The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-18
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

Engine O4e, an eight wheeler, is in for
/ heavy repairs.
Blacksmith John Romerman is fighting
case of mumps.
/ John Parkinson of the water service has
/ been laying off two days
/ James Wilmott Of the water service has
! been laying off three days.
/ Walter Stout is a new recruit in Morri-
! sons gang at the storehouse.
Ezra Cooper of the boiler shop is work
/ ing after an absence of ten days.
Cabinetmaker Albert Vail has been alb
sent TWO and a half days because of sick
ness.
John Eckerman and Charles Disch of the
! blacksmithing department have been lay
/ Martin Salyer a scrapper in Petit ;
/ gang, had to vacate Thursday long enough
+ to move
! W e. Ogston. superintendent of the San
/ ia t.e refrigerator service, was in Topeka
Nels Olson OF the big hammer in the
blacksmith shop is out holding a session
with a bad cold
James West of the paint shop has been
bronchial troubles.
The wife and two children of James
Skaggs of the drafting room are recover
! ing from tonsflitis-
A. P. Hilton. general storekeeper, left on
NO. ] Thursday for Albuquerque, N. NJ,
on business trip.
w H. Hayes a coach trimmer. has re-
sumed his business after losing between
three and four days.
Alva Courtney. a coach cleaner, has been
/ kept from his usual duties three nights
/ because Of sickness.
Werner Opperman of the machine shop
| is reported as being sick, having failed to
show up since Monday.
George Bighan. a member of a day
| switching crew, laid of Thursday to look
after business matters
Frank Watkins went on as a trucker in
! John NcCoys force at the store depart
ment Thursday.
No. 3 furnace in the blacksmith shop,
rarl1 oh has
1 time is ready for service again.
Edward Boyer, night oiler. failed to show
! up Wednesday evening and William Sny-
t der, day man doubled in his place.
Samuel Ray, an inside finisher, has
missed all this week, being obliged to de-
vote himself to an attack Of humps
Earl Fiske,an apprentice boy. working on
a planer in the machine shop, has taken q
/ fNrlOugh Of week and is in Kansas city.
Aut Maze of the tank room who was
( struck in one eye by piece of steel the
/ other day and put out of service, is at his
/ post again.
John Helm who runs a wheel press in
! the car machine shop. had to give up
/ Thursday forenoon and 90 home because
/ he was sick
I chinists trade. has changed his abiding
/ place from Parkdale to West Gordon street
/ in North Topeka
Engine 25s a ten wheel Baldwin. was
/ pushed into the last pit in the east shop
/ Thursday for repairs at the hands Of w
/ A. Mitchen's gang.
NJ c. Lamott a special apprentice who
/ came here a few days ago from Purdue
university. Lafayette, Ind. has gone tC
r. 0. Brashear has been made assistant
/ ticket clerk at the Santa Fe depot, the
additional help being rendered necessary
by the heavy traffic.
Clarence NJ. Shea, a naehinist in tho
east shop, has been out day or two re,
! gaining his sight after a puff of steel dust
had been blown in his eyes.
J. C. Parker has been appointed freight
ana passenger agent az curtis, l. an 9
/ small station on the Panhandle division
/ taking the place of P Hoffman.
George Klusslnan. a machinist, is now
/ comfortably settled in a new home which
between Sixth and Seventh streets
Eight cars Of sand TO be used in the con
shop have been set in on the east track
and viii be unloaded permanently.
Robert Lees. jr., Of the boiler shop has
corner of Madison and Crane to go Madi-
son. He came to work this morning.
Frank schwartz an, apprentice in tbs
Thursday in order TO ind place for th1
large check which he drew Tuesday.
The wife of Peter F. Brady. a nigh
noon for Galesburg. Ill. to be at the bed
side of her sick sister. Miss Nellie Dough
erty.
Charles. Pibble. who has followed til,
profession OF laborer in the sheds in tbs
neighborhood of eight months. took his
time he VIII seek a livelihood by ullins
Frank Coles. CYRUS Guthrie and join
Ash of the rOundhouse are figuring on
date when they can drop work long enough
to go to the Marais des Cygnes on a fish
ing trip
II. A. Hulse. an operator on the Denvsi
and Rio Grande at Malta, Col. who ha
been visiting his parents in Potwin severa
weeks will return to his post Of duty mex
Tuesday.
William st. Aarys. who a year ago wa
on the pay roll Of the Topeka blacksmith