The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-02

Mr.. j. X. Watson, who looks after
the passenger end of the business for
the M. &. o. has been advised as
.olIows: ''The Frisco trains Nos. 924
and 929, Memphis Accommodation are
now being operated on Sundays as
we'll as week days. No. 924 leaving
Tupelo at 7 a. M, arriving at Mem
phis at 1:15 a. m. and No. 923 leaving
Memphis at 400 p. m. and arriving at
Tupelo at $3.50 p. m. The "owl" trains
On the M. e.. o. will bring you into
Columbus shortly after midnight.
The Regional Director has offered
a silver cup as a trophy for the group
of Roads under Federal Management
fer the smallest number Of accidents
per 100 employees. A bulletin wire
felicitating the prospects Of the Mont
q merry and Mobile districts has been
flashed and in all probability the
trophy will come to these divisions.
Employees have made vigilance their
watchword and it appears that they
VIII soon be rewarded for their care
fitness.
1t is general conceded now that the
railroads viii go back te-priyate own
ership about January 1. The ground
operators and the fellows arouad the
sand house say that the "Old M. & o.
will blow up and will be but mem
DRY Fast trains will be operated and
to life. The first of the year viii soon
be here and we viii see then how
mich of it is true. The ground oper-
ators and the sand house boys have
reputation of not making many Bad
gIesses.
X. Waller, one of the well known
ard crack fire boys Of the M. & o.
who fires the big jack for Engineer
Nceley McKeough, is an order man
that believes ia, showing the public
just what firing an engine is. He
says it is h from the time a fireman
starts until the run gets in. mot
dry rag Gu me all day, Talk about a
fireman getting overpaid is bunk.
He can be ovcr-worked until it will
ne>essitate him getting off his stced
until nat2re can rest him, bat never
ovcr-paid.7 Mr.. Waller is enjoying o
few days rest-in this city.
Conductor (Kelley) Riley, who runs
into this city is an eX-coal miner,
knows the mining conditions and what
the commissary does or has done for
the stipend that the coal miner draws.
"Why! the average coal miner has a
hard living; buries himself for sew
eral hours andlsaome times FOR ever
lasting. Ny sympathy goes out to
them ard you can take it from me,
the public has for long time used
cheap fuel at the mixers expense. (
Yes am Union, God Hess the union .
maa."
A patron who ships daily and re
recciyse much freight was casper
ated over government control and lost
his head when told Of restrictions ana
remarked: fudge I wait ic see Il
back the old way when we could see
the superintendent who was unham-
pered and could say yes or no without
taking it up any further" We are
tired Of GUESSING the government.
Fireman Steele Of the NJ and O.,
who was a victim Of all kinds o, ru-
mors during the war is is back on an
M. andO. engine. The first fumor
was that he was blown up ~ sub;
hardly had that ramon subsidized be-
fore rumor had it that he was dead
with the flu Every much alive yet
the hefty Gleman G Ruined when he
climbed aboard big engine.
Mr.. J. d. Flournoy, Agent Operator
at Crawford Miss, who has been do
ing extra work on the Mobile an6
Montgomery district has been pressed
into special detail work and his many
friends were glad to see him on tn
Montgomery division the past week.
Mr. d. Dan) Kellar, known as the
major, who makes his home with
his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Hodskins,
has many friends who were glad to
see him out this week after a spell
of sickness. The affable cid gentle
men will leave shortly for -udiaaia
wher he will stay indefinitely. Vi