The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1908-07-24
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS.


N. V. Franklin will spend Sunday in
Eustis.
Engine 704 is receiving droppit re-
pairs, this week.
A. w. Austin and wife will be Hast
ings visitors, Sunday.
John Hunt and wife will go to Lin
coin, Sunday, on a short visit.
doctor" Smith left for st. Joseph.
Mo-, last night, after the family.
d. o. Hewitt went in to Omaha,
Wednesday evening, on business.
Fireman Roy Hitler is entertaining
his father and mother from Edgar.
Brakeman G.. d. Chiffon departed,
Wednesday. on a visit to friends in Mis-
souri,.
Engine 1912 is a new arrival from the
Havelock shops on the division, this
week.
Way car IA, 23S was pulled out of ser
vice, Wednesday, on account of light
business.
Bruce Berry is on the job in the
trainmaster's Office while Rogers is on
vacation.
Conductor a. II. Bagley was off, mid
week, looking after some business
matters in Akron.
Trainmaster's Clerk Rogers and wife
left, last night, for a weeks outing in
the Colorado hills.
Engines 1892 and 1854 have been run
out of the backshop and the 1881 will
be taken out today.
Engineer Ainsworth Monks has been
having some trouble with a sore foot
caused by a rusty nail.
Switchman Overleese of the Hol-
drege yard is OF furlough, and Warner
of Oxford is relieving him.
Mrs. E. o. Scott and baby departed,
on No. 2, Tuesday morning, to visit
friends in Lincoln and Omaha.
Adam Getman and family and j. G.
Hoffman and daughter left, last night,
for Fruita, Colorado, on a visit.
Theodore Diebold and r. G. True are
in Akron, part of the week, repairing
the gasoling engine of the coal chute.
Conductor Carmoney had Burns run
on l and 6 while the latter engaged in a
limited bout with hay fever, this week.
The stationary boiler from the Hol-
drege r~oundhouse Is in the shop here
for new 1ues and several patches to her
frebox.
". J. Russell is off duty, this week,
on account of the serious illness of his
child, a sufferer with a severe summer
sickness.
Conductor Cox and crew with Engin-
eer Marshall have the pile driver at
Oxford, driving a foundation for a new
concrete bridge.
Louis Meyers, night man at Cam
bridge, has taken a long vacation, and
John White, formerly of I%ndianola, has
taken the position.
G. G. Orman, wife and daughter will
leave, this week, for Fresno, Calf, to
be absent a few weeks, going by way of
Billings, Portland etc.
Albert Fredricksen, night man at
Trenton for some time, has been trans
ferred to Roggen, Colorado, as agent.
Harold Weyl from Stratton, took his
position at Trenton.
Engineer Jake Matz returned from
his Denver visit, Tuesday morning, and
resumed work on the Holdrege local,
Wednesday. Mrs. Matz went on to
Franklin to visit her parents briefly.
The examination of conductors and
engineers began, Wednesday. Train
master Weidenhamer is conducting the
examination and is handling the men
in classes of ten or twelve, half of them
from each branch of the service.
D. G. Woodring, superintendent of
bridges and master carpenter of the
Lincoln division, fell from the Burling-
ton bridge at Fremont, Sunday and lost
his life. He received perhaps fatal in
juries about the head in falling. His
body was not recovered from the river
for several hours afterwards.