medley Thursday afternoon on trial trip.
die division who has been low with
typhoid fever at the hospital here, is re-
ported being rapidly on the mend.
John WaIdron, who recently returned
from the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe,
| in Scranton for few days visiting his
parents
department working under Hugh Thomp-
son. He had a job here about nine years
ago but recently has been on farm
near Meriden-
Ben johnson, formerly engineer of tests
for the. Santa F'e, but now superintendent
was around Shaking hands with his many
friends here Thursday.
Gus Mihleisen. assistant foreman of the
boiler shop, who has been under the
weather nearly a week, was well enough
Thursday that he counted on assuming
charge of the men again this morning.
Conductor c. w. Hunt, who came in on
an eastbound extra Wednesday night, was
train. s He Was re ii by fleece, who
took it through to Argentine.
o. Swanson the Topeka building
tractor. has begun the erection of a two
story brick freight and passenger depot
for the Santa Fe at Chillicothe, Ill. The
offices.
Solomon, Joseph. the new agent at the
depot who went to the hospital ten days
ago with an acute attack of appendicitis,
is better and sat up in a chair Tor snort
again before long.
Clarence NJ. Shea. who for four years
has followed the fortunes of machinist
papers and is now a machinist In full fell
lowship. He is one of the youngest me
There was an absent-minded shopman
Thursday who missed his coat and who,
him of hiding it. found it safely locked in
his cupboard. where it had been placed
by his own hands in the early hours of
the day.
1t is a matter of great regret to George
Symmes, clerk in the office of General
Car Shops Foreman Manson, that the rain
came when it did He purchased a wheel
in time to begin its use Thursday morning.
and now that the wet weather has come
it is a severe disappointment.
Knights of Pythias band, which is COM
posed largely of shopmen and which has
been doing exceptionally excellent work
lately viii give concert at the l IaiI5oad
e M president Of the Central anp Ma
tionai bank, viii talk on Banking
At the coach shop Thursday noon George
D. McDil international secretary of the
railroad branch of the Y NJ @. A, spoke
to one of the largest gatherings of men of
the year There special music and
secretaries from a number of associations
over the state were in attendance.
William McNoun. formerly calker and
clipper in the boilerma king department
here was in town recently He is now in
the employ of the Rock Island at Pales-
tine, Tex, but was called up to Wichita