The Topeka state journal., 1902-02-07

| shop, is duty after being out several
John Wood. of the water service. is
tied up at home with a case of genuine
Bert Adams, of the down stairs force in
! the storehouse, did not show up for work
Thursday.
Hollis Frazier. an employe of the. oil
house, was absent from his usual place
Thursday.
Brakeman D. L. RAIDER, who has been
resting for two months, is following his
car again.
Boilermaker James Thomas is working
days, after a protracted session with the
night shift
Francis Purl has been added to the force
working in the drill press corner of the
machine shop.
Nels Johnson. of the boiler. shop. is off
duty caring for his three children, who
are down with colds.
Switchman James E. Iarkin, who has
been off the footboard a good portion of
the week, is at work.
mill, was summoned home Thursday noon
by the sickness of his wife
A. E. Smith, a locomotive painter, who
has not appeared in his place for several
days, is working once more.
T. H. Thorpe, travelling passenger agent
for the Pennsylvania lines out of Kansas
City, was in Topeka Thursday.
Edward Mcintyre, foreman of the boys
working on sheet iron, is IS IN charge OF his
Harry Mason, machinist at Newton,
has been brought to the hospital at this
place 1OE lT6dlHlSul IOT Tl0uH1dllSuu
Charles G. Baer, a water service ma
chanist, who has been employed only
about two weeks, has taken his time.
Charles Webers second finger his
left hand is broken as the result of a
coach wheel dropping it Thursday.
w. H; Wood, an employe of the Santa
Fe at Argentine, has taken layoff, and
will spend a part of it in Montier, Mo.
Sam Deck, of the boilermaking depart
two attending the beside of his sick wife.
Harold Lawless, who went on as an ap-
prentice the first of the week, has been
put to work in the tool room of the ma
chine shop.
A. D. Kelly. of the .blacksmithing de-
partment, who was laid up one or two
days this week with a cold and chill, Is
doing his work
Clarence Hopkins, a round-house ma
steam steam chest lest Thu%rsday % and considerably
cut and bruised.
John Stagman, of the car machine shop.
who put out of business a few days
ago by wheel dropping on one of his feet,
is in his place
Brakeman c. B. Botlxin. who has been
out in California on a jaunt of thirty days,
has returned and is following his car over
the cutoff again
F. N. Ristine, lately appointed mechan-
ical superintendent of the Eastern grand
division, made trip of inspection around
Mrs. Maggie McMillaE a sister of Hugh
King eoilermaker deii @ helper has ,t returned IT fn
weeks with her relatives.
John Robinson, the car repairer who
allowed a sill to drop on one of his feet,
to quit work temporarily. is on duty.
Brakeman E. c. Brown, an Argentine
100 days' working time by an attack of
rheumatism is ready to resume his job.
Conductor Richard Wilson is acting chief
on an Alma branch train for a few days
during the absence of Conductor Stafford.
G. w. Belts. of the blacksmith shop, is
in after loss of three or four days time
truck workmen, were out of their places
Thursday.
James Collinson, until recently general
master mechanic of the Santa Fe has
been spending the week in Galveston, Gle
burne and other Texas cities, looking after
property interests
John Lenhart, who followed the ma
chinists' trade here for a time, but left
Topeka shops last November with his tools
a wheelbarrow, has reached the town
of Hamilton. Ohio
out indefinitely because of sickness. Pat
Griffin, who works on a band fire in 4dI. the
Hafner is in Griffins place.
MONDAY meetings at the Santa Fe shops
at Newton are becoming regular. They
who are holding big revival in the town,
and are still continuing.
w. ]. Haggard has been secured to take
charge of the algebra class at the railroad
Y. NJ. C., A Saturday evening. J. n.
be fo ffen6 th r6sgYar te sesdn being
Henry Collinson, who formerly worked
here as blacksmith, but who is now fol-
lowing MS trade IN a SnOp at Kansas CITY
has returned to that town after a brief
visit with acquaintance in Topeka
Ben Adams, head packer at the store
house, has moved from the corner of Fifth
and Polk streets to Sixth and Tyler. In
his absence from work ]. E. Griffith had
charge of the men in that department
Frank Gutsch, a spring maker, who has
been at the bedside of his sick wife for
dav or two. is in his place again The CON
dition of Mrs Gutsch, who underwent an
operation Wednesday, is quite satisfac-
tory
Gertie Tracy, engineer at the general
Offices has been compelled to knock off
again and devote himself to second edi-
ton of the mumps- He returned to duty