Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-09-05
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: RAILROAD NEWS.

"A. Lay OVAOu6s pho u4AN0A AL oAA"us
resigned Sunday. -
Leanus Thyden, machinist helper.
has zone braking. 49,.
John Foster, machinist helper has
been made brakeman.
John Cox has been promoted to pile
driver foreman, to succeed A. l.. De.
Long.
Positions are open in almost every
department and men are wanted to
I'LL them.
: SigfrM Olson, machinist, was OK.
empted by the exemption board for
year on account OF dependent parents.
Storekeeper, E. F. Sterling, spent
Friday in st. Paul. He is purchasing
stencils for the store which win be re-
paired little.
G. A. Bruce, General Master Me-
chanic, arrived Friday from St. Paul
on a business visit with Master Me-
chanic, George Winney.
Ten carloads of building material
of all kinds have just been received
from the Coast and will be used for
repairs on buildings and bridges.
Oscar Wicks, machinist helper, left
last week for North Dakota to assist
in the harvesting. Floyd Wicks will
take his place during his absence.
Travelling Auditor Flanagan of St.
Paul is checking up the books in sew
eral of the departments. He just
completed the Superintendent books.
Master Mechanic George Winney
and wife and daughter, Muriel, re-
turned Thursday from "a few days
pleasure trip to Chicago and other
points in the East.
Harold Ramsett is taking the place
of Miss Esther Rodlun as stenog.
rapher for the Master Mechanic. Miss
Rodlun left last week for Kansas City
and Chicago for a months vacation
The Smyth Plumbing and Heating
Company, contractors of~St. Paul have
begun work on the new $500 brick
lavatory. The cement foundation has
just been completed and the building
| "AAA 0OOA NOAAI0ANO
In order to experiment whether q
succaBful wiener roast could be held
without the presence of ladies a mum
her of machinists and Office clerks en-
joyed a splendid time last Wednesda,
evening on Robbins Island. fThey
were enthusiastic about their repor
that better night could not have
been spent.
F. c. Beese, master carpenter, road
master John Cock and assistant en-
gineer H. E. Crist of St. Paul retirn
ed last week from a bridge inspection
tour over the whole division. The!
inspected bridges on the Aberdeen
WATERFOWL, Evansville and the FORBES
lines, They report that the majorit,
of the bridges are in fine shape.
The local railroad officials have no
yet received word from the govern
mont as to the exemption of the rail
!. road men. The railroad men believ
they can best serve their country b,
assisting in a work with which the,
are thoroly familiar and a work which
requires a good deal of experience
In order to handle the large amour
of traffic and shipping which will fa]
to their lot, there must be -traine
men to do the work, men who hav
}, "gone thru the mill" and can do tn
| job in the shortest and quickest way
| The coming fall will be the busies
time in orr history and the railroad
will be called upon, and in fact hav
been already called upon to carry O.
this vast amount of business. III
new draft army must ,be sent to tn
various training camps as soon a
possible, and foodstuffs likewise. Val
, ious kinds of material of which e,
traordinary amounts are needed b
cur government must be carried b
: the railroads. In all the whole NOV.
ment of our country towards carr,
. ing on this war rests on the railroa
men who must see to it that the go,
l eminent gets what they want and get
: it just when they want it.