-VOL. I1 No. 10 JULY 1925 HE thought uppermost in the minds of innun~crahlepassengers Tarriving in and (!:parting from railway stations in this country daily. Many of the trains carrying these passcngers and thousands of the pas- sengers arc ((on time" with Illinois Watches. The enormous demand for complctc. Bunn Specials, illustrated above, is evidence of their popularity with railway lucn everywhere. ILLINOIS WATCH COMPANY THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE 827 FRISCO BUILDING .. ST. LOUIS WM. L. HUGGINS . Jr .. Editor MARTHA C . MOORE Asrociate Editor

VOL . I I JULY. 1925 No . 10

Permission is given to reprint. with credit. in part or in full. any article appearing in the Magazine

Contents of This Issue PAGE A Message from President Kurn ...... 2 Third Annual Veterans Reunion at Springfield ...... 3 7 Better Service Contest Winners for July ...... 8- 9 Miss Marybelle Newman Chosen Missouri University Beauty Queen ...... 10 Sixteen Hundred Strawberry Cars via Frisco this Season...... 11-13 "Among Ourselves," The Clerks. Cartoon-By /oh . Godscy ...... 14 Our Front Cover ...... 15 Magnificent Hospital for Frisco Folks ...... 16 E . T . Miller Appointed General Solicitor ...... 17 Mexican National Railways Rcturned to Owners ...... 18 Six Veterans Retired ...... 19 Sidelights on the Veterans Reunion ...... 20 Enid Kiwanis Club Entertains Shopmen...... 21 H . L . Mencken to the Defense...... 22 The Life of Judge Evans...... 24 Changes and Appointments ...... 27 Editorials ...... 28 Between the Rails-By W . L . H.. Jr ...... B Pastime ...... 30 Cross-Word Puzzle ...... 31 Hornemakcrs ...... 32-33 Frisco Fuel Savers Make Splendid Record ...... 34 Fuel Chart for This Month ...... 35 Panorama View of Third Annual Veterans' Reunion ...... 36-37 Twilight Hour...... 38 Frisco Babies ...... 39 Flashes of Merriment ...... 40 Frisco Pension Plan a Generous One ...... 41 The . Frisco Club ...... 42 The Frisco Mechanic ...... 43-47 Frisco Family News ...... 48-72

THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE The Frisco Employes' 3IagaZine is a monthly publication devoted primarily to the interests of the more than 30. 000 active and retired employes of the Frisco Llnes . It contains stories. items of current news. personal notes about employes and their familie% articles dealing with various phases of railroad work. poems. cartoons and notices regarding the service . Good clear photographs suitable for repro- duction are especially desired. and will be returned only when requested . All cartoons and drawings must be in black India drawing ink. Employes are invited to write articles for the mafiasine. Contributions should be typewritten. on one slde of the sheet only. and should be addressed to the Editor. Frisco Bulldlng. St. Louis. Mo . Distributed free among Frisco employes. To others. price 15 cents a copy; subscription rate $1.50 a year. Advertising rates will be made known upon appllcation . President Kurn and Veterans

N DEDlCATINC this issue of the Frisco Employes' Magazine to the small I but valiant army of Veterans of this railroad, 1 wish to add a word of commendation for these men who have aided in building the Frisco System to the powerful transportation unit it now is. It is a matter of great pride to all of us that through these Veterans the Frisco has grown and prospered. There are many of you who remember its less affluent days. You served it then, and you have continued serving and building, growing and improving in service as it has grown and improved. I want to tell you all, with the greatest sincerity, that to the Veterans of the present and to the Veterans of the future, the success of this great system is in a large measure attributable. There is a certain spirit about service with the Frisco that makes men try harder, work more sincerely, and with more thought. That spirit was never more clearly manifested than at the Veterans' Reunion at Springfield, May 27 and 28. Ill I felt it as we mingled and talked at the barbecue. I felt it at that fine banquet and meeting in the auditorium the last night of the reunion. It was as much of an inspiration to me and to the other officers of this railroad as it was to you-perhaps more. And in conclusion, let me add that I consider these annual reunions one of the most important of the many important things on the Frisco Lines. That spirit of co-operation, of camaraderie, of real service with and for and of the Frisco, is one that is almost invaluable to the success of the road and its men. I congratulate you on your progress so far and on the progress I know you will make in the future. July, 1925 Page 3 Twelve Hundred Veterans of the Frisco Railroad Meet for Two Glorious Days at Third Annual Reunion

HE home of the Frisco Lines, Springfield, Mis- Immediately after the short speeches were concluded Tsouri, was turned over to 1200 veteran employes the line formed for the noonday meal, and for an of the Frisco, lock, stock and barrel, on May 27 and hour and a half the cooks filled plate after plate with 28, on the occasion of the third annual reunion of the good barbecued beef and pork, and a host of other Veteran Employes' Association of the Frisco System. good foods on the side. Ice cream in individual pack- For two glorious days the "old-timers" of this great: ages and a dozen different kinds of cakes and cookies railroad system danced and sang, met old friends and completed the repast, while a barrel of lemdnade and swapped old stories, "palled" around with the offi- several huge kegs of coffee were on hand for bever- cials, and, last but not least, gave a sterling lesson in ages. loyalty and faithfulness to the 30,000 younger em- PRESIDENT KURN ARRIVES ployes who are not yet veterans. President J. M. Kurn (he was plain "Boss" and From the time the first veteran signed his name to "Chief" that day to his veteran buddies) arrived on the register at the Colonial Hotel, until General Man- the scene during the dinner and, accompanied by other ager J. H. Fraser dismissed the last meeting of the officials, chatted and shook hands with the men who convention in the Shrine Mosque forty hours later, the help make the Frisco the best system in the country. reunion was a grand and glorious success. When the last "Vet and Mrs. Vet" had finished at At 8 o'clock in the morning of the first day, while the barbecue the Frisco Orchestra, led by J. E. Foster, the veterans and their wives were renewing old chief clerk to Superintendent F. A. Beyer at the West friendships in the lobby of the Colonial Hotel, the Shops, began the dance that was to last thro~ighout overcast skies let the first few drops of rain descend. the afternoon, and the point of interest was trans- The day looked like a murky, damp one, and the ferred to the pavilion where the orchestra held forth. weather was chilly. For those of the reunion who were athletically in- But the veterans hardly noticed it. For years they clined, however, there was a-plenty to do. had paid little attention to weather of any sort when FIELD EVENTS PLEASED there was work to be done. This time it was pleasure Under the direction of John C. Conley, of the nlo- -and torrents of rain wouldn't have stopped their tive power department at Springfield, assisted by John fun. K. Gibson, assistant to superintendent of motive And at 9 o'clock, when the special train was called power, a complete "field day'' had been planned in the to take the vets to Sequiota Park for an all-day bar- open pasture of the park. becue and field day, not one of the old-timers changed Twelve separate contests were under way during his mind about attending. the afternoon hours and included horseshoe pitching The six-coach special left the Mill street station contest, fifty-yard dash for men, tug of war, fifty- promptly at 10 o'clock, with more than 1000 laugh,ing, yard dash for women, fifty-yard dash free for all, two shouting veterans aboard, and set them down at the egg races, sack race, ladies' race (150 pounds or over) park a few minutes later. and a three-legged race. There, amid the beautiful surroundings of the nat- A large gallery of veterans and their wives watched ural park, the veterans officially launched their cele- the competition of sports, and a list of the prize win- bration. ners in the various events will he found on Page 20 And what a splendid, joyous beginning it was! of this Magazine. While W. E. Freeman, Mayor of Springfield, was At 5 o'clock, when the last contest had been run, delivering the address of welcome, and &I. D. Welch, and the last square dance and fox-trot was over, En- veteran conductor on the "Florida Special" and presi- gineer "Biggy" Morton, sitting in the cab of the spe- dent of the association, was making the response, a cial, tooted the long blast for assembly at the train, dozen white-coated cooks were dishing out a delicious and the tired and happy veterans returned to Spring- repast of honest-to-goodness campfire cooking. field. The dance and entertainment in the ballroom of the E. Hughes of Albuquerque, N. &I., then located in St. Colonial that night attracted nearly two hundred of Louis, they got the Veterans' Association started. the reunioners, but the majority were asleep-resting Mr. George Taaffe, agent at Cherryvale, Kansas, for the big day on the morrow. will assist him as vice-president, while Mr. McCor- The Frisco orchestra again furnished the music for mack, superintendent freight loss and damage claims the dancing in the ballroom, and, although a few sons of the Springfield offices and prominent in the re- and daughters of veterans were on the floor, the dan- unions of the previous years, will act as secretary- cers were for the most part veterans and their wives. treasurer. At 10:30 Leader Foster and his orchestra played It was agreed the three committees, finance, mem- "Home, Sweet Home" and the first day of the re- bership and entertainment, should consist of five mem- union was at an end. bers each; that a fee of $1.00 would be charged for A BIGGER SECOND DAY membership, and a card mailed on receipt of the On the second day of the reunion, at 9 a. m., the amount to the veteran, entitling him to membership in veterans assembled at the Shrine Mosque. Prof. R. the organization for one year. The president, board Richie Robertson gave an organ demonstration at the of directors and finance committee shall determine, opening of the meeting, followed by an address by prior to the date of meeting, the amount that would Vice-president J. E. Hutchison. be paid for the banquet and other entertainment while Mr. Hutchison, formerly general manager in the at the annual meeting. Springfield general ofice, spoke beautifully of the vet- All veterans were urged to notify the secretary of erans and of his association with the road. the death of any veteran, and religion and politics Vice-president Koontz was called on for an im- were barred as subjects not to be discussed at any of promptu address, and touched on many subjects of the reunion meetings. vital interest to the veterans and the officers of the Following the business meeting the convention ad- Frisco, particularly the value of co-operation among journed until afternoon. all in the service. THE LLOYD STORM PLAN Mr. 0. H. McCarty, vice-president and general su- Col. Sam E. Hughes opened and made the princi- perintendent of the Ft. Worth and Rio Grande Rail- pal address of the afternoon session at 2 p. m. and in way Company, also Mr. Geo. Daniels of Ft. Smith, an eloquent manner told of the beginning and growth were called upon for a few words. of the Veterans' Association. Col. Hughes came from Chairman M. D. Welch, before going into the busi- Albuquerque, I\i. M., to attend the reunion. ness meeting, announced that the ladies would be He presented the Lloyd Storm plan to the veterans. escorted through "Tiny Town," a miniature city built Lloyd Storm, a St. Louis boy, now residing in by the children of Springfield and on display at Grant Albuquerque, N. M., in very ill health, due to his Beach Park, and they were excused from the business service in the World War, has conceived a plan for session for the trip. universal peace by working at Christmas time through The constitution and by-laws were then taken up, the children of the poor. discussed at length and some changes made. He is asking that every Frisco employe on this It was voted to name the organization the Veteran next Christmas take into his home as many of the EmployesJ Association of the Frisco System. poor children as he can afford and give them a taste W. H. VAN HORN NEW PRESIDENT of a real Christmas spirit. Through these children of New officers, elected to hold office for a year, were the poor he hopes to establish a better feeling between as follows: W. H. Van Horn, president; George the parents of the poor and the parents of the more Taaffe, vice-president ; J. L. McCormack, secretary and fortunate. treasurer, and the board of directors, consisting of Col. Hughes feels that this will soon have national five members. Those elected to the board were: Billy prominence, and he is anxious that the Frisco adopt Evans, conductor, Oklahoma City ; W. E. Loehr, agent, the plan. Carthage, Mo.; W. L. Heath, conductor, Webster Mr. M. T. Fullington, general chairman of the Or- Groves, Mo.; Harry Shipp, conductor, Kansas City, der of Railroad Telegraphers, Springfield, Mo., read Kans., and T. R. Kirk, section foreman, Kenneth, Mo. to the veterans a circular to be issued to all station h4r. W. 13. Van Horn, whose home is in St. Louis, agents, regarding the securing of new business for the has been with the Frisco forty-two and one-half years Frisco Lines. He particularly requested the co-opera- and has been running an engine for thirty-five years. tion of all employes in getting business and keeping It was he who first conceived the idea of a veterans' all stations open. association on the Frisco, and, together with Col. Sam Mrs. F. W. Lampton of Springfield presented two Page 5

* II,. I-"Mother" ClnrR. of 1810 West 41st Street, Kansas City, Missouri, consented to pose for her plcture with H. L. Worman. , superintendent of moth power. She was one of the most actlre of the reunionera, and refused to tel!, her age. She has two sons wlth the Frisco, and Mr. Clark has fifty-throe yean' service with tho Fr Xorton, x the throttle of the speclal train hmling the reunlouerv to the barbecue at Sequoi , vice-presld, tlon, for the merry bmdie. No. 3-"The oldesL veteran" at the reunlon. Chas. F ~.oncerning appears on mother page ot the magazine. No. 4--The Conley brothers, re:rdlng I I. Their st, lother page. readings, which \\ere well received by the veterans. Tllroughout the memorial services an atmosphere oi Miss Marjorie Risser entertained with a vocal solo, tenderness and reverencc pervaded the autlitori~imas followed bj a ballet dance presented by eleven of the assembled veterans paid high and true tribute, Springfield's most accomplisl~edchildren. with bowcd heads and brimming ejeb, to these com- .\lis~lane Doggrell, daughter of J. 11. Doggrell, rades uhc-"Are not dead, but just away." superintentlent of transportation, Springfield, NO., The memorial services were concluded about 5 gave a solo dance and answered to an encore. p. in., and the afternoon session adjourned until the P? 1 he conimunity singing was a feature of the after- banquet, at 6 p. 111. noon's program, and such songs as "When You antl I A SPLENDID BANQUET Were Young, Slaggie," "My \Vild Irish Rose," "Old As the veterans entered the banquet ldl, in the E!ack Joe," ''My Old- Kentucky Home" and "Silver basenlent of the magnificent Shrine Mosque on St. Threads Among the Gold" were sung. Louis street, there were many pleasing comn1ents on the beautiful decorations in honor of the occasion. REVERENT MEMORIAL SERVICES Palm trees dotted the huge floor, and places were Col. Hughes was again called upon, this time to set for 800 veterans at long tables running the length take charge of the memorial services. of the room. Mr. Frank Mann, Frisco attorney, of Springfield, The banquet was a Frisco proposition from start to recalled the life of Judge W. F. Evans, deceased gen- finish ! eral solicitor, who passed away on May 9, 1925, and Fred Harvey prepared the splendid dinner of fried recalled many happy hours spent with him in the spring chicken, rissole potatoes, peas in case and head service of the Frisco. lett~lcewith thousand island dressing, and a coterie of The life of Benjamin F. Bowes, retired assistant fifty Frisco girls from the general offices and shops general passenger agent, who ended this earthly ca- served the repast in a quick and efficient manner. The reer on April 20, 1924, and also Calvin Dutton, who final Frisco touch in the food line was given when passed away on May 18, 1925, were both most fit- the dessert was served and each of the diners was tingly reviewed by Mr. J. N. Cornatzar of St. Louis. given a generous slab of pink ice cream, molded in Another absent veteran, Mr. H. C. Weldon, 0. S. iG the shape of the Frisco trade-mark, with the wort1 D. clerk at Kansas City, Mo., who died September 3, "Frisco" stamped on the top. 1924, was reviewed, as was also the life of E. H. Higby, Chairman Gibson and Secretary-Treasurer McCor- who died September 17, 1924. mack made the banquet a complete success by bring- Mr. J. R. Moore, who died September 18, 1924, and ing the excel!ent Frisco orchestra again to the party, Engineer Clarence Satters, who died September 4, and the orchestra and the Frisco Paramount quartet 1924, were tenderly mentionecl in the menlorial serv- sang and played several selections throughout the clin- ice. ner. Former Conductor \Y. P. McNail presented in a Mr. Gibson was the most surprisecl man at the re- touching way the life of his friend, J. H. Layman, union when, following the banquet, Col. Hughes pre- former local agent, who had spent twenty-seven years sented him with a beautiful silver service, the gift of with the Frisco. the veterans for his untiring energy in organizing antl Mr. J. W. Hall spoke in memory of Mr. Arch planning the third reunion. Campbell, who died April 10, 1925. The veterans adjourned to the Shrine auditorium Mr. Chas. Mills spoke in memory of Conductors upstairs at 7:30 p. m., where the Springfield Boy George Rice, "Pard" Higgeson and Jack S. Moning- Scollt band of seventy-five pieces gave a splendid con- ham, who were his personal friends and known and cert for forty-five minutes. playing several of the old loved by many of the old veterans. favorites, to the delight of the veterans. Messrs. Sam Brekenridge, John Spears, Wm. Coy, General Manager J. 31. Fraser acted as toastmaster i\lIelvin Church and F. E. Gano were given fitting for the program which follon-ed, and after a few in- tributes for their long service. troductory remarks presented Fred Heim, a student Mr. Vincent Rallay, fireman, who died January 27, at the Drury College conservatory of music, who 1925, and Mr. T. J. Perry, section foreman, were lov- pleased with two violin solos. The Paramount Quar- ingly mentioned, as was W. R. Hoey, engineer, who tette pleased again with several selections. died February 13, 1924. MEDAL TO OLDEST VETERAN Mr. IV. H. Such, former conductor, and Mr. A. RI. One of the most touching events of the entire re- Johnson, former concluctor, were among those whom union mas the presentation of the "Oldest Veteran's" the veterans knew and once loved and who have medal to Charles Stypes of Olathe, Kansas, retired. passed on to their reward. (Continltrd on Page 21 .) INTERESTING EVENTS AND PEOPLE AT THE VETERANS' REUNION

Xo. 1-Winners of the field day events at Sequoita Park and their prizes. Left to right: L. A. Pruitt, sack race, pair of trousers Mrs. J. C. Dubuque, fat ladies' race. can of coffee; Mrs. J. C. Conley, bathing suit race and married women's ;ace, bathing suit and parasol; R. B. Spence, broad jump and men's race, knife and pair of socks: and F. W. Rick, second men's race, box of cigar!!. Seated, left to r~ght:Josephine McCormack, daugh- ter .of J. L. McCormack, glrls' race, curling iron' Stevle Magcrs, son of E. L. Magers, boys' race, box of candy. Xo. !&-The splendid Ladies' Committee, hostess& to out of town guests. Left to right: Mrs. J. L. McCormack. Mrs. E. L. Xagers, Miss Charlene Willard, Mrs. J. I<. G~bson,Mrs. F. A. Beyer, Mrs. H. W. Johnson, Mrs. R. El Butler, Mrs. >I. M. Sisson, and Mrs. T. B. Coppage. Seated: Josephine McCormack and Stevie Magers, who en- tertamed the sons and daughters of veterans. No. .%J. L. McCormack, (left), superintendent of freight loss and damage claims, who performed a remarkably fine job as chairman of the entertainment committee: and J. K. Gibson, assistant to superintendent of motive power. general secretary and treasurer of the reunion, to whom a large part of the credit for the success should go. No. &Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baldwin. two qeterans Prom Birmingham. Mr. Baldwin was retired several years ago after forty years as conductor on Nos. 103 and 105 from Memphis to Birmingham. His personal history is probably the most interestmg of any veteran. His moiher, due to poverty, was forced to give away her Afteen children to homes where they would be cared for. Mr. Baldwin walked forty miles to return to his mother and she kept him. He has seen none of his brothers or sisters except one whom he located a short time ago. The brother is a graduate of Cornell University and a prominent Syracuse (N. Y.)attorney. No. &The gentleman ready to cast the twirling hprseshoe 1s H. W. Press, St. Louis, assistant comptroller, who won the horseshoe contest after eliminating thlrty-two starters. George Taaffe, agent at Cherryvale, Kansas, stands on Press' right watching the pitch of his concluerer. Taaffe was runner-up in the contest.

?^ _ *-_- _ -.-- J. A. Sanderson and Mrs. Nellie McCowen Win July Prizes in Better Service Contest

Operator at Cedar Gap, Mo., and East Thomas Secretary Offer Best Business-Getting Suggestion For First Month

URSTING in as an immediate success, the first ''If we are to secure our share or more of the na- B month of the Frisco Better Service Contest, tion's business over our rails, we must pull together in brought a flood of splendid business-getting sugges- our united efforts to make our service the very best tions to the desk of Mr. Henry F. Sanborn, assistant in the land. to Mr. J. R. Koontz, vice-president in charge of traffic. "Every employe of the Frisco has a circle of friends The letters contained an in his or her neighborhood almost unlin~ited variety or locality, no matter how of suggestions, most of large or small. These them valuable ones, and it friends may be wealthy or was a difficult task for poor, but they all travel the judges of the contest at times and have ship- to decide upon the two ments to go or come. If winners. we lose no opportunity to Only after Mr. S. S. keep these acquaintances Butler, freight traffic man- and friends impressed with our superb service ager; Mr. J. N. Cornatzar, and personal appreciation passenger traffic manager, of their patronage, our and Vice-president Koontz road will find its business had gone thoroughly gradually and steadily in- through the list, did they creasing. finally decide upon the winners. "It is the personal ele- ment that counts the most. J. A. Sanderson, oper- ator at Cedar Gap, Mo., "This kind of personal on the Southern Divisioi~, advertising among o u r won the first gold button friends and acquaintances to be awarded for the best has indeed a powerful in- letter of .suggestions from fluence and will gain more a man employe. results than any other. PERSONALITY AND FRIENDSHIP "For instance, you go to town to buy clothing, 7 Birmingham,- Ala., won jewelry, furniture, grocer- J. A. SANDERSON, ies or any other commod- the women's gold Who Captured Men's Gold Lapel Button in Better Service Contest for July. button identically like the ity. If there are several men's except that it is in a handsome pin form. stores or firms that handle about the same quality Sanderson's prize-winning letter follows : and give equally the same good service, you have no "All of the railroads of America are about equally certain choice in \vhich one you will place your order. well advertised in our leading newspapers and popular But, if some employe or member- of a certain firm is magazines. However, I believe the key to the success an acquaintance of yours, or better still, a friend of of our business lies in impressing the public and con- yours, it makes you feel that to do your business with vincing them of our excellent seryice and our appreci- his company you would be doing him a personal and . . ation of their patronage. friendly favor. Therefore, you place your business with that man just because he is a friend. those of the Frisco-something none of us want." "The same theory holds good with the railroads of One of the hardest jobs the judges had was to de- this country. They are dependent upon each indi- cide against S. G. Wood, agent at Sasakwa, Oklahoma. vidual employe's friends and acquaintances for their Agent Wood's feat for the Better Service Contest was tonnage and passengers. When that enlploye has im- a highly valuable one and he received high commen- pressed his friends that he is a ICkarat, dyed-in-the- dation and honorable mention. wool worker for his railroad, it has amazing and last- One June second, Mr. Sanborn received a letter ing results. from Mr. Wood to which he attached a list of names "Remember, that the friends and acquaintances of comprising every business man in the City of Sasakwa. our employes include a great multitude of people, and These business men had signed the following petition, exercise your personality and good nature not only to presented to them by Agent Wood: make friends for yourself, . "Upon the request of but to make them for your the agent of the St. Louis railroad as well." and San Francisco Rail- Mrs. McGowen found way Company, we the un- a direct and particular dersigned merchants and suggestion f o r getting business men of Sasakwa, more business, and she Oklahoma, agree to re- was awarded the prize quest and denland if nec- for the most specific let- essary, that each and ter, as Mr. Sanderson was every wholesale house and awarded his prize for the milling company and other best general letter. companies from whom we JUST ASK FOR IT purchase goods, deliver Mrs. McGowen's letter : and transport such goocls "One morning early in over the Frisco Lines in- June, one of our patrons stead of delivering to and called up and ordered a transporting by trucks ' car placed at his plant for that are now operating loading via the L. Pr N. between Holdenville and to New Orleans. It is my Sasakwa, Oklahoma. In job as secretary to the this manner we will give superintendent of termi- the Frisco the business to nals to take all such mes- which it is rightfully en- sages, and I immediately titled between the above asked him if he could not mentioned points." route this car via Frisco The petition was signed to Aberdeen and I. C. to by twenty-one merchants, New Orleans. He hesi- and is 100 per cent for the tated a moment, but told City of Sasakwa: me he would call up in a MR9. NEELlE WoCOWEN. HONORABLE MENTION few minutes and let me Women's Winner In Betler Service Contest for July. TO ELEVEN know. When he called, he saidI thls particular car Honorable mention was enthusiastically given by was part of a shipment which had been routed I,. & the judges to E. L. Reese, painter, Ft. Smith, Ark.; N. and it would be inconvenient to change it. BUT- Bert Irwin, conductor, 1009 West Randolph St., Enid, he promised us his future business whenever he could Okla.; S. C. Wood, agent at Sasakwa, Okla.; William give it to us. And he has already done so to quite Walpert, machinist, Monett, Mo. ; I. J. Russell, agent, an extent. Springdale, Ark.; H. D. Bentley, operator, Neosho, "Many times a man calls up and orders a car for 310.; F. S. Brown, cashier, Blackwell, Okla.; C. 0. shipment via other lines. We immediately find out McCain, agent, Paris, Teqas; L. S, Baney, baggage where it is going. If it can be handled over our agent, Joplin, Mo. ; J. E. Flaherty, traveling auditor, lines, I ask him for the business. I have had an un- Enid, Okla., and J. Sauer, agent, Valley Center, Kans. usual amount'of success in this may, and I am certain "I am highly pleased with the interest shown by the that if it were not for this little personal solicitation loyal employes of the Frisco in the Better Service . many car-lot shipments would travel other rails than (Continued on Page 27.) isco Girl Chosen One of Six Most Beautiful Girls at University of Missouri in Recent Contest

Miss MarybeZZe Newman, Daughter of Frisco Diaision Passenger Agent Selected Queen by Cecil B. DeMiZZe, Mouie Director and Producer

J? the pretty head of Miss Marybelle Kewman, 19 and given a prominent place in the picture section of 1,year old daughter of Frank R. Newman, Frisco the University year-book. division passenger agent at Kansas City, iMo., is not This year Mr. DehIille was chosen as the presiding a wee bit haughty these days, judge of the final contest, and Miss Marybelle is indeed an his first choice for the most unusual girl. beautiful girl at the University And the several thousand of Missouri unerringly found girls at the University of Xfis- Miss Marybelle. souri, who stood impatiently by Her picture, together with the and w a t c h e cl this beautiful pictures of the five other girls Frisco girl walk away with a picked by DeMille, appeared in beauty contest prize, are not feature positions a n d roto- running true to feminine form gravure sections of many news- if they are not a bit envious of papers throughout America. her handsome face and figure. This lithe-limbed a t h l e t i c For Miss Marybelle is ravish- Frisco girl is one of the all- ingly beautiful. And t h e round girls you often hear authority on the matter is none about, but seldom see. other than Mr. Cecil B. De- I-Ier fanlily lived in Joplin Mille, one of the best known until three years ago, where and most successful moving pic- Mr. Newman was division pas- ture directors and producers in senger agent for the Frisco be- that rapidly growing industry. fore his pron~otion to Kansas Once each year, the students City, and Miss Newman was of the University of Missouri, graduated from t h e Joplin located at Colun~bia,Mo., hold High School with the class of a beauty contest, in connection 1923. She learned the art of with the publication of the uni- toe-dancing while in high school versity year-book, the "Savi- and took a prominent part in ter", in which every girl stu- many local entertainments dur- dent of the University is cli- ing her residence there. gible. Her ability as a swimmer is By a popular vote the students attested by the fact that she re- select twenty-five co-eds from cently passed the rigid tests of the school's hundreds, as the the Red Cross Life Saving most beautiful of the lot. School, and became an accredit- Miss Marybelle was one of ed member of that organization. the twenty-five in this year's - - Miss Illarybelle entered the contest. -Cuurrre)r St. Lamia Timea University of Missouri in Sep- MISS MARYBELLE NEWMAN According to the custon~of ,,, ,,, ,,,,, ,, B. DeMille as one of ,he six tember, 1924, and her popular- years, pictures of the twenty- beautiful girls at the University of Missouri in a recent contest. ity and vivacious beauty secured five girls are sent to an internationally famous beauty her an invitation to the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, judge or portrait painter, and he is asked to pick the national college women's organization, of which she most beautiful six from the beautiful twenty-five. became a member. She finished her sophon~oreyear The six are then acclaimed the "Saviter Queens", at the end of the spring semester this June. Sixteen Hundred Cars of Strawberries via Frisco to North American Points This Year

Record Crop on Frisco Lines in Missouri and Arkansas Brings Top Price at Market

HAT the beautiful Ozark Mountain section of souri and Arkansas, and distributed among practically T America, centrally situated with respect to the na- every state in the Union, as well as supplying the lead- tion, like a perfect center-stone in a cluster of jewels, ing markets of Canada. should give not only mountain scenery and health- Ozark grown strawberries seem to have been es-- giving coolness to vacationists, but a wealth of luscious pecially favored Ijy the Divine Providence. Grown on fruits to the entire North American continent, seeins stony upland, they are firnm in texture, rich in color and

A represenrar~ve group or plc~ers at Monett. Mo. almost too good to be true. Eut that is what the Ozark section, traversed ries grown elsewhere. They thoroughly and adequately are never sandy and come by Frisco Lines, is noted at a time when the season for. seems to he just right for Soil and climatic concli- the consuinption of this de- tions are largely respon- r_ii\, licious fruit. sible for this condition &-JThe harvest this year hut when location is taken started in the vicinity of Van Briren, Ark., eration, surro~mcled, as it the latter part of i-\pril, extending north- principal consuming- markets of the ward as the scason advanced, including

IJnited States, it seems that this parti- A crate the fin, Ozark berries the towns of Rudy, Fayettevil!e, Farm- cular district is indeed fortunate. ington, Lincoln, Prairie Grove, Johnsons, Apples with the Ozark flavor are well and favorably Springdale and Lowell, constituting the district where known throughout all of these markets and this is also the I

A SOLID TRAINLOAD OF BERRIES LEAVING MONETT, MO. the Frisco and posted in all the depots. This, together to the brim with filled berry crates waiting their turn with local publicity, brought in many families from the for unloading. surrounding territory, and during the berry season, The United States Department of Agriculture main- after dusk, camp fires in woods and pasture indicated tains an office at Monett, Mo., during the berry season, where these transient pickers were temporarily located. publishing a daily bulletin containing market news. In every berry field, the grower bas a temporary This indicates exactly what berries are selling for in the leading markets of the United States and this mar- ' building used for culling and grading the berries. The picker carries a small tray in the field, containing about ket bulletin is mailed to every grower, free. eight boxes which are brought to the shed when filled. The strawberry industry has been very profitable to Here they are carefully graded and placed in crates to growers in Frisco territory this season and while the be hauled to the market at sundown. average acreage per individual is from two to three acres in berries, it is interesting to note that Kreh- EACH GROWER HAULS BERRIES meier Bros., operating eighteen acres of berries near Each grower hauls his berries to the loading shed Monett this season, picked 2,304 crates. at the railroad shipping point where they are received Mr. J. W. Sapp, secretary of the Exeter Berry As- by the manager of the local association, providing they sociation at Exeter, Mo., turned over to his thirteen come up to proper grade. Each crate is very carefully year old boy, an acre of up-land during 1924. The boy inspected and must be stamped showing the grower's planted the acre to Aroma strawberries. He cultivated and handled this strawberry patch himself, doing all name. As soon as inspected, the crate is immediately his own work. As a result of his efforts, he harvested loaded into an iced refrigerator car. this season, from his one acre of berries, over two During the height of the strawberry season at I~undredcrates, his average returns amounting to ap- Monett, for perhaps a mile you will see Fords, wagons, proximately five dollars per crate and his gross returns buggies, trucks, in fact every conceivable carrier loaded approximately one thousand dollars.

BERRY PICKERS IN A FIELD ON FRISCO LINES

I OUR FRONT COVER I Frisco Employes Join in Effort "The Spirit of the Frisco," that in- to Retain Traffic spiration of co-operation and loyalty to this great railroad company, was never more plainly brought out than in the picture, taken at the Veterans' A story of interest to all Frisco em- taxes for operators of bus or truck Reunion Springfield, Mo.. May 27 ployes appeared in the Musliogee lines in this state, employes of the at (Okla.) Daily Phoenix of April 28, in Frisco, Katy, Midland Valley and K. 0. and 28, which is reproduced on the which was recounted the banding to- & G. railroads and of the American front cover of this magazine. gether of employes of the Frisco, Railway Express Company met last President J. BI. Kurn, head of the Katy, Midland Valley and K. 0. & G. night at the Knights of Pythias hall and established a permanent organiza- Frisco System, and twelve loyal vet- railroads and the American Railway Express Company, for the purpose of tion to accomplish these ends. erans, five of them retired, and with fighting the truck traffic which is No officials of any of the railroads service totaling 442 years, stood side damaging the traffic of their respec- attended, the meeting having been by side and arm to arm, while the tive roads. called voluntarily by the workers to cameraman pressed the bulb that The story appeared under a streamer discuss means of protecting their posi- recorded the front cover for the July head of five columns, which stated: tions by maintaining their roads' "Rail Workers Band to Fight Bus traffic. number of this magazine. Lines." A subhead read: "New Com- And if you don't think President petition Threatening Their Jobs, Em- Harry P. Dutton, Frisco engineer, Kurn is proud of those veteran bud- ployes Voluntarily Organize Here." was elected president of the organixa. tion and will pilot it in its attempt to dies, and that the veterans are proud Below, the Magazine reproduces the story verbatim : establish these purposes. . of their president-take a look at the Advocating a load maximum, higher Charge Chaos to Trucks expression on their faces. There, in- license taxes and additional highway deed, is the "Spirit of the Frisco". "The truck haulers have caused a period of chaos in this part of the But the picture is only one fleeting country. They haul products from record of that almost indefinable, yet THE NEW PRESIDENT Muskogee to little towns around at a surely powerful agency for good. - much cheaper rate than the railroads No person could put his hand on do, thereby receiving all the trade. While the weather is good they can that influence for greater and better easily do this, but when rain makes service in railroading, but it permeat- the roads bad they are unable to . ed the atmosphere of that reunion furnish good service. But that is not barbecue in Sequoita Park as surely all, they are using. the highways that as the odor of good barbecued beef the people keep up. and when a bid truck with 1,000 pounds goes over them and pork hung in the delightfully it cuts up the surface, causing fresh air. the motorists to be taxed high in order It was there, and all recognized it. to keep them up. We believe that a Reading from left to right, the higher tax should be paid for the high- ways by both the haulers and the veterans in the picture, with their bussea because of the constant use of years of service and positions, are as them as a means of their business follows: ends." Mr. Dutton said. R. A. Rirkpatl9ick, Springfield, TO., "Hand to Mouth Diseaseff thirty-seven years, retired as checker; "The railroads are at a critical c'J4 J. W. Morrill, Pacific, No., forty-six dition because of the truck haulers, years, engineer; F. E. White, Thayer, IVilliam Estea. Frisco empIoye and No., thirty-three years, retired as vice-president, said. "They have agent; W. H. VanHorn, newly elected caused the small town dealer to take out only the amount of stock that he president of the Veterans' Association. can use in one day and the next day St. Louis, Mo., forty-two years, en- drive into town or call in and have gineer; J. W. Reese, Memphis, Tenn., another load brought out. The hand thIrty-four years, retired as engineer; to mouth disease is what they have President J, 31. Kurn, head of the and we must stop it. Right now one train is about to be suspended because Frisco Lines; iW. D. Welch, Kansas there is no patronage. If one train is City, No., thirty-eight years, conduc. W. H. VAN HORN taken off that means five or maybe a tor; J. V. Harpe, St. Louis, Mo., thirty- Mr. W. H. Van Horn, newly elected dozen men out of a jobmf' eight years, engineer; J. F. IIcEuen. president of the Veteran Employes' A co~stitutionand by-laws commit- Springfield, No., forty-eight years, en- Association of the Frisco System, tee, with J. ill. Kirkendall as chair- gineer; C. C. mills, Olrlahoma City, long ago had a vision of such an or- man, will draw up the constitution and ganization for the Frisco. He inter- report at the next meeting, to be held Okla., forty-two years, conductor; J. ested Col. Sam E. Hughes, who in May 11. D. Day, Springfield, Mo., thirty-two turn received the hearty support of Officers elected are: President, years, retired as brakeman; C. W. President Kurn and three years ago Harry Dutton, Frisco; vice-presidents, Johnston, Nonett, BIo., twenty-sis the flrst reunion of Frisco veterans William Estes, Frisco; George Russell. years, retired as conductor; S. A. was held. Katy; Hugh Coffman, Midland Valley; Mr. Van H~rnresides at Springfield. Norman Kenady. American Railway 'Douglas, Fort Smith, Ark., twenty-six Mo.. and has been an engineer for Express Company; E. H. Baird, K. 0. years, retired as night yardmaster. forty-two years. & G.; secretary, R. P. Magoon, Katy. Page 16 J 1 /' Frisco Folk Fortunate in Possession of Magnificent Hospital for Their Exclusive Use Splendidly Equipped Plant at 4960 Laclede Aoenue, St. Louis, Prooides S&llful Doctors and Tender Treatment to Sick

The Frisco employes are indeed for- cated the laundry and X-Ray room. Each of the floors is reached by an tunate in having for their use, one of The second floor, a large airy room incline, however, there is elevator the best equipped hospitals affiliated is used as a convalescent ward, and service when required. The hospital with any railroad, the most efficient it is as pleasant as one could find is equipped with very modern heating staff of doctors that can be obtained, in any home. The linen room with system. and within its walls the very latest its tiers of linen is also located on Everything is spotlessly clean, and and most modern of equipment. this floor. Occupying three large there is an atmosphere of cheerful- The Frisco Employes' Hospital of rooms near the frout portion of the ness about. St. Louis is located at 4960 Laclede floor is Dr. R. A. Woolsey's private But when one reviews the hospital. Avenne. Maintained by a small assess- office, together with that of his sec- that is only half the story. The other ment from each employe, it is truly retary and staff. Then there is the half should be given to the review an employes' hospital. Here the em- small developing room for the X-Ray of the remarkable staff of doctors and ploye receives the best of treatment pictures, the only really dark spot assistants who treat each case so and care of skilled physicians-but in the entire hospital. successfully. The names of some of most of all, he. is associated with Visitors to a hospital at meal time St. Louis' most famous specialists ap- Frisco friends, when he is forced to are always tempted by the delicious pear on the roster. be confined therein. trays. On the third floor is found Dr. R. A. Woolsey, who for many years has been connected with tho Frisco hospital as chief surgeon, is known by all. Working with him daily are, Robert Vineyard, surgeon in charge; C. E. Eimer, first houke surgeon; C. V. Wilcox, second house surgeon, and J. W. Schilling, third house surgeon. There are eight nurses on duty in the daytime, and two at night. Miss Agnes Pollock is supervisor in charge, while Miss Grace Kimberlin is dress- ing room nurse, and Miss Hattie Sieg, operating room nurse. Miss Bertha Hochuli is in charge of the surgical ward and Miss Elsie Barnes is in charge of the medical ward. Attached to the staff are specialists, who are located in St. Louis. but not in the Frisco Hospital building. Should a patient require the special attention of any one of these, he Is given an order to their office. Dr. Selven Spencer and Dr. R. J. Payne, ear and nose specialists have been recently appointed to the staff. Dr. J. E. Jennings, oculist, Dr. Ells- worth Smith, consulting surgeon and Dr. F. R. Fry, neurologist are also of the staff. Dr. Fred Bailey acts as consulting surgeon, Dr. J. C. Peden, roentgeno- 1 logist, Dr. M. L. Klinefelter, ortho- FRISCO EMPLOYES' HOSPITAL paedist, Dr. W. M. Vogt, gynecologist, But to give you an idea, in round one of these famous diet kitchens, Drs. &I. 8'. Engman, W. H. Mook, J. S. figures of the service rendered in a chart room, two dressing rooms and Kimbrough, dermatologist specialists, May: Records show 104 patients han- the doctors' quarters. The entire east Dr. Jay Silsby, anaesthetist, Dr. D. L. dled, nine major operations perform- side is given over to the medical Harris, pathologist, Dr. W. H. Olm- ed and sixteen minor ones, while 285 ward, and the entire west side to the stead, internist, and Drs. Drew W. surgical dressings were given. surgical ward. The rooms are large Luten, Leo Bartels, J. L. Tierney and F. M. Floyd, consulting surgeons. Well Planned Floors and airy with plenty of sunshine and light. It is a remarkable organization, do- The arrangement of the different The fourth floor has a library and ing a wonderful work It is a great floors of the hospital is a very ef- quarters for the nurses, dining room satisfaction to the relatives and ficient one. The first floor contains and kitchen and perhaps most import- friends of those who are confined the waiting room and dispensary, ant of all, the operating room. This within the hospital for numerous ills, where a first examination is given. hospital is designed perhaps a little to know that the best possible care Across the hall is the drug store, differently from some, in that the and attention is being given, and fa- where prescriptions are filled by ex- large kitchen is on the top floor. In mous specialists are at beck and call perts. The house men have their this way the odors do not penetrate to administer their skill. rooms on this floor, where also is lo- through the entire building. (Cotttirtued on Page 42.) Page 17

E. T. Miller Appointed General Solicitor AN EXPERT PIANIST to Succeed Judge Evans Wm. J. Egerer, Frisco Mechanic of Neodesha, Is Talented

Former General Attorney For Sixteen Years A Graduate of Schoenfeld's Conserva- tory of St. Louis-He Finds Dif- Appointed to New Position May 15 ficult Piano Selections Easy

Long and valiant service with the Mr. Miller is widely known among Not only is William J. Egerer, Frisco Frisco was rewarded in the appoint- railroad attorneys of the Middle West. mechanic, of Neodesha, a good me- ment of Mr. E. T. Miller, for sixteen He entered the legal department of the chanic, but he is a fine musician. years general attorney for the Frisco, Frisco in February of 1908 as an at- Grand opera is a simple matter for his to the position of general solicitor, torney and was made general attorney deft fingers when it comes to making succeeding the late Judge W. F. Evans. a year later, in January of 1909, the the piano talk. Mr. Egerer the other position he has held since that time. He was born in Keytesville, Mo., in 1871, and was educated in the common schools of that city, later attending Wentworth Military Academy at Lex- ington, Mo. He attended Westminster College at Fulton, Mo., from 1877 to 1879, and was graduated with the de- gree of Master of Science. Mr. Miller returned to Keytesville and read law three years before he was admitted to the bar in 1892, at the age of 21. He practiced in Keytes- ville until 1898, when he established an office at Brunswick, Mo., also main- taining the Keytesville office. From 1901 until 1903 he practiced only in IJuly 1, also contains a brief re- hand between recognizing that rail- sume of the experiences of nine other countries in the world in governmental way problems are economic, and the control of the roads. attempt on the other hand to apply ~olitical solutions. In all countries where politics still dictate railroad The government of Mexico return- The German State Railways have policy-as on the State Railroad in ed the National Railways of Mexico been taken out of the hands of gov- France and on the State Railways of to prfvate operation on July 1. ernment, and as a private company Yugo-Slavia-they are still operat- This adds one more chapter to the are now being operated for the benefit ing at great deficits and making nu adrnissfon that direct operation of of those other countries to which Ger- substantial improvement. On the railwaya by governments is a policy many owes reparation payments. other hand, the countries which have fraught with financial and social dis. In Austria, the losses of the State attempted so far as possible, to re- aster. Railways after the War constituted form State Railroad operation on the Prior to this return, the Mexican more than half of the total goveru- lines of .well-run private railroad cor- government readjusted the salaries ment deflcit. Since 1923 they hare porations, have Invariably registered of railroad employes, reduced the been taken out of the hands of the substantiaI progress. number of employes, rearranged political government and organized The mileage of state owned raIb height and passenger rates, paid the as a semi-public corporation following roads which the owning governments floating debt, repaired the road-bed the lines of a private railway corpo- have attempted to place on a basis and in general undertook to place the ration. Following this reorganization. of private operation since 1920 is as railroad in as good contlition as it expenses have declined and earnings follows: was when taken by the government have increased. Mexico ...... 8.440 In August, 1914. Czecho-Slovakia began to put her Germany ...... 32,311 Formal possession of the railways State Railways on the basis of a private Austria ...... 2,964 was taken by the Mexican National railway company in 1922. The Minister Czecho - Slovakia ...... 7,956 Government by a decree of December of Commerce of Czecho-Slovakia re- Italy ...... 10,269 4, 1914. Interest on the company's grets that it took two years to effect Denmark ...... 1,283 outstanding securities ceased June 1. this change, and states that "a timely Poland ...... 10,206 1914. Continuous successful operation putting of it into effect would not India ...... 27,078 was impossible during the period of only have contributed to the stabili- the Rebellion, but has been little bet. zation of Central Europe generally, Total...... 100,507 ter since, the deficits for each suc- but would have brought a great deal cessive year to date having been ap of economic benefit to the country as proximately 23,000,000 gold pesos or Alfred Ball, of Springfield, Ap- a whole." ~ointedSecretary to Vice- $11,500,000. In Italy, the hlussolini ministry has Government Owns Stock removed about 60,000 unnecessary President Hutchison The Mexican government owns ap- employes on the State railways and Raymond Hogan, Former Secretary, proximately half of the stock of the has made an earnest effort to operate Transferred to Southwest Division National Railways of Mexico. The them at a profit. While the situation as Chief Clerk balance of the stock and practically has been improved, they will repre- all of the Bonds and equipment trust sent a substantial deficit and effort is Alfred ,Ball, former ,secretary to notes are owned in this country and still being made to get rid of this J. H. DoggrelI, superintendent of abroad. The return of the railways burden by turning them over to pri- transportation, with offices at Spring to private management is pursuant to vate operation. fleld, Mo., has been appointed secre- an agreement negotiated with the The Danish State Railways will be tary to J. E. Hutchison, vice-president government of Mexico by representa- put in the form of a private railroad cor- in charge of operation, of St. Louis. tives of the-holders of these securities poration if a bill now pending before the Raymond Hagan, former secretary which have been without return since Danish Parliament be enacted. This to Mr. Hutchison, will become the 1914. bill was introduced in response to the chief clerk to C. H. Baltzell, superin- Since the World War almost every demand that these State railways tendent of the Southwestern Division. country having government ownership show some return for the capital in- Mr. Ball was also a correspondent of railroads has sought either a return vested in them. for the magazine from the Springfield to private operation and ownership In Poland, the present Ministry has office. or to gain some of its recognized ad- insisted on a complete separation of Both Mr. Ball an& Mr. Hagan have vantages by placing state railroads- the railway budget from the budget of many frienda an the Frlsco line who as nearly as possible-in the form of the political state, the raising of rates wish every succeas for them in their a private railroad corporation. and the introduction of economies in new work. *F/c@~FPIPLO@S'~OIZ/NE Page 19

Charles Stypes, Eighty-seven Year old veteran. started with Pdl"Six Veterans With Total of Hundred and Frisco in 188 1 Ninety-four Years Retired Former Engineer Had Enjoyable Visit at Veterans' Reunion and Will Attend Next Year Messrs. Bagby, Clutter, Eddy, Miller, Hixon and Gantz Twelve hundred veterans rose to their feet and cheered lustily when Placed on Frisco Pension Roll the medal for the oldest veteran at- tending the third annual reunion of the Veteran Employes' Association of the Frisco System, was pinned on the IX VETERAN employes of the the Frisco. He entered the service coat lapel of Charles Stypes, retired Frisco Railway, with a service as a freight con- engineer, 87 year old Frisco man of record totaling 194 years, were retired ductor at Monett, Olathe, Kansas. Colonel Sam Hughes on pension at a recent meeting of the and later left to mlade the presentatio~ speech and pension board. serve in the pinned the medal at the last meeting The six included a general agent, same capacity at of the reunion in the auditorium at freight brakeman, freight car carpen- Fort Scott for the the Mosque Shrine, the evening of ter, passenger brakeman, locomotive Memphis line. He May 28. engineer and a crossing watchman. returned to his Stypes began his railroad career flrst choice, how- with the Frisco in 1881 when he be- James Harvey Bagby, a freight ever, in October came an engineer on the northern brakeman on the eastern dlvisfon, was of 1899, and from division out of Kansas City. He among those pensioned. Mr. Bagbg that t i m e until served sixteen years as a Frisco en- was born May 22, 1867, at Trenton, his recent retire- gineer, although with his total service Mo. He entered the service as a train ment, he was con- on other railroads befqre coming to baggageman on the old St. Louis di- tinuously em- the Frisco his service is almost fifty vision in July, 1890, and his service ployed in the years in railroading. In January of since that date has been continuous. CHAS. C. train service. He 1897 he left his engine and went to He has been, successively, passenger was born June pumping at Olathe. He left the pump brakeman, freight conductor and 29, 1866, at Bushnell, McDonald in 1900 and was out of the service of freight brakeman. He was retired County, Ill. He was retired due to this road for two and a half years, because of permanent disability on a permanent disability on a pension returning in 1902 as a machinist pension of $43.95 a month. of $24.90 a month. helper at Kansas City. A veteran of He retired permanently in 1910 and John Washington Hixon, a crossing has since lived in Olathe with his 3 32 years and six watchman for the Paris & Great months was re- wife. They have been married fifty- Northern Railway at Paris, Texas. nine years, and Mrs. Stypes, whose 1' -' 1 tired when Sam- was born in Carrol County, Ohio. picture appears with her husband on ueI Thomas Clut- February 22, 1850, and began his another page, accompanied him to the ter, freight car service with the P. & G. N., October carpenter at reunion. 1. 1897. He left the service in 1900, "Althouah I have been in poor health Monett, was returning in 1902 as stock yards fore- for several years, I couldn't resist the placed on the re- man and crossing watchman and re- kind invitations of my old friends to tired list. His mained in that position for a period attend this reunion," Stypes said. 1 Dension was $49.- of 22 years and 4 months, when he "This is my first visit to a Veterans' j5 a month. Mr. was retired because of reaching the Reunion, but I've had a flne time and Clutter was born age limit. His pension is $20.00 per I'm planning on attending next year December 6, 1863, month. and maybe the year after." at Rock Island. John Wesley Gantz, general agent Illinois. He came at the Seventh Street Station, St. J. H. Sidebotham, Age 78, Dead T. CLUTTER , with the Frisco Louis, was retired after a service of as an employe in thirty-five vears. with a pension al- James Henry Sidebotham, pensioned the mechanical department at Monett lowance of $103.- Frisco switchman of Birmingham, and occupied various positions with 1 25 a, month, re- died June 1st in St. Vincent's hospital the road during his long years of serv- troactive to May of that city. He was 78 years old, and ice. His retirement was due to physi- 1, 1925. his death was caused from complica- cal disability. tions arising from a fractured hip Mr. Gantz was which he received in a fall early in Another veteran with the long-time born in St. Louis 31 May. service record of years and eleven February 14,1872, Sidebotham entered Frisco service months was retired when George the son of a pri- at Amory, i\Iissiesippi, as yardmaster Washington Eddy, locomotive en- v a t e watchman. in January of 1888. His services were gineer on the Central Division was He attended Lin- continuous thereafter in various placed on the pension list. Mr. Eddy coln and Hodgon capacities of the transportation serv was born November 8, 1873 at Chester, Schools at St. ice until he became disabled and on Arkansas, and physical disability Louis and took 27, 1916, caused his retirement. He was placed his first Sob at September was placed on $66.20 the pension roll. His monthly allow- on a pension of per month. the age of fifteen, ance was $26.05 and during the years Mr. Eddy did not long enjoy his 'OHN W' GANTZ when he became of his pension he was paid $2,505.00. pension and retirement, however. His messenger boy for the Morrus-Butt Packing Company. After a short He was a widower and lived with a death on June 6th, from a complica- career-in the clothing and packing daughter at Amory. tion of diseases, was reported to the businesses, he entered Frisco service Magazine office shortly before press 24th. 1890, time. He leaves a widow and a daugh- on March as a bill clerk to general agent of the Seventh Street 19. at the Seventh Street Station in St. Station, the position he held at re- ter, Mary, aged Louis. He advanced steadily until tirement. Mrs. Gantz died recently. The year 1888 found Charles Clin- he was made general anent of the Thev were married in 1900. and had ton Miller, passenger brakeman on traffic department, October 1, 1910. &-children. Mr. ~antz'saddress 1s the eastern division in the service of On May 1st. 1918, he was promoted 232,2 Arkansas Ave., St. Louis, Mo. : Page 23 July, 1925

t I FIELD CONTEST WINNERS I Sidelights on the Veterans' Reunion I I Following is a list of winners and Veterans from twenty-five states. They served sltillfully and well and in prizes at the Field Day contests held mingling and exchanging stories of their midst were detected a number at Sequiota Park in Springfield at the who would look mighty well keeping Veterans' Reunion the afternoon of long ago! Among them, John Weck- erly, who proudly wore his forty-year house instead of behind a typewriter. May 27: badge, presented by the Brotherhood Horseshoe Pitching of Locomotive Engineers. Mr. Weclr- Mr. D. H. Badgley, engineer of J. W. Press, assistant auditor, St. erly went to work when the engines twenty-th~eeyears service from Bir- Louis, champion, gold razor set; mingham, Ala., wants to be quoted as George Taafe, agent at Cherryvale, burned wood, and his first position was sawing wood for the railroad with a saying just this, which means a lot: Kas., a ham. buck-saw. He could saw about five "I am a Frisco booster!" Fifty-Yard Dash for Men cords a day, for which he received the R. B. Spence, engineer, Olrlahoma President Kurn and the officials, im- City, pocket knife; J. G. Hynes, en- sum of fifty cents a cord. Great days those were-and his greatest pleasure mediately following the banquet, shook gineer, St. Louis, cigars; W. Eq hands with each "waitress," and Thompson, machinist, Chaffee, Mo., now is in comparing the olden times to the modern. thanked them personally for their cigars. Tug-of-war service. The little tribute was greatly Springfield team, captained by John In speaking of veterans, special men- appreciated. Hurley, cigars. tion should be given Miss Mabel Fifty-Yard Dash, Women Boren, a woman employe on the rail- "Bully, bully!" was the remark from Mrs. John C. Conley, Springfield, road who is really a veteran in point Mr. C. B. Coleman, engineer of the rainshine. of service. Miss Boren has had Central Division with forty-eight Fifty-Yard Dash twenty-one years with the Frisco. She years service. Miss Ila Cook, Chaffee, voile gown. is now secretary to Mr. F. A. Beyer, Fifty-Yard Dash Superintendent of West Shops, Spring- "The reunion is the realization of Mrs. John C. Conley, Springfield, field. She loves the Frisco, and, as a the finest thought ever put over on the bathing suit. veteran, she is one of the most en- Frisco Lines," according to Mr. F. H. Best-Looking Official thusiastic. Hamilton, vice-president, secretary and General Manager J. H. Fraser, treasurer, who attended the third re- Springfield, flashlight. Carrying water and receiving union at Springfield. Mr. Hamilton Egg Race. twenty-five cents a day is the story of began his service in January, 1888, as Mrs. A. K. Smith, Springfield, com- Mr. L. Bangert, an engineer of thirty- chief clerk to Mr. C. T. Arthur, now pact. nine years service. Not only was the on the Frisco Hospital staff. Second Egg Race price ot a day's work meager, but Mr. Mrs. Ed Rice, Oklahoma City, per- Bangert started to work at the age of Another official who seemed to en- fume. twelve. He is a real veteran, and he joy every minute of the two days was Sack Race enjoyed every second % the reunion. Mr. B. T. TVood, vice-president, in L. A. Pruitt, engineer, Oklahoma charge of purchases. Mr. Wood for- City, golf trousers. "The younger folks do not appre- merly lived in Springfield and his time Jumping Contest ciate gatherings like this one," re- was enjoyably spent with relatives R. B. Spence, engineer, Oklahoma marked Mr. 0. W. Bruton, recently ap- and veterans. City, silk hose. pointed superintendent of terminals, Springfield, Yo.-"but in later years Although the barbecued dinner was Ladies' Race-150 Pounds served in a mild drizzle of rain, it did Mrs. J. C. Dubuque, coffee. this organization will mean just as much to them as it does to us now, not tend to dampen either the spirit General Drawing or the appetite of the veterans or their C. E. Barnard, engineer, Birming- and it is wonderful for we veterans. It brings us together as nothing else wives, who stood in two long lines ham, cigars; B. W. Gaffga, engine fore- waiting their turn. man, Springfield, candy; Katherine can!' Hogan, Monett, cigars; Mrs. H. Miller, It is a remarkable feat to work for Springfield, necktie; J. F. Win, engine Chicago was represented by W. B. Wells, general agent. When we asked the railroad since '77-and end with- inspector, Springfield, hose; Mrs. J. T. out a demerit mark: This was the rec- Ranes, Lawton, Oltla., silk hose; A. T. how he lilted the reunion and the Frisco and the officials and how he ord of Mr. T. H. Houston of Salem, Brown, agent, Monett, candy. was enjoying himself, he said, "Just Mo., and although he has been pen- Three-Legged Race say for me--SOLID GOLD!" sioned for two years, he is still an J. H. Harris, Kansas City, and enthusiastic booster. Once a Frisco Harry Ship, shirt and flashlight. - Uncle Billy Morrill and Harry Har- man, always a Frisco booster, is his Most Popular Lady rison in between times talked their slogan. Mrs. N. M. Sisson. famous "safety first" talk. They Two Engineers Honored Dancing Contest stressed the fact that from the old Alvin Klages and Miss lla Cook, both veterans to the younger employes a C. P. Cass, president of the Westing- of Chaffee. word or two on safety would do an house Company of California, and for- mer Frisco employe, was presented Safety First Week in Oklahoma untoM amount of good. Mr. Harrison brought his wife, but Mrs. Morrill was the honorary badge of the Brother- City unable to attend, and so Uncle Billy hood of Locomotive Engineers, at a "Safety First Week," held from May talked safety and was a general mixer banquet in his honor, given by that 3 to 7, inclusive, at Oklahoma City, with the crowd. He kept things go- organization at Monett, 310.. June 8. Okla., found several Frisco officials ing, because he knows all the old vet- Mr. Cass began firing on the Frisco and employes aiding in the strenuous erans, and their history, too. out of Pierce City in 1880, and went ePDorts to impress safety principles to the other side of the cab in 1883. upon the minds of residents of that From Colorado, and Denver at that, For more than twenty-five years he town. came W. L. Evans, general agent. Mr. has been with the Westinghouse Charles H. Baltzell, superintendent Evans always tries to be on hand at Company. of the southwestern division of the the veterans' reunion. He's a great Thomas Lyons, for 40 years a mem- Frisco Lines, delivered two addresses favorite with the ladies. ber of the Springfield division of the at the convention sessions, and Harry Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Harrison, safety inspector for . the The stenographers and clerks who was similarly honored with a badge Frisco, was also on the program for served the huge crowd in the Sh~ine at a meeting held in Springfleld, an address. Mosque deserve no end of comment. Friday night, May 29. Enid Kiwanis Club Entertains Frisco Shopmen at Luncheon on June 9 - IT

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One of the first meetings or Its kind in the country was held at Enid, Okla., June 9th, when the Kiwanis Club of that city entertained the employes of the Frisco shops at a luncheon served in the machine shop of the Frisco Lines. The repast was spread upon long tables laid in the shop and the Kiwanis committee in charge served a: hearty luncheon repast and followed with iced tea, cold pop and brick ice cream. A short program of speaking followed, in which Dr. D. D. Roberts, president of the Kiwanis Club and local physi- cian at Enid for the Frisco, explained the purpose of the meetings. "We hope this to be only the first of a similar group of get-together meetings," he said. "It is only in this manner that business men and employes can become acquainted with each other in the way they should. Through this comradeship we can better learn the workings of railroading, and you in turn can better learn to serve your public. We intend to meet with you again-and soon." In a short response, J. W. Maring, local agent, told of the Frisco development in Enid and outlined the Frisco policy of better service. W. J. Foley. master mechanic at Enid, was in a large measure responsible for the meeting, in that he is an active worker with Rotary and the Chamber of Commerce and other civic bodies of Enid.

Twelve Hundred Veterans Meet president then retired to his car, be- that was given the soldier who fought for Reunion ing unable to make a talk. bravely and well for that same public. A real treat was accorded the veter- Mrs. H. H. Webb sang a group of (Cor~tiirr~rdfrorir Page 6.) ans in the address of Dr. Erwin F. solos following Dr. Leake's address, Mr. and Mrs. Stypes, whose pictures Leake. pastor of the South Street and at 10:30 o'clock General Manager appear elsewhere in the magazine, sat Christian Church of Springfield. Fraser officially adjourned the third in the front row at the auditorium, Dr. Leake ran the gamut of emo- annual reunion of the Veteran Em- and Col. Sam Huqhes made a beauti- tion, presenting humor in large doses, ployes of the Frisco System. ful presentation speech in pinning the and reaching his finale with a beauti- medal on the aged veteran's coat ful tribute to the service given the CARD. OF THANKS lapel. public by the railroaders of the nation, Charles Mills, veteran conductor and particularly of the Frisco. In behalf of the family of my from Oklahoma City, was next on the departed father, I wish to express program and in a talk on "Co-operation" His most popular offering was a my deep appreciation of the beauti- advised the veterans to get in line with poem, "On the Kankakee and the ful wreath sent by the Frlsco em- the new policies constantly going Lato Kokomo," a railroad verse bubbling ployes of the Tulsa Terminal. The effect and give the youngsters a boost over with humor, and the veterans sincere sympathy which they con- whenever possible. were convulsed with merriment. veyed helped us a great deal. My President Kurn sat on the platform In his climax, Dr. Leake stated that mother especially was grateful for with the other officials and veterans the veteran of the railroad industry, the kindness 'manifested, and was during the early part of the eventng who has consecrated his life to the deeply impressed by this token meeting, but was visibly suffering service of the public, serving honor- from my fellow employes. from a cold, and, shortly before his ably, bravely and faithfully, was en- (Signed) L. G. DENNY, Agent, time to speak, asked Toastmaster titled to the same sincere admiration West Tulsa, Okla. Fraser to explain his absence. The and reverence upon his retirement AN ICING RECORD lays, it steamed into the Kansas City Will Visit Parents in Ireland First terminals at 3:30 p. m., or one hour Time in Twenty Years Kansas City Terminals Deliver and thirty minutes late on schedule. Then Work Began! Strawberry Train at Top Speed The Kansas City terminal forces hav- D. J. Mullane, Frisco Engineer on ing received advance information as Northern Division, Sailed June Icing of Thirty-seven Cars in Forty- to the exact time the train would ar- Second for Dublin three Minutes Saved Many Dollars rive, had everything in readiness for -- a record-breaking handling of the On June second, D. J. Mullane. One day recently when the Frisco thirtyseven 'ars of strawberries in the Northern Division engineer, sailed was in the midst of moving one of the train. The facilities at that point will from New YorB on the Baltic for a largest strawberry crops in its his- not permit the reicing of thirty-seven visit with his parents and relatives tory, a trainload of the precious fruit cars at one time. Therefore, the first in Ireland, whom he has not seen for arrived 3n hour and thirty minutes cut of thirteen cars, which contained twenty-one years. late in Kansas City. In order to make the berries due to leave Kansas City Mr. 3Iullane expects to visit places connections the thirty-seven cars in upon the Wabash at 6:20 p. In., were of interest in and around the City of this train had to be reiced by the reiced and deliveries made in time for Konsas City terminal forces in less handling on designated train and the Dublin, and the lakes of Killarney. than forty-flve minutes. reicing of the entire thirty-seven cars Mr. IIullane has two brothers, hI. The job was done in forty-three was completed in forty-three minutes J. i\Iullane, also an engineer on the mlnntes and all connections made. It from the time the train reached the Xorthern division and Tim Mullane. was a remarkable piece of work. terminal and all deliveries mere made also of tlie Frisco, employed at Ft. When John L. hIcCormack, superin- to connecting lines in time to insure Scott, Kans. tendent of freight loss and damage handling upon schedule trains. The Magazine hopes to have an in- claims, sought to compliment Jack The manner in which this train of teresting account of this trip by Mr. Flanigan, youthful superintendent of strawberries was handled undoubtedly Mullane, detailing the many poiuts oT terminals at Kansas City, that loyal saved the company several thousand interest which he visited, in the Friscoan merely smiled (perhaps he dollars in claim payments. August number. even blushed a little) and said: "Well, John, we're in the midst of a freight claim prevention campaign, ain't me?" But let Mr. McCormaclc tell the story: H. L. Mencken to the Defense Requlre Careful Handling Perhaps one of the most profitable seasonal crops that \re are called upon to move is strawberries, originating in Jt seems a bit strange that H. L. 4 per cent in 1922, and to 5 per cent the famous fruit and berry district of hlencken, brilliant editor of that in 1923. Had the railroads been per- the Ozarks In Southwest Missouri and startling monthly. The American Mer- mitted to earn the 6y' per cent pre- Northwest Arkansas. The commodity, cury, scoffing and penetrating seer scribed (but not guaranteed) by the ho\\-ever, is highly perishable and un- into all hokum of his day, rapier-like Transportation Act of 1920, the public less perfectly handled by carriers, bisector of many theories, and a man -in whose interests the low rates of brings in claims so large in amount both feared and admired for his bold return were ostensibly instituted- that the mishandling of one or two rantings at a!l sorts and manner of mould have been $500,000,000 better off things dear to the American public in dividentls in 1921, $350,000,000 in cars offsets the profit of handling a throughout the years--should turn at 1922, and $100,000,000 in 1923. train lot. last into an exacting, analytical chani- Offsetting these losses - bringing Therefore, when Mr. W. L. English, pion of the railroads! supervisor of agriculture and develop- them about-millions of men, of ment, estimated the 192.5 crop at ap- Yet that is what Mencken has done. course, hare gained in freight-rate re- proximately 1,600 cars, every effort In his usual lynx-like style and with ductions. But how much? Enough to was made by all departments that his customary deftness he has printed justify half bankrupting tlie railroads? would assist in the movement of the in the "AIercury" a straightforward J.et us see. Let us assume that we are crop, to inaugurate and render a serv- defense of the railroads' fight for re- in Chicago and let us go for dinner ice in connection therewith that would lief from the excessive burdens of reg- to one of the popular restaurants be profitable to the rompany and with- ulation. where one mily get a decent meal for out just cause for complaint from $1.25. We will start on a nice steak, The unusualness of the source, as say, about a half a pound apiece. The patrons. \vcll as the unique manner in which A Unified Effort freight on this meat from Iowa to hlencken presents his subjert, causes Chiago in carlots is about $0.0065 a Special and qualified representatives this to be reprinted in the Xagaxine. pound. We will each contribute, there. were assigned to assist the divisional Mencken writes, under the heading fore, for this portion of our dinner to fortes in the cleaning and inspection *'Railroad Rates and Lunch," as fol- the railroad...... $0.003275 of cars prior to loading, the initial lon s: For our bread we will each iring of cars, the reicing thereof in pay the railroad ...... 0.000618 transit and special train service pro- It would be about as easy for a camel to pass through the eye ol' For our butter...... 0.000700 vided that \vould insure the berries For our green peas...... 0.001725 reaching Kansas City by 4 p. m. in a needle as for a railroad official of today to do any of the naughty things For the sarmon we shall eat.. 0.002228 order to enable the reicing and deliv- For the pepper and salt...... 0 000100 ery of all cars to connections for han- he used to do so copiously. A multi- plicity of regulations and regulators For our dessert of strawber- dling in their hot-shot trains, leaving ries ...... 0.002800 Kansas City for points northwest, has taken care of that-but it has also made it almost impossible for a latter- For rarrying our coffee and north and northeast from 6:20 p. m. to sugar ...... 0.009370 9 p. m. dav denatnrized railroad manager to From the heginning of the season make his properties earn their keep. until Nay 12th everything worked fine It is regulation that has brought and the strawberry special reached about the abandonment of 2.234 more Frisco girls are winning beauty Kansas City with clocklike regularity miles of main-line track since 1917 and bathing contests this summer. on or before schedule, but, as with the than were constructed in that period. pitcher that goes so often to the well, and it is regulation that has brought Why not send the Magazine the so it was with the strawberry special. down railroad earnings below the limit picture of the one in your town? On May 12th, due to unavoidable de- of safet)-to 3% per cent in 1921, to

HE ENJOYS IT ALL W. L. Heath, Veteran Frisco Life of Judge Evans Conductor. Has Traveled Far The

In Forty-eight Years on Two Roads He Has Ridden 1,500,000 Miles The Frisco Railroad suffered a griev- Forty-eight gears in the service of ous loss to its official staff in the death America's railroads is long enough of Judge W. F, Evans. for sixteen for a man to reach, if not pass, the years general counsel of this system, "age of discretion," accorcling to W. L. who died at St. Anthony's Hospital, Heath, well-known Frisco conductor, St. Louis, on May 9. A brief snnounce- who runs on Nos. 3 and 4 from St. ment of Judge Evans' demise was Louis to Monett. printed in the June issue of the Maga- zine. but his prominence and faithful work desarves further mentlon. Judge Evans made an Inauspicious beginning as an attorney in the small city of Centerville, Iowa. His nn- usual ability was soon recognlxed, how- ever, and cn Jenuary l, 1884, he en- tered the employ of the Rock Island Railroad as its local attorney at Atch- ison. Kansas. In those early days of the picturesque middle west he played an active and useful part and in the constant and varied litigation with which he was associated and over which he had control he grew into a strong man in the competitive strug- gle of life. In 1886 he became the general attorney for the Rock Tsland, in charge of its legal affairs in Kan- sas, and moved on May 1, 1887, to To- peka, Kansas, where the headquarters of that system were maintained in geu- W. F. EVANS era1 offices. With growing and con- spicuous ability he handled the various it excited the amnzement of the finan- interests committed to his care and in cial world, and upon the reorganization 1902 his services were further recog- he became the general counsel. nized and he was moved to St. Louis Judge Evans was a nlan of handsome to take charge of the legal department presence, great industry and the pos- of that entire system. sessor of an accurate and thoroughly To Frisco In 1904 trained mind. Amid a wide circle of In 1904, when the Rock Island be- friends, drawn from all classes of so- came identified with the Frisco, he ciety. he was beloved, and many hearts became general attorney of the Frisco remember gratefully the material help and until his death he remained at which he bestowed lavishly and gen- the head of this system as its legal erously, even as these same hearts adviser and guide. Through the trials mourn for his loss. Few men have of receivership Judge Evans handled done more for good than he, and none MR. AND MRS. W. L. HEATH the enormous legal work with a mas- commands more of confidence from Conductor Heath has had that many terful hand and gained the confidence friends and enemies alike. The con- years service since he began as a fire- and admiration of bankers and railroad structiveness of his work will be a man with the C. B. & Q. back in 1877, managers alike. Aided by his eqert vital memory to the Frisco family, and and he's still hale and hearty. work, the road emerged so success- the memory of this strong, able man For the edification of the Magazine fullr from its financial troubles that will continae to live. readers Heath figured up an approxi- mation of the miles he has traveled in his railroading days. HOWARD-BECKER "As I figure it, I've exceeded 1,500,000 Miss Dorothy Howard and Mr. Oscar by several thousand miles." he said. A. Becker were quietly married in St. Superintendents Baltzell and "That includes my service with both Louis on June 2. and left for a honey- Cantrell Transferred the Burlington and the Frisco. And I moon in Chicago. can add this-that I think the fasci- The groom is clerk to the paymas- luperintendents S. T. Cantrell nation about railroad life makes a job ter, and has been with the Frisco and Charles H. Baltzell exchanged in a railroad's service the best job seven years, beginning his service as divisions on June 1, according to there is. I've never tired of it yet." office boy. Circular No. 56, signed by M. N. Heath served twenty-two and a half The bride has been connected with Sisson, assistant general manager. years as R fireman, brakeman and con- the telephone company and her mar- ductor on the Burlington and came to riage to Mr. Becker is the culmina- Mr. Cantrell went to Sapulpa. Ok- the Frisco in 3899 as a conductor on tion of a romance of long standing. lahoma, as superintendent of the our Eastern division. For the twecty- The young couple returned to St. southwestern division. six years since he has run on the East- Louis on June 15th, where they are Mr. Baltzell left Sapulpa and the ern division constantly. making their home. southwestern division to go to Fort Heath was honored in 1918 by his Smith, Arkansas, as superintendent selection as chairman of the general He resides at Webster Groves with of the central division. Mr. Can. committee of adjustments of the Order Mrs. Heath, and the accompanying pic- trell was superintendent of that of Railway Conductors and served un- ture of Mr. and Mrs. Heath was taken division until the transfer. til 1923 in that capacity. in their yard. Pap 25

Daniel Hogan Dead Daniel Hogan, pensioned crossing I Two messenger Boys watchn~an. died at the residence of his daughter, Nrs. Mollie Roth, in Kansas City. hIay 15th. Born in County Imerick. Ireland, on January 28t11, 1834, Mr. Hogan came The story of the life of President He studicd the time card, learned the to the United States in 1854, and en- rules, J. >I. Kurn, published in the Sunday And stayed much overtime. tered the service as a track man at magazine section of the Kansas City He knew experience's the best of Lebanon, hIo., on the old Atlantic & schools. Pacific. Railway, in March, 1870. He Star on May 10, struck a responsive So gradually got it down fine. served continuously as track foreman chord from J. B. Arbuthnot, for eight- So. when a Dispatcher was needed. and section foreman at various points ew >ears a te1egr;~yherand later fuel Jim. that's the name of the boy. on the eastern division until 1889. Was the most available man when, by reason of infirmities, he was Inspector on the C. & E. I. And was qlven the place, to his joy. appointed to position of crossing Mr. Arbuthnot is now head of the Tn the course of a couple of year9 walchman at Springfield, Mo., which AIoved irom third to second trick, he held until the time he was pen- Rrm of J. 13. Al.buthnot & Sons, manu- With 111s old motive, it appears. And nothing could ~nakehim sick. sioced. July lst, 1913. facturers of concentrating tables, at Mr. Hown received a monthly Joplin, Missouri, but he admits he "He's a xlutton for work." the rest pension allowance of $20.00, whicsh mould say. "can hardly pass a clicking telegraph "But as for us he's welcome to it: for eleven years and ten months he When our tricks are done we'll zet was carried on the pension roll, ag- instrument without stopping to listen a awa.v: zrerm;ed $2,540.00. nlinute." As ior overtime work. won't do it." One day the Chief was railed UP higher, The following poem, "Two Messenger Recommended Jim for his desk. I TWO FRISCO COLONELS I Jim took it, for 'twas his heart's de- Bo>-s," written by Mr. Arbuthnot, Is ~IPP dedicated to President Kurn: 4nd-took LIP those duties with rcst. 1Ie studied the road, the engines and trains: Was a walk in^ encyclopedia. A M~nsengerBoy \\-ax lilred one day .4 railroad must have men with brains. In a Division Telegraph ORice As the other kind Impede yon. From a bunch of how who canle tliut way, Nest Master of Transaortation. And, of course, Ile was u novice. 1,:rtcr superintendent, Then General prefixed to the same, BuL the best was none too good tor .ind 111s private car was splendid. Aim. Was polite and courteous to all: In the course of time General Manager HIS work was done with zest and vim, Was the way he signed hi? name. .\nd promptly answered his call. Tt mas no troublc to manage her: He had tralncd for that. the same. Or course, he had some time to spare, But he didn't intend to lose it; Some rears later. all in due course. And 'mongst the 1)ispatchers working He was cnlled to the President's chair: there And thero was at that naught of re- He figured a nwy to use it. morse. For he'd trained to go just there. So he cot hold of a new Morse Code The Messenger Boy who took Jlm's .\nd'borrowecl a key and a sounder; nlare. And daily on that key he rode Was of an entirely different brand. And diligently WOLI!~pound 'er. He did just enough to save his fuce Xnd longed for his shift to end. Rut always back in hls head Was the thought that he'd be the best He'd loitrr along the road and play: And cleanest sender the Conipany had, Took no interest in his work: .\nd soon W~Hready for test. Spcnt much time thinking what to say Khen he would his duties shirk. Onr dav an Onc'rator's taken sirk And his work was piled LIP high: Thev stood It a year or so. I think, Thev had to have one mighty quiclc .\nd then he was plainly fired. And the Messenger Rov mas 11igli. In the course of time he took to drink, Bcc:+~nea bum. It makes me tired. Two of the most popular and widely He tipped hi* cnf, to ttte Ghlof and xald, At fort\ -five he's dr~vinga drny .'Let me have the Telrgraptl job: In a little one-horse town: known men at the Veterans' Reunion A Messenger Boy's easily had; .\nd even now whiles the time awdy in Springfield, were Col. A. H. Stevens, I can handle even a Quad." Runninx successful men down. executive general agent at San Fran- Tlie ChleC tooked down at 1hn boy. said He'll whittle a stick and spit at a cisco, California, and Col. Sam A. "rReII! crack Hughes, in charge of the Frisco's land What makes yo11 think yo11 could do As he adjusts the patch on his pants. proprrties at Albuquerque. N, M. it?" 4nd tell other loafers, alas and alack. "I don't think," sairl he, "[ know it That 11e'd nevcr had half a chanve. Col. Stevens comes rightly by his well." title, since he senred as aide to four ".\I1 right," said tile Chief, "go to It." That if he'd hod a "pull" like some That he'd known in Ilia younwr governors of Alabama, with the rank He settled down iu the cushioned chair davs, of Colonel at each serving, and the With the stack of telegrams. He'd have shown what he could'vc title was given the genial Sam Hughes And cornnienced to send, and sent for done: as a matter of fitting tribute. fair That a "pull" is all that it takes. 'Till all In the drawer were crammed. The two Colonels have done valu- The "pull" of these two boys was the able work together, and during the same The Chief listened to a few, In both cases. That's the truth. world war they managed the third, \Vent to his desk with a smile, Rut one lost clear out in the game, fourth and fifth Liberty Loans on the And ?aid to himself, "That kid w!!l do; .\I1 for the lack of "push." He sure can send worti~whlle. Frisco system, raising $3,170,000 on The morrrl of this story, true, the fourth and $2,000,000 on the fifth. The other man never came back, Is as plain as can be, I say: Col. Stevens, who came all the way So the boy had the regular place: Do a!l that vou are expected to do from San Francisco, enjoyed the dis- 13ut he lost no chance when work wan AND THEN SOME. That raines your tinction of traveling the farthest dis- dark nmv-- . TO imjirove hlmwlt in the race. J. B. Arbuthnot tance to attend the reunion. LOYAL VETERAN DIES called to Ashland, Wisconsin, and pro- ATTORNEYS PROMOTED moted to train dispatcher, at which Arch Campbell, Assistant Super- point he remained until August, 1892, when he became identified with the Death of Judge Evans Causes intendent at Enid, Succumbs Northern Pacific and remained with Chaxges in Legal Department to Pneumonia . them until 1898. A. P. Ste~bart,assistant general at- He norked for the Illinois Central He Lived Useful Life as Railroader- torney, and E. G. Xahler, attorney of t\vo years at Memphis, Tenn., and the Frisco Railroad, have been ap- Twenty-four Years With with the Iron XIountain at Little Rock Frisco pointed general attorneys by E. T. Mil- for a year and then entered the em- ler, general solicitor. ploy of the Frisco Lines, with whict~ By A. L. Kinkade. The new general attorneys are both company he has been connected for bachelors and have been in the legal After twenty-four years of steady the past twenty-four years as trick department of the Prisco for years. service with the Prisco Railroad as dispatcher, claim agent, chief dis- Mr. Stewart entered the legal depart- claim agent, chief dispatcher and as- patcher and assistant superintendent, ment of the road in July, 1900. He sistant superintendent, Arch Campbell, corking at Sapulpa when it was in was Assistant District Attorney at loved and admired assistant superin- Indian Territory and later as a part Cape Girardeau, No., for several years tendent of the Perry and Beaumont of the new state at Oklahoma City, prior to 1917. On January 1 of that subdivisions of the western division, Lawton anti Chaffee, Blo., at which year he came to St. Louis, following died at his home in Enid, April 10. point he worked for tell yeqrs as chi( his appointment as attorney. On Jan- He was taken ill with influenza on dispatcher. In Xoveinber, 1921, he was uary 1, 1924, he was made assistant March 29th and bronchial pneumonia made assistant superintendent on the general attorney. He is a graduate of followed. ~esterndivision, where he worked un- Cumberland College, Lebanon, Tenn., til his death. and resides at 5424 Cabanne. Mr. Nahler, a graduate of Benton College of Law, St. Louis, came with CHESTER SAYS the Frisco in 1913 as secretary to the - late Judge W. P. Evans from the St. The world has a living for every- Louis Terminal Association, where he one-provided you go out and get had been employed for nine years as it. And, in the long run, the easiest secretary to the superintendent. He way is hard work. was made attorney on April 1, 1917. Sahler resides at 5006 Nottingham. We must stand united for safety General Solicitor Miller also an- or further enhance the wealth of nounced that the title of 31. G. Roberts practitioners and crutch manufac, had been changed from commerce and turers. valuation counsel to general attorney and commerce counsel Fortify yourself with friends. You The appointment of C. H Skinker, need only a few. Jr., of Springfield, 310.. to the position of attorney. has been announced by the legal department. Mr. Skinlrer, Free yourself from any alliance formerly of the firm of Farrington, which will not elevate you. Try Curtis & Skinker, at Springfield, took to associate with those whose ex- his new position on June 1. perience, intellect and accomplish- ments are greater than your own. Calvin Dutton, Retired Union Your career may be your haven, Station Passenger Agent, Dies but if it is constructed of pitiless ambition, deceit and trickery, there Eightv-six Vear Old Veteran Served are always many openings for your Frisco Thirty-five Years Until Retired in 1914. enemies. -- A. CAMPBELL Unscrupulous attainments are On May 18, while making prepara- Mr. Campbell was a Canadian by never satisfactory. They do not tions to attend the Third Annual birth, of Scotch ancestry. He was carry with them the real joy of V~terans' Reunion, death summoned born in Elgin County, Ontario, Feb- victory, as in a fair fight. Calvin Dutton, 86. retired union sta- ruary 24th, 1864. The Campbell fam- tion passenger agent at St. Louis. ily settled in Ontario in 1833. He re- Put your utmost into every en- His was a life of service-service ceived his early training in the public deavor. Aside from being the in the army of his country during the schools of Avon, Ontario, working on proper thing to do, it will give stirring days of 1861-6.5; service with- a farm at intervals until 1878. In that you contentment, ease of mind and out interruption with this railroad for year he commenced work in a saw- a sense of self-satisfaction. thirty-five years. mill, where he remained three years. Born in the Province of Quebec on He began railroad life in 1880 on the Lincoln is constantly eulogized December 16, 1839, he became passen- Michigan Central at Taylor, Ontario, -not so much of this, but a little as plzmper at a gravel pit, taking up ger agent at the St. Louis Union Sta- more emulation would, perhaps, be tion in August. 1878. In this position the study of telegraphy at the same of greater benefit. time. and worked as operator at va- he served continuously, up to the time rious points from 1882 until April, he was placed on the pension roll, There is no greater evil than in. January 1st. 1914. To few men is it 1884, when he left for Sorth Dakota gratitude-nothing more base or for a change of climate, and remained ziven to have so long a career of use- vile. The expression and feeling fulness with a single institution. there until November of that year. of thanks and appreciation is so lit- Mr. Campbell then returned to the tle to do, yet how consequential. Mr. Dutton was a picturesque figure. servive of the Nichigan Central as whose birth was almost contemporan- operator at Comber, Ontario, holding Your philosophy of life depends eous with the birth of the railroad in that position until July 27th. 1885, primarily upon your environment, America, and whose death is a loss when he resigned to enter the employ the books you read, the work you keenly felt by everyone who knew of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & West-' perform and the God you worship. him. Mr. Dutton had received $4,- ern. On August 14th, 1886, he was 760 pension at the time of his death. Page 27

iates, moved via the Frisco from Springfield, Afo., their home, to St. CHANGES AND APPOINTMENTS Louis, >lo., on June 20. This is one of the most famous bands in the world. Composed of boy scouts of all Following is a list of changes and J. F. Lick installed temporary agent ages, they have gained wide comment, appointments made on Frisco Lines Moselle, Mo.. June 1st. and the Frisco served them, with from May 15, to June 16. The Mag- J. W. Dodson installed .permanent usual first class service. azine will print such a list each month agent Raymore. Mo., June 1st. A special rate of $5.00 a round trip for the benefit of employes who wish R. G. Daubs installed permanent f:om Springfield, Mo., to St. Louis. to keep in touch with transferred agent McBride. Mo., June 2nd. hlo., and return on Sunday, June 7, friends. S. B. Nichols installed temporary was offered by the Frisco and some J. R. Johnson installed permanent agent Francis, Okla., June 1st. 1.100 passengers took advantage of a agent Weaubleau, No., June 9th. J. Murphy installed temporary day in the big city. The train was run F. 31. Means installed temporary agent Norge, Oltla., June 1st. special. agent Weaubleau, Mo., June 15th. Estico. Ark., ticltet agency closed, Officials and staff of the Standard J. 0. Smith installed temporary June Sth, 1925. Oil Company on dune 3, were given agent Durham, Ark., June 15th. Harry Miller installed temporary special handling by the Frisco from L. W. Pitkin, installed permanent a,zent Wilmot. Kans., %lay 23rd. St. Louis to Claremore, Okla.. while agent Greenland, Ark., June 15th. W. J. Bush installed permanent on a tour of inspection. C. K. Bennett installed temporary agent Troy. Okla., May 29th. ' Good words were in abundance, per- agent Lorraine, Kana., June 16th. E. Trotter installed temporary agent taining to Frisco service, when on F. D. Beckerdite installed perma- Stanley, Kans.. May 23rd. June 3 the Little Rock Chamber of nent agent Red Fork, Okla., June 16th. T. 0. Pursell installed permanent Commerce Good Will Tour went J. Y. Hart installed permanent agent Galloway, Mo., May 31st. (Had from Blytheville to Bridge Junction, agent Foyil, Okla., June 11th. been in charge of station since May Ark. Effective June 5th, 1925, Estico, 26th.) Birmingham, Ala., had a special Ark., ticket only agency closed. Effective May 28th. Scllmitt, Mo., train of Shriners handled via the L. S. Melton installed permanent ticket con~n~issionagency closed. Frisco to Kansas City, and given a agent Arden. Ark., June 10th. Clarence Alden installed permanent hearty sendoff at that point for Los W. S. Johnston installed temporary agent Aldrich. Mo., May 25th. Angeles, Calif., on May 27. agent Elsinore, Mo., June 1st. C. I<. Willis installed temporary G. W. Higgins installed permanent agent Bolivar, Mo.. May 25th. agent Tuttle, Okla., June 4th. W. A. Pritchard installed permanent C. W. hIiller installed permanent agent Vista, Mo.. May 23rd. Frisco Better Service Contest agent Seligman, Mo., June 1st. Effective May lnth, Tanner, Mo., (C'o~rliirrrrti fro~rr Pogc 9.) B. T.. Bruton installed temporary ticket commission agency closed. agent Stanley, Kans., June 5th. Contest, and wish to commend each Effective May 25th. Greenland, Ark., of those who sent in the valuable sug- B. C, .Jones installed permanent owned as a freight and ticltet agency. gestions for the first month of the agent Phenix. 310.. .June 8th. Kelly Cornett installed temporary Wm. N. Nutt installed permanent contest," Vice - President Koontz agent. stated. "It is indeed gratifying to feel agent Arbyrd. Mo., June 4th. G. W. Vincent installed temporary that 30,000 employes are working to- agent Foyil, Olrla., May 21st. gether to get their company the great- Hickman Burnsitle installed tempo- est possible amount of business. I "S. 0. S." rary ticltet agent Ardmore, Okla., May predict an even larger number of sug- 18th. gestions for the second month, and Save One Scoop J. J. Corum installed temporary will welcome them. I agent Red Fork. Oltla., May 16th. The seccnd month of the contest H. M. Russell installed temporary automatically hegins with the issu- Oh! Mr. Tiirchgral~er apnt Tuttle. Okla.. May 18th. ance of the July Magazine, and the What shall we do? Ed. Jackson installed permanent Traffic Department is ready to re- agmt Welling, Okla., May 13th. We lost the gold Star ceive your suggestions. And the silver one, too; If you can line up the merchants of your city as Agent Wood of Sasirkwa For several months we Many Special Trains Handled on has done, or if you can write a better Were right at the top, , Our Lines During Last Month booster letter than Operator Sander- But we're now going backwards son, or if you can secure some freight Oh! when mill we stop? or passenger business by personal Every Frisco Employe Aided in Eli- solicitation as Mrs. McGowen did- These firemen here have citing Praise From Travelers write a letter and mail it to Henry Awake'd to the fact on Special Service F. Sanborn, assistant to the Vice- That the saving of fuel, --- President. The suggestion must be Will, too, save their backs. Every Frisco employe has done his received not later than July 15, in order to be judged for the prizes for They've formed the good habit bit this last month to handle the large number of special trains over our August. Of saving good coal lines. A Frisco lady and a Frisco man will And I just can't beat them Here are a few specials, given the each win a button next month as they To save my poor soul; regular first class handling, for which did this month. Why don't you try for it, too? The engineers also have the Frisco is noted: The Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Butted right in, Congress of National Baptist Conven- And it seems that all of them tion (colored) was handled over the The Difference Are bound to win. Frisco special on June 24 to Wichita, "Which would yez rather be in. So I have come Kansas. Casey-an explosion or a collision?" The East St. Louis Junior Chamber asked his friend 3IcCarthv. To this decision- of Commerce delegates on June 23, "In a collision." replied- Casey. We will help WIN A STAR were handled Frisco from St. Louis, "Why ?" FOR THE CENTRAL DIVISION. Mo., to Tulsa, Okla. ''Because. in a collision, there yez -A. E. HOOD, Fireman, The famous Boy Scout Band of are: but in a explosion, where are Springfield. Mo., accompanied by the yez?" Hugo, Okla. Modern Woodmen of America dele- -The Stalcy Journal.

E are trying an experiment with Miss Simon's phone buzzed constantly We don't know who they are, but W this "Between the Rails" page, as ticket agents at the several Chi- we feel indebted for an apology to which we hope will meet with approval cago stations phoned her for reserva- somebody. Two months ago we prom- of members of the Frisco family. Each tions on Frisco trains out of St. Louis ised to begin featuring the many sec- month the magazine has gone out to and other points for through passen- tions of diversified industry, manu- you, we have felt a desire to "talk" gers. facturing and farming on the .Frisco with each employe-through the mag- Lines. We haven't been able to do it azine-and have had no place to do it. What impressed us was the cheery, yet. Our magazine hasn't a sufficient Day by day, as we search the number of pages, or else me are more breezy way Miss Simon answered disposed to make place for news di- Frisco System for material which will these phone, calls. It was, "Hello, interest Magazine readers, little things rectly concerning the Frisco Family. Mr. Pennsylvania-yes, glad to fix you That's probably it. arise that are without the scope of up-got one for you all right. Give news, editorials or features. Yet us a ring again." Or-"Good morn- they are important tid-bits, oft-times ing, Mr. Wabash-fine and dandy, and However, the long promised story amusing, more often instructing ant1 how are you-good! Where to?-- concerning the alluvial land belt of interesting. It is our intention to Sure-tell 'em they picked a good Arkansas and Missouri will be feat- place those things on this page. We'd railroad to ride-we'll take care of ured in the August number. It ia one like to hear from you if you have them from St. Louis on south. hfuch of the most interesting sections any contributions to make to "Be- obliged for the business. Send us served by our rails, and one of the tween the Rails". some more-good-bye!" most productive. Its history and present activity should interest every A few days ago a man in Aluskogee, one of the Magazine's 30,000 readers. Okla., sent us a newspaper clipping We remarked about it to Mr. Wells. concerning the efforts of some rail- - road employes to organize in com- "Miss Simon is one of the most We are more than elated by the suc- bating the truck and bus traffic, valuable people in this office," he said. cess of the "Frisco Better Service" con- which they believe, is hurting their "That cheery, healthy way of hers on test launched in the June number. It jobs. That clipping, with a short pro- the phone brings us a lot of business. developed thio fact among many others face, appears elsewhere in this issue. Those ticket clerks at the stations -that the,employes of this railroad are just sincerely interested in swelling the like to route someone via Frisco freight tonnage of their railroad and Throughout this country, railroad to get a chance to talk to Miss Simon." developing the total of passengers on managers and executives are diligently their trains. If every industry in studying this truck and bus problem. - America had that sort of spirit among That it is hurting railroad properties There's a big lesson. That peppy its employes there would be no bald- is unquestionably a fact. But the Frisco girl has, through a sunny dis- headed executives. managers feel reticent to go to their position, a happy laugh and a pleasant employes with the problem. They, "telephone" voice, made herself an perhaps, feel it is one of their own 18-carat business getter for the And, by the way, have you noticed and that the employes would not care Frisco. Folks like that are worth how few men on the Frisco are with- to aid in its solution. while. out sufficient hair. It's remarkable how few they are. But look at Muslrogee! There Is Did you know that no other railroad co-operation. The employes them- in America has a reunion of its vet- Here's some good news for freight selves, without the help of their of- erans? It's a fact. Several road3 men, from none other than Sid Oliver, ficials or without the encouragement have similar affairs, but an annual agent at Memphis, Tenn. Alr. Oliver of their railroads, are taking the prob- party in which all men and women writes that one P. A. Gates, head of a lem to heart and working it out. No with over twenty years' service are Memphis luniber company bearing his official instigated that meeting. NO invited and urged to attend is an idea name, sent his son to Gatman, miss., official had any connection with it unique with the Frisco. June 10 to get a car of lumber then whatsoever. in a lumber yard at Gatman. The son got the lumber, all right, but before In another position in this issue, he could get back to Memphis to take It was a meeting of Railroad Em- President Kurn gives his views of the care of the car, his father had already ployes for Railroad Employes. That reunion. He is enthusiastic for it as been called on by Frisco folks seek- spirit is the one that will work won- a medium of fellowship and loyalty. ing to make disposition of the lum- ders. It is all of that and more. A man who ber. It had arrived ahead of the son. has worked for and with a concern The other day we dropped into the for twenty or more years has become office of W. B. Wells, general agent, a part of that organization, and it n All of which makes the genial Mr. at Chicago. Mr. Wells was. out for rr part of him. He knows its views and Oliver smile a little broader and work few minutes, and we enjoyed a short its ambitions, and his loyalty urges a little harder. It's a grand and glo- chat with Miss Marguerite Simon, sec- him to do his part in bringing reali- rious feelin', as Briggs would say, to retary to the passenger department. zation. be able to give shippers such service. AUDITORS TAKE THE FIRST Frisco Sapulpans Win Two, Lose JUNE SOLUTION One and Tie One Crack Nine from Pass. Accounting A 17 to 2 Victory Over Tulsa Puts Department Wins 1 1 to 10 Them Up-More Games Wanted from Paymasters The Frisco baseball team of Sapul- pa, has entered the Twilight League Manager Grellner Offers Substitution at Sapulpa, Okla., and played four Alibi for Loss of Initial games so far this season, winning two, 1925 Contest -- tying one and losing one. The first game, with the Oklahoma Saturday, June 6th, found two St Gas & Electric Team ended with a Louis teams, one from the auditor or" score of seven to one, in favor of the passenger accounts department, and Frisco Team. The second game, with the "Has Been, and Will Be's", a pick- the Christian Church Team, resulted ed nine from the paymaster's office, in a tied score, seven to seven, and in battle array. the third game was lost to the Mer- The game was played opposite Tri- chants Team, with a score of eight angle Park, at 4100 South Broadway, to four. St. Louis, and the final score was 11 One outside game, with the AIodern to 10 in favor of the passenger ac- Woodmen Team, of Tulsa, Okla., with corlnts department. a score of seventeen to two, was the George Grellner, manager of the second game won by the Sapulpa "Will Be's" has offered as an alibi team so far this pear. for their defeat to Manager Fisher of The Sapulpa team bids fair to be Right this way, ladies and gents! the opposing team, the fact that such one of the leading Frisco teams on the Let's see how many-uv-yuh's got good stars as Pohlman, Reinheimer, Stra- system. They welcome invitations sents. chen, Sametz, Kitts and Dickman for games. If yuv worked out the puzzle, but still failed to show' up, and it was neces. The regular lineup is as follows: in doubt, sary at the last minute to secure sub- Mark Mcitlunn, catcher; C. J. Moore, Here's the June solution, with it all stitutes. pitcher; Jimmie Counts, pitcher; M. worked out. Dorfield, Reiss and Houlihan of the Crawford, first base; Glenn Miller, "Will Be's" made outstanding plays, second base; Joe Miller, short stop; Seem they're gittin' harder as th' days and "Pepless" Eichenaur succeeded in Ralph Doty, third base; Richard Pipp, roll by, robbing Grellner of a possible home- left field: Punk Hanks, center field; But, boy, oh boy-what we got fer run by a one-handed catch. Chas. E. Kerr, right field; Eaton July -! Below is quoted the box score: Tiger, fielder and pitcher and Walter Yuh know the Frisco has some kind Auditor Passenger Accounts Dept. Summers, utility man. Victor Moung- of-a insignia, Kame POR. AB R I1 PO A E er, Sapulpa, is manager. Don't know whut thet means-but 1'11 Musltoff.3h...... 3 1 2 2 5 1 bet, go3h ding yuh, Reiga1.c...... 4 1 0 4 2 1 General Foreman Garrison Is Kohrlng,~...... ~..4 1 1 0 4 0 Thet this here 'signia whut we've got IIoullhan, ss...... 4 1 1 9 6 0 Piloting Monett Frisco Nine to work now Merkle.rf ...... ~.42 3 2 2 0 to Victory Stoessel. If ...... 4 2 2 0 20 Wuz sure a cracker-jack to make, 1'11 Fishel', lb...... 3 1 1 11 0 0 Springfield Coach Shop and Galena - jes' allow. Richnauger. cf .... 5 2 3 1 0 0 Town Teams Down to Defeat Reiss,2b...... 4 0 1 3 6 2 Made by a feller in the Treasurer's ------Recently employ, 35 11 14 27 24 4 Organized under the name of the His name's Floyd McGeever, he's a "Has Been and Will Be's" Team Frisco Family Baseball Club, islonett, right nice boy. Name Pos. AB R H PO A E Mo., team made its 1925 debut on the He says he's spent about two months, Grellner, 2b ...... 4 1 1 1 2 0 grounds at Galena, No., on May 17th. Straub, ss...... 2 2 2 2 1 0 workin' ever night. Frie8.c ...... 4 2 2 9 O 0 and carried away the honors with a A-puttin' in the black squares an' num- Grouh. 111 ...... 4 score of two and one, in a fast game berin' the white. Schopfer. p...... 6 with the Galena town team. Nolan, 3h...... 2 But he come down a runninl--got un- \Vochlcr. If ...... 4 On i\Zay 24th, Springfield's west Durfield, cf.~...... 4 coach shop nine suffered defeat in a der the line, Schumacher, ss.. 4 contest with Nonett. The score was Fer the July issue-he was jist in time. Fletcher. rf ...... -4 ------seven and sir. He deserves a lot o' credit fer this 40 10 13 24 9 3 Mr. C. H. Garrison, general foreman fancy layoul, Score by Innings at Monett, Mo., who formerly wore But if all uv yuh can work it out I've 123456789 RHE the blue and gray of the town team got my doubt. of Yonett, umpired both games. Pass. Accts... 0 B 3 1 1 0 2 1 1-11 14 4 But, as th' feller says, one sure way Pnymasters..2 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 2-10 13 3 Following is the regular lineup: i\I. Woods, first base; R. C. Allen, third of knowin' base; C. Archdale, catch; W. H. Is tuh keep on a tryin'-an' never stop goin'. athletics two pages next month. Cruise, left field and manager; K. R. Why not send in the picture of Richardson, second base: L. Brown. So help yerself folks-an' work th' your victorious nine, and a story short stop: J. Woods, centel? field; C. thing oiit- of their conquests this season? Woods, right field; and Sid Timmons, Some time later on we'll ease up all pitcher. yer doubt! Who Has Cross-Words for Frisco Emblem?

VERTICAL 54-Albeit (conk) 32-To secure in a place. 55-A province ;n Jugo-Slavia. 34-Elements of the English language. 1-You and I. 59-To question ( pl.) 2-To arouse to a sense of danger. . 40-In or of the thing or matter. 62-A hearing in court. 41-A diphthong. 3-The razor fish. 64-A unit of measure (ab.). 4-Indefinite article. 65-A gentleman. 42-Initials of Frisco Commerce and 5-A river in Italy. 66-A city thoroughfare (ab.). Valuation Counsel. 6-To freight. 67-The French monetary unit (ah.). 44-Same as No. 95. 7-A large perennial woody plant. 68-To acknowledge frankly (pl.). 45-A fuel. 8-Absurd or empty talk. 69-One of nymphs said to live in 46-A tree. 10-Exists. lakes, rivers, etc. (myth). 48-Initials of Chief Surgeon. 11-Preposition expressing position in. 7bTo sink or droop. 50-Part of New York surrounded by 12-Latin word for "bone" (repeat). 71-Spanish word for son. water (ab.). 13-One of 4 racial groups of Austria- 72-Single. 51-preposition inlplying presence. Hungary, now composing Jugo- 73-The cot,ton state (ab.). 52-A spider's chief product. Slavia (ab.). 74-Two groups of electrical atoms. 53-Initials of a St. Louis transporta- 14-Below. 75-Odious. tion company. 15-First note of the diatonic scale. 76-Quality of being heavy (ab.). 54-By which measure we buy coal. 16-A mast. 83-Runway of rails (ab.). .56-An earthen vessel. 18-Maintaining denial. 8.5-Assemblage of individuals (ab.) . 57-The self. 19-Japanese word for "girl." 86-Initials of a railroad company 58-Before Christ. 20-Open to opposition. whose main lines run from Cin- 59-A sharp tool. 22-Sent to the stationer monthly cinnati and St. Louis to Gulf. 60-His Britannic grace (ab.). (ab.). 88-Prefix meaning not. 61-An unsatisfactory reply to a re- 23-To go astray. 90-Not down. quest. 24-Australian bird. 93-Preposition indicating physical 63-Name of a Southwestern carrier %-To worry (tr. verb). surrounding. operating 5,280 miles of railroad. 27-Reconsign (as commonly used). 77-That which announces vacancies 29--Commonlv used to indicate an- HORIZONTAL in positions (ab.). proval. 2-The Roman pound, a coin. 78-An alloy of nickel and steel. 31-Pertaining to the 12 Disciples of 5-Skin of a beast. 79-Name of a southern state (ab.). Christ. 9-Pool near Jerusalem (Bib.). SO-The brother of Abel (Bib.). 33-Trade sign of a drug syndicate. 13-loose granular material. 81-What a burglar gets if let alone. 35-Between. 16-In that manner, degree or state 82-Elder (ah.< 36-A European. (adv.). 84-One of the 7 archangels (Bib.) 37-Varnish with a resin base. 17-Frisco station in Mo., Nor. Div. 85-To wind cylindrically. 38-A snare drum. 21-Sodium chloride. 87-Stat,el:i. 39-A city in York County, Pa. 22-To spell again. 88-A city 135 miles southeast of Baby- 43-Spherical. 25-From (prep.). lon. 46-Female sheep. 27-A girl's name. SS-Industrial district of Germany. 47-Part of a body. 28-Very fat (spelled backwards). 91-Inhabitants of Hawkeye state. 48-To subject (a body) to pressure. 30-The God of the sun (Egypt). 92-A part of the body. 49-Portion of a curved line. 31-Airship. 94-The Sunshine state (ab.).

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Some of the Twelve Hundred Veterans Who 1 at Springfield, May 27 and 28, Pictured JI at Secjuoita Park on

Grown-ups HOUR A Page Be Quiet THETWILIGHT Children

,CUE JOYCE SAYS A Mother says it makes her sad, So-starting right this minute, when PRETTY PIECE To think she's lost her baby lad. you finish reading this page, sit down She kisses me and kinda sighs, and write me the very best letter you know how. There aren't many --- Twflight Lady had a visitor the And wipes the tears out of her rules-only don't make it too long, other day. No-mam, not a great big eyes. and write it in your own handwriting person, but the sweetest little boy But Dad he grins and calls me -be sure to put yout name and ad- you ever 6%rw! His father is in the 'Scout', Bress on it so I'll know where to Frisco claini get hold of yon and get it to the Twi- department and he lives And says, 'Old Sport, I'll take in Springdale, Ark. 1Sght Lady before the tenth oi August! This little boy's name is Jack Joyce, you out Some little boy and girl will have and he is jc1st five years old. And show you off, you're some lots of fun in August with their prizes You nevt ?r could guess what he fine kid, and the TwilIght Lady Is just wonder- came up tc show me! He used to You look just like your Daddy ing who the lucky ones will be. She's have the nnost bean-ti-ful curls you almost as bad as the old woman in ever saw and the other day his Daddy did.' the shoe* she has so many, many made the 1)arber cut them all off. It's not a thing to laugh about, Frisco children. Mother says, 'Hope it all grows Now, Buddy and Billy and Mary and out'. Jane-get real buay right away. See who can get their letter in first. But I don't, I'M most grown you Remember the prizes and send your see- letters to. AND--no more sissy curls for me!" Wasn't that a sweet little piece? I told Jack I was going to put his picture and the littre Piece on the Twilight Lady's Page, and he said: "Don't forget to tell 'em I've got some Frisco BuiMing, caps for my gun and I'm goin' swim- MQ. min' soon!" St. Louis, P. S.-I alniost forgot the most im- portant part. If you have a picture of FOR BOYS AND GIRLS yourself, I wish you'd send it along with the letter. Then the Twilight Hello, Little Folks: Lady will know just who all her chil- How are you and this hot weather dren are! getting along? Pretty chummy! It Who is going to send me the first does follo~you around, doesn't it? letter and picture? But 1'11 bet I know one place where you can ged rid of it-by swimming! Re carerul. thonrh. and don't let r.

bis mee- frn- P-+ 7- our toe! ! I've got the best surprise tor you this month! I've just thought up some more fun for you. This is It: JACK JOYCE I've got two prizes, one for a bop and one for a girl! In other words, Jack didn't care, 'cause he said he a bat and ball, or a Scout hatchet for was a big, sure-nuff nian now and the boy, and a sewing basket or ti "didn't want curls no-how". bathiug suit for the girl! Sure, I'm Then he said to the Twilight Lady, roing to give them away-and this is "Want to hear me say my speech how : 'bout all the curls the barber-man While you're on your vacation, I cut off?" want you to write me a letter all The Twilight Lndy was just ticlrled about what a good time you're having pink, so Jack stood out in front of -all about your little family and pour her, and twisted a couple of fingers daddy, who works for the Frisco. 'round and 'round and then he said: AND the hest letter I receive from a bop, 1'11 give him his choice of a bat "I had my curls cut off today, and hall or a Scout hatchet. I'm sure glad they're out of my AND, the best letter I get from a girl, 1'11 give her, her choice of a way, sewing basket or a bathing suit! It makes me feel so big and grand, You can ell send me in Letters if DOROTHY LOUISE BROWN I feel just like a grown-up man. you are over three and under twelve! Mother cried-1 don't see why. Now, I've got these prizes all pick- Here is little Miss Dorothy Lo1 There's no need lor anyone to cry, ed out-but I told the man to keep Brown, granddaughter of A. T, Bra them all at the store, for I might get agent -at Monett, but the Twilight 'Cause I ain't got a single curl. the Scout hatchet, when the boy really Lady calls her the little "STRAW- To make me look just like a girl! would like the bat and ball. BERRY QUEEN". PKISCU LIALIIES I.--.nnt+ Allen. nge 8 monlhs; dau~hlerof E. D. Chsudel, Springu~~u,xu. Hemy, .lr., age 5; son of John H. Ham, West Ylalns, Mo. 3.-Dennis Lee Gril months: grandson of Lee W. Tankersley. Memphis. 4.-Francls and John; son Longworth. Anory, bllsu. 5.-Jlnrjorie Snyder, age 4 ; daughter of Mrs. Irene urljucr, comptonleler operator. 6.-R. 1'. and I~nore;children OF L, d. Thomi~u, Bacwne, Okla. 7.-"Buddy" nos, iige 4; son of E. Q. Daiwhtcey, Chiifice, 310. 8.-Charlotte, age !i; daughter uf D. E. (:elmis, (IhnlTee, 310. 9.-Catherine .\I;1)., age F months; daughter ot A. A. I~eficl,Xemphis. 10.-Lucllle nnd Loulse, age 3, ...... ,.., ;hters of Walter Paul. Vnn Buren, Ark. 11.-Doris Elizabeth, age 4 months; dnughter of E. B. Taylor, Memphis. 12.-limnlie Lee, iipe 3 years; daughter of dimmie Honaker, Sherman, Ter. 13.-Frank, Jr.; son of Frank Upshaw. Sapulpa, Okla. Mary! The Rouge! He Knows Mr. Wrlgley! Sign on a dilapidated Ford owned FRISCO FRIVOLITIES "Look here, niggah, all you have to by a student at the University of Kan- do is to get In that cage with that sas: "Don't laugh, girls-you'd look I. H. Brown, superintendent of lion and have your picture taken and like hell, too, without any palnt." Northern Division at Fort Scott, you get $10.00." red a requisition for a lawn "No, sah, boss; I'se stlll gwlne llve Advanced some time yet-1 ain't gonna git in wer recently, almost against The very modern artist was ex- will. It happened this way: dere." 'Won7, lissen, Mose, that lion hasn't plaining his theories. r certain pumper was proud of any teeth." "You see," he said, "what we aim lawn surrounding his pump "Don't make no difference, boss, I at is the eltmlnatloa of the egocentric Ise. He asked Mr. Brown for a ain't gonna get gummed to death by vision, without destroying the essen- n mower. tial iinity of the subconscious reflex. no ole cat! " What do you want with a lawn Do you follow me?" wer?" snorted the superintend- "2 X 4" "I am well ahead of you," safd his . "Why, I could eat all the grass "Why do yon call your twins two friend. "I came out of the asylum t grows in that little yard." by four?" yesterday."-Boston Traveler. All right," the pumper returned "Because you feed 'em at two and etly, "when it gets a little high- by four they're hungry again!" Common Cents I'll send for you." O'Brien (to clerk): "If oi lave yez le got his lawn mower! ''But-Oh Boy!" security equal to what oi take away Wifie: "Darling, if I died I don't will yez trust me till next wake?" believe you wauld live a year." Clerk: "Sure." Hubby: "Maybe not, but how I O'Brien: "Well, thin, sell me two o' The Dallas TimeeHerald suggests would live that year!" them hams an' kape wan 0' them till the following as an improvement on oi call again."-Bibb Recorder. roadside sign boards: - What good Is your past If you do not use it for your future? "Here lies the body of Wild Harry Hare. - He drove like the wind past here on Good-night! a dare- Editor: "Have you read The Lost And thought this sign lied when upon Manuscript'?" it he read: Reporter: "No, sir; how could I if "GO SLOWLY - DRIVE SAFELY- it's lost?" - BAD CURVE DEAD AHEAD." Forewarned! (Keep In mind SMITH & BROWN Boss: "Well, Mose, I see your mule Undertakers.) has U. S. branded on his hip. I sup- pose he served in the war?" Mose: "Yes, sir, boss, several ware, "How sad was the fate of a girl and but he started 'em hisself. That thar her shiek; He drove with one arm while she rode US don't mean nothin' kept UNSAFE!" cheek to cheek. 'Ti1 one nght a bee sat right down on In a Bad Way his hand- -A - This is told on a couple of laborers And the shiek and the flapper de- on the River Division. Said one to the parted this land." Oh-Sisterl other: (Use "Never Fail" Insect Repeller There was a young man named Blants, "Poor ole Bill! He's so shor$.lghted and Avoid Bee Stings.) Who bought and wore bell-bottom he's worlring hlsself to death. pants, "Ee-yah." returned the o t h e r. One night in the park, "What's his short sight ~otto do with "Uncover Your bead for poor Horace Some bird-for a lark, it?"- - McFinn. Said, "Sister, may I have this dance?" "Well, he can't see when the boss He had plenty of fun in a flivver of ain't lookin', so he's got to keep on tin, This One Blew Up! shovelin' all th' time." Until the sad morning that you may There was a young lady named Spratt. recall- Who wanted to put on some fat. Put Hls Life In Danger His fliv tried to battle a train-AiiD She first would eat yeast, Rastus Jackson, a thoroughly mar- THAT'S ALL." Then on raisins she'd feast! (Sell your fliv and buy a 5-ton Bull- ried darky, was one day approached Dog All they've found up to date is her hat. by a life insurance agent. Truck-It will give any train "Better let me write you a policy, an argument.) Held Up1 Rastus," suggested the agent. Hubby: "Were you ever held up?" "No, sah," declared Rastus em- All wild flowers fade quickly except Chubby: "I'll say, Took two chorus phaticalty. "Ah ain't any too safe at the blooming idiots. girls to dinner once." home as it is?" 'm/yico~MPLO~~S'~~Z/NE Page 41

Two Contrasting Cases Frisco Pension Plan Most Generous and For example, let us take the hypcr thetical cases of two employes, Wil- ' Comprehensive of Railroads in America liam Brown and John Smith, each earning approximately $200.00 per month, and each. has worked for the company forty or more years. IlIness Although Seuenty Is Positioe Retirement Age, Veterans Receiue overtakes and so disables them that Pension Based on Years of Seroice they are forced to retire permanently. Now, William was an active, energetic, loyal employe, never missing a pay By W. D. BASSETT day, always on the job; and so, when his record was checked with tlw pay Because the pension plan under op- men, yardmastere, switchmen, road- rolls he was found to have worked eration on the Frisco Railway is one masters, bridge foremen and section steadily forty years and four months, of the most generous and comprehen- Coremen, there is provided the option and the fractional part of the year be- sive used by any railway in the world, of retirement at the age of sixty-five ing less than six months it was, under we want the employes to thoroughly years if the appllcant has had fifteen the rules, eliminated, giving him 40 per understand its working principles. Ap- years of contlilual service, and physi- cent as one factor in con~putinghis parently a great many of the members cal examination groves him unfit for allowance. The pay rolls showed hls of the Frisco family do not realize in service. actual earnings for the ten years just just what manner pensions are com- Any oUieer or employe becoming preceding his retirement to have puted. We have asked W. D. Bassett, totally and permanently disabled from totalled $24,618.00, or an average per secretary of the board of pensions, St. performing his duties at any age may month for the 120 months of the period Louis, to write the following brief elc he retired and pensioned, provided of $205.15, this being the other factor planation and history of the cardi- twenty years of continuous service needed to determine the allowance. nal working points in the pension plan, have been rendered. Here again is William's monthly pension was there- and point out its superiorities over our plan noticeably liberal, many other fore 40 per cent of $205.15, or $82.05. other plans now in existence on other roads requiring twenty-five years of Pensioners are permitted to retain railways.-W. L. H., Jr. service. their hospital privileges by authoriz- TWOabsolute re~ufrementafor eli- ing the usual deductions from their On July lst, 1913, a new era dawned gibility to an alIowance are. (1) that monthly pension checks, and they are in the history of the Frisco Lines the entire time of the applicant has also given free transportation for -an era of hope for and of confi- been given to the service of the themselves, their wives, and their dence in the future for the aged Frisco Lines, or to those lines and to dependent minor children, the name and infirm employe. Instead of he- some other railroad or express com- regulations respecting free transporta- ing thrown into the scrap heap, dis- pany in joint service; and (2) that a tion being observed for pensioners as carded because of age or infirmity. continudus and unbroken record has for employes in service. with perhaps no financial prop to ease been made as evidence by the pay John was a diITerent type of man. hls declining years, the veteran for rolls. Continuity is not considered to Though thoroughly loyal and depend- the first time could look forward to an have been broken by (1) a leave of able, he loved to fish and hunt, and honorable retirement with a financial absence granted by the proper officer so was wont to ask for a leave of reward for his long years of loyal, on the form provided for that purpose; absence frequently that he might in- faithful service. And, with the wel- (2) a temporary reduction in force; dulge in his favorite sports. A check fare of the employe at heart, those or (3) a dismissal followed by rein- of his pay roll record showed he who formulated the pension plan statement, provided the time out of worked forty-ope years and seven wisely provided that the acceptance of service in any case does not exceed months, and nnder the rule providing a pension would not debar the re- one year. that six months service or more is to cipient from accepting employment Method of Computing be counted as a full year, it will be elsewhere. We do cot claim to be the The method of computing the pen- seen John was entitled to 42 per cent first railroad to adopt a pension plan, sion allowance is: of whatever his morthly average earn. but we do claim ours to be much more (1) Ascertain from the pay rolls the ings were. Apparently his pension liberal in its provisions than those number of years of continuous service, should have been larger than Wil- which many other companies have and allow 1 per cent for each year liam's, but the pay rolls showed ab- adopted. thereof. For example, thirty-five years sences of two and three months in Although the plan has been widely service means 35 per cent. each year of the precedi~gten, and so. disseminated, having been distributed (2) Ascertain the average regular while the daily rate of both was the in pamphlet form twice and printed monthly pay for the ten years next same, the total earnings for the de- in this magazine several times, there preceeding date of retirement as dis- termining period mere $18,526.43, or a is so much misinformation abroad closed by the pay rolls. monthly average of $154.39. Penaion concerning its operation that it seems (3) Multiply item No. 2 by item allowance was 42 per cent of $154.39 wise at this time again to sketch No. 1. or $64.85 per month. briefly the important features. The minimum amount paid is $20.00 It cannot be too strongly stated that All Retire at Seventy per month and the maximum is the pay rolls alone are the proof of $160.00 per month. The liberality of continuity and of the average monthly The rules positively require that all the Frisco nlan is again noted in a pay. Seniority records, or the recol- officers and emnloves be retired when comparison bf the minimum and maxi- lections of someone else are of no the age of seventy years is reached, * mum allowances with other lines. Sev- avail-the pay roll record alone is and there are 20 exceptions made. eral large companies have a minimum the measure of service. Only a few Those who have had fifteen years or of $12.50 and a maximum of $75.00. days ago an employe, who had long more continuous service at the time It is in the figuring of the allowance claimed five years more of service of retirement are eligible to pension that employes, especially those paid than could be found, and who had allowances. Liberality of the Frisco on other than a monthly basis, fail to repeatedly stated the pay rolls must Lines is to be observed here, for a large understand the rules. Many have the certainly be wrong, came into the number of other railroads having pen- mistaken notion that the allowance is office, and, to satisfy him, the old sion systems require twenty years based upon a full year's pay; others pay rolls back in the early eighties rather than fifteen years continuity. think that even though they lay off were again examined in his presence For certain specified hazardous frequently their allowance is not for the five claimed years. Finally he classes of employment, viz., locomo- thereby affected. It is the employe sighed and said, "Well, I guess you tive engineers and firemen, conductors, who puts in full time who is the are rigtt, hut I sure thought I flagmen and brakemen, train haggage- gainer. worked. EARL SIMONSON LOSES LIFE Frisco Folks Hospital IN NORMAN DISASTER Four Hundred and Twenty-four Following is a list of patients now Endorse Idea for Family Summer Camp The accompanying picture is the in the St. Louis Frisco Employes' only one of his deceased son in the Hospital, who would like to hear from their friends: possession of Herman Simonson, for Response Largely from General many years cab and tank car fore- Frank Buckley, conductor, Nonett, Offices Due to Club Location Mo.; L. Traw, laborer, Ft. Scott, Kan- man for the Frisco at the Memphis Near St. Louis sas; Roy Robb, blacksmith, Spring- shops. field, 310.; L. C. Moore, conductor, The success of the Frisco Club. the Springfield, Mo.; Edgar Washburn, organization of which has been plan- section foreman, Marston, No.; J. T. ned in the general offices in St. Louis Crant, switchman, Sapulpa, Okla.; H. for the past two months, is almost L. Martin, engineer, Memphis, Tenn.; assured, according to E. B. Rives. Ira McCracken, store helper, iflonett, voucher clerk, and R. J. Steele, of the 310.; C. F. Thomas, switchman, Thay- passenger accounting department, who el-, 310.; John Harris, counterman, have been working on the plans. Sapulpa, Okla.; T. E. WilIiams, en- gineer, Chaffee, 310.; J. H. Engledorf, A total of 424 signatures of mem- car repairer, Monett, 310.; C. 11'. bers of the Frisco family employed in ,Uichols, B&B carpenter, Cape Girar- and around St. Louis, have been ap- cieau, Mo.; Pete Costello, laborer, pended to a petition endorsing the Kansas City, 110.; Thos. Canteros, laborer, Winfieltl, Kans.; E. D. Thomp- club, according to a report made by son, grease cup man, Neodesha, Kans.; Rives on June 17 to the Magazine de- Chas. Lee, brakeman, AIonett, No.; partment. Only a slight interest was E. T. Disney, engineer, Oklahoma shown in the Frisco Club idea from City, Okla.; Chas. Long, section fore- over the system as a whole. This man, Brooks, Kans.; Geo. Pyle, sec. however, was anticipated, due to the ond class machinist, Neodesha, Kans.; fact that the club would be located in G. L. Stroud, switchman, Ft. Scott, close proximity to St. Louis. Kans.; J. M. Jenkins, car repairer, St. Louis, Mo.; E. I". Gullion, engineer. When the petition for the club was Ft. Worth, Texas; L. Eckerle, car car- circulated throughout the general of- penter, i~femphis,Tenn.; C. F. Allen. fices, terminal yards and Seventh engineer, Enid, Okla.; A. M. Sibet, brakeman, Enid, Okla.; Dick Ford, Street Station, it came back with brakeman, Chaffee, 310.; Cirilo Olivan, hearty endorsement. Following is a section laborer, West Tulsa, Okla.; list of the departments and the num- Jack 0. Fields, third class upholster- ber of people from each department er. Springfield, Mo.; R. L. Stephens, to enthuse to the plan: Traffic, 101; EARL SIMONSON pumper, Jonesboro, 1 N o a h Engineering, 31; Special Agents, 3; Frease, section foreman, Ft. Scott, Seventh Street, 37; Treasurer's, 37; Earl Simonson, the son, was a fire- Kans.; D. R. Atkinson, tool room man, Purchasing, 24 ; President's, 13; AC- man on the government steamer Nor- Neodesha, Kans.; J. J. Santry, switch- man, Kansas City, 310.; C. H. O'Neal, counting, 131; St. Louis Terminals, man, and went down with that vessel pensioner, Springfield, Mo.; Joseph 22. The Legal Department yielded when it sank in the Mississippi River, Edlin, laborer, Jones, Okla.; E. C. thirty-five enthusiasts following a below Memphis on May 9th. Ap- Cale, engineer, St. Louis, blo.; L. E. canvas of the department, although proximately 1,000 persons attended Martin, assistant to president, St. their signatures were not availabIe. the funeral of the boy, which was Louis, 110.; Ben Brooks, water serv- ice, Springfield, Mo.; W. 0. Batts, A meeting of signers will be held held from the home, 903 Pennsylva- nia Avenue, Memphis, on May 14. agent, Wilmot, Kans.; 0. E. Wyatt, early in July, Rives stated, and of- switchman, Fayetteville, Ark.; C. Pot- ficers will be elected. A committee on Acting pall-bearers were : Alfred Bartholomew. Ferris Bollings, Curtis ter, laborer, Warwick. Okla.; B. T. real estate and architecture and loca- Lovett, tank truckman, Amory, Miss.; tion will be appointed to decide on a Turner, William Smith, Robert Rich- Miss Virginia Merritt, clerk, Chaffee, site on the Meramec River. It is hoped ardson and Houston Howe, all Earl's No.; J. R. Johnson, agent. Weaubleau, that the club mill he under way by the closest friends. Earl was an all- Mo.; J. C. Estes, section foreman, Car- first of August. Present plans call round athlete, playing with the Chris- bon Hill, Ala.; Wm. Everage. BCB tion College soccer team last season, foreman, Okmulgee, Okla.; A. J. Kab- for a summer camp with club house. and although considered an excellent rick, engineer, Kansas City, 1\10.; W. bathing beaches, tennis courts and swimmer, the current of the Missis- H. Fryer, pensioner, St. Clair, No.; other amusement and recreational sippi at the point where the Korman J. P. Harrison, engineer, Chaffee, No.; features. sank, was too much for him. F. E. Huntsinger, operator, Neelps, Mo.

H. F. Sanborn Broadcasts Safety on the much discussed problem of being observed by all the railroads in "safety at railroad crossings", and America during the months of June, First Talk Over Radio the splendid attitude of the Frisco in July and August. particular, was given uncounted thou- He spoke over the station of the Assistant to Traffic Vice-president On sands of radio fans the night of June St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the justly Station KSD for "Safety at Rail- 5th by Henry F. Sanborn, assistant to famous "RSD", and judging from the road Crossings" Campaign J. R. Koontz, traffic vice-president. response by letter, telephone and tele- Mr. Sanborn's address was made on gram, his address was well received the occasion of the "Safety at Rail- throughout the large territory served The attitude of railroads generally road Crossings" campaign, which is by the powerful broadcasting station. Published in the MAGAZINE WITHIN The interest of the F. A. of M. C. & C. D. MAGAZINE Frisco Mechanic Employes

VOLUME I JULY, 1925 No. 10

The FRISCO MECHANIC The Crack Frisco Orchestra Published and Edited as a Department of the Frisco Employes' Magazine

WM. L. HUGGINS, Jr...... Editor XIARTHA C. XOORE ....Assistant Editor

Aaxoelnte Editors W3I. UNDERWOOD ...... Chairman HOWARD PICKENS...... Secretary The Editor will be glad to receive Interesting contributions at all tlmes.

HAS NEW CLUB ROOMS

Frisco Association of Metal Crafts Moves to New Quarters

Two Thousand Members Now Meet at 214 Commercial Street, Springfield, Mo.

The members of the Frisco Asso- ciation of Metal Crafts and Car De- partment Employes have just filled a long felt want, in that they now have their own club rooms, completely fur- The twelve hundred veterans who attended the third annual reunion of their nished, occupying two large rooms at association, at Springfield, will not soon forget the splendid Frisco orchestra 214% East Commercial Street, Spring of seven pieces which entertained them in the pavilion at Sequoita Park on field, Mo. the afternoon of the barbecue, at the dancing that night at the Colonial One of these rooms is used for a Hotel, and at the banquet the next night in the Shrine Mosque. The orchestra lodge room for the men and the other, is composed entirely of Frisco employes (most of them are shop men), and for the newly created ladies' auxiliary. is led by John E. Foster, chief clerk to the superintendent of the West Shops In the above picture, the members of the orchestra, their in- The rooms were furnished by at Springfield. donations from the merchants of struments and their occupations are as follows: From left to right-leader Foster, trumpet; E. 31. Hasler, clarinet, ma- Springfield. The ladies have an es- chinist; C. K. Ruxton, drums, "mule-skinner"; Mrs. E. i\I. Hasler, piano, clerk pecially attractive lodge room, with mechanical department: G. B. Hasler, saxaphone, machinist foreman; L. G. kitchen adjoining where they serve Gibbs, violin; boilermaker; William Reece, saxaphone, boilermaker. light refreshments in connection with dances and social evenings. Youngest Frisco Mechanic Drives Hold Separate Meeting Motor at Two Years Both the men and their wives meet But Jimmie Quinn Was Impressed each Friday night-the ladies in their With His Folly by Maternal Hand! room and, the men in thelr Iodge rooms, and when the business meet- Meet the youngest mechanic on the ing is conclnded, they end the evening F~~SGORailroad. Jimmie Quinn. age with a social of some kid. two years, seen In the aCCornpanying Mrs. A. W. Skelton has be'en presi- picture with his older brother Pat! dent of the Ladies' AuxlHary until These boys are the sons of Pat. Qulnn, about April 15th, when .she resigned storekeeper at Chouteau Avenue, St. in favor of Mrs. Joe Brennan. Louis. At present the membership in tbe Mechanic Jimmie was left alone in Ladies' Auxiliary consists of about 50 an automobile not so long ago. He members, each assessed 10 cents a decided to see if the wheels really go month, while the total membership is around and so he released the emer- nearly 2,000. gency brake. Fortunately, the car headed for the The ladies are working to promote curbing and as the motor was not run- the spirit of good fellowship and to in- ning, it stopped. Jimmie was lifled terest the wives of the employes in out by a frantic mother and after be- the Association. ing assured that he was not hurt, the '5 ' It is expected that the membership incident was impressed on his mind will be equal to that of the Associa- (?) so well that Jimmie promised to I * ----:: tion for the men in a short time. stick to his toys for a while yet. PAT AND JIMMIE QUlNN Wives of Springfield Night Men's The Question Box Local Meet With Husbands Conducted by A. H. OELKERS Ladies' Auxiliary Formed at May 27th I Session-Miscampbell, Underwood Q. What is the cause of grooving? A. The mere presence of scale on and Pickens Speak A. Grooving is caused by a bending the interior of the shell of n locomo- or the sheet to and fro under the in- tive boiler does no harm at all as far fluence of the expansion and contrac- as the lessening of the strength of tion of the boiler. The grooving usu- the sheet is concerned, nor does it re duce the evaporative efficiency of the The night men's local, formed of ally occurs close to a seam because members of the Frisco Association of there the metal is held rigidly and bailer, hecause the hot gases of com- bustion do not come into contact with Metal Crafts and Car Department Em- the bending of the single thickness ployes, enjoyed a social evenlng with of metal in the shell is there concen- the metal of the shell, but it does harm in that it covers up defects that their wives on the night of May 27th, trated. This causes a stressing of the in the club rooms at 214% East Com- metal beyond its elastic limit which, in are serious in their effects on the strength of the shell. It also affords mercial Street, Springfield, 310. itself, renders it more liable to corro- A short business session was held, sion; or it may start a crack into a chance for water and oxygen to at which time Mr. James Miscamp- which the water is admitted and this lodge and stand in contact with the bell, night supervisor at the south starts a corrosion which soon eats metal, and thus tend to set up cor- roundhouses, Mr. Wm. Underwood, away the metal so that a groove ap- rosion, and it prevents an inspection of general chairman of the organization, pears. the interior. and Howard Pickens, his secrelary, Q. What kind of seams are most made interesting talks. likely to cause groovlng? Arthur Green DL~ One of the features was the forming A. The plah lap seam where the Arthur Green, pensioned conductor, of a ladies' auxiliary, and the success sheet is simply lapped over on itself. died at Paris, Texas, June 2, accord- of this social function was credited to Q. Why is thls form of seam more ing to advices received in the Maga- the wives of the members. likely to cause grooving than any zine office. He was born in York- It turned out to be a regular ice other? shire, England, Noven~ber5, '1886, and cream supper, with frosty cakes and A. Because in making this form of came with the Frisco as a brakeman iced cakes, large cakes and small seam 'it is necessary to distort the on the Texas Division in December, ones, and when the last one disap- ahell and make it out of round. When 1891. He served continuously as peared, the evening was given over to pressure is applied to the interior of brakeman and conductor until Janu- dancing. the she11 it tends to bring it into a ary 28, 1924, when he retlred doe to This meeting had the largest attend- form of perfect roundness. All of the failing health. His pension allowance ance of any held previously, and with sheet can then bend uniformly except was $48.35 and he received from the the forming of the ladies' auxiliary, at the seam, where It is strengthened company a total of $678.90 In pension the membership is expected to be in- by having two thicknesses of metal. allowance. creased fifty per cent. It Is here that all of the bending con- centrates with the result that the I FRISCO APPRENTICE SCHOOL AT ENID. OKLAHOMA 1 metal is overstrained and grooving results. Q. What should be done when groov- Ing is found? A. The prover thing to do is to re- move the boiler from service and re- place the defective sheet. If this can- not be done then the pressure under which the boiler is working should be reduced, in accordance with the depth of the grooving. Q. How often should this internal ex- amination of locomotive boilers be made? A. The Inw requires that all the tubes of a boiler should be removed at least once every three years, but it is necessary and common practice to make this examination every time that the locomotive is In the shop for gen- eral repairs and the. tubes are re- moved. Q. Will the mere removal of the tubes from the Interior make it pos- sible to enter the boiler and make a thorough inspection of the interior? A. No. Q. What must be done in addition to the removal of the tubes? Not to be outdone by other divisions, Back row, seated-Messrs. Franks, A. The whole of the Interior should Enid, Okla., on the Western Division, Needham, Thompson, Ayers, Baker be cleaned and freed from the scale sends us a photograph of its appren- and Warnaka. that may have accumulated and ad- tice school, which is receiving the best Middle row-Messrs. Myers, Wright, hered to the sheets. of instruction and thriving with ap- Bassett and Lidsay. Q. How is this done? prentices who are climbing the ladder Front row-Messrs. Carroll, Wiley, A. It Is usually done wlth a light of success. Cobb, Dunham and Richards. hammer or pick, by blows of which the The picture shows, back row, stand- scale is chipped oii. ing from left to right-Messrs. Bass- Each division is striving to promote Q. What harm dces scale do to the ett, Giddings (who is the instructor the best apprentice schooI class, and interior of the shell of a locomotive of the class), Ayers. Foley. Badges, the Western Divlsion stands high in boiler? Dingman, Bougher, Sherrill and Baker. the list. to some elementary type of gear of very simple design. Therefore, 'it The Walschaert Value Gear is desirable when beginning an in- vestigation of the principles on which the gear is based, to start with a sim- -4 characteristic of the Walschaert lap pens' the lead from mid-position ple gear and trace its development to valve gear as compared with the is at the beginning of the stroke. one of the Walschaert type. Stephenson gear is that the former An investigation of the principles A simple form of valve gear is uses but one eccentric crank f3r both underlying the arrangement and oper- shown in drawing (a), and it will the forward and backward motions. ation of the Walschaert valve gear be explained how a gear can be The eccentric cranlr also has no angu- will show why one eccentric crank lar advance, which means that is is can be used for both forward and evolved that will use but one eccen- set at approximately 90 degrees, or a backward motions, as well as the rea- tric crank (ab) with no angular ad- quarter of a turn, from the main son why the eccentric requires no vance for both forward and back- crank pin. With the Stephenson gear angular advance. Like any other de- ward motions; "A" is the main axle, the eccentrics have to be set to dis- vice, the arrangement of the Wal- AB the eccentric crank for moving place the valve the amount of tha schaert valve gear can be traced back the valve through the eccentric rod, BD, and AC is the main crank with the main pin C. The valve has no lap or lead; that is the width of the valve between the steam and the ex- haust edges is exactly the same as the width of the steam ports. POSITION OF VALVE TO PISTON To start the piston moving when the wheel is given a slight turn in the direction of rotation, which, in this case, is forward, the ~alvewith the piston at the point of admitting steam to the cylinder in front of the piston. or it must be in the position shown in drawing A. In this position, the valve is at mid-stroke or in mid-nosition. be- cause the line "L" drawn through the center of the valve (halfway between the outer ends) comes midway be- tween the steam ports in the valve seat. The valve when in mid-position is one-half of a stroke ahead of, or in advance of. the piston, and if this differance in position is maintained. the steam will be admitted to and exhausted from the cylinder in such a manner as to keep the piston, and, therefore, the driving wheel in mo- tion. POSITION OF VALVE CRANK TO MAIN CRANK The position of the valve crank AB, in drawing in relation to the main crank AC, in order to keep the valve one-half of a stroke ahead of the pis- ton, will be next considered. To keep the valve one-half a stroke in advance of the piston, assuming that the driv- ing wheel is turning forward, the ec- centric crank must be' placed one- quarter of a turn ahead of thc main cranlr. because the eccentric crank in moving the piston where a one quarter turn of the crank moves the piston one-half stroke. The position of the valve crank AB. in drawing, in relation to the main crank .4C, in order to keep the valve one-half of a stroke ahead of the ~ia- ton, will be nest considered; to keep the valve one-half stroke in advance of the piston, assuming that the drit- ing wheel is t,urning forward, the ec- centric crank must be placed one- SCHOOL quarter of a turn ahead of the main FRISCO NIGHT cranlr. because the eccentric crank in SPRINGFIELD, MO. MAY 20. I925 moving the valve is similar to the DRAWN BV ROBERT DEWAR main crank in moving the piston WEST SHOP where a one-quarter turn of the crank moves the piston one-half stroke. Page 46

TELEGRAPH GANG time hunting and fishing. Claude pur- Tuck tl~reefeet further away from chased a Huspano-Sueza aviation motor Xlunn. STOUTLAND, MO. tliat will develop 180 H. P.. and fitted it .John Holt hcxlping Albert knock fires. to a Cadillac chassis. Good-bve.-. JlcIiinney without a coniical looking Claude. good-bye, and good luck. hat on. B. L SIMONS, Reporter Har\ey Lynn is back on the job once more and looking wcil, the boys LOCAL NO. &ENID, OKLA. .lust a few lines froni the telegraph think he has been takina his meals -- gang at Stoutland, Mo. at a free air station. We're all working hard and not Ben Ellcrr is our new triple rack H. H. IWLLI*:R. Reporter much news to reuorc man here. Ben came from E't. Scott. A. R. Speegle h'trs gone to the Gate- \\'elcome, Ben. \\'. 3. \\'inton. blacksmith. has re- wood gang in Oklahoma. .John J3rudy is the proud owner of tilrned from Los Angelc,s. He reports 311.. Ousley mas promoted to lineman a new \\'illys-Knight touring car. It an enjoyable visit, but glad to get somc time ago, and Tom Crawford seenis as though lie beca~nc.jealous of back to Enid. transferred with Fred Ethridge, and is J~nirni~Roughman. T. 1,:. Giddings, machine show fore- with Oliver's gang now. L. F. 'l'arwater's daughter, who was man, and falnlly. spent a week-end "h'uggins" has been making frequent owerated on at Frederick. Kans.. is with friends irnd relatives in Sherman visits to Springfield to see the dentist. gktting along fine, we all hope for her reten tlv. ICu~eneWeullner was wromoted to speedy recovery. H. G: MrCoy, from Springfield. was lineman a few clavs arm. G. E. Wolfington, car insprctor. at here tor a few days. overhauling a The boys of thls felegra~ii gang I'redonia. Kans.. was a visitor here lathe 111 tlie machine shop. Alwavs lad have been attending some dances. glven last week. to see your smiling face. Mac, come in Stoutland, Mo., and report a good L. 4. Burriss and John Eicknell made aga~n! time. a husinpss trip to l?+lI River, Kans. The present term of our night school S, A. Oliver, car inspcctor, bought a 113s closed and it wrls dc$enietl hest by Dodge touring car. those having the matLtr in ctharge not It was rumored that Sliortv Thon1~- to attemnt to hold another neriod ITEMS FROM NEODESHA, KANS. son had to pull ~gerer's'Buirli~~ ;p term this summer, hut are niaking Hand's Hill the other day. Shorty great preparations to start ag-ain in should not be acco!n.modating. Mayhe \V. J. EGERICR, Reporter full force just as soon as the weather that is the reason he had to huv two gets cool thls fall. The term iust new Stars in thirty months. ,.losrcl was VPI'Y satIsfa(*toryto all Con- Things look brighter inside of our C. F. Adair, of tile car department. cerned. Nuch good was accomplished roundhouse, since the whitewashing hns been on the sick list. Get better, in the six weeks and the men are look- commenced, and Dave XIunn was won- ('iiarles. ing forward with keen anticipation to derinx for some time. what the scaf- E. Vinnlnx has just returned to the re-opening of the school again. l'oltl was lor, of course, he was under work after helng on the sick list for P. C. Clark, sheet metal worker. has a false impression and he admits it :1 \v,=p k heen ill for several days. We hope he now. .~.-6-;ughnian has now cornpletcd 5.- will soon be back with us. We have been warned about wear- 000 miles with his new car In two The baseball fever has not broken ing gloves when working ai'ound nx- months, and is still sailing along fine out \'el-?. niurh as yet. What's the mat- chinery, wiiich worried Troy Teague without any trouble. ter. hovs:' Come on. let's have a team and G. H. Evans. but not long. they An eight and three-quarter pound we'^^ hk proud of, and we can, if every- both bought a {)air of rubber gloves girl was born to Mr. and Mys. Clyde one will hoost a little. and no accidents happened. JI(Gowen. That totals seven. Ata bov. \\re firmly believe we hare the clean- Chris Green stopped the Gurnsy milk Clyde. est shops and grounds on thc cntire truck the other morning. and then went Aubrey Goings is the proud father svstem and General Foreman Bassett home with Liaaie a little disflgured in of a nine pound girl, born at 3:40 a. m.. is always working to get them cleaner. the rcar. Jla\. 30. The mother is doina finu and if possible. Wcinvite inspection at all Henry Steward and Jim Dison are Llie papa passed the cigars. times. rLill chewing Honest Scrap, and Sam 1,afe Pippin made a trip to St. Louis. Machinist Chas. Needham is leaving Clifton has quit chcwing everything whr~re $he went to bring back his the sc rvlcr of tlie company to make his bnt the raz. daughter, who was operated on at the liornc in Chllfornia. We are sorry to Mr. an* Mrs. John Koehler and Frisco Hospital. have you go. but wish yon and yonr rla~rghters, Misses Alwina and Marie. Keen the good work up. boys, this familr tlie best luck in whatever line mill leave next week for an extended time tl!ere were seventeen items in the vou take up. trip to Chicago and Milwaukee and little box. I thank you. Mrs. T. 14. Elam, wife of Roilermnker points in Minnesota. '1'11iu~..*Thut Xcver Huppeu Foreman-~.~~-~ Elarn.-~ ~ snent a dar in Joolin.. . W. G. Black returned today from St. iu Neodwilu MO., visiting hkr 'daughter.' 1,ouis. where he had been for the oast Al 1)ingman. traveling inspector out several months receiving treatment at An Inbound en~inecoming to a stop of Kansas City. was here a few days. the Frisco Hospitril. hefore Willls Go~ngsis on it with the R. A Watson, shnn sr~pervisorfrom 111 Gco. S. Swarts, inspector of caboosc supplies. Snrinrrflclrl~.~ ~~~..- was visitinz 14:nid re- and englne supplies, was a business I* K. Snafford not cleaning UD the cently. eeare confld&tiall?. advised visitor. roundhouse. that "Rob" is on a hunt for a "blood- Rex Rolston spent a week at Pratt. Walker's Ford going less than thirty ed" bull dog. Anyone havlnx a dog Kans.. visiting relatives. Rex reports miles per hour. answering this dcs<~iotionmight get a, verv nicc time. J. Booghman without a Stillson on in tonch with Nr. Watson. John Stoops just returned from St. hiu ehouider: Chester Rrown, formerlv hlacksniith Louis, where he had been for a little Lacy sayrllg something lie rlon't 11e~i.e. was transferred to J3irmingham. wlille rcceivin~treatment for an in- nl~~n...... and was in Enld visiting the home fected leg at the Frisco Hospital. John The rain stopping. folks. says he is getting along fine and tliat 4 small crowd at our nieetings. We were blessed with a gr.tnc1 and he will be hack to work soon. Finding Newland when vou want glorious rain aftcr our long draught, Dayton Starns. son of Arthur Starns, him. which puts some pep Into the wheat our night tank truckman and carpen- Spafford driving a sis-cylinder Briick. cron and with new interests in the oil ter, left for Venice, Calif., June S, to Finding a lock that Newland cannot fields around Enid, things on the West- spend his summer vacation with his open. ern Di\.ision will fairly hum this suin- uncle G. E. Olingor and family. Day- Larev huylnz a new Dodge coupe. mer. ton. will be a senior in tlie high school W~llisGoings buying a new hat. - nest term. John Holt tornlng around when you WICHITA LOCAL NO. 16 M: H. -cruise, chief clerk for the as- whistle at him. sistant master mechanic, spent a few Finding out where Westbrook goes hours with us the other dav. We don't on his hicycle six times a day. EUGENE TODD. Reporter know what his mission <,as, but the Jim Holt without a cigar In his nest morning tlierc was a beautiful mouth. hr,al No. 16 had a good meeting the bouquet of flowers on Mr. Spaffords Hearing news that Goings rlon't e\.ening of Mav 12th. Had a ver? good desk. know. attendance. Wm. TJnderwood, general T). Atkisson and family are having Colr, Douglas driving his own car. chairman of the system committee. R. tile timc of their life, visiting with J,acey getting his car to hit on all E. n'iller chief clerk from Kansas City friends and relatives in Cassville and *fnllv ...... and ~lmGrBird. electrician from I

B. G. Morgan says the new coal They report the water was Ane, but vice-s resident: J.. L. Glass.- ~ secretarv: chute at Wichlta Is worklng Ane. as to the Ash caught, they agree that T. C: Shaw, treasurer; M. ' M. ~arnei-; J. C. Burdick, machinist, is over- Aileen Stanley was right when she chaplain; C. L. Moore, conductor: J. L hauling motor car No. 2102. at the said. "there are more fish swimmlng Holt, general; and M. P. Reed. Robert present tlme. than ever was caught". Hen and W. M. Lewls. trustees. We John Newfelt, machlnlst, says it in Rufus Smith is. on a ten days vaca- also had a number of 'the su~ervisors great to be a good player on the Frisco tion. and is gone to Parls. Texas. Why Present-most of them makin'g inter- ball team. all these passes and trips to Texas. estlng talks. Mr. Clark, general car Joe Leatherman, firebullder, is driv- -R~~fna? - .- .- - . foreman, was the lucky one in our ing a new Ford sedan around now. We have anothe deserter from the drawing for attendance prize. How do you llke it, Joe? Ford ranks. Ted &all Is the latest vic- J. F. Anderson. machinlst. has turned tim to the lure of the Studebaker light actor. He took part in a play recently six. glren, entitled, "Mlss Somebody Else". HOOTS FROM SPRINGFIELD NIGHT and made ~uitea hit. Hope the foot- LOCAL NO. &ENID, OKLA. OWLS, SOUTH SIDE ROUND- lights won't call hlm for good.- Mr. Herman Simonson. locomotive HOUSE-LOCAL NO. 1 C. C. BOND, Reporter carpenter had the nlisforiune to lose hls son. Earl Simonson, on May 9th. He EMERY HAGUEWOOD, Reporter was just startlng out In life-maklng Blacksmith Sanders has returned to his first trip as a fireman on the river. his home in Sherman, being relleved Was on the U. S. Norman. whlch sank Jas. McMullin, our niaht powerhouse by H. 0. Northrup from S~rlngfleld.We .lust below Memphis, --with a loss of englneer, has returned from-Claremore, are sorry to lose Mr. Sanders. but ex- twenty-two Ilves. Mr. Slmonson has the Okla., where he has been taking baths tend a heartv welcome~- -- to~~ Mr. Northrun. for rheumatlsm, feellng, as he says, These nici! warm days caise us-id heartfelt sympathy of all the boys at. like a two-year-old. think about getting out the "dad-bur- Memphls. Prather Langley and family have ned hook and line" and go out on the heen spending a few days visiting rela- banks of Old Brandvwine and teach LOCAL NO. 14--SAPULPA, OKLA. tlves and frlends at their old home in some angle worms how to swim-or In Crane, Missouri. other words. GO FISHIN'. Shep White has brand new wheels There seems to be an epldemlc of V. MOUNGER and A. K. WATERS, and tires all around on that Stude- slckness lately and an unusually large Reporters baker of his. Better watch your speed- number are on the slck list. We note ometer now, Shep. amonp others. John Sallee. Ira Brown, .MacShlnlst H. C. Price has his head Mrs. W. L Danlels. wlfe of our very Emmit Estep and T. J. Giddings. We very high telling everybody about his efflclent nlaht storekeeper. has been wlsh for them a speedy recovery. fine ten-nound bov. Another picture for serlouslv ili for some tlme. and we Fred Warneke, blacksmith, was call- the marrazlne. - are sorry to say that her condition is ed to Canyon City, Colo., recently by l?GE Riley, boilermaker, resigned unimproved at thls writlng. the death of a slster. Our deepest sym- and is now selllng hsurance. Any- George Schahuber is back with us pathy Is extended to Fred in his one lookinp for an accident, see Frank again. dolng our hostling after a year's sorrow. and he wlll Ax you up. sojourn on the north side. Mr. Scha- Master Mechanic W. J. Foleg spent Machlnlst Roy Reynolds has been off huber 1s takinr: the place of Alonzo several days recently In Springfield. on a vacation visitlng points in Texas. Morrow, who has gone on the road J. C. Brekenfeld shop supervisor Reports a fine tlme while there. firlng. from Sprlngfield. wa's a vlsitor at Fhld. Machinlst H. P. Chase and Chester Ulysess Wrlpht is taklng a vacation We're always glad to see Mr. Breken- Fields have been to Sherman demon- and visitlng St. Louls and Memphls. feld, so come agaln soon. strating the tire turnlng machine at It Is interesting- to note that this is Ed. Rea is stlll in the hospltal in that point. Report everything worked Mr. Wright's first time oPP in more St. Louis, but latest reports are that smooth and would like to go to CoIo- than ei~hteenmonths. he is slowly recovering. and this is rado to turn a set. Everett Lozar had the misfortune welcome news for his best friends and Boiler Inspector V. Mounger was In to lose the first jolnt of the Index fln- fellow-workers. Dallas a few days thls month with his ser on his left hand several davs ago. School notes;, Our night school is mother who Is undergoing treatment While adjusting the sprlng on his car stlll going In hlgh". at that place.

it unexpectedly sllwed.~~ . causing- the The attendance and interest Is almost Our blacksmith, Tony Philllps, gave accident; 100 per cent. Each one in trvlna- to ns the sllp this month and got married. "Uncle Charley" Spencer. our nonu- get the most out of each lesson. T~ftfor polnts in Mlssouri on thelr lar nlaht watchman, 1s sick and haa William Philllps 1s our Instructor. honeymoon. We all wish them luck. been absent for some time. The boys He was unable to meet wlth the class The class in mechanical drawlng is are all h0~lngto see him on hls regu-- one night recently on account of ill- doina Ane-wlll soon have some grad- lar beat soon; ness in hls home and Chas. Woolsey uates. William Paullne. electrlclan. is back substituted for hlm in an accentable Wm. Underwood wae wltA ur recent- wlth 11s again after several months. manner. ly and gave an lnterestlng address In Mr. Paullne is taking the nositlon T. E. Giddings' class of apprentices regard to working condftions along the made vacant bv Claud.= Edwards. who is one of the outstandlna features of Ilne. waa transferred to St. Louls. the scliool and the sunervisors are more The car department fire department Tommy Rlkins Is at Lovelanil. Colo.. than Dleased with the wav the bovs has gone on record as one of the best havina gone there In respnnse to a are taklng un the work. They surely in the length of time consumed getting message lnfnrmins him of the serlous are a peppy bunch. water at nozzle in some of their prac- Illness of hls father. I want to sav a few words In behalf tice drllls. Rav James and Rohert MrCaulev are of our magazine. Think we nre nn Mrs. J. C. McDowell. who has been on new owls on our nierht force. the right track this time and will the sick list. is reported up and on That new house 'enidemic continues surely make It go. We feel sure that the way to recovery, and Mr. McDowell to snread-Chas. Richariiqnn is ths if evervone will do a little boostine is rejolcing as he claims his frying latpst victim. He Is bullding on the me wlll soon have a maeazlne we will chlekens are rlne and, oh. how his Bolivar Road north of town. all be DrOUd of. Speaking for mv- wife can cook them and, oh. how he That new work report board is the self, I enjoy reading of the nctlvlties can eat th~m. "Wife's out of town."-Foster. boys' curiosity worked up last week "Get in gear."-Skinner. over a pencil. which hc claims pos- I EASTERN DIVEION "Where's the sport sheet?"-Rauch. sesses certnin photographic pourcrs if "Plug's out."-Roal. handled right. Better watch your stop. I "Where's the engine report?" Rarney. and don't let your wife go WEST SHOPS-SPRINGFIELD -Jairett. through your pockets at night. "Flutter, flutter."-Grundbuw During the weck's layof several of SMALL. BORES, BLAKELY, Reporters "3Iy goodness, gracious."-Eliclc, the boys spent the time fishing on the I "Lock the safe, here comes Crooks." different rivers and lakes of the Ozarks -Small. It Is said that two heads are better nnd several fine catches have been re- "At Palm Beach."-Mabel. ported. One of the largest fish caught than one, but 1,400 are better still. The "Ras1)bcrries."-Jessie. Fourth of July comes but once a year, was a forty-nine-pound cat by J. T. SO with 1.400 employcs at the West LOST-Two boys, named Frank and .\mold. fireman, who spent his time on Shops and something dilTerent happen- Gcorpe. Last seen aboard the florid,^ the Onaze ncnr Osceola. tnK to each one every day. a loud Special. May 29th. Dan Cul)id finally turned the trick REPORT may be expected in each is- LOST-One $7.50 straw hat some- for Arthur E. White, machinist appren- sue from hcre on out. where in Tennessee. tice. and Jewel1 N. Sexton. machinist. Sin~~deyebrows, joy tours nnd fish. LOST-A tcnor's voice. If found, re- We don't know the lucky girlo, but ing trips are the order of the day turn to Ralph Matthews. wish both couples a very hnppy mar- Speaking or flnh, there's one man at We got a nice steno uamed Mable, ried life: also would like to see n few the JVest Shops who brings back morz Who. to run, thought she was able. cigars floating around. than talra of the ones "that got away The prim was a nice nightie gown, Born to Nr. and Mrs. Dan B. Gavage Arch Hasler. machinist welder, is But, gee whiz, hiable on June 4th, a seven-pound daughter. proudly display~ng the head of that Poll Savage is x locomotive painter. 20-pound cat hc caught at Crocker re down ! If anyone in the MechantcaI Depart- ccntly. It looks like a case of "Heads Raymond Todd would like to know ment does not know the meaning of a I win-tales you lose." Hereafter, boys. if thcre are motormen on trains run- 101 report, and how they are made out. brlng In the heads, we want to see 'em. ninr' between Springfield and St. nsk Geo, Dwger, clerk to the general Cron~lng catastrophy: Louis. forcman, as he finds them very easy to Don R. Fellows was called to St. work. Xash. Louis. May 30th. However. office mat- Nr. Hampton. storekeeper. Wcut Dash. ters were quickly disposed of and Don Shops. seems to be leading the "open Smash. reports being hoarse and throat dry air" life. First we hear he and tu- Hash ! (no, not from gaztng nt the "tall ones") tiler Carey RTP pulling "big" ones out We hare n sign out here which reads, -on account of the Cardinals vs. Cin- of the White Rlvcr-thirty-three, or "No Men Wanted." F. A. Beyer cinnati. was it fifty-three? Sizc and color fur- shop Ruperintendcnt, says a travellng Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Boa1 left St. nishcd on request. Again, we hear man wanted to know if the stenog- Louis for the City of Springfield on a that he. Clyde Diclts. and others. are rapher~had put ~t up. How about it daylight traln to enjoy the scenery frogging on Pomme de Terre. Xo gtrls? along the Frisco. Scenery enjoyed, wondcr he smiles. He alwavs seems to Bobbie: "Pa, how could there be a but any information regarding the bring back the goods. new Moon and a full moon the same Statler or "..\hie's Irish Rose" can be Tom Bruton. laborer foreman. is due night?" furnishrd by Mr. Boal. hack at work Monday morning. Bru- Rill Skinner, stenoaraphcr - clerk. ton seems in doubt as to which aflords Pa: 'I don't know, son, ask Charlie suent the week-end at Kansas City, ar- him the most l lea sure. a trip to the Den ham." rived at work Monday morning a little White Rivcr country, or his wee: son, Dennls Kc-et. porter and philosopher, Iatr and sleepy. It must be some Jack. says that three or the multiple thereof, heauty shop sheilcnss that attracts BLll Ed. Poster, dircctor of the well- is a mystic number. We admit that to Kansas City. as he always comes known Frisco Band, had the honor of there's something mystic about 3 home with his pockets full of cos- lead in^ the parade of the first rose O'cloclc In the morning; also that It is metics. carnival held at Tulsa recently. sometimes a mystery as to where the The fellow who was discharged for G. L. Walton has been ill for the next three "squares" per day are com- "washing up" before quitting time nast wcek. .Drc hO~ehe will be back ing from. but outside of that-for fur- certainlv has a clean case. at that. at his desk soon. theF details, see Keet. Asa Baranaby, en~inehostler, un- Jlr. Franklin. chief clerk to Store- Sherman Tuter, boilermaker apgrrn- corked another one of many wild tales. keener Hamnton. wonders If it could tlce, want* to know lf these "Bull Dur- Aaa said he had his lawn mower shar- be iwnslble that he acted "that way"- ham" ads of Will Rogerw arc responslble pened and upon mowing his lawn tho what way*? .Just ask Mr. Franklin how for some of the young ladies "rolllng nest ovening. the mower got away from Fred J.:rke sprnds his noon hours since their own." him rind bcfore he could catch It the Tessic came to the West Shop. Erkc thing had cut down two good-sfzed uxs formerly an employe of the Stores Virgil Endicott, checker, holds the trees, the dog huuse, and started for DepartmenC Rnd UL Car an we can learn. world's heCipyweight flsh title. Ac- thr gnraae. Thcy say hot wcnther is he would he prrtectly Willing to be- cording lo \ trgil, down where he comes hard on a person. and it evidently must gin at the bottom agaln, so that- from the); hitch 'em up.and make 'em hare a ~oodhold on Asa, as this seems well. the Stores Denartment stenog- tow fer1.y boats to and fro across the iust a littlc too much. rapher perhaps can 'peak for the am- river! I't3ank Crooks, checker, starts his va- bitions of Fred. Comptometrr 01)erator (hold XIP-81): cation on Julv 1st. He is planning a .hli Ed. Baker to cxl?laln why his "Arc brake sllocs bought for brake- trip to Now ~brk.visiting revcrnl cast- racrr went to the bad. He hns it all men ?" ern cities while away. Perhaps he will lined out, but petting anyone to agree Engine 1503 fell in the ditch near bring several new ideas back with him is the next thing. How about, it. Bristow and lost its jacket. Wc have on how to "Grow ze mustache." Baker. will ynu join the ranks of the known lost of men who lost their jack- Churchill K. Ruxton, mulc herder. Packar~lbullders after your next car ets, but then "oil drlnlcing" and "corn has been in unusually good splrits all i~ I)~rCccted? drinking" arc different. week. due to the fact that somebody What about Paul O'Neal's dancing smeared a coat of bright red paint on lessons? Girls. if you intend to dance Superint~.ndent's chief clerk, Ed.. the mule during the u'eeks' layoff. with Paul. br careful; have Lloyds ln- \VHS sent 1)). thc doctor to bed. Fred W. Billasch would likr to know vure YOUI. feet against nermanent dis- Instead, little Ed., to White River sped why he can't park on the hiahways ilg-ur&rnt. and Cupid your heart. And there on rainbow trout Ed. fed. leading out of Springfield with his Charles SmaH left for his vacation lights out. What Fred needs is a trip on June 13th. He in fioin~;to Den- West Shop monologues: safety steering device so he won't have ver. from there to Cody. Wyoming. "Fellows sl~eaking." to park, or clse consult Joe Danforth, through Yellowstone Park and out at "Now. let me tell one."-Office boy. who seems to get by alright. Gardiner. Montann, thr-n to St. Paul. "Are you just first finding that out." Air Room Foreman Haskell, better back to Kansas City and then home. -Erke. known as "Barney Google." had all the Any excltlng news will be Rent in after his return, provldlnfi the Wlld Wsst l~roidct'ed silk shawls of vivid colors most eiithorate. Along the routs doesn't call too strongly and claim our w~tlltheir Spanish combs and elabo- through the most beautiful country. timekeeper. rate fans. making a sccne of Oriental we see plantations of sugar cane. W. H. Graham, materlal Inspector. 3plendor. It would be hard to find the bananas, cocoanuts and pineapples; left for his former home at Pittsburgh. equal unless one revisited Paris. also oranges and mango groves, the Penna., June 15th. Graham's family France. ('hinese aardens. tobacco fields and will return with him to Springfield "Our second motor trip Included the Royal aim ~rlve.returnins through where they will make their home. botanical gardens, the Colon cemetery. the residential section. One is sur- Roy Paschell entered the line of June said to be one of the most beautiful prlsed at the miles of palatial man- "grooms" and reports that it takes a In the world, with its almost count- sions. Spanish architecture, with patio great deal of good, cool coin to begin less costly memor~als. The tombs of in the center, laurel trees and palms houxekeeping. Here's luck to Mr. and c'al~xto Gomez. a former nresident of bordering the streets. Mrs. Pmchell. ('u~R, the firemen's monument, the "Thc shopping. section is interesting. Mr. C. Weltman of the Chemistry De- students' memoria!, being amongst the especially Snn Rafael Street with its partment. is spending his vacation in Illinois. We understand that ,Mr. and Mrs. Weltman are visiting Mrs. Welt- man's former home, Pontiac, and vari- ous other places. After Working Hornrx Quiet reigned about the North Shops. The shrill blast of thc 4 o'clock whlstle had recedcd in tho atmosphere / "From Stake Driver some 45 minutes ago. Practically nll of the shoomen had disappeared- to their various homes. yet two of the most popular, known in society. sewing and .police circles, were to Railroad President" ' seen to be loitering in the vicinity of the offices at the aforesaid shop. Just what these two gentlemen were up to is not clearly defined. It was observed that they were in a jovial mood, as they constantly compared watches (five times in 15 minutes). ILLIAM BENSON STOREY, gears from now. Make it the ,right As the hour of five approachctl, their physiognomy took on the eager look President of the Atchison, To- answer ! of exoectancv. It a~~oearedthat the W peka and Santa Fe, started his No matter where you live, the Inter- attraction \\'is about-fo put in its ap- railroad career forty-one years ago as a pearance. national Correspondence Schools will At 5:01, railroad time, they were ob- stake driver at twenty dollars a month. come to you. No matter what your hand-

~served .- .- to.~ PAIR- --- OFF.- - -. icaps or how small your means, we 'TWRS with a conversational, boyish The story of his life, as told in The ancl well-pleased manner that they American Magazine, should be an in- have a plan to meet your circumstances. strolled from the aforesaid vicinity. spiration to every railroad man. It No matter how limited your previous cach walking on the inside of the walk. education, the simply-written, wonder- making more apparent the fact that shows that there is no limit to how far they were FOR SALE. a man can rise if he really tries. fully-illustrated I. C. S. lessons make Their movements will be more closely it easy to learn. No matter what career followed in the future. Mr. Storey says that too many men you may choose, some one of the 300 From Cupid's viewpoint, it would appear that a visit to the recorder's deliberately choose small jobs. I. C. S. courses will surely suit your office is anticipated. needs. We believe this will be one of the "One of the great shocks of my boy- best vacation write-ups we will get hood occurred when I learned that the When everything has been made easy this year. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kers- local telegrapher in the railroad station for you-when one hour a day spent well, both of Plymouth, Devon. Eng- with the I. C. S. in the quiet of your land, have recently returned from a in our town had refused promotion to trip to Cuba and Mrs. Kerswell has the dispatcher's office. He decided to own home will bring you a bigger in- beon kind enough to give us this write- stick to his key; and the reason he gave come, more comforts, more pleasures, UD Kerswell is electrical foreman at all that success means-can you afford the West Shop. Before coming to was the added pay that dispatchers re- Springfield, he held several responsible ceived was not sufficient to compensate lo let another single priceless hour of positions with various companies in spare time go to waste? the United States and England. him for the added responsibilities that "It gives me pleasure to reply to he would have in the higher office. This is dl we ask: Without cost or obligation. your requcst for a few details of our put it up to us to prove how we can help yon. recent trip to Cuba. "To me his decision seemed almost Just mark and mail this coupon. "Havana harbor comes in sight about criminal. I saw it as a step upward. ------TEAR OUT HERE------eight hours after we leave Kev West. At fivc p. m. we are due on cuban soil. But he was thinking of his ease. That INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS after an ideal trip, water. weather. man died a telegrapher in a small sta- BOX 8619-B SCRANTON. PA. boat and food. each of its kind being tion. He didn't get further because he Explaln, wllhout obUgntlng me how I can qunllly lor tha pertect. We drive to our hotel and posltlon, or LII the subject, befire which I mark X. beg111 to think and sneak in Spanish. didn't want to; or, if you like, because LOOOHOTIVE ESQlBKKll Locomortvo Firenmn "We take a motor trin to nlany his- he didn't dare to. Tmvulinc Engincur torical ~olntsthrough narrow streets. I'ravellny Firemnn bordered with fortifled anpearing "There is only one way to win pro- Air Drake Inspector buildings, with grated wlnduivs, ma- motion, and that is by doing the job a Air llrnko Ilcpairmsn hogany doqrs, overhang in^ balconies! Round tlouse Foreman little better than those around you-a 'rrainmen end Carmen The parks. including Central and Colon. Railway Conductor the Jlanznna de Gomez building. which little better than you are expected to do IIEC~IAS~(~AIIEI(II!;REU nccupies an entire square, the Marti Mochsnical Droflrmon it. If you need special training, don't Mschinc Shop Precties Club building erected In 1845. the old Toolmnkcr Santa Clara Convent, Sari Franclxco complain because you haven't got id RoUw Maker or Dedwner Church, the Church of the Holy Angels. get it! Gas Ennlne Opernrine Ln >fachina, the shipping, the govern- CIVIL ENGlNEEIl finrrc,rln~and Ilnppln= ment buildings: alno the President's "Work along. If you put one foot It. I<. Consmucling Palace, which ia magnlflcent. ahead of the other, day by day, in pur- Brld~cEnuineer "We were exceedingly fortunate in " ARCHITECT R Arabltnrlsrnl Drafhmmm arriving in time for the new presi- suit of worthy object, and keep on hrchltccts' Blue Prinla dential featlvitles and innuguration doing it for a lifetime, the sum of your Conrriscror end Builder ceremonfew. The decorations wcre on Structurnl Ensheer a l~vlshscale; the battle of flowers. acts will be the thing you are after- Coneret~Builder with floats decorated wlth real roscs. achievement." CHEMIST as well as many pretty Cuban girls I Name . dressed to represent other flowers. was Present Employed x nictura to carry in one's mind for OW about you? Are you content to Occupation BY sometimc to come. Street "We vlsitecl the opera house. a mas- H stagnate in a small job all your life, and NO. sive building or whlte marble, the in- or have you the courage and the will to terior wlth its boxea and many gal- City State leries, was filled with spectators, the go up? Your answer to that question Canadia~mw send this coupon lo InlrrnoNonal Cm- ladies wearing expenoive hand em- will decide just where you will be five apondcno. Bohoola Canadf~n,Limftui, dlwlrcoi, Cad Pap 50

Chinese and curio stores. where we Hospital at the present time. Seitz has OFFICE SUPERVISOR CAR REPAIR purchased prrfumes, picture post just returned from a visit to Laredo BILLSSPRINGFIELD, MO. cards, etc. and Harris, 310. The x-ray showed "The beer deserves honorable men- good progress of the compound frac- tion; also the bread and fresh fish. We P. B. Spangler's mother has sailed ture of his leg and the scales showed for London. England, and other points enjoyed everything, even the tropical a gain of twelve pounds. He expects of rain. to go back for another visit to Knos interest in Europe. IVe wish her "Whilr there are thousands of sa- County, where he will join Mrs. Seitz. bon voyage. loons. whore anythina to drink from E. L. Ennls, car inspector, of Mem- Lela Pride has changed her name to beer to champagne can be had. we saw 1,his. Tenn.. has been a patient in the "I-own-a-Ford" since purchasing a new only one kilowatt just full of amperes. St. Louis Hospital since March 26th. Ford coupe. She has had it only a "All the cafes keep open all night last, suffering from an infection of the week, but is already some driver. If with relays of waiters. Havana is a foot. He will be allowed to go home the boys could catch Bill out of town very wid(,-awake town-I should say very shortly to complete his convales- they might get a ride. city. Our hotel was in the vcry cent.er cence there. Mabel Dwyer attended the Knights -for the first night we could not sleep Arthur Kabrick, engineer. of Kan- Templar dance, May 19th. Walking is becausq of lions roaring and jazz mu- hard work when one is used to riding sic. Havana Park nras just ncross the sas City, >lo., is on the road to recovery in Ford coupes and Overlands. road. with a zoo and cabaret attached; after a long illness, which has kept him oft' the job since October 4th. 1924. Lillian Yates suggests that Jerry hence the combination of sounds. Anderson should golden glint his hair "We had a wonderful holiday, which Hen Shirk, assistant superintendent. n-e \vould not mind repeating, even to from Birmingham. Ala.. who is sharing to match his red-gold mustache. the exl~erienceof ha\-ing the fruit arc "316" with Kabrick, said to tell the Mr. Baer attended a sale of Climas bought for the train confiscated by the world that they both still had their chewing tobacco the, other day. Says customs officers (mangoes and or- head above water and are coming back he got a real bargaln. However. we anges). only 1~ineapplc.sand alligator strong. don't think he saved very much as the pears are allowed to enter the United L. E. ;\.[artin, assistant to the presi- rest of the fellows wanted to sample it. Statos. dent, has just undergone a serious Anyonc wishing to buy German po- operation at this hospital, and at the lice dogs should aee E. K. Caldwell. He DIVISION ACCOUNTANT'S OFFICE 1)resent writing is doing well. Evcry- has seven pedigreed puppies. SPRINGFIELD, MO. one here at the hosl~ital has a good In introducing our new clerk. we word for Martin and are doing their made a mistake. Her name is Mar- utmost to bring him bnclt to good garet McClernon instead of France~ By H. H. lIcGAR\'EY health. 3IcCler11on. Don't think she objected Lydia BatdorC, pharmacist at the so much, since she has a cousln by Sow ip the tinie for tlie vacation liosi)ital, returned from a week's vaca- that nanie. hounds to begin arguing nbont \vherc tion in Grand Rapids. Nich., attending Gladys IIooper has been absent from the hest plirces to go are and where the \Vhitc Shrine Convention. the onice on account of being ill. \Ve the bcst fishing holes are, etc. Er- hone she returns soon, as wc miss rett Welch is out rambling around in JIrs. Minnie Cannon, in charge of the linen room at thc hospital. has also "~i~)l)yW'smiling face. hin new Dodgc this meek and at this J. R. Rogers has a lot of cliicltens time is probably trying to persuade x returned from a two-weeks' vacation. visiting relatives at Willow Springs iust the frvinE size. We have decided catfish to talcr a bite of liver. Walter io I):LY him a.-visit with hopes of de- Hudson will vrknk up (or maybe it's and Puxico. 310. Thc rest has been good for her, from all appearances. vouring some of the fine birds. You -a self-~.- stn-tor) his Chevrolct tonlorrow know, John says white Wyandottes night and beat it for Roaring Rivcr taste better than the othcr kind of and be aone a week. Tim Murray will chickens. but we are from Missouri. snend from June 29 to Juls 5 in and MECHANICAL DEPT. NEWS B. G. Watkins' stcnographer, Ida around St. Louis whcre he will resume SPRINGFIELD, MO. Blood. was away on her vacation last his lovc affair with ;\I:rbcl (providing week. He surely did dictate to her she hasn't married that othcr guy). this week-just talked a sight. The rest of the gang here, either have Ey LOYD LAJIB The picture man who took pictures not made their plans, or are liccping all through the building skipped our them secret. Jfillcr Elliott, locomotive draftsman. brought down candy and cigars the office. Scver mind, Nr. Magazine, Mr. Abernathy has just returned \ve'r(> going to have a picnic this sum- from Rochester. JIinn.. where lic spent othrr day. the cause of the treat being mcr and we'll send you some snappy s~veraldnys at thc bedside of his a new baby hoy out Miller's way. ones. father-in-law. .T. L. DeWitt, who is You can take a boy out of 31\.1nmpIiis. hut you can't take the IIemphis out the pumpc>r at ('uba. 110.. and wnu for- OPERATING DEPT. STATISTICIAN merly a conductor on the River Div- of the boy, thus runs thc old adago, and sion. He went to Rochrster about t\vo as wc expcctcd. this was the tirst place SPRINGFIELD< MO. months ago for esamination and treat- Chief Clerk Potts visited while away ment nt the >fayo Clinic. An ol?cration on his vrrcation. Regardlrss of tlic By hIALLIE KING. Reporter was found necessary and w:rs pcr- fact that wc havt! a mighty fine rail- formed carly this month. Thc last re- road between here and the town they The othcr evening Lcwis Blevans lrft ports indicate that Mr. DeIVitt is im- wrotc the "Hlues" ahout, Potts ant1 herc~ in time to catch Train No. 3 out proving wonderfully. f~milvdrove throuah in their car. He of Springfield for Mollett. It was pre- Htil Lamkin lost his glasscs a few illso spent a couple-of days in Kansas sunl'd that hc was going to attend an davs ago and after hunting ovcr half City visitins Xaster JIec11;rnlc Berry. cvening scssion of a. fuel meeting, but of'~~,i.in~lieldfor them, decided to bus .John Conicy, dealing out chances ;it it ilcveioped he attended an evening a new palr. After putting out his hnrd- a prize booth at the Veteran's Picnic: session of a dual meeting instead. Thr earned (?) fifteen smacks for the new '*.-\I1 that havc received numbers, please young lady he called upon enjoyed specks. John Brown, the porter. found pass awn y !" his oratorical flights and spellbinding the old nair on Hal's chair at the side .Joe 3I'Krnna and L). G. Stark are qualities to such an estent that he did of the filshion. back with us after a two-wcclrs' rest. 11ot run out of propaganda until tht. Referring to a rcccnt article from .Joe says he got quite iz kick out of fuel meeting had adjourned and h-o. 10 the general managers' officc regarding sc~ttinqthe alarm for six-thirty a. m. had departed for Springfield with Fred Peterson taking corners on two ant1 then turning over to peaceful othcrs from this office who attended wheel8 with Ills new coupe, it has becn nlumbcrs until nine-thirty. Stark wellt the meeting. viz.: Messrs. Kerr. C. W. ascertained from a certain souyce fishing down on Beavcr, but admits and Harry Martin. Jarratt, Edwards. around thc Eastern Division superln- he threw awnv the lard and meal that >lagers and Appleby. tendent's office that this is not only was to be used in the fish fry. Bctter Feirba Justice has again departed to a fact, hut In addition, employes around lnvk next \-ear. Doug! spcnd her allotted v~cation time at wme of the filling stations have taken Mrh?rv tlrere'n June brides, there's Al~~~.na.Arltansas. This town can out additional life insurance on ac- bound to bc June grooms, but we only be located on the 11. & N. A. map count of the mnnner in which this car th~nltly admit that Hernhel McNally by the aid of a microscope. We all has Iwen driven In for gas. slipped one over on us when he pulled wonder why she spends all of her vaca- >\ flew months ago it was rrportcd the "I do" stuff with California Davis . tion in this little village on the south- that OaIe Slone. Eastern Division con- on June 10th. Thc first inkling we ern slol~eof the Oxarks: but she in- tluctor. was going to double deck hiu had of the affair came when Hershel sists that she is only lurcd there by "whoopie" to haul the girls from the slAnt ovcr some candy and clgars. tlir lowing of the cattle, the sight of drug store to the division office. Since whereupon the gang retalintcd by pre- thc old familiar ox-carts, the honey then. hc has reconsidered the matter senting. XIr. and Mrs. AI~?'~allywith a stored away in the trunks of tlie old and 'bought a new Dodge tourink car beautiful floor lamp. trees I)], the bumble bees and wasps. and reports that it is taking care of When genuinely hungry there in the odor of the honeysuckle blooming the business nicely. nothing l.hat will appease the appetite in the wildwood, the quaffs of cool of a moth more than a C-ood square water from thc old oaken bucket. mi- meal off your last years' bathing suit. nus n dipl,er. the taste of a real Ar- ST. LOUIS FRISCO EMPLOYES' Judging from the sizc of some of our kansas 'possum, and the enchanting HOSPITAL fair ones around the buildina who sccnex of her childhood surrounded by ~urchasednew suits this year sld the the #u!neas and the "Arkansaw razor- R. .A. S.4CK. Reporter amount of material required to con- haraks.. - - - .- . struct the modern one-picce bathing Nary Ruth 1,Iitchell was united in Ray Seitz, special agent..of Chaffee. suit. we'll gamble some of the moths marriage to Dr. F. H. Maples of Rog- No., is convalescing in the St. Louis only got a sandwich. ersville, JIo.. April 29th. Dr. lfaples, prior to establishing his own practice dale. No.. only for one day. If I have Grandma ...... loBucscher In Rogcrsville, was on the staff of good luck fishing, will tell you in the Tired...... Flo Tuhro the Frisco Hospital at Sprir~gfield. nrkt issue how many I caught. Retircd~...... fry Staed &tit34 Mitchell has been emp!oyed in Can't get the dope on this one, this office for near!y eight years. In SEVENTH STREET STATION Ermlnio Colombo retiring from servlce, Miss Nitchell Matron of the old ladies' home, leaves a host of friends wKo unlte in ST. LOUIS, MO. Slim Powell wi~hineher a hannv..- and prosoerous. . Cry Baby...... Irene Nufer married Ilfe. AGSES .\I. LAHKIS, Rcportcr Society Queen ...... Leona Jones Esther Anderson is displaying' a dia- Stel~per...... Marie Ewers mond ring on the third finger of her Since Seventh Street is new to the Farmer...... Dessie Gentry left hand. We think "Nick" used good readers of this magazine, in order to Sweetest...... Catherine Barrett judgment-in picking the girl. acquaint them with thc agent and his Youngest ...... Clemence Walsh Maude Haralson has just returned staff, we give below a brief outline of Sweetest disposition ...... C. Chapman from Chicago where she spent a wcek's the personnel of this station: Reporter ...... Anna Ondr vacation. H. a. Snyder~...... General Agent We extend to Arthur Koch, assistant I.:. \\r. Miller...... Chief Clerk foreman. our deepest sympathy in the PASSENGER TRAFFIC DEPT. Agnes .\I. Larkin ...... Sec. to Gen. ~g6nt recent death of his mother. Mrs. An-

F. A. JIiller...... ~ ~~.-cashier ton Koch. ST. LOUIS, MO. R. L. Klein ...... General Foreman \Ir. D. win get..^ ...... Chief Accountant MOLLIE S. ED\V.\RDS, Reporter TELEGRAPH GANG-NORTHVIEW, AI. 0. Harris...... Chief Rate- Clerk~- -~ MISSOURI J. J. Swehla...... chief Bill Clerk Vdtations have startrd iund Eddie .Jno. i\IcNamara...... Chief Clerk (:robb, clerk JIlllc Department, heads B. \V. ELLIOTT. Reporter the list. Vnderstancl Eddie s~)enthi5 ation) two weeks at home getting acquainted arload Billing) J. S. Frieze, wire chief, and Ernir* with the "home folks." \\'oods, relief division lineman, report- Charles Hinlrle 1s writing a play for cd an easy day Memorial Day, as there wrre nu line gangs working that clay. the "Liberty Magazine" wli~chis ol'fer- .\dam Erlinaer...... Foreman (Inhound) ing Sb0.000 for the best story. Girls. \V. B. W. Elliott had a good. shady don't rush. E. hlilikr, chief clerk. and family. place to make half sleeves whcn S. B. I.'red lVeber is THE letter writer. recently motored to 3Ioselle. hlo.. where XIusgrave, general foreman, came they were the aursts of the Valmont around the comer of the depot at dt. \Vhat lilnd" Oh, 1 almost forgot to Country Club. tell you-lore letters. lf you care to a Clair, of course the sleeve business write a letter to your girl, just ask After long' absence, our old friend. could not last long then. l3rc~d for advice-lie Icnows! Dessie Gentry, has returned from her We havr no musician here now anrl Speaking of styles, Ernie Kubitz home in Tennessee. we arc hoping that our nest one ~111 heads the list-light tan suit, yellow Ed. M. C!ary. who has been sick for be n saxophone playcr. shoes. plaid tie anrl wing collar. If you thc past four or five weeks, is reported Clarence \Vuellner. E. C. Daily and didn't wr him, well, roll surely did as getting along fine. XI. Daly paid How:lrd Worthy bumped Carl Pooie. miss a good sight. Durward Brown is mid him a visit at Koch Hospital re- Ellncr Rutram and ICfton Ranta. Carl scc.ond on the list-light gray suit, tie cently and reports that he is doing Poole then burnped a man in Donahue'n to match anrl everyone taklng notice. nicely. Letters received from Ed. nd- Kana. IM. Hernard. ex-"gulf" chnrnp, took vise that they treat him wonderfully - \fonder if the local crows on thc one week of his vacation on the Forest at thc Hospital, lots of good eats. cold east end don't get a little blt hungry. drinks (just beverage) and a dandy, Parli "gulf" links. Eddie couldn't ns their switch list does not~ include~~ stand the idea of Ernic Kubitz heing cool porch. pic and cake now? alrcad by having a Ford coupe, so he, Thv Misses Jones and Sufer hare re- too, is riding around enjoying the turned from a. vacation trip to \Vash- ington. D. C.. where they attended the TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT fresl~air In his new "Baby Lincoln". SPRINGFIELD, MO. a. .\. JIuratta came back to work convention of Sigma Epsilon frater- with a big smile after spending one nity. 'Tis said Coolidge rushed this weck of his vacation tourina South- pair durin~their stn.v in Washington. 0. L. OUSLEY. Acting Reporter east Missouri and the second-week at The pugilistic aspirations of hrothrr -- PleaPnnton, Kansas. "down on the 1,inton sufCered a severe sethack. The On June 9th. Muriel Sawyer and lTer- farm" with his sister. aforementioned brother insistod on us- non Coutant were married at the home Addie Toland leaves Saturday. June ing the United Eailways for an express of the bride's parents in Decatur. Ill., ISth, for her wcation to be spent see- car, the conductor objected, resulting a11d went to Niagara overland. They ins all the points of interest at Seattle. in the decoration of Brother Linton's will make their home in Peru. lnd. \Vashington, and different ~~ointsin optic. Pufiilism has now bcen sidc- 3Irs. Coutant 'ame to Springtleld sev- California. Miss Toland is going to tracked and the brother decided that eral years ago to attend the Frisco call un Irene XIcyer, form(~rlsin this railroading is a much easier line of telegraph school, and after working draartment. but now with C. .T. Letts. endeavor. as operator for a short time, was em- general agent. Los Angclcs. Calif.. and H. G. Snyder, general wgcnt, recPntly ployed in the olTic,e of the superintend- u-r ttll Fend our best wishes. made a horri~dtrip to Kansas City to +.nt of telcfiraph, leaving here about lWnle Kublts retorncd from his tmo- attend the fifth annual session of tRa two scars irgo to return to her home we el;^' vacation and we are irll waiting Freight Station Section, American Hail- in Decatur. Her many Frisco friends ]mtlrntly to hear of hls wonderful trips was Association, wish for her4 all the happiness to ta1c1.n in hix "Baby IAncoln." You Through the untiring efforts of Paul which her sunny disposition entitlcs know. gariolinc Is Itinda high. so if he Tdiesman. one of our messengers. the hc 1.. went further than East St. Louis me boys have bcen able to organize a bnsc- h ncw copper telephone circuit has iinow he won't buy any more wing ball team and are out for the scalps just bcen completed between St. Louis collars. of all tcnms in this vicinity piayiric :tnd Chaffee. The installation of crcuir,- Edward Condon Is back on the job In the 17 to 20-qca-old clah\. Loo ment will likely be completed -this after heing ~ickwith a sore throat. Van Xest has been namecl manager and month. This will provide the River Frank McDonald would like for somc- IIRS Ilned un a verv clrver nlnr. ~n- Division with telephone dispatching one to ~~lr~aaeexplain Lo him why thc cludins. such stars as Carl Haug. .\I cwcuit from St. Louis to Turrell. worrl,, ‘'yntractor'' ends in "or" and Cazzoni and Connie Eckhardt. Ernest \Volfe, division lineman. Tali- not ?r. Perhaps someone who has St;~tenient of errors issllcd monthly hina, visited this office while enroilte the time and patience will take the by .l. 1.. McCormack, superintendent of to Aurora. where he is spending his job of esplilining thc question. I". L. & D. claims, 3hows our position \\'ell. now that 1 have talked abont for the month of May in Group 1, third most everyone in the office, will huvc nlacc. .is comnared with our standin~r to put something in about mgsclf. for the prcvidus months. third plilce AUTO RUNS .\nl ic:irVingfor a fishing trip to Trues- looks vcrv gratifying tow.rrrl ~aining possession of the pennant for the few- &t numbcr of crr6rx. 57 MILES ON Dave Fouke recently paid us n visit to renew some of his old acquaintancw. && GAL of "GAS" TIRES WITH 500 NAIL HOLES Dave was a clerk at this station 31 sears ago. A new automatic and self-regulating Flo Lnrkin has Irft on an extensive device has been invented by John A. LEAK NO AIR vacation trin, visiting Chicago, Stransky, 490 Fourth st.. Pukwana, Omaha. Salt Lake City. Pcllowsto~e A new puncture-proof Inner lube has been In. Park. Esten Pnrk and Denver. South Dakota, with which automobiles rented by a hlr. B. B. Xilburn of Chlcago. In Cnr handling for the nlonth of JTay have made from 35 to 57 miles on a aclual test it was punctured 500 tlmes wlthout in the St. Louis tcrminals was the gdlon of gasoline. It removes carbon the loss oY atr. Thls wonderful new tube ln- largest in the history of the F'risco and reduces spark plug trouble and creases mllenge from 10,000 to 12,000 mlles and Railvoad. having handled 70.196 cars. A review of the younC ladies at overheating. It can be installed by rllmlnates changtng tlres. It costs no more any one in five minutes. Mr. Stranskg than the ordinary tube. 311. B. B. JIUburn, Seventh Street Station is glven below: Vamp...... Emma Rueschffi wants distributors and is willing to 331 West 47th St., Chlengo wants them Intro- Tallest ...... Helcn Condon send a samplc at his own risk. Witc duced everywhere and Is making a speclal JIakes the Boys quit chewing, oRer to ngents. Write hlm today.-Adv. Xathalic Haeberle him today. vacatlon. He Is being relieved by A baby daughter has arrived to E. C. Wall, asslstant yardmaster. Lineman R. C. Yancev. brighten the home of Mr. and Mrs. went to Conception. Mo.. several days R. A. Nelson. divfsion lineman at C. C. Woodfill at Aurora. Woodfill is go and returned wlth his son. Eugene. Valley Park, has recently undergone signal hclper. who hafi been attending St. Mary's a very successful operation for appen- Supervisor G. C. Ross has gone school at that place. dlcltls at the St. Louls hospital. He through two automobile collisions the 0. W. Bruton, our newly appointed expects to be able to return to worlc oast week and while his car was badly superintendent of terminals. made a soon, but Is now being relieved by damaged, we are glad to report no one trip to xewburg last Sunday and at- Lineman E. N. Wood. was injured. tended a fish fry at that place. From Selma Hoffman spent several days the report he gives It was very much In Mr~mphls this week on account of ST. LOUIS MECHANICAL DEPT. of a success. the illness of L. Rena \Vebb, chief I.. P. Lavelle. Bbslntant yardmaster, telephone operator. We are glad to By LOUISE SCHUTTE Ims been taklng a vacation and made learn that Miss \ebb has sufficiently reveral trips to the river. but we have recovered to enable her to lerrve the Chmleu 0. eonnelly of Lindenwood not heard of any flsh that were caught. hospital. Slle has gone to Tupelo, has succeeded Mnx Hosang of Chou- Ralph Browning. our popular young Mlss.. tor a ahort rest. We had hoped teau Avenue aa nresident of the Metal messenger between the north side vard Miss \Vebb would come to Springfleld ('rafts and Car bepartment Employes, und general oflice, has been promoted again on her next vacation. Local No. 5. to the position of train checker at Operator W. V. McAdams of the Claud A. Edwards, electrician helper, Sewburg, 1\10.. and left on June 7th to River Division has recentlv assianed to wan trannterred from Eprlngfield to take up-hls duties at that place. regular service In the ~~pulparelay Chouteau Avenue. Welcome to our Floyd Jlosely has heen promoted to office. He reprted there for duty on city. Mr. Edwards. the position vacated by Ralph, and Ke- Junc 8th. We have wlth us "the flying dutch- opnen Hicks has been employed to fill B. E. Foster, regular agent. Phillips- man." in other words. Hugo Schaefer's Floyd's position. burg. visited the . Telegraph Depnrt- C'hevrolet with rear fenders missing. John Summers la the proud owner ment recently. On account of poor Claude Neelev is the new ARA clerk of a new Oldsmoblle car, and Norman health, Mr. Foster has spent some time in Mr. ~illcspie's office. Krusr. iw driving a new Ford coupe. In Mayo Brothers' Clinic at Rochester. The proposed organlzatlon of the John attended the Frisco Veterans' Mion. Hc cxnects to resume worlc on Heunlon. which was held hero a shor: Frisco- -~ Outinr Club did not meet with July 1st. a very hear& response at this point. time ago, and although I have ques- Kathryn McGrath. P. B. X, operator although there are those of us who tioned him diligently, I havo been un- here, is spcndln~her vacation in Chi- think it in a splendid plan and hope able to learn anvthinc about the Re- cago and Detroit, accon~paniedby her it will meet with success anyway. union, but have- heard a great deal .mother. . - -.. . - . Our efficient porter, "Barney Google." about a certain young lady he met Lois Morris. P. B. X, operator at Sa- is going to leave us for a few months. whlle there. aulna. s~enta weelc at Eurelra Pnrincs. He is going to California, but solemnly Last month was the largest month in ihii month. promises that he will not let ally of the hlstory of the terminal, there being FIorcnce Lacher, P. B. X, operator at those Mack Sennett beauties vamp him. 74.315 cars handled through here. Sapulpa, attended graduation exr.1.- .No! He will break their hearts, he said. cises of her class at Dauln, Okla. Lloyd Kloae and Springfleld! We CAR ACCOUNTANT'S OFFICE JIrs. Neatle Smlth, chief telephone rannot think of one and not the other. SPRINGFIELD, MO. ol~eratorat Gapulpa, and Ray Fordyre 13 Sprlngficld ~ucha fascinating town were married June 7th at Stlpulpa. For- that if vou live in St. Louls you must MARY HOWELL, Reporter dyce Is a brakeman on the Southwest- rlslt ~n;ingfiold every time you get a. em Division. They will make. their'. -- brrathl'ng spell? Nellie Eabank gave us a surprise on home in Sapulpa. The Adonis of the Lindenwood round- Grayce Hall has heen osslgned as Nay 21st by changing her name to housr has overcome his reserve; how- Bradley and her ~ositlonfrom clerk to chief telephone operator at Sapulpa on ever. he does not need the aho~mule account of the renlznatlon- of Mrs. Nca- housekkeper. It's nice to be able to -a .~ordcoupe Is much cozler, Isn't change one's name when tlred of the tie Smith. it? .L. old one. Best wishes, Mra, Bradley. Lillian Hultsch, secretary to Mr. The shop mule Is now out of service. Brennan and reaular re~orterfor this Anna Mason, returned from Denver. they say. due to overwork. Well, it did Colo, last weelc wearing a diamond department. Is Taking a much-needed pass the Car Department window quite vacation. Frances Cofeman is filling on the third finger of her left hand. l'reauentls. but not without reason. We wouldn't be surprised if some oth- the temporary vacancy in this depart- ~ivoof the most popular mechanics ment during Xlss Hultsch's absence. ers don't return Prom vacations siml- joined the ranks of the benedicts; larly decorated. Mahx Linster. groundman in forc- namely, William L. Baron and Nathan- man Steven's gang, spent a week in Mrs. Edith Mlddloton entcrtalned on iel P. Duffy. Mr. Baron and Elizabeth Monday even,ing. June 1st. at her sub- Springfield the first of this month. lvilkcrson of Springfield were married .lsslstant Superintendent G. F. Lins- urban home In Oak Grove Lane wlth a in Springfield on June 3rd. Mr. Duffy miscellaneous shower in honor of Doris ter and C. H. Williamson, telephone and .\nnie Cluff, of Killarney, Manitoba. vnglneer, spent several days in Chaf- Lawson who is to be a June bride. The Canada, were married in St. Louis, Mas house was attractively decorated wlth fee and St. Louis thc first of thc "stt. We wish each of you all the suc- month June roses. The bride-rlect, who after cess in the world and welcome you to her marriage will be Xm. Fred Carl- Upon her return from a vacation 111 St. Louis. We trust that your mar- Dubuque, Iowa, last month, Catherine son, received many beautiful and use- ried life will be as happy as your wed- ful gifts. The entertainment teature of Stephei~~on.Frl~co P. B. X. operator ding day. Now, how is that? at St. Louls. resirned after havinv the evening wan music. Refreshments The IAndenwood Stores Department were served to about flfty guests. The scrved in thl~capazity for about nin ran a close third. Gus Devine, section years. It Is generally understood thar assisting hostesses were Helen FIeflin stockman. married Mrs. Mae Staulcc, and Mary Howell. Miss Stenhenson was married durinc June 15th. His only regret is that he her vacation, but we have been unable Oneita Woolford OK the Per Diem did not know her years and years ago. Department .has handed In her renig- to secure any details of this event. It is needless to say that Gus is very This denartment extends sincere nation, effective June Nth. 192.5. She sympathy to Irene Ennis, telephone happy. is another one of our June brides and The Car Department reports that bad we wish her all the ha~~inessand operator at Tulsa, wl~uwan recently urders are decreablng. .. called to St. Petersburg. Florida, on prosperity in the luturr. account of the sudden death of her Onelta Woofford, Helen Hswkina and brother. OFFICE, BUPT. OF TERMINALS Qclllr Clifton returned from a week's SPRINGFIELD, MO. vacation. Mar 24th. Thev Rtolmed ot SIGNAL DEPARTMENT ~iagara' ~alia, levela and and ' other Ry DOLYNE SCOTT. Reporter points in the East. The girls were de- SPRINGFIELD< MO. liahted with the low rate taxi Pares In We made a slight mistake last month (lye East, especially from Buffalo to MATILDA C. HOFFMAN, Reporter in stating that June was to be a month Siagara. 01 wedding^ for some of our yard Much disappolntment was Kelt In Robert Garton, Inspector of automa- clerks. It was-and is yet to be if Room 100, Monday mornlug. when the tic train control and Clara Willie of some of thc rrportn I have heard are Bradley twlns came to work wlth their Willard, 110.. were married on May 31. correct-but Bert Biggs surprised hair stlll flxed in llttle ouffs. After The Sianal Denartment extends con- everyone by announcing his marriage the talk on Saturday before. we were gratulaTions and best wishes. to Zoe Sheppard, which took place on 1K~sitivf2they would come with their Mrs. F. V. Hutchison, wife OK our January 4th of this year. We believe tresses shorn. genial draftsman Is vlsltlng in Wlns- Bcrt 3s pretty good at keeplng a se- Mr. Lindquist. chlcK clerk of the -low. - , ---Ark. - - cret. The young couple are now at Record Department, had an accident. Inspector Barron recently made a home at 1245 Washington. twisting hls neck, causing hlm much short business tri~to Jas~er.Ala. Mre. Cecil Carnahan and Marcella Buch- pain every time he wanted to turn to Barron accompanied him and vlsited ahan were married on June 4. After nee who was doing nuch loud talking. home folks. a brlef honeymoon In St Lauis, they Agnes Leach, our pretty refrigerator Mrs. Lake Owen has recently under- are now malting their home at 806 clerk. is resigning eIfective June 27th. gone a serlous operation, but- We are West Scott. to become the bride of a fine young glad to report she is greatly improved. John Summers. secretary to Mr. Bru- man of St. Louls. June 30th. Car1 Thompson motored to Rolla for ton, spent a very enjoyable vacatlon We have heard It said that whoever the week-end. June 13th and reports vlsitln~relatives and Irlcnds in Con- chume with Luna Wllder will soon be the fish would not blte. was, Mo., and Honeywell, Kana. marrled. However, at present she has July, 1925 m/ci&~~,@PLO@S'~WZ/NE Page 53 SPRINGFIELD ADVERTISER- Office Phone 150 Res. Phone 2415-J I ( PATRONIZE I Head-to-Foot Outfitter STANDARD PLUMBING CO. I I I YOUR I Steam and Hot Water Heating Phone 665 334-6 E. Commercial St. ADVERTISERS J. J. LAWLER, Proprietor I SPRINGFIELD, MO. I I I 311 McDaniel St. SPRINGFIELD, MO.

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SPRINGFIELD Phone 353 319 McDANIEL ST, TRACTION CO. I LEE SAVAGE I See First I Painting and Decorating SPRINGFIELD I for Economical GAS ELECTRIC Springfield, - - Misaourl & CO. Transportation E~tabllrhd1866 Incorporahi 1910 Viw-PrcaidentA- and General Manager Paxson Undertaking Co. I (Incorporatd) Funeral Directors Standard Motor Co. SPRINGFIELD, MO. and Embalmers 468 St. Louis Street I Ambulance Seroice Day and Night Springfield, Missouri 1 410-412 South Ave. ~pr&gfield.~o.I

-- I PHONES 3630 and 4588 I I.H. BRIDGER GROCERY CO. I I Colonial Hotel We Keep Buslness Up by Keepla Prices Down I I JNO. M. OLSEN I Springfield, Mo. I TWO GOOD STORES GENERAL CONTRACTOR 204 East Commercial St THE LARGEST AND BEST 436 Eaet Commerelal St BOX 326 S. S. STATION Seroica Our SPRINGFIELD, MO. SPRINGFIELD - MISSOURI Motto HOBART-LEE TIE COMPANY Railroad Ties and Timber ROBT. E. LEE, President BERT S. LEE, Vice-Pres. and Treas. LESLIE LEE, Assistant to President A. C. DAILY, Secretary Operating in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas WE HAVE SUPPLIED THE FRISCO CONTINUOUSLY FOR OVER 40 YEARS Landers Building SPRINGFIELD, MO, Frank B. Smith Laundry Co. - FAMILY WET WASH Page 54 sereral followers, but none of them ago. We regret they did not find more joyed true southern hoapltality in the have mentioned anything about being time to spend reviewing our methods pretty little home of Mrs. Norris Leit- marrled soon. of accounting, also in becoming better zendorffer (formerly LUCY Whitten- A change was made recently. assign- acquainted, especially in view of our berg, dictaphone operator -in this de- Ing Margaret Butler, office girl, to fil- work being in many respects so closely partment). During the afternoon the ing interchange and giving us a new related. hostess drove her guests out to the office girl. Roseltha Perry. Isabelle Bissett resigned on June 1st. home of Augusta Kastendieck, two Helen Owen came to work a few after many year's service. She and miles out of the town, who owns per- days ago with tears in her eyes. Upon her mother have moved to Tulsa to haps the largest private collection of Lnqulring as to the cause of her sorrow. make their home with her brother. stuffed birds in the countrv. Miss Kas- she told us that their cow had died and Mrs. Bertie Sutton and Iva Miller are tendieck, also, is an artist-of consider- sald, "NOW we won't have any more vacationing in the West, visiting Port- able ability and the girls were over- cottage cheese. Ain't it orful?" land. Spolcane, Vancouver and other in- ioved at beinr shown her beautiful oil Mrs. Edna Coffman spent her vaca- teresting points. &lid water coior paintings, rare bits of tion in Dallas, taking her two children. Mrs. Amy Cummings, Texas Line hand-painted china and exquisite tapes- Thls is the flrst real vacation she has record clerk, has had just cause to be tries. Late in the evening, >Ira. Leit- taken in her five years' service with proud of her son, Gordon Cumrnlngs. zendorffer served one of those "fit-for- the Frisco and we'll say that she de- He was elected City Xanager, of Tiny a-king" dinners, which certainly would served the pleasure that she had. Town and made the trip to Washing- have tickled the palate of the most Marguerite Lulai s~entthe week-end ton. D. C, to invite President Coolidge fastidious. In Aurora visiting fimiends. to visit their miniature city. Wa can't Tom Quinn, claim investigator. Someone write another story for the understand why he refused their in- brought all the boys a souvenir from SDringfleld Leader. Hours from eight vitation. Montreal, but somehow or other it all o'clock till nine each morning are quiet leaked out. now since the story of "The Flapper F. L. & D. CLAIM DEPARTMENT Carrie Livingston, popular flle clerk. Wife" has come to an end. has just returned from a trip in the Amelia Schmidt made a birc decision SPRINGFIELD; MO. East, visiting Chicago, Cleveland and the other day. but as to what it is all Niagara Falls. The chief attraction about, we cannot flnd out. CHARLENE WILLARD, Reporter for Carrie was a dance she attended at Thomas O'Toole, assistant chief clerk which there were approximately 900 to P. W. Conley of St. Louis and John One Saturday afternoon, not so long men in attendance. However, she re- Maxwell. car record and interchange ago, a group of Frisco girls, from vari- turned home safe and sound and we suecialist of the same office. were most ous departments in the building, mo- certainly were glad to see her smiling welcome visitors with us some days tored to Billings, No.. where they en- face again. Helpful hints: This article, by rights, should occupy a prominent space on the "Homemakers' Paae." but at any rate, Blll Warden saycthere Is such i For better Concrete, Culverts and Bridges, thing as plcking your dandelions too & close. One should leave some for seed. He also says his crop this year was a complete failure. Everybody seems to be vacatlonlng. Xrs. Acton.-file clerk, spent her vaca- tion in Parsons, Kans. Virginia Hass- ler enjoyed a few days' vacation in Nemphis, Tenn. Kathryn Young, dic- taphone operator. vacatloned in Hol- lister ~ndthe White River country and Gertrude Whltuker, dictaphone oper- ator, enjoyed a short visit with a. for- mer co-worker. Mrs. Ella Chamberline. now residing at Webster Groves. 110. Mary Lohmeyer is just full of Dub- BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA ( Woodstock Slag Corp. I WE FURNISHED CONCRETE SLAG FOR EAST THOMAS SHOPS ' BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA FOR EVERY PURPOSE CAPACITY OF MINES AND OVENS 2% MILLION TONS ANNUALLY Grider Coal Sales Agency STEAM & DOMESTIC COAL

G. B. McCORMACK, CARR McCORMACK, Vice-Prddent 2,000,000 TONS ANNUALLY Chairman of the Board ALBERT P. BUSH. Vice-Prerldent Birmingham, Alabama J. A. SH001<. Secretary - - Alabama By-products Corporation KILBY FROG & COAL TAR# SULPHATE OF AMMONIA, BENZOL FOUNDRY, FURNACE, WATER GAS AND DOMESTIC COKE SWITCH CO. STEAM, BUNKER. DOMESTIC AND SMlTHlNG COAL RAILROAD CROSSINGS GENERAL OFFICES: AMERICAN TRUST BUILDING I Birmingham, Alabama FROGS AND SWITCHES I MANGANESE TRACK WORK RIDOUT'S %%%EL ,,, , , AMBULANCE SERVICE I 2117 Fifth Avenue NIGHT AND DAY BIRMINGHAM - - ALABAMA July, 1925 Page 55

bles and springs 'cause a certain law "Poss" was down in front of the again, after having an operatic student is home from school. Oh. bullding the other day at noon and formed on his nose. these moonlight nights. Still, maybe, they say he was waiting to take Helen Walter Lewedag is just begin they don't know there Is a moon! As hIary Dryden to lunch. realize how beautiful the Mis Flapper Fanny says: "Love is blind, Glenn Jones was marrled to Jessie River is since he bought a hom~ but the neighbors aren't." HaIe at Ozark, Saturday night. May bank. No, not a club house, ; When Harry Hayes, clalm investl- 23rd, about 9:30 o'clock. Understand lar bungalow. gator, returned from a busfness trip to they had to get the minister out of Julius Schepflin broke into Blythevllle, wearins s, nlfty pair of bed to nerform the ceremony, as Ozark crinkle-crepe trousers with a very league about the flrst of June b is one of these towns you can't see for ing- a cqfltract with a sweet pronounced gray and black stripe (re- the houses, where dogs bark at strang- sembling the old-fashioned bed tlcking lady, to love, honor and obey. ers and they take the sidewalks up at the ceremony the vouna cou~le for feather beds) some of us thought sundown. he was walking in his sleep. However, a honeymoon trip through the E .... he assured us that they were quite ,tho The "bunch" all wish Glenn and his Bluth acted as best man. We certalnly thing and everyone was wearin' em brlde well and they presented them wish you worlds of aood luck. Julius. down there. with a beautiful electric percolator. Kenneth Bass and his wife spent Mack Sennett has hla eye on Edlth T. H. Wammack, chief of the red their vacation in the East. including a Weddell and her new scarlet bathing ball department, spent hfonday. May trip to Nlagara Falls, Detroit. Cincin- 25th. in Kansas City, looking after nati and Kentucky. suit. merchandise schedules. One of his girl Nrs. Imo Johnson, flle clerk, and lit- clerks was cruel enough to remark John Pipkin has been abscnt for the tle son, are vacationing in Michigan that she bet "Monday" was all he past few weeks, account of a broken and Indiana. They will attend a fam- jaw to which he fell heir in a hold-up ily reunion at Auburn, Ind. spent. Frieda House is vacationing in Cali- at Forest Park, returning from the Virgil Anderson, claim investigator, fornia and reports a wonderful time opera. xeXt time you go to the opera, and wife, motored to Sedalia and Jef- bathing 'n'everything. John, you better have one of the Frisco ferson City during the month and re- Ruth Smith spent her vacation in girls accompany you. port havlng a very interesting trip. E. V. Ashworth, formerly chief clerk They stopped at Boonville and visited Colorado. She reports a wonderful time. They say she went out there in our denartment. was recentlv laced the Reform School and later viewed in charge of the entire deparfment, the new state capitol, penltentlary, to see a blonde electrician. What's the matter, Ruth, ain't there any blondes succeeding E. R. 0. Mueller, who was etc., at Jefferson City. transferred to the twelfth floor. Ash- Mayme Gurley proved to be a de- in Springfleld, or ain't that brunette I see down in the front of the building. worth was succeeded by W.W. Noody. lightful hostess for a little swlmming Paul Strauss pr0C~reda lovely coat party at her country home on Grant enough. Understand he is a pretty fast worker. of tan during his vacation. and did not Street Road. Sunday morning June Little Mary (Pep) Campbell from the go to the seashore to get it, either. 7th. A delicious breakfast was 'served rabblt 1,atch says all she has to do is Simply gave the house a few coats. to the Misses Venner Weddell, Carrie leave the back gate open, get up early Bob O'Connell is now the proud dad- Livingston, Angeline Golden and Mrs. dy of a flne nine-and-one-half-pound Imo Johnson. in the morning. sli~around the block. close the gate-and ahe has a yard full boy. Another prospective railroad F. S. Adams, traveling freight ad- of rabbits-then they have "Welch clerk. juster, and family, have moved into Harry Landzettle, formerly in charge their new home on Monticello Street. rabbit" until Mary qulta going' home to lunch; of course, those are the days of the File Bureau, has been trans- some Ford jockey takes her out to a ferred to B. P. Williams' department. OFFICE, SUPT.; TRANSPORTATION lunch at the "Colonial" Pharmacy. XIr. Landzettle was succeeded hv Mr. Jerrold. SPRINGFIELD, MO. Helen Deckert of this department. and Julta Engelking of the superin- l'hlaga Thnt Xever Hnppe11 tendent'~office, Eastern Division, re- John Culver in an argument. A. T. SILVER, Reporter turned On June 1st from a vacation A better office boy than Guy Miller. spent in Denver, Colorado Springs and Jule Hynes not passing out the blar- Alfred If. Ball, formerlv reporter ne y. of this column and secretary to Mr. Salt Lake. They reDort a wonderful time and say it snowed while they Tom O'Brlen in a hurry. Doggrell. superintendent of transpor- Harry Wigge sneezing quietly. tatlon, hsE accepted a position as sec- wore on Pike's Peak; also report hav- ing seen Mr. Sewell of the Claim De- Hilda Uthoff late to work. retary to J. E. Hutchison vice-presi- partment on the streets of Denver. Xelba Krueger taking less than flve dent, and will spend most'of his time Mrs. Lillie Hartley died Sunday at minutes to put on her hat. on the road and at St. Louis. Sad to her home, 1233 North Robberson Ave., Herbert Wingerter without Sta- relate, he is leaving a trail-of diokii following a lingering illness. She is comb. hearts among the flappers in this office. the mother of Virgil Hartley, clerk in Ed. Volkert worrying. as he was known -as the "Sheik of this department. Virgil has our sin- Marie Kleyer declining an invitation Nichols." Some St. Louis mamma will cere sympathy in his bereavement. to lunch. be sure to grab him off and have pic- Mrs. Maude Reams, formerly Maude Marth Kistro without curls. in's as he Is a meat bov on the~ -- shows-- ~ Beard, typist in this department, now Beulah Bulger and Billy Berkley ex- and dances, eGecially- dances-that's making her home in Gainesville. Fla., changing endearing names. where "Al" struts his sturn. The visited the office the afternoon of June Joe Cleary mlssing a peep at the "bunch" wish him all the luck in the 3rd. with her little daughter Jane. Glad c1ock.a~he dashes into the office each world In his new position. ~r.DO=: to see Xaude again. who looks as if mornmg. well's loss will be Mr. Hutchison s Florida agrees with her and might add A fonder grancldaddy than Mr. Grif- gain. that little Jane made quite a hit with flth E. A. Teed, general car servlce agent. the whole bunch. Pat Gaffney missing a Sunday out at has moved his farnlly to Springfleld A very delightful dinner party was the club. from 3Iemvhls. consist in^ of Nrs. Teed given at Half-a-Hill Tea House, June Charlie Egli passing up a piece of and daughter Lenore -11 years old 8th. complimcntary to Mrs. Elbert calce. and they will'make thkir home at 92d Reams and Baby Jane. Arthur Stoehr speaking in a gentle South Jefferson Street. Welcome to Those who nttended the dlntlet partv voice over the telephone. our city, the Queen City of the Ozarks. Van Hale sneaking in an audible That reminds me of a story: There were hllsse~Gertrude Sprohn, cather'- ine Toon. Helen Declrert, Savina Felln, volce aver the telephone. was a fellow who had a dream and Freda Fielclen, Bertha Schumacher, Paul Strauss saying: "Thank you, I dreamed be went to heaven and St. Jacquelin Tisdell, Hallie Welch, Eula don't drink." Peter,weIcomed him with open arms Stratton, Vinnle Hindman, Mrs. John and asked hlm lr he would like to see Breclcenridge, Mrs. Lester Langsford some of the beauties of heaven. He and the two honorees. said he would, and St. Peter provided The "bunch" would like A. T. to ex- him wlth a sulde and they started out plain who Miss Ivy is. From the looks to see tho sights. Finally they ran of things Miss Ivy has been hanging across t~ fellow tled to a stake. Think- ing that was strange, he asked the on his arm. FRANZ ALLEBACH guide about it and he explained that the fellow tied to the stake came from AGENTS' ACCOUNTS DEPT. the Ozarks, wanted to go back and they hnd to keep him tied to the stake to ST. LOUIS, MO. keep him in heaven. LILLY KULAGE, Reporter PHOTOGRAPHER Traveling Auditors AIcMurrav. Loeck- If you want to chance a small amount ener. Drebelbis and Tapscott I;aid~"i~a in Wild-Cat Oil Territory, write to visit this month. We don't like to say it, but, really. we think Mr. McMurrav's J. M. CHESHIRE visit was to show that baby's picture more than anything else. Don't blame 214 South Jefferson Taiban, New Mexico you a bit. John. (Former Frisco Mall Room Foremen) Wc notlce since Steve Kane is back SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI , at his desk near the water cooler, Julie Flvr Year Leases at 50c per Acre par Hynes is always thirsty. Year Rental Merlln Eifert is back on the job July, 1925

Steve Kane missing one of Paul's driver asked where to, she said: "Oh. parties. just drive around for awhile." Had it The police shake-up is not the only not been for the flagging system, they one. Our Demurrage and Storage Bu- might have had quite a tar1 blll. reau, with "Bob" Lewis in charge, was Miss Feirba Justice savs it was a transferred on April 20th to Springfleld, grand and glorious feeling to take No.. to be consolidated with the Car ether-felt like she was in heaven, but ~ccountant's Office, thereby causing after the flrst effects wore off she felt plenty of transfers and "bumps." We like she had been demoted. ~l'

such a good recommendation for Flori- a very close frlend of mine and Miss FOR SALE: A practically new and da .We hope he will be leaving St. Moore, associate editor, signed him up Louls in a few days feeling one hun- while in Memphis sometime ago, upon very attractive frame residence having dred per cent. the strength of my friends hi^ for five nice large rooms, pantry, closet The entire bunch trainmasters' office and two large porches on first floor regret to learn of Dispatcher C. W. Gentry's slster being ill. Glad to know and two unfinished rooms and two of her successful operation and hope closets on second floor. Cistern on for her recoverv at an early date. rear porch, garage, all in good condi- Local Bill ~lkrkHenrv Har~rovere- now have a first class buriesoue show ports buying a diamond- ring,-however. in Memphis and ask that Jou boys tion. Needing only a little paint. On can't find out who it is Tor or when visit same when in Memphis again. We a lot 130x205, excellent for garden and the big event is going to happen. Xow, also notice that W. C. Henke, shop ac- small fruits and near railroad sta- understand he is-sic16 Didn't know It countant, Chaffee, is spending his affected one like that. week-ends also in Memphis in behalf tion, postoffice and school, in Anacon- C. K. Clayton has been permanently of some llttle lady that is working da, a town on the Frisco Railroad, 57 assigned agent at Tupelo, effective in the superintendent's office, Mem- miles from St. Louis. Only 3/4 mile May 8th. ~&lr.Clayton was agent at phis. Why not settle down, Henke, Jasper. and stop so much riding on the lines, from concrete highway now building, C. H. Goldsmith struck a match the and I believe that Chaffee is a first and 2% miles from the Meramec other day to light a cigarette-so we class town to settle down in. River. This property would cost not thought-but instead, stuck it In his E. X. Fitzgerald, traveling store- less than $4,000 to duplicate. Will shoe, so he has been running "on one keener. who has been confined for the side" for the last few days. past few weeks in St. Louls, is now sacrifice it at $2,500, one-third cash, Acting Night Trainmaster R. T. Hyn- able to be up and about again and was balance easy terms. Address J. H. son is spending a few days at Little a welcome visitor to our onice recently. Bennett, Sullivan, Mo. Rock on some important work for thc A. N. Burnam, storekeeper, Thayer. Knights Tempiar. No., writes that since the editor has Mrs. R. E. cam^ and three children discontinued making write-ups rela- are spending their vacation in Tupelo tive to officials visiting the -different and Amory, Mississippi, visiting rela- noints. that he wlll not have much tives. hews to write about from ThayeF as Dispatcher T. C. A!ien has just re- he states that that is about all that hap- turned from officers training camp, pens in and around Thayer on the OZARK Ft. Bragg, X. C. ,Mr. Allen was re- Frisco road. He also states that fish lieved by Dispatcher James White, who are bitinrr rrood there at the nresent was formerly with the Frlsco. and that -if any of his friends Gish to Mrs. L. J. Mantoux and son Lopez take a week-end ofe and go fishing, SUMMER RESORTS have gone to San Antonlo and Dallas, that he will be glad to take them out Texas for a few months. and show them-where the fish were Be sure to read about our picnic. -last - bltinrr. The recular monthlv-- -fuel - -- everyone had such a wonderful time meeting Gas held h~~hayer-recently and hope to have another in the next and some of the men who were attend- few months. ins same from Memphis. state that Walnut Grove Lodge A. Johnson has been appointed time- thev received a souare-meal once more. on Gasconade Rlver, 135 mlles from St. Loula, keeper at East Thomas and Cary Gore among them was -Mr. Gimpson, generai via Frisco R. R. and State Hlghwny No. 14. wzs appointed assistant cashier. foreman. Memphis. When sou thlnk of spending Your vncatlon. Katie Smith, niece of Mlss Smith. Millard I). Rhodes, storekeeper. Yale. come to Walnut Grove Lodge. A place you stenographer to Mr. Snook, speut a Tenn. has had a very lonesome time will feel at home. Enjoy good eats, good flshlng week in ,Mentone Springs. recentlv. as his wife and little son and plenty of recreation. ~illard;. Junior, have been visiting W. A. UNDERWOOD SOUTHERN DIVISION STORES Nillard's parents in Jackson, Tenn. Dixon. Mo. DEPARTMENT Millard spent one week-end while they were away, at Grassy Lake, fishing, and reuorts that fish were not bitina much WARREN PUCKETT, Reporter a6d that he had to spend five-hours helping two oxen to pull him out of WOODLOCK'S In response to the suggestion made tile mire around the lake. It's funny Nodern furnace heated Hotel open all in last month's issue of the magazine, that when a man's wire is out of Year. Also cabins and cottages, wlth sleep- from H. F. Shivers, reporter for the town that he wiil snend his time s~r- ing porches. Excellent food-plenty of 11. mechanical department, Kansas City, tlng on some desoiata lake fishing, Good flshing, swlnlming, horse-back ridlng, the writer believes the suggestidn a when he lives in a town the slze 01 hiking, tennis, dnnclng, hay-rides. good one, however, we found out later Ale~nph~s,and has as nlany klnds OL Rates: $2.50 per day, $15.00 par week that the pass wasn't lost, but misplaced a~~iusementsas BIemphis has. for a period of 24 hours, due to the Slnce tennis season has 0~enedIn Address: WOODLOCK'S, CRAWFORD CO., fact that the little girl that lost her Memphis, our chief clerk,- Georgc: DAVISVILLE, MISSOURI pass wanted to stay over in the Jlagi" (TII~).)I\Io~,ris, has been sutfering no City (Birmingham) another day and little with a blistered forehead, due to rne'rily used this method to fool thc the hot sun on the court. 1 belleve boss. We might also add that El~anOr that Tiny is trying to see if the blis- OAK LAWN INN is a vcry close friend to her mother. tev wiil not help him in restoring the Verv seldom you ever see one with- hair to his bald head, which he has Modern 11-room house, with nil ron\'enlences. out'the other when in Memphis and I unfortunately lost. Lnrce shndr lawn and tennla court. Meramec believe that if her mother had ac- J. C. Allen. clerk and corresDondent Sprlngrr nearby lor good flshing and bnthlng. companied her to Birmmgham that the at Amory, is' still spending his nights Lltcle Bourbeuse River 1 mlle distant. pass wouldn't have been misplaced. writing for the Frisco Magazine, but Excellent Food. Will meet cues& at traln J. A. Biankinshlp, division store- declines to send any of his story in without charge. kee~erspcnt May 19th. 20th and 21st for publication until he has finished. Rates: $2.50 per day; $15.00 per week. in St. '~ouis,attending the convention \Ve are all waiting on our tiptoes for this story, so please, 31r. Allen, don't For further Informntlon, wrlte of division 6, purchases and stores, of Mrs. W. F. Coooer. St. Jamas. Ma. the American Railway Association. We kecp us waiting much longer. How are mlght also add that the boss has pur- the fish biting in and around Amory? chased a, new Durant after debating The home of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. for some time about having to give up Betts, 644 Hillcrest, Yemphis, was the his Star shooter, better known as the scene of a very pretty wedding on Star automobile, however, he is still \I7ednesday afternoon at 4:00 p. m.. clinging to the Star motor as the Du- when Irene Snyder, former compto- i GRAHAM'S rant is made by the same company. meter operator in master mechanic's Noticed in the last issue that Ralph office, became the bride of J. T. Will- Williams, reporter for the division ac- iams, traveling MCB instructor of the On the GASCONADE countant's office, ~Memphis, had a Il'rlsco. The Rev. E. C. Lace,,, of Mc- bunch of newsy news in the issue. Lelnore Avenue Christian Chur~hof- which we all enjoyed reading very ficiated. Reached via Frisco Lines and much Personally, I would like to see Immediatelv after the ceremonv. the ~aiphmake good as reporter, as he is happy coup16 left for a bridal- tou~ State Highway No. 14. south, visiting Mobile, Biloxi and other points on the coast. Their many Individual Cottages, Excel- friends extend hearty conmatulations and wish for them muc,h happiness. lent Meals, Reasonable Rates. Ralph Williams, assistant bill and 1 FRANK W. DAVIS I voucher clerk, Memphis, was married 1 Write or Wire to Ada Nichols on June 13th, and are LIFE, ACCIDENT now making a tour of Missouri and tl~c I I surrounding country, including Lamar, W. E. GRAHAM I The Travelers Insurance Co. %To. I June seems to be a very popular Summer Resort, Jerome, Missouri 1 5 E. Wall St. FT. SCOTT 1 month for our clerical force at ~Mem- phis. In addltlon to losing our comp- Page 55'

tonieter operator Irene Snyder, our roundhouse clerL, Emmett hlorgan took unto himself a pretty little bridd on last Wednesday, June 10th. Jlrs. Morgan was formeriy Narguerete Muel- ler of Memphis. They are now taking a tour In the east, after Irvhich they will make thelr home In Memphis.

BIRMINGHAM STORES DEPT.

THOMAS L. CONKOR, Reporter The hot weather has overtaken us Blrminghamers, and we are rushing the water cdolers, straw hats and eler- tric fans. Gee! It certainlv is H 0 T! At last we1have eliminated the snrinc and autumn seasons--at~irminihG; thus only having wlnter and summer: Of course, this don't necessarily mean ion? that the water lilies at AIemwl&. and the lwo~lipsat Amory can a6complish @ ~uch.~ .-~. We are all glad to see Grandpa Clai- We invite you to use "Mercantile Service." It borne and numher 2600. The air seems :full of smiles and klndlv shoulder was created for the betterment of your financial touches when he is around, We ex- tend to him a welcome at any tlme. condition. The Birmingham store reporter was caught the other day rocking to and fro in his chair at a fast rate of speed. An investigation was held as to what was wronx, and it developed he has a bouncing eight-pound baby girl at his Mercantile Trust Company place of abode. Look out for pictures. St. LouL I hare several reouests from various sources as to who in the busiest man in the Birminsham termkai; ifid \.ant to answer these requests by saying that at present, step into the terminal superintendent's oftice and call on Mr. Of co-operative meetings by all con- ner, who is secretary to Drs. Woodson cerned in order to handle the in and Whitten-then Come to the storekeen------. and Wilder. We still have with us er's office and @neiai~f&eman9soffice. outbound traftic which the Frisco the pretty little girl with the curls. In fare of the extreme hot weather. handles a larae nart of. Birminzham Evelyn Franklin, assistant to Drs. we handled 60.778 cars and 979 en- reports on December 31, 1924,-~737~zf- 'Aroodso11 and Wilder. gines. ferent industries factories and mines A. Johnson, assistant cashier, local Doubtless everyone has heard of the manufacturing 1~640 difeerent kinds oi agent's office, has accepted position as Frisco Boosters Club. If not, you have products. During the year of 1324. timekeeper at East Thomas. Sorry to been on an extended vacation. This there was a total of 19.200.000 tons of lose 311.. Johnson from thln denartment. fast growing club held a meeting Ma\' coal 6,000.000 ton& of coke^ ~ 2j02,ll~ Carev Gore has been awwointed as- 5th. at 6:00 w. m.. in the banauet room tons' of iron and 2.000.000 to& of steel sistant cashier, local frcight office. of Greenwooh's Cafe. Severai Interest- Produced. The population heing 230,- The "Boosters' Club", with their Cam- in^ subjects were treated by Messrs. 000, with a per capita wealth of prop- ilies and friends, enjoyed a hasket pic- Deadman, Hannum, Snook, Carson nnd erty of $1.039.01. There was 335.000.- nic at Avondale Park. Fridav evening. Schocnebetfi. Mr. Deadman made n 000 worth of products manufactured June 5th, with an attendance of abort Inn snlendld taik and also mentioned mak- during the year 1924. With this vast "U". inn effort to get a Frisco hau! on reg- amount Of yearly production, which is The Birmingham Club has become ular movements of flour, orlginatlng practically all shipped out, anyone can one or the most actlve clubs on the west of St. hula. He secured Frlsco readllv see the necessitv of close co- Vrisco, clue greatly to the untlrlna ef- routina on three cars for trial and also operatlon in order to get a workable forts of W.-W. Johnson, chalrmai of showed these cars olaced at the ware- share of the bunlness-so, boosters, get the comnlittec. Mr. Johnson Is chief house the third moininz after delivery bus^ as the 1925 profiram has beRUn clerk In local agent's office. to the Frisco at St. Louis. He also much heavier and order books ahead Lon8 tables were spread wlth "eats" presented tags In ~lroof that the caw Indicate the future holds out also n of every kind, with plenty of Ice cold were delaved In ma kin^ delivery at hravler Industrv. lemonade and bottle drinks (soft) on St. 1,ouis bv connectina lines. We will no3 leave the hoostering the side. After everyone hud eaten Mr. ~arsbnmention& the Birminp;- and holding of meetings to J. A. Whit- all they could hold, talks were ~nadc. ham terminal being the best terminal ten, chief clerk to termlnal superin- bv a number of employes beginning on the entire system. tendent, as G. R. Carson and wife left r$ith Superintendent of ~6rminalsG. The meeting ended with plans out- .June 13th for an extended trip to Los R. Carson. who exnressed much arati- lined for an outinrr which was he!d Angeles, Calif. lication over the &thuslanm disdayed .June 6th. at Avondale park. and the excellent attendance. Mr. Car- Everyone make it a point to join the BIRMINGHAM GENERAL OFFICE son stated these gatherings should bc gang next meeting and he a booster! held more Often. as they are the means It is feared that all emwlosres havc of brinaina the emoloves and their not as yet aotten this booster business LAUN.\ 31. CHEW, Reporter families'clo~er togctlier-and created a down in God order. Of course the feellnc of xnotl Irll~\\shipamong em- larmst oer cent han, but there is al- .\nyone havIn~a good remedy for ployes, whlch, of course, means "l

cIerk to the superintendent of termi- this month for a three-weeks' vislt nals, F. H. Huie. General Yardmaster to Callfornia. ST. LOUIS ADVERTISERS W. R. Brown Fireman Ellls Cole Every effort Is belng made to per- I I Yardmaster J. H. Ford Engineer rand suade Jesse Norgan to attend the evo- Powell, Swltch ~orenianE. L. Dead- lutlon trial In Dayton next month. Mr. man. Huie says this will be the best evi- Also. Mrs. W. W. Johnson and Mrs. dence the defense can pr,oduce. In I MARYLAND HOTEL I other words, Wllliam Jennlngs Bryan Next to Frlsco Building C. J. Snook gave us Ilttle talks, which were much appreclated. will feel like one when he talks to ST. LOUIS. MO. Jesse. POPULAR PRICE EUROPEAII HOTEL The outing was so thoroughly en- Alfred Johnson from the Iocat Absolutely FlreprooT joyed by all present, It was unani- freight offlce has been assigned time- Rater: $1.50 and Uo Per Day mously voted to hold these little gath- keeper in the termlnal superintendent's I Electrlc Fan (Free) in Every Room erings more often, the next meeting office. A. S. Newman. former tlme- EATS :-Unexcelled CAFETERIA and to be a watermelon cutting sometime keeper, has resigned. COFFEE SHOP Service I nest month. I The entertainment committee, com- posed of J. W. Hannum, chairman, C. E. Sullivan, E. L Deadman, Luther SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE Armstrong, H. M. Snell, Guy Murphy MEMPHISi TENN. SMEE & HENDERSON and J. L. Godsey, are to be congratu- lated on their wonderful success in BERTHA HARRIS, Reporter CIGAR CO. "putting; aver" such a delightful aPfair. FRISCO BUILDING Slnce the organization of the "Roost- We have an announcement to make ers" murh interest has been displayed this month that is even far more irn- We Carry Your Favorite Smoke among every Frisco employe in the portant than the weather, although Rirmlngham District and this club is we hope, not so uncertain-that is, the determlned to go right to the top of engagement and approaching marriage the ladder, their slogan belng "Better of Ralph Williams of the accounting Servic?, and More Ruslness for the department, this oflice, and Ada Nich- Frisco. ols of Memphis. Mr. Williams is a young man wlth a disposition and pcrsonality that en- BIRMINGHAM TERMINALS ables him to cope with any situation. WE GO TO even, we hope that of adjusting the .TOHX L. GODSEY, Reporter difficulties of Gatrimony. A few of us have had the pleanure of meeting Miss The "Prlsco Booster Clull" takes the Xichols and we can truthfully say we Ihsds I headllnea, for the activity of this in- admire his good taste and judgment. 910-912 OLIVE dustrious club has been responsible .ifter a: simple wedding, they wlll visit for many thlngs, Including the big pic- Mr. W~Illams' parents in Lamar. Mo.. ntc held at -4vondale Parlc on June 5th. and will also vislt other points. The Cluh held its regular meeting with We all wish Ada and Ralph all the I BOMONT 414 BOMONT 415 a. banquet at Greenwood's in the early happiness in the world and if there is 1 part of May. Several visltors were any advice needed we can always help Present for the occasion, including Mr. them out. Rose. traveling auditor, and R. L C. H. Claiborne is spending his vaea- Shoenberg. Ail those present made tion at Ravenden Sprlngs Ark. interesting talks and promised to Rena Webb's many faends wlll be make the club the best on the Frisco. glad to learn she has resumed work ~arnd~Laundry Then the chairman. W. W. Johnson aftcr having had an appendicitis oper: appointed a committee to arrange th6 ation some weeks ago. 3301-1 1 Bell Ave.. St. Louis. Mo. picnlc. They came from the North, South. East and West, also from the district DORA, ALABAMA frelght agent's office down in the Woodward Buf!ding, but the best thing F. 31. SCOTT, Reporter was the "eats. John Conleu. who hnn not eaten In three months turned Alex Harper, brakeman on second loose and three fried chlck&m van- Dora Job. was a patient in employes' ished. Mr. McDonough had his mouth hospital St. Louis recently. He reports eo full of eats that he could not re- mighty flne treatment there and we mond when called on for a speech. are glad to see him baclc on thc job. Mr. Carson was taklng great pleasure in escorting the lady speakers to the John Ward had been cut ofY the Bir- stand. So great was all the enjov- mlnfiham extra hoard and was en- ment that enother picnic wan be in^ deavoring to make a living playing ball LEADERS IN THE planned the next dav for some future for Tupelo Miss., the Tri States League but is no\; glad to come back and have MIDDLE WEST date. It was the Rrst picnic ever glven bv the Frisco employes in Blrming- Brisco written on his pay check. FOR- ham and the "Roosters' Club" is glven Afrs. W. B. Robuck, wife of second credft for the event. trlck operator, is almost fully rocover- Marvin Darrah (not related to CIar- ed from an operation. She Is now at ence) htid a narrow escnne one mnrn- her father's at Deatsville, Ala. Bob Inr when hla vest ~aiglitRiK 3-ls is batching, and says he likeb hts own said that he had a pocket full of cooking.- FURNITURE matches and nut hla Dlpe in thls same R. D. Cooper is wearln- a broad grin pocket rlrht after a smoke and as anv to show his new teeth: Joe Henry match will do. they burst into flames. Roberson is doing the same thing. Mrs. Nellle McGowan is the happlest Wlrurehouseman-E. 31. Grissom bld In CARPETS RUGS ladv on the Frisco ,!his month for liav- clerk's job at Truman Ark., and was Ing won the fir~t Frisco ~eiterSew- relleved by Kstra clel:lc J. L Wrlght. Ice" content She In the proud owner This position here bid in by Thomas of the cold bar pin given as the prlae. Creawr from Hosie. Ark. DRAPERIES Mrs. McGowan ham n hablt of winn~ng thlngs, anvway. Just recently won a Ralph Connell and wife Forded to large gas range and another prize of- Moblle last week visiting relatives fered by one of the local stores. and viewing the c0Antr-v. Ral~llclnims LINOLEUMS he made a record run wlth- - -. ihnt... -. - .new. - .. The famous "Spark Plug", traveling coupe-but he will claim anything. over the system was In the Magic Cltg The Frisco sandhouse team lost a for 24 hours not long ago. It was rr mlghtv good game of haseball Mav 16 hard matter to get Barney away lrom losing. to the Sloss boys in a 'hard the southern belles on the "race track". fought battle. 0. M. Reeser was not satisfied untll he had found the reporter and taklnq a blg whiff from a firtcen cent cigar. he announced that he had an eleven pound switchman at his house. I JOHN J. COLLINS I Mrs. John Haynes, wlfe of Switch- man John IIaynes, has been seriously FUNERAL HOME ill and is now in the hospital. We hope (Inaorporated) I SAINT LOUIS that he]. illness Will soon pass and be out of danger. Mrs. C. H. Ford Is able to be up after ~everaiweeks illness. MEMPHIS, TENN. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Carson left earls I I Page 60 July, 1925

Austin has been employed asblacksmith About thirty-two from Monett at- here for about two years and was well tended the Veterans' Reunion in I NORTHERN DIVEION I liked by his fellow employes. There Springfield, which was the largest I I was a large attendance at this enter- representation from any one place ex- MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT tainment and dance, There were also cept Springfield. All report a wonder- a number of employes from Kansas ful time and say it is an occasion to FT. SCOTT, KANS. City attended. Mrs. W. B. Berry and look forward to every year. Following XIrs. Walter Medlock were among those is a list of Monett veterans in attend- WALLER R. HECK, Reporter who came down. ance: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Henry, Mr. On June 16 the Bureau of Explosives and Nrs. A. T. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. The Frisco shop employes' picnic at sent a representative by the name of C. W. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. James Pittsburg this year was a great success. Oglesby, who gave a lecture at the Mansfield, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Miller. There was a very large attendance. Y. XI. C. A., on explosives. This meet- Xr. and Mrs. Byron Callender, Mr. and A large delegation of employes from ing was well attended by shop men and Fort Scott drove down in their cars road men and was very instructive to and had a fine time. all who heard it. hlr. Oglesby was a The roundhouse at Fort Scott now very interesting talker $nd handled his has a motor car to take care of. .Mo- subject well. tor Car 2104 was placed on the Cherry- vale run, Trains Nos. 177 and 178. En- LOCAL FREIGHT OFFICE gineer John C. Staib Of Pittsburg bid -the run in and is now operating the KANSAS CITY, MO. car. Have had wonderful success with thls car considerina the fact that no DAVID H. TODD, Reporter one here had had aky previous esperi- cnce repairing or operating a mo- The stork visited the home of Solo- tor car. There were a few delays at mon Botwinik and left him a big baby first, Of course, but it is running very boy who was later named Arnold Ellis. smoothly now. Perhaps some of you His ring won't fit yet, so Sol will have who have automobiles would think it to put it away awhile longer. The very expensive if it took as much Chancellor's and chocolates were fine. gasoline for your car as it does for Frank Fenner is building a new home this motor car. The run from Fort in Marlborough Heights. Mildred will Scott to Cherryvale and back is 198 have to put up her swing nest door ax miles. It takes 135 gallons of gasolinc it was necessary to cut down all the to make the round trip. Every day trees for the site. there is added from 5 to 7 gallons of nlmer Lindeman, Chet Combs, Melvin Bob Johnson's Job gas engine oil, and about every two Anderson and several others not con- weeks the oil is changed, which takes nected with this office spent Decora- --and paved the way about 25 gallons. tion Day on a fishing trlp near Nevada, Richard Tivis who is employed as 310. I am unable to say if they caught for a better one! fi,re knocker as been absent from work any fish or not. If they didn't it was was writtcn to his employer by tlie International for nearly two months now on account because the water was too muddy for .Correspondence Schools. It told how Robert of rheumatism. the fish to see the bait. ITJohnson had enroilfd for a course of home-study Some of the employes have been go- The freight office has recently been and had received a mark oi 94 for his Arst lason." ing swimming in the river out near painted and the fixtures varnished so Bob answered the summons to the Chicf's office with Redfield. It is a very nice place and everything is nice and clean again. 'ust a little fear and trembling, for a lot of nien were the employes are now building a Willene Jacobs is the first from this being gropped-a lot more were having their pay springing board and a place to change office to take her vacation and is tak- reduced. clothes. It is also a nice place for ing two months ofl'. (Lucky girl.) But as Bob came in, his employer did 3 surprising picnic lunches and the men and their Changes have been taking place thing. He got up quickly from his desk and grasped families are planning on havin~some thick and fast in this office. Melvin Bob warmly by the hand. pleasant outings the& of eveniriks this Anderson has accepted a position in "I want to congratulate you, young man on the sunlmer. Roundhouse l*'oreman 0. H. our commercial office, Herman Wilson marks you are making with the I. C. S. I a& glad to Stoner and Engine Ins~cctorJ. D. AN- succeeding him as chief revising clerk sce that you are training yourself not only for your derson are buying the lumber and will with Harry Bowers promoted to assis- present job but for the job ahcad. call for volunteers to help build the tant revisina clerk. "\\'e're cutting Lhe pay-roll. Until I received this bath house. Arthur ~arlick~-wastaken ill with letter, I had you in mind as one of the men to be appendicitis and removed to the Chilli- dropped. But not now. Keep on studying-keep Chas. Heugel wrenched his back re- your eyes opcn-and pretty soon there'li be a still cently while working on the top of an cothe Hospital. We hope he will soon better iob for vou around here. We're always lookinn engine. He did not think very much he- - hack.- - - - - . - John Fleming, our mailing clerk, for trained mk." of the injury at first and did not lay \\'onlt you let the I. C. S. help you, Loo? won't ofT until the second day after he was died recently, after a brief illness of you trade a few hours of your spare time for a good injured. His injury grew worse and pneumonia. Our sympathy is extended job, a god salary and the comforts that go with it? he is now in the St. Louis Hospital to his family. Then mark the work you like bcst on the coupon and was placed in a cast. It will prob- Louis Poncik and Heinie Herman. be!ow and mail it to Scranton today. That doesn't ably be sometime before he is able to long in the ranks of unattached men; obligate you in the least, but it will be your fint bit: return to work. have at last succumbed to the shafts step towards success. Do il iromf Leonard Hunsaker, who suffered an of Cupid, and have each taken unto ------TEAR OUT HERE----.-- eye injury about two months ago is themselves a better half. We wish still absent. His eve does not seem to- - them all the luck in the world. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS be improving as fast as it should: BOX 8622-B SCRANTON. PA. Elmer Hill and wife accompanied AGENT'S OFFICE-MONETT, MO. lhlaln wllhout obllgatlng me how I can qUallfp for the Henry Doty and wife to South Bend, poslllo~Or In the subject. befdre whlch I mark X. Indiana. and drove back with Doty PEmL E. LEWIS, Reporter LOOOIIOTIVE HSRIWZR and wife In a new Studebaker. They Locomotive Fireman went on the train by way of Kansas Say, all you readers, are acquainted Traveling Engineer City and Chicago and drove back by w~th"Sandy McGinnis." Well, poor Craveling Fireman way of St. Louis and Springfield. Sandy, guess we'll have to tell you Air Brake Inspector Alr Drake Repairman Ed. R. Strader, who just comnleterl what happened to him. In real llfe his llound House Foremsn his time as machinist apprentice, has name is Frank Kyler and here's the Trainmen and Carmen been given a job in the back shop un- story. A young lady by the name of Railway Conductor Lenora Bayless of Miami, Okla.. has UEOIlASIOAL b>RISl?ER der, Harry Moore. Mechanical Draftaman P. J. Moore and wife. accomDanled bv taken Mr. Kyler for better or for Machine Shop Prsctica Loren Robinson and wife, drobe to tlie worse in the ceremony performed at Toolrnnker Frisco employes' picnic at Pittsburg. .Joplin, Xo., 3Iay 2, by Rev. Clifford Rallcr Baker or Dcslmer Gas Engine Operating Have just converted the old oxweld K. Titus. pastor of the First Christian CIVIL ENGINEER plant into a bath house for the sho~ Church of that place. Mrs. Kyler is Sorraying and Mnpolnc men and the painter has moved hrs the only daughter of Mr. and Xrs. R. R. Construcrlng paints and other material into the Brtdge Eneneer George Bayless of Miami and is a very ARCHITECT roundhouse in the room formerly used charming young lady and an accom- Amhitnelnrd Draftarnsn as the zeneral foreman's office. The plished musician. As you boys all hrchitects' Blue Print. shower -baths are very pogu~irwit5 know Frank, it is unnecessary to give Contractor and Builder the shop men this hot weather. him any introduction. They are at Structursl Enxinee. Concrete Builder Joe Anderson and a Mr. Knox are home at 717 Fourth Street and we all CHEMIST giving dances every Saturday nigh1 extend our best wishes. It is hoped at Bridal Veil Park pavillion. The first "Sandy" will not neglect his "literary Name one was held last Saturday and was talent" since taking new responsibil- I'rcsent Cm~loyed very well attended. Joe says he will ities and that the Frisco Magazine will Occupation BY - give these dances each Saturday night still contain his contributions. Street as long as he has a good attendance. W. H. Gimson. formerlv roundhouse end No. On May 28th, a dance and musical foreman at hlonett, accompanied- by entertainment was given by the shop his family have been visiting friend3 Clt~ State men at Fort Scott in honor of John in the citv. Gimson is now located at Employees of this road will receioe L. Austin, who was leaving town. Mr. Memphis. a Special Discount Page 61

Mrs. 9. T. Clutter. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. office. J. H. Shockley, to be hls guests Story and John Garllc Sachen. are now peake, Mr. and Mrs. Phll Conboy, Mr. at a frled chlcken dlnner whlch he had playlng el.$hteen holes every day, raln and Mrs. G. F. Wllhoite. Mr. and Mrs. served at the Owl Cafe. It Is pleaslng or shlne. Tls sald by gosslps that the W. W. Wolfe. Mr. and Mrs. H. J, to note the pleasant association and latter lost hls bowllng medal after un- Blakeslee, Chas. White. M. C. ShlpIey, harmony whlch existed between the successfully gauglng her father's fence. John Dwyer. Tom MansAeld. J. A. berry assoclatlons, thelr employes and Lee Warner was ruled OIY the turf dman. Bred Carsdale our Frlsco men. toaether wlth hls tooless racer. clalm Here Is some good advlce tor truth- being made that theh were other ob- F. A. Logan has returned from a ful husbands and just at thls tlme of stacles In the mechanlsm aside from three-weeks' trlp to Mlnneapolls, Mlnn., the year, too, It dght prove a llttle cylinders, etc. We infer from remarks where he served as a delegate to the help. Customer (entering a fish store): made that some rude Derson laced 0. R. C. Grand Dlvlsion Meetlng. He "Throw me four Ash." Clerk: "Why empty bean contalners thereln, causlng says he had the pleasure of eating throw them?" Customer: "I want to peculiar nolses. Topeka papers klndly COPY. Monett strawberrles whlch were be- tell my wlfe 1 caught them." -- ing served at all leading hotels and We wlsh someone would give us a restaurants. He also reports having "Ray" of Hght and "Sqttle" a aerlous DIVISION PASSENGER OFFICE met Bob Balrd a former Frlsco con- questlon pertainlng to a Ford coupe KANSAS ClTYi MO. ductor. who no* resldes In the Clty seen golng in the dlrectfon of a neigh- of Mlnneapolls. boring town every evening. We know EDITH WALTERS, Reporter What do you thlnk of strawberrles It isn't money matters in the way for and "romance"? They say they make the employes of a certaln Frlsco offlce Summer days are wlth us and as a nlce comblnatlon. Some people can have volunteered to buy a Ilcense. everybody knows. they brlng a certaln make Hay (es) whlle the sun shlnes. If anyone knows the name of a good languor that Is hard to combat and One young man from the general offlce "nerve' tonic, please advise. most of us capltulate sooner or later. at Springfield was so very attentlve to If only for a few days-hence vacation hls dutles as to stay right where he days, whlch make the employes of the could hear the bell". Oh, no, not the MONETT MECHANICAL DEPT. passenger department do some sweat- dlnner bell-a real he"belle". Ing: to earn the salt for thelr bread, or Monett Is qulte proud of her record MARGUERITE FROSBARD. Reporter rather our bread, for we are part of on strawberry shipments for the sea- It (the passenger department, I mean). son Just closed. The last car havlng Ho, hum! Wonder If you all feel We are sendlng In thls month, a plc- been loaded June 2nd. maklng a total that way? Well. anyway, vacatlon ture of Marybelle Newman, daughter of 180 cars and 1,682 crates L. C. L. by tlme Is at hand, unless the old weather of our F. R. Newman who as you express, whlch 1s approximately 4 cars. man plays another unfalr trlck on us, have all probably seen'ln thk papers. making a grand total of 184 cars- and Insistently demands that we turn was chosen as one of the five most and Monett berrles brought top prlce. on the steam heat and wlthdraw our beautiful glrls at Mlssourl Unlverslty. too. After the last car was loaded. fur coats from summer storage. by Cecll DeMilIe. We are very proud E. A. O'Dwyer, secretary of the Monett And listen, judging from the way of her, Rrst because she lo a member Fruit Growers' Association, Invited thls offlce 1s belng deluged with re- of the Frlsco famlly, and second be- those who had asslsted him In the load- auests for tmns~ortatlon.we belleve cause she Is a Kansas Clty glrl. ing, including the efficient and accom- fiveryone has adopted the policy -of Perry "Wlnkle" Wllson. who has modating: bill clerk from the freight "Seelng America First". Ought to have been vacationing ell over the Vnlted a lot of interestlnp. news when these States and Canada, and who has col- sojourners begin d;.lftlng back h&m& lected enough llter~tureto All an In- tired but happy. and ready, after this formation book after dellberatlng a brlef resnlte. to take uo their dutles long: tlme on )the wonders of Lake wlth vlm-and zest, untll-anotherglor- l~oulseIn Canada, has declded to spend Southeast Missourian lous summer shall have come to hand. hls vacntlon ln Lupus-pltchlng hay. wlth Its lrreslstlble call to wander out Between you and I that Is the reason NAETER BROS., Inc. among the cool and refreshing lakes he succeeds In keerhnp; hls thlrty cents I I and mountalns--or to leave all care In the bank. He makes his blood do Har Hora Subsoriben Than Any Othw and worry behind and spend the warm. the circulatlng and lets - hls pennles Dally NW~DIDWIn a Mlasourl City lingering days lolling .comfortably rest. Under 40.000 I along the banks of some of our cele- Have any of you discovered why I brated Ozark streams, waiting-yes, nnvldson hss qult smoklng? Well, I just waitlng-for these cunning in- have found out! He Is tlred of kee~-

hnbltants of the water to snatch at ine the ofllce force In tobacco~ ~ and some tempting blt of balt. matches. In fact, he has saved Engineer J. W. Ruggles bas made enough to buy a Ford slnce he stopped I Metropolitan Cafe I us green wlth envy by purchasing a plnylng the good Samaritan to smokers. new Bulck coach. To be able to clalm Have you seen the new "ashes of Meal Ticketa at ownership of such a responslbillty Is clgars" hat that Mr. Werner Is wear- listed among our hlghest and most ing? It's a peach. We a11 lnstlnctlvely Special Ratee cherished ambltlons. but llke lots of arlse from Our seats and salaam when 6 North Main Cape Girsrdeau, Mo. other ambitlons, guess It will never he arrlves at the offlce. be realized. Ll~ht,who Is sometlmes referred tn. Our Monett Frlsco.Nhe, with our as "Deacon" (no not "Beacon") has chief clerk, M. H. Crtalse, as manager. "done gone and done It"-the thlna he has been handing out some.very suc- has been threatening to do for a Tong cessful defeats In the game that made tlme-he has donned hla now famous St. Charles Hotel Babe Ruth famous. If any of you palm beach sult and whlte shoes. Well wlthln range of battle deslra to at- just as a reminder. don't send It td ONE BLOCK FROM DEPOT taln one of these defeats. just fllng the laundry, you know what happened E. 0. GRAMLING, Owner and ProprlaW out the challenge, and we'll be there to Ita predecessor. In fighting armor to see what can be Something must be done about our American Plan done. owl car servlce. Metl-ord is losing too much sleep. What wlth holding down CAPE OXRARDEAU, MISSOURI KANSAS CITY COMMERCIAL a ticket job durlng the day, getting to OFFICE CHATTER his boardlng place on the Mlssourl 1 slde before the last potato chlp and pork chop has been eaten, calling on GEORGE KLEINHOFFER Reporter his glrl on the Kansas slde. and trylng M. E. LEMING to get back before 3:00 o'clock In the Announcing the promotlon of the morning-well. it Is a stupendous un- LUMBER COMPANY suburban shlek, Radol h Wtltshlre to dertaking. We are all sympathetic, (Incorperated) travellnn frelaht anent Onlons ~tcbh- but heloless. ens to -sollclilni Treleht a~entand Bruce; gettln~tlred of our remarks HARDWOOD LUMBER Blli ~e~eneyto ?hlei c&&. They take about the mlce, has put Frisky on the the place of the glorlous old Cub In- office force. Now it keens us all broke CAPE GIRARDEAU field, Evers to Tlnker to Chance. trying to keep the cat-supplied wlth Me1 Anderson has left- the local ot- cream and catmint. !ice and come to us aq.rate clerk. In- cldentally. Peter J. .Rpse, secretary of the K. C. Trafflc Club. has also jolned E. W. BOYER, Local Agent hands wlth us. and whlle we are not so particular -we hope the boys wlll I STILWELL HOTEL Home llke us. ~ve6tually.why not nowt Fann rd Saving rad Lorn Ass'n. W. L. Coleman. after belng presented OF MISSOURI a nlce golf club by the associated traf- PITTSBURG, KANSAS Ac club- of Amerlca, deliberately broke 218 Llberty Natl. Life Bldg. same striklng at a 11'1 Innocent golf The Largeat and Bed ball while It was enjoylng a stroll on CAPE GI RARDEAU, MISSOURI the green. The Best in :Service The two offlce caddles, George Tella RIOUIId Toronto polishing the rust off a recent vlsltor here while on hls va- wish ...,... ,..-,,, -..- Y.YYYI.VYu the Canadlan foot ralls. cation. We understand Baldv Jackson. ma- Car Clerk M. E. ~olibaugh,we un- C. V. Montgomery hab been blue chinist, has the latest -thing In pipes, derstan&, can now explaln the dlffer- since making the laat trlp on the sup- as It will burn coal 011. ence between rag weeds and chrysan- ply cars as he did not get to nee a John Watkins. transfer foreman, themums, after a lecture by Mrs. Holi- certain vounn lady at Irvlnn. Cheer made a flylng trlp to Glen Elder. Kans.. baugh. Anyway, the house got painted up. ~oniy, h:r vacation wiii be over recently account OC the serious Illness if he did pull up the rag weeds that befort tlme for the next trlp. of Mrs. Watkins' father. happened to hinder progress. E. Walnrlght sprung qulte a Bur- Dan Tafe plans on spending hls va- We understand Brakeman Cliff Cor- orise on all of us-lately when he an- cation In California again thls year. der has recommended C o n d u c tor nounced that he was niarried and had Dan, we thought that wreck you were "Shorty" Roe for the job of drlvlng the been for about flve or six weeks. We In out on the U. P. last year would Hub-Dlggs famous bucking Ford, after all thought strange of hlm making so dlsgust you with western trlps. he tamed a bucklng Ford In the vicln- many tri~sto Fort Worth. We all wlsh Ity of Menard. Texas. them a haoov marrled life. W. B. Berry, master mechanic, and Engineer Jimmy Hogue says after C. V. ~dnigomerywas a member of Geo. Ermatlnger, road foreman of certain people, namely: E. F. Tuck, a flshlng party that spent a week at equipment, attended the fuel conven- drlve out of your drlve way wlth a car Menard the latter part of last month. tlon In Chlcago. He redorts a flne tlme and brought Piecework has been inaugurated on you need the servlce of a good car- nnnt-er.- - - - .. - . enoucfi fish.. - - - home- - .- - - for a fish fry. A. T. the Rosedale rip tracks and from all Road Foreman of Equlpment J. T. Todd:-&orekeeper at Fort worth. was accounts is working smoothly and to Ode11 and Englneer Walter Amick also a member of thelr party. the satisfaction of all concerned. A have returned from the Internatlonal We all mlss Dick. the messenger olecework schedule has also been put Railway Fuel Assoctation Conventlon, boy around here. Hewas very unfor- into effect at our Twelfth Street trans- held In Chlcago and re ort no speech tunate in that he got bumped In the fer tracks. by Travellng Flreman &e Ray. last lay-off. Do not have a report S. P. Enslen of Springfleld spent about he and his lady friends thls sometlme in Kansas City, checking: for- tlme. but oerha~swlll have for my eign car repairs. FT. WORTH ACCOUNTING DEPT. next. report. We were all deeply shocked to learn For Sale-One flne brlndle bul1 of the death of Mrs. J. B. Gilllam, wlfe LOIS M. SHEPPARD, Reporter Communicate with Loyal ~[c~ifi% ai the general car foreman, whose chief clerk In thls department. Price death occurred In a St. Louls hospital, $10.00. "Jlmmle" James, one of our falthful The following conversation was following a brief illness. Burial was workers, suffered an attack of acute Indi- in Bentonville, Ark., and was largely heard recently: gestlon on Frlday, May 29, causlng much G. W. Koontz: "Dld you bbut attended by a host of friends and rela- excitement and anxlety untll Dr. Wood- hear tlves who mourn her loss. .T. B. Cobb getting hls mouth burned ward's arrlval. She Is doing nicely this mornlng?" Erma Reece attended the state con- now, however, and we hope she wlll vention of the Business and Profes- soon be back wlth us. We wonder Iva Sewell: "No, how?" slonal Women's Clubs in Sedalla. who Is the donor of the fragrant blos- G. W. K.: "Whistling 'Red Hot Vacatlons are the rage now, those soms which made her room at the hos- Mama'." who are not already away are talking oital look llke a florist's wlndow? All and plannlng their trips and those who of them were not from the office DIVISION FREIGHT-PASSENGER have been and returned are telling us hunch.------., we.. - -feel - - . -mre. -- - . AGENT-DALLASi TEX. of the wonderful time enjoyed whlle Richard Groves, "the friend of the away. Ye scrlbe will spend hls vaca- common people". went to Graham. NELL RICHARDSON. Reporter tion, as usual, somewhere in Arkansas. Texas. recentiv to look over his farm. Frank Junkins has returned to work We'have wlth us several new co- after having been conflned to a local workers. Raymond Dupree. flle clerk; The Frisco Railroad system Is ex- hospital with a case of influenza. M. V. Robertson, ofPlce boy; E. W. pending about $1,400,000 for fifteen new Youna. the Monroe wizard. and H. F. frelght engines and flve new passen- Engineer 8. B. Smith and wife are ger engines J. E. Hutchison of St. visiting in and around Buffalo, N. Y. Youne. who is to be wfth us onlv temporarily, as ~oyle~owurd expecis Louis, vice-

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Eatablimhed 1872 First National Bank The Merchants and Planters National Bank capita, a,s uv,us n,2,,o,o~~oo MONETT. MO. I SHERMAN, TEXAS Will Appreciate Your Account MASTER MECHANIC'S OFFICE opinion for sometime that Barnett had We solicit sour business. Offering you all some ulterior motive for his many vis- KANSAS CITY, MO. its upstnirs presumably to consult a the servlce conslsteni with good, careful ,file or secure information of some kind banklng. H. F. SHIVERS, Reporter and now we know our suspicions were well founded. Mr. and Mrs. BarnetL have a host of friends in this terminal John Forster, mechanical inspector, who join in wishing them all the hap- The Citizens Bank is now in Philadelphia. supervising the piness, success and prosperity possible. construction of the new engines we are buying. Oneta Hall succeeds Leota as the JEROME O'HARA. Presiderit Ray Paschal. airbrake foreman, is stenographer and we take this oppor- ED. V. \VILLIA..IS. Vice-president the proud possessor of a car with a tunity of bidding her a most cordial TOM WBTKINS, Cashler Detroit trademark and saw it aives and sincere welcome to our midst. him no trouble at all as he7 hay topay Apropos of his loss, W. B. Berry, E. J. ADAJIS, bssistdnl Cashier for all he gets. master mechanic. says from now on he T. W. WATRINS. Ssshlrnt Cashier A weddinr of unusual interest and is going to lock the door, which re- which was somewhat of a surprise oc- minds us of the old saying, "Lock the 220 E. Commercial St. curred when Leota Campbell of this stable door after the horse has been orice and Harold Barnett, chief clerk stolen." to the superintendent of terminals. Henry Cox. machinist. and Colfax SPRINGFIELD. MO. stole a march on their friends and Hoops, stationary engineer, are spend- were quietly married. We were of the ing u few days and some money in and Pagr 64 automobile repair businem at Sapulpa. ment, G. L. Schnelder, fuel supervisor, their selves and have played only four Trarellng Accountant Bert Betts was Luther Morford, fireman. attended the games this year won two of those, called to Carthage Mo recently to at- Xational Fuel Convention In Chkago tied one and lost'one. They are In the tend the funeral 'of his grandmother the latter part of May and flrst part of TwillghL League thle year and will who dled at the age or nlnety-four June. All report a good tlme and lots soon be playlng a regular schedule of years. of good information galned fram this which they hope to lead the greatest 0. M. Anderson has resigned aa as- convention in the savina- of fuel. number of games in the league. slstant blll and voucher clerk and has Robert Warfield Is now file clerk in taken position with railroad com- T. J. Talevich made a hurried trlp a a to Washington, D. C., to secure his the master mechanlc'n office in place pany In Tulsa. of J. P. Neeley, transferred to West Is patent for his new tire turning derlce Chas. Brooks, of Espulpa, assist- this month. Tulsa. Ing In the division accountnnt'o otPice It seems that Carl Edmonds. distrlbu- until regular appalntments can be tion clerk, would like to bump the made, Illling the vacancies caused by porter in the master mechanic's office. the resignation or two of the clcrks At any rate, he surely enjoys makln:: who went into other buslnesa. trins to the division accountant's of- Vlctor Milts who was formerly in fice of late. There's a reason, can't the general ?Areman's office at West I,lnmn ---oou thoiirh.- Carl. TuIaa, has been appointed general HI-%.~o~ei-~;ndhouoc faremti n at clerk. He Is a hard worker and no Afton. Okla., took his vacatlon June doubt will make good on the job. 15th and snent hlS time in Californlo. Mr. Foley's orange ranch Is bearing SAPULPA, OKLA. so much frult thls year that he has to go out there on his vacation to look I,. -4. MACK and R. W.HARPER, it over. Kere's hoping that we get at Reporters least one box of oranges this year.

S. G. Manloue, road foreman of equlg- La. 0. Thompson has been transferred to Sapulpa from Memphis as electrician I WESTERN DIVU~ION I foreman in nlace of E. R. Jeffries. 45 Rooms-24 wllh Bath European Plan transferred. STORES DEPARTMENT Steam Heated Rates Reasonable R. P. Myers has been on the slck list for the last week. but is reported ENID, OKLA. better and should be back on the job In The Broadway Hotel a short whlle. ROY RAY, Reporter NEW-COMPLE%XODERN The Sapulpa baseball team is show- ing fine thla gear, while not strictly Claud Guilbert. assistant foreman. is Popular Priced Cafe in Connection a Frixco team account of not enough sti:l growing (210 pounds) and Mr. MONETT. MO. men employed to make a full team, Nelson savs he 1s golnfi to he a big they are maklng a good account of help to th'e stores department when he gets grown. Frank: "Nelson, what Is n word with Ifour letters meaning,,mlsery?" Xelson: "L 0 V E. Corner Pharmacy Note-Nelson is a marrled man. Monett Drug Co. ( "The Busy Corner" C. E. Wright, travellnn storekeeper pald us a vlslt. We are always glad to PAUL RUSSELL. Proprietor H. E. CARTER, Proprietor see Mr. Wrinht. and hoDe he visits us Prescriptions Our Specialty often. DRUGS SODAS BOOKS One thlng the store department musl ( be credited wlth Is the ablllty to stlck Phone 43 MONETT. MO. together. One Saturday afternoon Frank Meldell, chlef clerk. proposed that all the hovs In the olElcc wear khaki trous- YOU CAN clothe the entire family THE MONETT TIMES rrs and blue shirts during the sum- mer. All agreed and 8et the following with Guaranteed Merchandise Booster for Monett, Her Industrles and the Monday for the initlal day. Monday FOR LESS at Omrk P1ayarounds came. and with It onlv twn vair of Dally, $5.00 per Year by Carrler; $4.00 per khakI trousers. Mr. Xelson waq prop- MILLSAP BROTHERS Year by Mall. Weekly. 11.50 by Mall erly unllormed and Roy Ray, p~ice And We Really Appreciate Your Trade TIMES WBLI~HINGCO: clerk. had perfectly good intentions PEARL PETERS, Editor and claims that it was not hlr fault MONETT, MO. that they made the thinss 80 amall. To 212 Fifth Street MONETT, MO. date, Mr. Meidell originator of the idea, has worn no' khaki. Oh, we all stick together. THIS AD GOOD FOR ONE GIBT WITII A Well! Hooe to have a bla flsh storr The Best in Ready-to-wear PURCHASE to tell you next month becnuse nr Dry Goode and Shoes SHEPPARD BROS. are busy plannlng- flshlng trlps. Durnil Dry Goods Co. I "QUALITY BAKERS" TRANSPO_RTATION DEPARTMENT MONETT, MO. I MALTED MILK BREAD WESTERN DlVISION Vlrit Our Bargain Btt~eItIbntStem PERFECTION BREAD Our Plognn-Booat or Blow The Bargain Center of the Southwat 1 PHONE 113 MONETT. MO. A. L. KINKADE and ELMA WILIdAlNS Reporters McKee's Drug & Book Store Wm. N. Hunn'lcutt. chler clerk. Black- SHADEL & ASHBY well, left June 9th for Mayo Brothers. We Flll Your Frlsco Hospltal Rochester, Mlnn. We hope for hls Prescrlptlons JEWELERS speedy return. DRUGS, BOOKS Con~ratulatlons to Asslatant Super- FRlSCO WATCH 1NSPECTORS intendent Canady and Trainmaster STATIONERY. PERFUMES Brewer. We wish them abundant suc- I cess In thelr new field of endeavor. 310 BROADWAY Phone 15 I Phone 60 MONETT, MO. Rlll Rarnea and wife are now mak!ng their home In Blackwell. Blll hav~ng been ansirned car clerk ~ositlontha~. point. STANDARD for 30 YEARS It sorely does not take a person very long to accumulate money after La Fredrick Cigars ,,. being promoted from an operator to trick dispatcher, fudging from Wal- Irtce'rr actions paat few days In the purchase of a new car. Guaranteed or Money Refunded Alfce .l. Dlck. general clerk in super- intendent's offlce. returns to work SILLS SOLD IN ALL DRUG AND SHOE STORES June 1st. after an absence of some weeks account R broken arm: glad to AGENTS WANTED have her back agaln. FOOT Ada Dillon, chief clerk's stencgraph- For Any Information Write er. ha8 been confined to her home for M. & MO. several weeks past. nurlng her ab- POWDER E. PRICE CO. - Monett, I sence. Harriett Baker has been fllllng her posltlon. July, 1925 Pagc 6.5

there is nothing easy about riding the Helen Sinclair vacates to Wichita for promoted to conductors to help take head end of a motor car, yet It was a the meek of June 8th. with her family. care of the large volume of business pleasure neverthelesa as it gave one Nancy Kengle assists Alice J. with the which will soon be moving on the an opportunity of belng outside of an work- during her absence. western. offlce for a few days. E. T. Bond and wife have ~~1stre- Those of our office, who were ac- qualnted with J. A. Sollars, sectlon turned from a vacation spent -fol:, the MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT most part on Lake Taneyconw. l hey foreman. Chaonia, Mo., were deeply report a line time. They dldn't tell us WESTERN DIVISION grleved over the news ot the death of the usual "bla flsh story". but on the his son, Leslie, May 15th. at Wllliams- cantrary werevery modksi about their ILA WILLIAMS. Reporter ville, Mo. AW~.Sollars and family have accomplishments. stating fishing fairly our deepest and most sincere sympa- good. thy in their bereavement. May 29th Leslie M. Yarbrough and J. L Sulllvan wrecking foreman, Decoration Day in Chaffee wan rather Dora ~rlv&were married at Black- was transferred io Newburg, Mo.. ef- a dlsmal affair due to the fact that well. They left on the 30th for Fred- fectlve June 1st. Robert Arrintzton.- the majority of the Frisco family visit- erick to make their home, Dew Drop wrecking foreman at Newburg, was ed elsewhere. B. D. IIarsha suent the having bid in position of claim clerk transferred to Enid. holldav with his famllv in Sf. Louls: at that uolnt. We wish them much W. J. Foley, master mechanic; F. E. W. C.-Henke vlslted friends and rela- happiness. Bates, road foreman of equipment, and tives In Sprln~~eldand the writer Frank P. Malone, better known as 13. Benecke, lireman, attended the fuel took a trip to the state ca~itol. "Kid" or Daddy", pensioned car in- conventlon held in Chicago, May 26-29. With respect to Mr. ~illlams'news spector is in very poor health. Daddy &I. Bougher, chief clerk. is the proud item concernlna a visit made by Mr. Malone sDent about 45 vears with the owner of a new Nash coach; Billy Cay- Henke to Memphis insomuch as It per- Frisco and will be remembered by wood, piece work checker, is driving talns to the vlclnldv of the chlef clerk's many, having worked at Springfield a new Studebaker brougham, and Chas. stenographer's desk, It might beadded and Monett and was at Blackwell at Ethington, timekeeper, a new Ford that there Is a similar attraction In the time he retired from active service. coupe. Oil business Is so rushlng around Vesta Davi~,of the accounting de- Covinston. were forced to add another partment, has been assigned the posi- operntor; Agcnt Woolley certainly did tlon of price clerk in Mr. Gardner's of- his b5t to keep thlngs going. Ace. Wheat harvest is now In full swlnz Engineer J. A. Harter and wife are and with the increased business, neces- in Detroit nttendlng the brotherhood of sary add several positions Enid, locomotive engineers and firemen con- among which are additional dispatcher, vention. While gone, they will visit in car distributor and operator in dis- Buffalo. N. Y., stopping off for a few natcher's office and additional vard days in Chicago, also. Mrm. IIarter is kie'ki In the- yardmaster's office. - All representative of the ladles auxiliary indications point to heavy business of the brotherhood of locomotive en- next few months and everyone going to gIneers and firemen from Enid. be up and golng. Engineer hl. S. Cartr~ghtand wife If it gets any worse, where will we are In Rochester, Minn., where Mr. run our tralns? Just this month had a Cartright is taking treatment at Mayo gas well at Retta just 400 feet from Brothers' Hospital. track with gas so bad had to coast Where Frllreo mlka Will Spend trains by; now erecting another rig Thelr \rmeatlons: just twenty-five feet off right of way F. E. Bates, road foreman of equip- ;md will be brought in within the nest merit, wife and chlldren, motored to fifteen days. There have been ten new Denver, starting June 27th. Mr. Bates rim erected in this field withln the has a Dodge sedan, and they will camp 1a7;t.-~-. t.wo- weeks and ~rosuects-. for a out while gone. From Denver they lar~eReld a&-good. will go to Salida, Colo., and Silver Last month Arkansas City shipped Plume Colo. out 835 cars of oil with a goal set for M. kougher, chlet clerk, will spend 800 cars. Agent Smyer has placed a the last half or June In Kansas City, goal of 900 cars for the month of June and Reeds spring^, Mo. and from at1 Indicatlons at the present A. R. Ketchuin, engineer wife and -. time they are golng over the mark set. daughter, Carol, will g@ io Chicago comptometer operator, were mnrrled ~hductorWayne has given up his this summer; also visit relatives in June 15th at the home mf the bride- passenger train for a switch engine. Indiana. groom's parents. Cape Qirardeau, Mo. hut Captain Kennedy makes a keen Mr. and Mrs. 'Frank Thomas and son, Mr. and Mrs. Krueaer left for JoDlin passenger conductor. Raphael, engineer and hmily, will immediatrly after -the ceremony- to Freight C o n d u C t 0 r n Oliverson, spend part of the liummer in Louisville mend a few day# with Mrs. Krueger's CYBrlcn. Wolfe and Erwln were recent- and Bowling Green, K sister. 1v nromotcd to nassenaer service ac- GUY Stephenson wl& nnnd daughter Several change8 have been effected &uht shortage-of passenger men. Vlda, wlll spend 'thc summer in hd In the Frtsco oftice buildinc at thia Harold Miller in relieving Agent AngeIes. polnt. Instead of scparnte o-ricer be- Rattn at Wilmot. who Is off account ill The mechanlcal and stores depart- ing malntalned by the superlntendent'a health. ments oKice force gave a picnlc out at force, timekeepern and dlvision ac- A number of our brakemen are being Hellum's 1,ake in honor of Roy L Ray countant's force, they have been com- pricc clerk, who reslgned. Mr. pole; proved to be an expert 111 the line dr cooking bacon and eggs, while Mr. FT. SMITH ICE AND Ferguson kept the crowd well supplied Transfer & Ed. with coffee as only "E'ergle" knows Nichols Storage DlSTRiBUTORS OF CAR LOADS COLD- STORAGE CO. how to make. Those present were: Mr. I COLD STORAGE FOR ALL PERISHABLE and Mrs. W. J. Foley and sons Her- THE OLDEST AND MOST MERCHANDISE bert, Jack and Dtck; Bfr. and Nrs. .T. F. Ferguson: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Reckna- RELIABLE) I Storage Capacity. 125 Can gel: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ethington; MP. Daily Ice Making Capacity. 125 Tons and h1r.s. Claud Gllbert Mr. and Mrs. North Boulder and Frisoo Right-of-Way FORT SMITH - ARKANSAS Frank Meidell. Mr. and krn. M. Bough- I Phone 2-1 111 L 2-1 118 TULSA. OKLI. ( er. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Xelson, Mrs. Anna Gllbert, Misses Hattie Moulton and Ila Wllliams and Xessrs. Roy Ray PALACE DRUG STORE and Clarence Kirby. 603 Garrison Ave. Ft. Smith, Ark. Oklahoma We Fill the Preacrlptlons for the I RIVER DIVISION Hospital Department OFFICE, DIVISION ACCOUNTANT Steel Castings Co. Will Be Glad b Supply All Your RIVER DIVISION Drug Store Wantr MAKERS OF Rexnll nnd Whltman Agents R. G. LANGSTON, Reporter Railroad, Oil Field and Due to the fact that the magazine has been placed upon a current basis, Commercial Caatinge in EUPER SAND COMPANY it was necessary to condense the famlly FORT SMITH ARKANSAS news so as to Insure adequate space - for publication, but like all the other OKLAHOMA emnloves. we are dad that each issue ARKANSAS SAND AND u6li. - . &I&.. . contain- - - .- -.. &went. ------tonics.- . ELECTRIC STEEL Suppose all the dlvision office^ ex- GRAVEL COMPANY perienced the rail and tie inventory. taken A~rll30th. W. C. Henke. T. J. Tulsa, Okla, Box 668 VAN BURBN - ARKANSAS Sweeneg and the wrfter were detailed for thls special work and although

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Telephones: Main 172--Central 1304 Free Samples MISSOURI LAMP & MFG. CO. William H. Reaves DlanuPacrurers of for LAMPS. LANTERNS THE P. & M. COMPANY CHEMICAL FIRE EXTINGUISHERS Business Men Brass and Metal Splnning and Bras8 1169 Arcade Bldg. St. Louis, Mo. Specialties of All Kinds 114-118 Elm St. ST. LOUIS, MO. Of our effective, systematic and economical advertising service. Write for Common Cents, Senior, and Comm on Cents, Junior. Hyman Michaels Co. Byrnes Belting Co. Manufacturers St. Louis, Mo. MENDLE PRINTING CO. Oak Tanned Leather Belting, IRON AND STEEL SCRAP Hose Packing NEW AND RELAYING RAIL 801 Lucas Ave. ST. LOUIS, MO. SAINT LOU18

A thousand things can I Duner Car Closets I Barnard Stamp Co. I . Emmeled Iron Wet or Dry Clods - go wrong in making I RUBBER STAMPS, -3 steel tools. SEALS and STENCILS =1 DUNER CO. -= Trade Checks, Pads, Ink. Ets. = If we can get by and 101 S. Clinton St. CHICAGO -= Fac-Simile Autograph Stamps For detailed description uce Car Builders St. Louis. Mn. 3 satisfy ninety-nine and Cyclopedia 1999 Edition g 316 Olive St. nine-tenths per cent of our customers, we feel that we are getting LARGEST INDEPENDENT DEALERS Reliance Customers always somewhere. IN THE WORLD get what they want, when they I I want it. Write or Phone Us. ROBT. S. LEETE & COMPANY "The Fartut Grocolng Engrachg OrgmtzotIon In the Mlddle Wul." TYPEWRITER RIBBONS CARBON PAPERS Reliance Engraving Co. HIGH-GRADE BOND PAPERS Engravers Artists Electrotypers Punchem. Dies. Chisels. Rivet Sets 660 E. 82' St. Clevehnd.0.

MACHINISTS' TOOLS AND Owens Paper Box Co. SUPPLIES CUTTING & THREADING TOOL8 413-415 N. First I KERITE SPARTAN HACK SAWS INSULATED WIRES AND CABLES SAINT LOUIS .p-m 1 H. & C. FILES NYE PIPE TOOLS I WRENCHES For All Purposes -Under All Con- RAILROAD SUPPLIESi ETC. ditions - Every- where - Kl3RITE -Gives U n- E. H. Sachleben & Co. equalled Service. 1517 Olive St. ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI PLAIN AND FANCY BOXES

WALTER POLEMAN. President WESTERN TREATED AND E. A. NIXON, UNTREATED CROSS Vice-President and SWITCH TIES A. R. FATHMAN. TIE AND TIMBER COMPANY PILING Vice-president THOS. T. POLEMAN. 905 Syndicate Trust BIdg. ST. LOUIS CAR and TRACK Sec'y and Treas. OAK Kettle River Treating Company White County Lumber Mills ZINC AND CREOSOTED CROSS TIES 11 ENRIGHT, ARKANSAS MODERN ADZING AND BORING MACHINES Quick Deliveries of OAK, GUM, CYPRESS Especially Equipped to Fill MADISON, ILLINOIS RUSH ORDERS of CAR and TRACK OAK E. A. NIXON, President R. A. C,ALVIN, Sales Mauager WALTER POLEMAX, President THOS. T. POLEMAN, V.-Pres. A. R. FATHMAN, Vlce-Pres. H. G. McELHINBEY, G. Supt. A. R. FATHMAN, Secretary and Treasurer R. E. KNEELAND, Gen. Jlgr. J. E. PETERSON, Sec'y-Trens. I 905 Syndicate Trust Bldg. SAINT LOUIS

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LACLEDE STEEL GO. I Southern ST. LOUIS. MO. HOT and COLD ROLLED I Wheel Co. STRIP STEEL 1 MANUFACTURERS OF RAIL STEEL CHILLED IRON I CAR WHEELS Concrete Reinforcing Bars PRIME'S PLUGS PLANTS: ST. LOUIS BIRMINGHAM, ALA. HELP TO PULL ATLANTA, GA. SAVANNAH. GA. ..".-.1oUse PORTSMOUTH, YA. PITTSBURGH, PA. Stock ROCHESTER. N. Y. SAYRE, PA. FRISCO TRAINS CLEVELAND. OHIO

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The New York Air The Gideon = Anderson Co. MANUFACTURERS OP LINCOLN Brake Company Hardwood Lumber AND Steel and Forge Co. Manufactures the Slack Cooperage Stock RAILROAD, MI N E STANDARD AIR-BRAKE GENERAL OFFICES: Band, Clrcular and Planing Milla AND INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT GIDEON, MO. TRANSPORTATION GENERAL OFFICES SALE8 OFFICE: EQUIPMENT 165 Broadway, New York City Dlstributlng Yard WORKS Second and Angelica Sta Telephone: Tyler I I-Tyler 12 Works and Offices: St. Louie 1 Watertown, New York ST. LOUIS, MO.

St. Lduis Frog & - 1 St. Louis Surfacer Chas. R. Long, Jr. Switch Co. and Paint Co. Company Arlington Ave. & Terminal Belt Ry. LOUISVILLE I ST. LOUIS, MO. CHICAGO Railroad Paints, VanJsher A11 Kinds of Railway and ST. MO. , LOUIS, Enamels Industrial Painte Page 70 r/HE/T&~~ ,@MPLO*S*#~MZ/NE Jzily, 1925

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HEREVER accurate time is a necessity, thcre w you'll find one watch that is generally favored. On the railroads of America, and particularly on the fast limited trains, the favorite \vatch is the Hamilton. So accurate and so depe~~dableis the Hamilton thnt it has honestly carncd its title of "The Railroad Time- keepcr of America. 7 9 Tht: secrct of Hamilton depc-ndability and accuracy lies in the capacity of its makers to takc infinite pains. With us evcry watch is an indil-idual piccc of fine mech- anism that must pass every OIIC of the rigid tests that we have established in orclcr to rnuI;e it the kind of a watch that the railroad men need No Hamilton Icavcs our factory until it has proved itself worthy of the nameand that is why the Hamilton is thc fav- oritc of most railroad men. Engineer Sattcrlidd, out of a tctal c: ovcr 13jG. of the B. & 0. all-Pull- If you :isk Engincer Sattcr- man "Capitol Limited," ficld \\.hat he thinlcs of the has carried a Hamilton Hamilton hc lvill say, "It for twenty !-cars. Thc has always given me satis- 7, "Capitol Limited" has faction. been running since may Ask your jeweler to show you 13, "23, and has ~nade a Han~~ltontoday. Ask particu- ovcr IZGI "on tirnc" trips 1;~rlyto see the Ha~niltonC)YZ rail- I.O;LLI~iiodel in its sturdygold-lillcd case with the speci;tl dust-proof features. Any railroad man who dccides upon the Hamilton ygz at once equips himself, so far as time service is concerncd. for the most cx;lcting traflic work. UJhcn you consider its long tcrm service and its sturdy dcpcndability ).ou will realize that the Hamilton is the most ~conon~ic~ilaccuLxte watch you can buy.

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