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Counter Desires .IIONUdY'S STEW A LONG TIME Playwright: "I wish I could think "1Vhy docs Irc cnll it 'crrtltiisinstic "Darling, it will have to be a long up a big, strong situation that wollld stcz~J'l" engagement." fill the audience with tears." "lVcll, dorsrit hr put cvcrytliirrg Itc "Dearest, I will wait for you until Producer: "I'm looking for one Iios irito it?" the farmers are satisfied." that will fill the tiers with audience!' Disillusioned She: "You remind me of the sea." SHE SHOULD BE WE SHOULD WORRY He: "Wild, restless and romantic?" "I thirrk yorl'rc lots bcttcr lookirrp Traffic Cop: "Don't you know you She: "No, you just make me sick." thnrr yorir daddy." can't turn around in the middle of "W'cll, I shorlld bc. I'rrr a lntcr the block?" PROOF ~rrodcl." Dumb Dora: "Oh, I think I can She: "He's a gentleman." Handling Women by Electricity make it, thank you so much." He: "Really" She: "Yes, he uses the butter If she talks too long-Interrupter. If she wants to be an angel-Trans- BE SURPRISED knife when he breakfasts alone." sn -London Post. former. "If gar1 fourrd $5.00 irr jrorir portts If she is picking your pocket-De- porkct. edrnt wortld yori tl~irrk?" SliCIi TAILORS! tector. "lVcll, I'd thirrk I And sorrrcbody clsc's oric: "I rcol1.v tlrirrk yo16 If she will meet you half way-Re- parrt~ o)r." slzor~ld havc n rrcu! tnilor, cicnr; tlzc ceiver. Ah-Well l ortc goic Anvc ir so rorelcss. I lia71c lind If she gets too excited-Controller. One rainy day recently a lady in to scw this brrftorl orr Ilrrcc tirrrcs for If she goes up in the air-Con- silken finery climbed aboard a train, yorc alrcndy." --- denser. If she wants chocolate-Feeder. sniffed and exclaimed: "This is the At Last! If she sings unharmoniously - first time I've ridden in a train for Cook: "I'ni leavin' in exactly Tuner. years. I ride in my own car." three minutes." If she is out of town-Telegrapher. "Yon don't know how we've missed i\Irs. Timothy: "Then put the you."' the conductor replied. eggs on to boil, and we'll have them right for once." UNNECESSARY A HISTORIC EVENT -Royal Arcanum Bulletin. "What's the use of washing my McDonald was recently run over by hands before I go to school, mother? a beer truck, and for the first time in PURE FICTION I'm not one of those who are always his life the drinks were on him." l'orirrg 3,Iarr fiir li6ror.v): "Haw you raising them." (I book called '~Tlorr./hc World'.v h'lilcr,' plcnsc?" BACK FOR ISSPIR.?TIOXT D4YS OF REPEAL Lndy Lib~orinrr: "Yorr rr~icllrt firrd it "Yorr sold trrc a rar- nborit two wccks Nrirsc: "I tlrink kc's rcgnirrirrg rorr- its tlrc firtiori dcport~rrcrrt,sir7" ngo." ~riortsrrcss, doctor. Hc tricd to Dlozu -Parts .lIngazirrc. "Ycs, sir, iroei~ do yoti lilzc it?" thc jonrrr off Iris iricdicirrc." "I zcorrt gori to tcll rrrc cz-cr~thirrgyou soid nborrt that mr all OTVI- ngnirr. I'irr Sir! Bud: "Where are you going in pttirrg o bit disrortr-ngcd." "I would like to see some gloves," such a hurry?" Mud: "Going to call on a bunga- said the dignified lady. "They are Tougher Still low." for my daughter." "It's tough to pay fifty cents Bud: "What's she like?" a. "Yes, ma'am," said the clerk, pound for meat." Mud: "Painted in front, shingled obligingly, "white kid?" "Yes, but it's tougher when you in back, and nobody home upstairs." The customer's face colored and pay twenty-five." she drew herself up indignantly. "Why. certainly!" she replied. .. - Just Like the Jones' , . -- WHAT TALK! On the day of the school entertain- Chinese Patient: "Doctor, wha' . .. AN ADVANTAGE ment the mothers were gathered to- time you fixee teeth fo' me?" ,'AS soon as the 'patient, who had gether, proud or envious, according to Doctor: "Two-thirty; all right?" . ,been bitten by a mad dog, learned the parts their children were playing. Patient: "Yes, tooth hurty me all that he was fatally stricken with hy- One small boy came to the plat- right, but wha' time you flxee?" drophobia, he asked for a sheet of form. Striking a bold attitude, he be- paper and a pencil. gan: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, After some time the nurse asked, lend me your earsw- . TOO BAD "Hadn't you better let me get you a Whereupon one of the mothers "With ZUAONI wns your wifc qrlarrcl- lawyer to help you with y0u.r will?" whispered to her companion: "There, irrg lost rtiglit ?" "This isn't a will," said the bed- that's the Jones boy. He wouldn't be "Oh-c~slrezc90s scoldirrg tlrc dog." ridden patient, "I'm making a list of his mother's son if he weren't trying "Poor beast-1 ircard itcr tirrcatcrr to people I'm going to bite." to borrow something." ttrkc tltc fro~lt door kcy nnny fr-otrr hiirr." February, 1934 Page 15

H. D. WARREN TAKES OFFICE H. D. Warren, electrician for Frisco Names and Addresses of the General System Board Lines at Birmingham, Ala., and di- of the vision chairman of the Frisco Asso- ciation of Metal ,Crafts and Car De- Frisco Association of Metal Crafts & Car Department Employes partment employes, was elected gen- H. D. Warren ...... General Chairman, System Board eral chairman of that association on 210 Sansone Bldg., Springfield, 310. December 15, 1933. He succeeded H. C. P. Clark ...... Vice-General Chairman, System Board E. Burgess. R. R. No. 4, Box 264-B, Enid, Okla. Mr. Warren was born in Knoxville, Burl Hough ...... Chairman Springfield Terminal Tenn., October 25, 1889. During the 1101 East Commercial St., Springfield, No. war he was employed on electrical J. S. White...... Chairman, Southwestern Division work for the Muscle Shoals project. 540 South 45th West Ave., Tulsa. Okla. He also served the L. C N. Railroad as J. 11. Sheeley ...... Chairman, River Division 417 Elliott St., Chaffee, Mo. B. B. Walker...... Chairman, Texas Division 1111 North Willow St., Sherman, Tex. J. J. Prugger...... Chairman, West Shops . 800 West Scott St... Springfield, Mo. J. S. Abbott ...... Chainan Eastern Division 1733a Del Norte. St. Louis, Mo. J. P. McNamara ...... Chairman, Southern Division 1092 Rosewood St., Memphis, Tenn. \\'m. A. Bullard ...... Chairman, Northern Division 4018 Bell Street. Kansas City, 310. H. E. Burgess...... Chairman, Central Division 511 South 19th St., Fort Smith, Ark.

He was a charter member of his FRISCO SON IS HONORED home Local No. 18 at Birrnlngham Prahk Guzick, age 17, son of Hynian when the association was organlzed Quzick, machinist at Sherman, Tex., and served as president for five con- is not only an excellent scholar, but secutive years; as chairman of the also an outstanding athlete. ehop committee for four years; local As Captain and quarterback of the treasurer, one year, and division Sherman High School football team. chairman for two years. The latter The Bearcats, Frank made an envi- appointment was for two years, dating able record for himself through his from December, 1932, but after serv- brilliant performance on the gridiron. ing for one year he was elected gen- He has been selected best halfback eral chairman of the association, with for the All District Team and already headquarters at Springfield, Mo. has received offers from several He was married December 25, 1910, renowned colleges in Texas and Okla- to Hazel Greenhow, of Birmingham, homa to attend their institutions after and to them were born four children, completing his high school education. two girls and two boys, the oldest daughter having graduated from Bir- A STORY WORTH TELLING mingham Southern Methodist College Although most fishing stories are electri cian and has served various in- two years ago, is married and now confined to summer editions of the dustri:11 concerns in Birmingham. He lives in Decatur, Ala. Hugh D., Jr.. Frisco Magazine, it has just been began his service with Frisco Lines is now a freshman in Birmingham 'made known to the editor of the on De,cember 24, 1923, as a first-class Southern College, and Milton, the sec- Frisco Magazine that Richard Mills, electri cian and has served the Frisco ond son, is a student of the Birming- chief clerk to general yardmaster at contin uously in that capacity at Bt- ham High School. Monett, Mo.,. has the distinction of mingh am. He is thoroughly familiar H. E. Burgess, who did not seek being the first Monett fisherman to with r-ailroad problems, having spent re-election, went to Ft. Smith, Ark., bring home a "silver bass" caught on more t han twenty-five years in railroad where he returned to his former posi- a vacation to Bagnell Dam. and irIdustrial work and has an un- tion in the water service department. His catch also included one Jack usual grasp of labor conditions, es- He is also division chairman from the Salmon which weighed three and a peciall y railroad mechanics. Central division. half pounds. 'ENN. Presidents and Secretaries of the Locals Frisc~Association of Metal Crafts & Car-Department Employe Springfield, 310. C. L. Hereford. President, Local No. 1, 848 South Broadway. athy to Claude Campbell. Secretary, Local No. 1, 2229 Kellett Ave. e death Ed. DeClew, President, Local No. 2, 800 West Hamilton St. 3. -... . -,,.-.... ce, and A. H. Bishop, Secretary, Local No. 2, 2123 N. Robberson Ave. fa&F spent the holidays with relatlves Kansas City. Mo. In Tulsa. Okla. Roy Walls, President. Local No. 4, 1426 Summitt. J. P. k~enna,boilermaker. spent the hollclays with his family in Monett. 310. Tom Davis, Secretary, Local No. 4, 3315 Wayne. Pete NcKeller. machlnist. made a St. Loul-s, MO. sho~t visit with' relatives h Toronto, R. H. Pikesley, President, Local No. 5, 6735 Scanlon Ave. Ontario, Canada. We wish to extend our sympathy t6 J. A. Pearse. Secretary.-. Local No. 5. 6656 Southwest Ave. Mrs. 0. S. Blarchall, account of the death Monett. Mo. of her father. Ed. Britch. J. C. Alderson. President. Local: No. 6. 602 County Street. Floyd Huff. machinist, sbent the holl- days with relatives in Springfield. 510. 9. P. Tirnmons. Secretary, Local No. 6;~. F. D. NO. 1, BOX4. Walter Shoup and family have been Ft. Smith, Ark. vlsitinc friends In Neodcsha. ICans. A. D. Harcraw. President, Local No. 7. 2316 Tillis. Harry Stewart, macl~inlst. was hlt by a hit-and-run driver on Parkway and re- W, H. Carter, Secretary. Local No. 7, 1013 North 38th St. ceived a broken arm and lec.- We wlsh Enld, Okla. him a speedy recovery. C. C. Bond, President, Lo~b!NO. 8, 601 West Walnut St. John Garner, machlnlst apprentice. spent the holidays with relatives In Frank B. Harkey, Secretary, WlNo. 8, 1432 E. Broadway. Amory. Miss. Joplin, Ma 0. A. Craft boilermaker. spent a few L. 0. Foster. President, ma1No. 9. 1305 Jackson St. days around Ptashville. huntln~. He ~1.0- duced a nice bag. ' D. A. Hubbard, Secretary, Local No. 9, 1510 Jackson St. We extend our sympathy to R L Neodesha, Kans. Bowle*, account of the cleath of Mrs. J. W. Morrow. President. Local No. 10. c/o Frisco Sho~s. Bowles. January 5. Mrs. Bowles had been In 111 health Kor the past two years. W. A. Heinbach, Secretary, Local No. 10, .921 r is cons in: We are plad to reD01-t that Mrs. J. L. Chaffee, Mo.

Glass, who-was 111 for several weeks. is R. T. Ahlstead, President, Local No. 11, General D~l~v-vY.. Y., able to be out again. . . Mrs. P. W. Landers. wife of the re- Fred William, Secretary, Local No. 11, General D elivery. wrter, has been 111 for several weeks. Fayetteville, Ark. Bob ;\lanuel, machinlst, had a desire to J. W. Robinson, President, Local No. 13, R. F. D. No go hunting cluring: the holldays, and after walking half the day, he kicked up a W. H. Gibson, Secretary, Local No. 13, 712 Wall St. rabbit and raised his gun to Are, and Pensacola, Fla. after ezxamination, found his gun did not E. E. Spillman, Freshtent, hoal No, 14, R. F. D. No. 2. have a plunger in it. Robert Bunch. Secretarv.-. Local No. 14. 925 Q Street. Oklahoma City, Okla. E. J. Es~elin.President. Local No. 15. 140 East Park St. LOCAL No. 2 F. N. ones, Secretary, Local No. 15, 1610 N. Kate Street. WEST LOCOM6T'lVE $HOPS Wlchita, Kans. SPRINGFIELD, MO. Rollj Tierney, President, Ldcal No. 16, 1427 Pattie Ave. - F. D. Price, Secretary, Local No. 16, 712 Cottage Grove Ave. VIRGIL B. SMITH, Reporter Sapulpa. Okla. A. W. Finley, President, Local No. 17, 319% E. Dewey St. Norman Thurman, machlnlst appren- I. B. Moody, Secretary, Local No. 17, 905 West 18th St. (Tulsa). tlce, spent the Christmas holidays at Birmingham, Ala. Pensacola. Fla. I. G. Holt machlnlst. while driving S. B. Garrard, Presfdent, Local No. 18, c/o Frisco Shops. back from a 'vlsit with relatives In Illl- W. A. Meyers, Secretary, Local No. 18, 1326 Thirteenth Ave., North. nois, had the misfortune of having his Memphls, Tenn. car slip OK the pavement into a dltch. badlv dan~aainrthe car. No one In the John M. HaleY. Presldent. Local No. 19, 934 Roland. &F~w~sin jfirid. W. K. Fnzzelle, Secretary, Local No. 19, 220 S. Cleveland. Charles Wooldrldge. machinist. Is In Hugo, Okla. the St. John's Hos~ital.. . recoverlnn - from an operation. F. D. Knipp, President, Local No. 20, 1003 East Duke St. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Lawson spent the W. E. Mathis, Secretary, Local No. 20, North J Street. holidavs visltinn- relatives and friends in Amory, Miss. ~ansak. John Haskell. airman at the West R. J. Sullivan. PresTdenC. Local No. 24, P. 0. Box 244. Shops, Is In the hospital, recovering: from R. F. Dees, Secretary, Local No. 24, P. 0. Box 165. Injuries received when he was struck by Ft. Worth, Tex. an automobllc while crossing the street. Al. Seaman and wife have lust returned J. R. Ferguson, President, Local No. 25, 3331 Stanley Ave. from a visit to Pensacola, %la. Wm. Witt. Secretary.-. Local No. 25. 3224 James St. We are mighty glad to welcome Jim Sherman, ex; Osborne. boilermaker, back among us again. after having been off from work J. J. Bryan, President, Local No. 26, 219 N. Bryant St. for several weeks, due to slckness. Carl wallace, Secretary, Local No. 26, 1219 Grand Ave. Oscar Plank and wife went the holl- Thayer, Mo. days visiting in ~allfornia; Al. Elkins and family visited relatlves F. 6. Schratz, President, Local No. 28, General Delivery. in Oklahoma during the holidavs. F. M. Peebles, Secretary, Local No. 28, P. 0. Box 182 We are mighy glad to have cap Wlght Ft. Scott, Kans. back in our mldst again, after having been off several months on account of Wm. E. McKinley, President, Local No, 29, 1523 6. Margrave St. sickness. C. C. Martin, Secretary, Local No. 29, R. R, Na. I, F. 0. Box 97 Tom Tong spent the last two weeks In Pittsburg, Kans. December on a tri~through the West Earl Gibbons, President, Looat No. 30, 504 J3. Washlngton. A very enjoyable entertalnment was given by Locd No. 2, December 20th. . John Clark, Secretary, Local No- 30,915 West 3rd St. The. feature. of the evcninfi- was beau- Newburg, hio. Page 17

NORTH SIDE SIDELIGHTS Local No. 2 Has Xmas Party EMERY HAGUEWOOD, Reporter The best ntory of the month, In fact, many months, or for that matter, many moons. including the one m-lth the indigo hue, comes from W. W. Boggs of this city, who covers thldl territory for the Lee IbIanufacturlng Company. makers of men's work clothes, which Includes the well-known overalls bearing their name. Mr. Boggs says that a recent survey revealed the facr that railroad men are the largest users of thelr goods, which caused the management to order all thelr salesmen to travel vla railroad wherever It is at all possi- HE photograph above shows the mas party staged at Springfleld, Mo., ble using autos or busses only where the're is no railway connections. Thls members of Local No. 2, Frfsco December 20. 1933. Santa Claus dis- is reciprocity AS IS. Now, we are not TAssociation of Metal Crafts & tributed gilts to the children present, trying to drum up trade through these columns, or toot any one's horn, but Car Department Employes, t h e i r and there was a splendid program of from here on, we are golng to wear wives and guests at the big Christ- entertainment for the grown-ups. lee'^. Local No. 1 gave a well attended dance at thelr hall, January 1st. It was in the form of a New Year's party, NOTICE-Any one wlshing to know went the Chrlotmas holldays in Mis- and it was a ereat start for the year just what the clty rules on double souri visltlng relatlves. that 1s Just co~menclns. parking are, may Rnd out by consult- Several of the men and thelr famllles James Motley (colored) office janltor ing Mr. Dike in the yard office. He enjoyed a Christmas Tree Party at the and all around handy man was retired knows! home of Mr. and Mrs. Claude C. Bond. December 31, 1933. on account of having U. G. Boyd, machlnlst, waa off two "Nic" Luna, blacksmlth helper, reached the aEe Ilmit. Mr. Motley has daya the first of January due to a visited hls brother in Chlcago during been in the North Shops and round- wrenched hlp sustalned when he fell the Christmas holidays. house for more than forty years, and on the ice whlte comlnp to work. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Poe have just has seen every man come here that is Mld-year graduates in Joplin pubrlc returned from a trlp to Mlltown here at present. He was presented schools are fast becomlng a thing of Indlana. where they visited Mr. poem; with a complete head-to-foot outfit of the past, there belng but one more mld- father and mother. clothes. given him by the engineers year yromotlon out of the junior high J. P. Haley and wlfe aspent the and firemen, whose lockers and wash achools Into the senior hlgh schoot fol- Christmas holidays wlth his mother in room he kept clean, and the men of lowing thls year. Among the 54 stu- Durant. Okla the roundhouse, who have known and rlents graduating from the south lunlor Herbert and JacR Folcy. eons of Mr. worked with hlm so many years. "Jlm". high are four Frisco children and one Foley, our general foreman. spent as he was known to everyone. war daughter of a former Frlsco man. Christmas with their parents, in Enid deeply impressed by the remembrance Vlrginia Pountaln, daughter of 0. C, Oklahoma. Herbert Is attending col: of everyone, saying that while the big Fountaln, switchman : Jane Fletcher. lege in Wooster Ohlo, and Jack Is at- shop whistle ended his labors every daughter of R. C. Fletcher. machinist: tending 0klahoka University at Nor- day. only a toot from Gabriel's horn Joe Ellichman, son of H. C. Elllchman of man, Oklahoma. would end hla boosting for the Frlsco. Ruth Yards: Junior Smlth, son of Ros- Charles Roark has returned from a and hls memory ot the men who made coe Smith of Ruth Yards, and Jane Tan- trip in Mlssouri where he spent the his much appreciated glft possible. quary. daughter of former yard clerk. Mr. Christmas holldays. Earl Comoton, boilermaker, Is on the Tanquary. Two of these chlldren were Members of Local. No. 8 and thelr job again after a month's selge of members of the Honor Roll. famllles enjoyed a party In the local pneumonia fever. lodge room, Monday nlght. January 8. Ollver Derrlck. machlnlst, Is also on JEFFERSON AVE. COACH YARDS Music for the party was furnished by the job again after an nbsence of sev- Vastlne and Rash Serenaders. Mr. eral days due to illness. ST. LOUIS, MO. Warren, our general chalrman. was Xr. and Mrs. Don Monroe made a the princlpal speaker and guest of holiday trlp to Kansas Clty, where JOHN W. HOLDREX. Reporter honor of the evening. Lhey visited relatives. Nr. Monroe is John Harrell and Ed. Curnmell are the day shift supplyman. Ward Moore and wlfe spent the In the St. Louls hospltal undergoing Rmmltt Sawver. machlnlst. is off at Xmas holldays In Springfleld .with his treatment at thlv writing. We all wish th&~t'lme and- has been fir several parents. for thelr speedy recovery. days suffering- from a badly infected John Prlmrose Is back with us after Frank Harkey. reporter, Is now In eye. having Alled a temporary vacancy at the Baptlst Hos~ftalat Enid. where Blanton Kennemer. laborer, has bid Lindenwood. Glad to have you back he underwent an- operatlon and is not In the posltlon made vacant hy the wlth us, John. fully recovered at this writlng. retirement of James Motley. Floy Jones Is in the hospltal, soffer- - Wllliam Sinkerton, cellar packer, is ing wlth a cold. He Is improvlng and off at this wrlting: suflering wlth the we hone he will soon be back to work. 9. dr B. REPORT "Flu". Con.&ratulatlons to Mr. and 3I1.s. SOUTHWEST DlVlSlON John Whitworth, sheet metal worker. Bernard Ellis. Mrs. Ellis was Miss fa absent from work at this tlme, and Bernice Fleeman, daughter of Mr. and J. C. WOODS. Reporter we understand some of hls famlHs arc Mrs. Edward Fleeman. The were sick. Here is hoplng it Isn't serlous. married in October, but kept txe mar- John Roberts Is still on the sick Ilst. Cleo Wisecup, extra man, is now riage a secret until the Xew Year. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Green spent the 'drivlne a Model -4 sedan havtnrr Dur- They n4iI make thelr home In Sprlng- holidays visiting friends In the East. chased-it during the past month. ' fleld. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Maggi spent the Mrs. Nlle E. Ball and children are holidays vlslting with relatives in Rog- vlslting in Sprlngfleld. Red is having ers. Ark. JOPLIN, MO. quite a time batchlng. Wni. Dean Is taking a fifteen day lay- Otho Harvey and Ben McNabb also ---.nff ROGER FLETCHER. Reporter spent the holidays in the old home R E. Carer and Mlss Irene Wldeman town. were married on January 11. The groom Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Wade spent a few Elson (Bhorty) Barnard spent the is a prosperous farmer and oll station of the Chrlstmas holidays visiting holidays with hls parents at Rogers- operator In the vicinity of Kingston. frlends and relatives in Tulsa and ville, Ark. Uncle Sam Loasdon and wlfe are Sapulpa, Okla. Lafayetta Wllhlte spent the holldays spending most of their tlme looking after Everyone knows of the success of wlth hls family in Sprlngfleld. Lefty hls property in Dallas. the Christmas program of the Em- Is a sure PassenRer on the trains Satur- Mrs. Pat Wldeman Is vislting in Sa- ployes' Club In Che lobby of the pas- day and all hol~dnys. pul pa. senger station. The success was due to Mrs. W. E. Bresheats is vlsitlng In The extra gang has about eon~pletedthe the co-operation of the club and aux- Kansas at thls writing. extra work on the Oklahoma Sub and iliary members. Plans already are expect to move to Sapulpa soon. taking form for next Christmas pro- LOCAL No. &ENID, OKLA. W. A. Lantz Is repair in^ the sectlon gram. Every slngle employe should houses in the vicinity of Henryetta. affillate himself with this club and FRANK HARREY, Reporter C. V. Smith has been driving pilea for boost the Frisco. The Christmas pro- overhead work at Stroud. gram Is just one thlng that is spon- R. G. Adams, electrlclan dlcd In E. F. Magpi is repalring the sectlon sored by the club. Joln now and lend Barnes Hospital, St. ~ouin,'Missouri, houses on the south end. your support. January 3, 1934. May we extend our The extra pang on the Cherokee Sub 0. A. Rea, machlnlst, Is drivlng a sympathy to his family. expects to lay twelve miles of heavy steel model A Ford coupe. Earl Young, blacksmlth, and famlly this month. \V. E. Fountain is doing general re- a host of their friends with a splendid family spent Sew Year's in Springfield, pair work on the Chickasha Sub and turkey dlnner. .i\l. n.. \'irgil Leak is rloing repair work dn thc \Veil-well-well, after many years of H. 1). Warren, general chairman, Chc.rokee Sub. anxious warting it has been learned spent' a cou~~leof days in Tulsa, on that John Christain 1s to be a member business. LOCAL NO. 19-B-MEMPHIS, TENN. of th,e graduating class from the Tulha F. R. 3Iock. machinist, has returned evenlng school this June! from Uenison, Texas, after spending Professor and Alrs. A. L. AIoraan a week visiting his mother. AL\-IS H. THOJIAS, Reporter were guests of Alr. and Xlrs. R. L. H. A. Dellis, is in the St. Louis hos- Noreland. They were enterlained with pital with an infected foot. Ben Hurt, backshol) truckman, made H. B. Phillips, blacksmith, took his a trip to Kansas City last mooth, his first air1)l:lne ride to St'. Louis la spend first trill west. the holidays with his daughter, Mrs. Virginia \Vade and AIrs. Loulve SPECIFIED MEETING DATES Jim Franklin, fireman, was crtlled to Fields, wife and sister-in-law uf Earl Oklahoma City on account of Illness Wade our local president, sang a of the Various of his mother. beautiful duet at the funeral of a de- Henry Cole, federal insl~ector,came ceased friend of ours. It was beautl- F. A. OF M. C. & C. D. EMPLOYES fully rendered, irortraying the excel- in with a box of cig-ars and a big. smile, Springfield, Local No. 1 (North announcing the arrival of an eight and lent talent thev pr~ssess. Conpratula- one-half l>uund baby boy, born January tions and well~wishesto these lovely Shop) ...... 1st and 3rd Mondays 6th song birds. Springfield, Local No. 2 (West Bill Rheuark, son of Engineer J. J. Some few months ago, we learned Shop) ....1st and 3rd Wednesdays Rheuark, has passed the required es- that Horace Crittenden, coach cleaner, aminavion in the Naval Training School, was quietly married to Miss Annie Kansas City, Local San Diego, California. Johnson, both of Nemphis. Although KO. 4 1st and 3rd Tuesdays ...... Ilaymoud Dees, third-class machinist, ' lale, we wlsh them many happy returns St. Louis, Local has returned home from the St. Louis of the day. hosyital after underg-oing an operat~on 311x8 Lucllle Robinson, sister nf ye No. 5...... 1st and 3rd Fridays for appendicitis. rklwrter spent the Xmas holidays in St. Monett, Local Henw Blair is wearing a big smile, Louirr. She was accompanied by yours truly, who retuvncd after a couple of No. G ...... 1st and 3rd Mondays reason-a seven and one-half pound Ft. Smith, Local baby boy. Congratulations to 3Ir. and dagr. Mrs. Blair. At lhls writing the world renowned No. 7...... 2nd and 4th Thursdays (1. C. Bohannan, engineer, war re- Klng Fmh. Amos Johnson, has not been to w~1,li.f~ir two weeks, being confined Enid, Local moved from his home to the St. Louis No. S ...... 2nd and 4th Mondays hosgital with pneumonia. to hls her1 with lumbago. We wish Mrs. John IVhitc is visitinc.- with her lor him :r tipeedy recovery. Joplin, Local daughter In Hnbbr, 31esico. Am sllll urging our brrya to work No. 9 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Mrs. R. W. Zachrltz, wife of \V. safely, help lo avoid acctdenls and re- ...... R. gard a11 safety first ~,ulen. Chaffee, Local Zachritz, engineer, was painfully In- Have just learned that Mrs. Antlie No. 11 ...... 1st and 3rd Tuesdays jured ill a fall recelved at hev home, F . .' antl \r7e wish her a bpeedy recovery. .rw~n presented her husband Ezel Neodesha, Local Erwin, rheet metal worker an addition Writer and family spent Christmas and No. 10...... No regular date in Ft. \Vorth, Texas, with the home tcl the family. Nother baby are fvlks. dtring fine. Congratulations to the Pensacola, Local - Erwins. No. 14...... 1st and 3rd Thursdays F-or qulck and c1el)entlable service, Oklahoma City, Local TEXAS LINES-M ECHANlCAL call the Frisco. DEPARTMENT R-ales right and reaaonrrble where- No. 15.... 1st and 3rd Wednesdays ever yo11 go. Wichita, Local SHERMAN, TEXAS I-nstant servlce in every way. -- S-ervice is the wat'chrvord every day. No. 16.... 1st Monday in ea. Month DON ANDEilSOS, Reporter C-ourtesy and kindnesa to rich al~d Tulsa, Local poor. No. 17...... 1st and 3rd Mondays Don't know what we are going to do 0-ther features with these, makes Birmingham, Local when June rolls around because it seems the great Frisco. that Cupid has been pretty busy during No. 18...... 1st and 3rd Mondays December and co far in .January. Yale, Local .1. H. "Jim" Alexantlcr, car carpenter, stole :L march on his frlen(ln and co- LOCAL NO. 17-B-TULSA, OKLA. No. 19...... 1st and 3rd Thursdays workers. On December 11 he married Hugo, Local 311ss I&ora Culhoun and then. several ROBICRT MORELAND, Rcporter No. 20 ....1st Tuesday in ea. Month ,I:lyr;l later, of his own :tccorrl, broke the new9 by casually passing around a box Whllo this local at Tulsa nny not Amory, Local of clgars. have bcen heard from through the No. 24 ...... 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Mihn M~rleMiller, daughter of JIr. and Magazine, n7c certainly arc on the mall. Ft. Worth, Local X11.s. J. F. Illller. locomotwe inspector, The regular session of Local So. 17-B No. 25 1st and 3rd Tuesdays and wife. was marrlerl on December 24. was held on Tuesday night, January 2...... to Orville Vanrlergriff. An encouragin~~lurnber were present. Sherman, Local .Even Thomas Virgil "Sonny" Inman. .John Christil~n. uresident. called for No. 26 ...... 2nd and 4th Mondays boilermaker. could not (or would not) thc readinc of thc minutes of the last Thayer, Local dirlge thr Intal arl.onT, for on Christmas meeting. Secretsay Rlchard Brown night Miss I~rencXIalcolm became Nrs. rendered this service, wid after proper No. 28 ....1st Wed. in each Month "Sonny" Inman. consideration, the mlnutes were acrept- Ft. Scott, Local And during tlils same ~~ertotlof time. ed and adol~tedby the body. No. 29..lst Tuesday in ea. Month Miss Opal Aulston became Mrs. Earnest The relmrls of the standing cnm- Niller. Earnest is the son of Leo JIiller, mittces were submitted and were ac- Pittsburg, Local copl~ersmith. cepted by the members afCer they had No. 30 ....Last F'1.i. in each Month \Ve wish nll the newlyweds health and been given yr'olxr ronsideratio~~.It Newburg, Local hauuiness-. clurina this and thr- ~ coming was prevailed upon the members lhat years. there should be a full atLendance In ail No. 32 ...... 1st and 3rd Tuesdays Miss Helen IIIOrgali, daughter of Car of the meetings during the year of Hayti, Local Foreman antl Mrs, \Ir. A. Ilor~an.who is 1934. No. 33 ...... 2nd and 4th Fridays teaching at Jerlnyn, spent the Cliristnias Mr. and Mrs. Alurljhy Williams spent holidays in Sherman with home folks. the Christmas in Omaha, Neb. Frank Rncincer nnd Mrs. A. V. Brown spent Beasley is back from Texas, where he Lhe Christmas hollclays in Colorado. had been called on legal buslnefis. dancing and a card game. Afterwards Norman Thorwarth. boiler foreman at Robert Gray, third-class hprlngman, a turkey dinner was served. Rprinfifield, started the new vrhar off in went to Oklahoma City. Sunday. Janu- Local No. 17-B is lOI)C/, Frisco, the the right way by upendlng kew Year's ary 7, to attend the perfnrmance, road that' gives superlor service in Uar In Texas. visitlng for a few minute3 "Green Pastures". He remrts that~ the~~. helping to develo1, this great south- at the roundhouse. play was a tYeat and greaily enjoyed it. west. James MI "Jim" Ward, rnacl~lnist,died James Thomas, "Good Kid". to the suddenly on January 12. He had been boys, reuorts that his wife is nn- tap~-- oE account sickness Cor several months road to - recovery. Mrs. Thomas has LOCAL No. 17 and his sudden passlng was quite a been ill for some time and we wish shock, as mc had been looking tornard her a speedy recovery. WEST TULSA, OKLA. to his return to work. The entlrc Frlsco T. R. Winfleld and Mrs. Winfleld en- farnlly extends sympathy to Mrs. II'arrl. tertained a group of their friends H. C. PRICE, Reporter We have a new motor car. the RC-661, Wednesday night, .January 3, in Tulsa for use of carmen in making road trips where they attended the "Green Pas- l~oyd Richardson, blacksmith. and between Sherman nncl Irving. Now all tures". T. R. Winfield and party all family spent the Christmas holidays at the machfntsts and boilcvmakers (pos- were from Sapulpa. Chaffee. 310. sibly others) w1sll they were carmen, 60 Mr. and Xlrs. John Christain served Ralph Blackhurn, machinist, and thcy could ride the "little red wagon".