The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1904-03-18
RAILROAD NOTES.

MaChinist Ed Leech IS thinking Of
going to Denver soon
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Wiley are expect /
ed home from their trip to the Pacific
coast soon.
DOde Adams, OF the round house
force, thinks of engaging in the shoe
lacing business.
Chief Dispatcher Wolcott is quite in
disposed with an attack Of jaundiCe-
he IS, however, still at his desk.
George Copley has secured a position
as conductor on the Mexico Central
railroad and runs out Of Mexico City
J. Q. Kennedy, a brakeman on this
division, left for Salina Monday night
20 attend a Shriner festival at that
place.
Brakeman Warren Know, who has
been on passenger for the last three
months, was IN town for visit with his
parents Tuesday
-Four new freight cars belonging 70
the Mexican Central railroad were in
GOOdland yards Wednesday loaded east
with coke They were Just out Of the
Pullman shops at Denver
-GOodland lodge No. 327, Brotherhood
Of Railroad Trainmen have employed
| Fink's orchestra, of Colorado Springs,
to furnish the music for their first an
nual ball to be given April IS
Frank Cunningham, formerly a FIRE
man on this division, was in town this
week He has been working on the
| Colorado Southern since leaving here.
/ he was en- route 70 St. Joseph.
The station agents wife, Mrs. ]. {.
/ Jones, of Ruleton, is sick with small
pOx and the station Is Quarantined.
/ The business IS transacted In a box car
/ some distance from the station house.
Engineer D. Hathaway, lately master
mechanic of the Fairbury division, has
returned to GOOdland and viii run an
| engine out Of here. Mrs. Hathaway
viii come later. They formerly lived in
] GOOdland.
Brakeman ]. ". DOdds was painfully
hurt Monday IN the GoOdland yards
| He was in a caboOSe when a bunch Of
cars were shunted into the train with
such force as to knock him against the
door Of the weigh car, the knob strik-
| ing him in the back. He Is laid up
with injury at his home,
| Machinist ]. B. Wilson and bride
arrived in GOOdland last Friday morn
ing from Omaha They are domi-iled
in the Candy rOoming house. Mrs
Wilson was formerly Miss Maud Jacobs,
and the couple were married IN Omaha,
March 2. All of REDS friends have
extended their congratulations and wish
Mr. and Mrs Wilson long and happy
married life.
Mistakes: Mistakes happen in the
best regulated families The ParsOn
picks up railroad locals This week he
was Intercepted by one of the machin-
lists IN the shops as follows: ''ParsOn,
why did you refer to Fatty hester as a
maChinist last week? He Is only a
wiper and gets only 20 cents an hour
whereas machinists get IS cents. We
4 want distinction made between the
sheep and the goats" Chaplain Nest
er was there to represent his side of the
case, and with a broad smile, as ne
shifted his guild to the other cheek,
said: 80 'Blest be the tie that binds our
hearts IN Christian love Yes, ParsOn,
am only wiper, but many that are
first shall be last, and last first. -
Fatty has been reading his bible.
Whistles: Blacksmith Hardy has be
gun a new enterprise. He is collecting
an assortment of second hand whistles,
and will endeavOr to demonstrate the
truthfulness of the saying, You can Z
make whistle out of a pigs tail" All
his samples are made of iron and
steel. Since Machinist Purvis got out
the big one Tor Bob COOts' engine, and
Others following suit, Hardy has collect
ed the discarded Ones-not pig tail in
the bunch Purvis IS making a nam
moth whistle, the blast from which can
be heard ten miles. II viii be put on
one of the fast passenger engines. This
one IS more powerful than the shop
whistle and viii wake up both the
passengers and the people along the
line of the road Ranch dogs viii bark
ROSTERS viii crow, and the settlers will
spring up IN fright thinking that
I Gabriel is blowing his horn.