The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-06-26

bnine feet and straighten up the APP
Iproach to the yards. The work was
progressing nicely when the heavy
rain last week practically put the
thing on the hummer"
! G. A. Lucy, commercial agent for
I the M. & st. l.. at Kansas City, was in
the city Tuesday on business. Mr..
Lucy was formerly agent for the old
Iowa Central in this city and was
also visiting former friends.
The NJ. & ST. L. excursions to Min
lneapolis will never fail to land a
good crowd. The excursion pulled
off last Saturday evening, run from
Peoria, ILL.,, to Oskaloosa and points
along the line and from here the
train started on its way northward,
stopping only for water and to change
Iengines. Four coaches and three
tourist sleepers made up the train,
with two big engines. The train left
here about midnight Saturday and
landed the bunch in the Twin Cities
about 900 o'clock Sunday morning.
There were about 200 on the train
leaving here, about fifty going from
Oskaloosa and points close by.
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1t was rumored around the NJ 81
St. l.. Monday and Tuesday that W.
G. Beard, vice president and general
manager of the NJ. & st. L., had re-
signed. No official report has been
received here yet, as Mr. Marshall
lis in Minneapolis this week on bust
ness. Mr.. Beard is a thorough and
practical railroad man and is well
liked by the employees of the road.
who would dislike to see him leave,
save for his own good.
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Herman and Leslie Sonderegger,
of the M & St. l.. platform, are away
from duty this week taking vacation
in the form of fishing and camping
on Skunk river. P. Bull
lers and D. Rillihan are filing in on
the platform.
The local freight office for the M.
e st. L. reports that business in their
has been good for a good
share of the past week. The H. l..
Spencer business that formerly went
to the c. r. l. & P, has been given
over to the M. &c St. because they
can load the freight into the cars
from their own doors and save the
drayage.
The through freight business on
the NJ. 8, st. l.. is reported to be fair
at present, but the regular sum-
business is picking up more every
day.
The local freight business at the
C. R. l. & P. has been reported good
for the past week.
Conductor H. l.. Cross has taken
the run between here and Davenport
on the G. r. |. & P. Conductor Gar
lick takes the Des Moines to Keo-
kuk run.
The passenger equipment on the
Oskaloosa-Davenport run is taken to
Evans every night at present. About
a month ago this train was left at
Oskaloosa and the lone engine went to
Evans for the night, but the plans
have been changed because of the
delay in truning the train here every
morning.
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Marshalltown Times Republican
With official confirmation lacking, it
is said on good authority that the M.
& st. l.. has appropriated an i'm
mense sum for improvement of its
property in this city during the fiscal
year and to pay for the labor of a
greatly increased shop force during
the same period. According to the
source of information from which
this unofficial report comes, the COM
pany has appropriated S1S0,000 more
than its last years local appropria.
ton for these purposes.
That the company is seeking addi-
tional labor for its shops, and par
ticularly its car shops, is confirmed
1t wants fifteen TO twenty more labor
ers and car repairers.
This additional help is needed in
the car shops, it is said, because the
company intends to do all of its car
repairing and rebuilding. including
the coach work, for what was former
ly the Iowa Central, at the local shops.
For about two years much of the car
and coach work has been done at the
Cedar Lake shops and elsewhere, be-
cause the company believed this work
could be done more cheaply there
than in the local shops.
The plan of the car department is
ito advance the men, who are work
ing on car work outside the shops to
jobs inside the shops. The places of
these men will be filled with new
imechaiCs and laborers.
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The Burlington railroad company,
which for a number of years has been
experimenting in Iowa in the produc-
tion of catalpa trees for ties, is about
to declare the experiment success.
The company owns half section Of
land south of Pacific Junction. Along
the north line of this tract the main
line of the Burlington railroad runs
and just now there is presented one Of
the prettiest sights in the state. A
vast forest of catalpas now In fun
bloom. The heavy fragrance from
the blooms is waited through the win
dowS of passing trains.
! The company has 125 acres of this
land in catalpas. The shrubs were
set out in rows seven feet apart each
way to permit of cultivation and free
growth. They were planted in Aug
Just and September, 1912, eleven years
ago. The young trees were injured
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