The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-09

ping gang. quit Tuesday and will take a
place in the bottling works on the north
Samuel Zimmerman. formerly ticket
clerk at the Santa F'e depot. but later
stenographer to County Attorney Nichols.
has gone to work in the general passenger
offices.
James johnson. day hostler. and James
Sellman of the roundhouse have returned
to their places after short hunting trip
Usage City.
G. A. Kaiser. blacksmith who has been
detained from work a long time because of
Sickness showed up Tuesday afternoon
and said he would be ready for business
this morning.
F. T. Dolan, superintendent of the Chi
49, ulF lsoH' VIII neauq ~, 81 + or
Adadlson Ia went west IN car 2iS IneS-
day, attached to No 8 He will 90 to Al
bucuerCue. n. NJ
Henry Hazen, foreman of the Rock Is
land blacksmith shop at Trenton. Mo-
and son of William Hazen of Topeka:
has returned to that place after brief
visit with relatives here.
Bert Burgett, who formerly had a. job in
the roundhouse and who renewed allegi-
scrap yards March 49, took his time Tues
day. He will go to painting uptown
Byron p. Davis. a machinist who was
taken to the hospital the latter part of last
week surerlng with rheumatism, Is get
ting better, but it will probably be several
days before he can return to his place
Engine S24 has been held in from service
few days in order that cast iron might
be put up instead of the brick arch which
fell while the locomotive was coming in
on its successful trip Saturday evening.
Peter DONNIE, a member of the strip
ping gang has been out a week or more
account of sickness. One of his sons
had leg broken the other day while
playing ball near his home in North To-
peka.
Miss Pearl Waningford who since last
summer has been in the Harvey eating
house here, has quit that place and viii
attend the bedside of her grandmother,
who is seriously sick at her home in this
place.
E. L. Simpson, foreman of a. gang in the
storehOuse, is changing his abiding place,
from the southeast part of town to two
lots on Lake, between Seventh and Eighth
Jacob Mueller, a cabinet maker who
[ slipped on the ice and fell breaking a
months ago. has almost entirely recovered
his bench.
the contract for his new two story resi-
dence which is to be built on the corner
Of Eighth and Madison streets. It Is plan
ned that the job of construction will be
commenced this week
Friday evening has been chosen as the
time of meeting for the male chorus of the
Railroad Y. NJ c. A. the change being
made from Monday night in order that
an opportunity to attend.
The Wichita and Western branch of the
Santa Fe is to have thousands of dollars
expended on the Improvement of its road
! bed and otherwise lettering the facilities
/ with which the traffic is to be handled
J during the next few months.
! Edward Grafstrom. mechanical engineer
/ for the Santa Fe, Tuesday afternoon do
1 books filed with drawings, geometrical de-
/ signs and figures that viii interest those
! who have pursued studies along this line.
4 Charles Ac5ley, a carpenter in the sheds,
I who has been absent from his place more
4 than a month on account of an injured
! pected to be able for business the first of
April: but some days more Will elapse be
/ fore he can come in
Two cars were still down the embanA-
ment Tuesday at the scene of the wreck
which occurred three miles west of Mar
there has been no further delay to traffic.
I Engine 1925, in charge Of a cut off crew,
was pulling the train
Newt Hammel an engine stripper who
! has been away several days, has returned
with the Santa Fe and is now packing up,
preparatory to going TO Hoxie. where he
/ wife has already preceded him.
Z. 7. Russell. an elder in the Seventh
j Day Adventist church and presiding officer
/ here win talk to the men who gather at
the coach shop Tuesday noon. Rev. Rus
4 sell has only recently come to Topeka but
/ already he has gained an excellent stand
| ing as a minister.
Four excellent photographs of classes
/ Railroad Y. NJ. c. A some time since the
recent winters work began are now on
/ exhibition at the rooms One thing above
more room and betfer facilities with Witch
/ to carry on the work Of the association
G. P. Tison. who has been in the hos
/ pital a month or more suffering from lung
and throat trouble, is TO be sent to the
company sanitarium at Las Vegas N NJ,
/ THURSDAY if plans given out Thursday ma
ture- His condition is practically IN
/ changed from what it has been, although
/ Sunday he was able to sit up short
i time.
At the membership committee meeting
lat the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. Tuesday night
/ a report was offered which showed the
/ strength of the association to be S32 fig
/ ure little below what it was a month
ago. This is not because any efforts have
/ been spared in getting recruits being
/ simply the result of many changes that
have come with the opening of spring.
/ The Topeka organization is still the largest
on the Santa F'e system
In the current number of the Kansas
| Workman official publication Of that BEN
] eticiary organ, appears likeness of J. W.