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Vol. XI1 NOVEMBER, 1934 No. 11

Railroads Affect Millions What do the railroads mean to the American people? The Sevierville (Tenn.) Vindicator raises this ques- Permission is given to reprint with or without credit, tion in a current editorial. It con- in part or in full, any article appearing in this Magazine. tinues : "The financial condition of the liues

affects the financial status of about .... . 50 per cent of the population, who . i, elther own railroad securities them- selves or own them indirectly through Contents of Thd Issue insurance, banking, educational, and similar institutions, which are heavy investors in railroad stocks and Pages bonds. "The railroads give employment to Public's Favorite Movie Actor Rides Frisco Meteor ...... 3 abut 1,000,000 people, whose jobs are imperiled when the lines operate Transport Prophecies of the Past by R. S. Henrr...... 4-7 at a loss. Millions of other workers, 67% of Rail Mileage Now Operating at a Loss...... : ...... 7 in mines, factories, and all types of industry are dependent on railroad The Honor Roll ...... 8 purchases for their livelihood. In Important Conventions 1934-1935...... 10 nornlal times, railroads are the great- .. est single purchaser of supplies in News of the Frisco Clubs ...... 11-14 the nation. Frisco Employes' Hospital Association Statement...... 14 "Government itself-local, county, state, and national-is dependent on In Memoriam ...... 15 the lines for much of its tax revenue. Flashes of Merriment ...... 16 Railroad money paves roads, builds public buildings, carries on all kinds News From the Mechanical Department ...... 17-20 of government activities, and edu- Frisco Family News 20-32 cates thousands of our children...... "Every person benefits when rail- roads prosper-every person feels the ill effects when' they are depressed. It is an excellent sign that thousands of industrialists, representing all lines of business are behind the movement to give the rails a fair deal."

MEMBER I THE FRlsco EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE n I The RIaco Employw' hh$wzlne 14 I monthly publlcatlon devoted primarily 10 IhC hleresta of the actire an11 retired employes of the Frlsco Lines. It contains storles. itelm of Cur- rent news, personal notes aliout employes and their famllies, articles dealing with rarloua phase8 of railrond work, poems. cartoons and notices regardin.. the service. Go&! cleAr photographs sulrable for reproduetlon are elpecially desired, and will be returned only u,hen requested. All cartoons and drawings must be in black India ink. Ernplows are lnrlted to wrlte nrtlcles tor the mn%nine. Contrlbu!lons should be type- wltten, on onc slde or the sheet only, and shouId he addressed to the EdiLor, Frisco Bulldina. St. Louis, 310. '

Dlstrlbutcd ~lrce - anmw drisco Emfh9M. To arhers, orice 13 cents a copy:- ~ aubscriptlon 1 0 a ear Adiehrig rate wll,bs made known upon aP9!lCfitlon. 176 W. Adnms St.. Chicago. Ill. I November, 1934 The Public's Favorite Movie Actor Rides Frisco Meteor By M. C. MOORE

HE big Union Station at St. I approached the group, there were Will Rogers Sees Two Louis teemed with life on the emitted peals of laughter. Tmorning of Friday, October 5. Will Rogers started toward the Series Games Before Special trains brought in thousands news stand and I walked up to him. of ball fans from states surrounding "I'm Miss Moore, Mr. Rogers," I Leaving for California St. Louis. Approximately 300 of them said. "I came down to greet you and to see that you were properly es- came all the way from Oklahoma When the crowd realized that he corted to your train." City via Frisco Lines to witness the was leaving, about thirty of their games over the week-end, and all He shook hands with me and to the number rushed up to get an auto- visitors that day smiled in anticipa- amaseinent of the crowd said: "No graph. Will Rogers complied most tion. The score for the series was lady has ever put me on a train yet." graciously. No request was turned even, one game for the Cards and one I told him there always had to be a down. for the Tigers. first time. I a180 told him that I un- As we approached the train and the It seemed hours before the station derstood he had about deserted train car in which he had a stateroom, I was cleared of its visitors. But they service for airplanes. spied the photographer. finally mattered to all parts of the "That's wrong. I was on a train "We're going to take pour picture," city. Many of them went to the ball for nine days going across Siberia. I said. park immediately upon arrival; many Anybody that rides on a train nine "Snre, that's fine," he said, and I to hotels and many to the homes of days must like it all right, don't yon relaxed considerably. friends. think?" He stood at the steps of the Pull- And then came the tense afternoon. "How did you like the ball game?" man, R. L. Cole, depot passenger Thousands and thousands of persons someone asked. agent, on one side and myself on cheering tbe players; radios broad- "Well, sir," replied Will Rogers, "it the other. The photographer made cast the game, play by play, and at mjt great. I saw the game in three attempts to take the picture, the close of the afternoon the Detroit y terday and this one today. but there was some difficulty with the Cardinals had won their second game That \Scho lboy Rowe is a great kid. flashlight. apparatus. And did I get of the series. You St. Louis fans had better be care- worried? Here he was all ready for St. Louis ball fans heaved a sigh ful. The Tigers may slip up on you the picture and the camera or some- of relief and the Detroit rooters for they've got a crackerjack team. thing out of order! But Will Rogers. hoped for better luck the next day. It's too bad there aren't more in base- in his easy way said, "Give the boy Most of them stayed, of course for ball like this boy Rowe. The only time. He's OK. So far there are the games on Saturday and Sunday, trouble with the Rowe family is that three errors and no score." More but there were always some who had they didn't breed enough boys. Look witty remarks followed which relieved to journey on, and one of them was at the Deans! the teilsion until finally the picture the much beloved Will Rogers. Ad- "And that makes me think. After was made. vice came that he had reserved space the game I walked up to Mr. Dean, Then we boarded the train and on Frisco No. 9 to Chelsea. father of the boys, and shook his went into the new air-cooled lounge It had been some time since he had hand and told him that I thought he car, the new Oklahoma City. Will used Frisco service and so arrange- had two fine boys. I was proud of Rogers was unstinting in his praise, ments were made to secure his pic- them. He looked at me and said, and said he had seen nothing finer. ture and a short interview for the 'Who are you?' I told him I was Will I told him it had been built in our Frisco Magazine. Rogers. Then he said 'Well. now, shops and that there was another just Accordingly at 5:30 p. m. the pho- you're the guy they tell me I look like it on Frisco No. 10. We went tographer stood with me at No. 9's like'." on up into the diner, where he sat gate at the Union Station. My eyes The crowd around Will Rogers down to order his dinner. roved from the taxi stand to the many screamed with laughter. "I'm going to visit my sister in entrances to the station which I could He picked up a copy of TODAY Chelsea," he said. "I don't get to see see, anticipating his appearance. I and held the cover up. The feature her often. From there I'll meet Mrs. made the rounds of the news stands, article, captioned on the cover was Rogers and go to Dallas, and then on the drug store, etc., about every 10 "Huey Long Dictator of the Delta". to California. It's been fine to have miilutes. "Look at that, boys!" he said as he been able to see the two games of the "Will Rogers is a little shy about held it up and then bought a copy. series." posing for photographs," said the Everybody laughed again. He was He commented most favorably on photographer, which, of course, was just home folks. Nothing put on the air-cooled diner. encouraging news. In fact it made about his attitude. Nothing showy, "I used to know the Frisco a long me so uncomfortable that I took an- nothing insincere. time ago. It's a fine railroad. I'm other walk up to the drug store in I glanced at the clock. It was going to hurry. through dinner so I the station. twenty-five until 7. "Suppose we can enjoy that lounge car. . . . Even It was 6:20 p. in. and he had ar- walk on to the train," I said, fearing at that though, I'll be glad to get home rived. It was easy to tell that, al- to mention that I would like to take again." though I couldn't even see him for his picture. And so we started across We talked for a moment of the vari- the crowd grouped around him. As the waiting room. (Now tw11 fo P~ge15, please) Page 4 Transport Prophecies of the Past

RISES are nothing new in the those prophets of transportation who By Robert S. Henry history of American railroads. foresee the disappearance of the road C Since their early days there has of rails from the American scene, recurred basically the same problem means that regardless of changes of meeting rising costs of operation, which may come in motive power or builders of England were still making higher wages, heavier taxes, with in cars, the burdens of this continent locomotives with joints of canvas and revenues derived from declining rates. will be borne in major part along red lead, permitting a steam pressure In times past the answer has been parallel rails of steel. of not more than 60 pounds. He had found in increasing volume, as the Granting that the road of rails will already begun experimenting with a United States and its business grew. remain, the experience of the past coal burning engine, and with chilled In this present time, that answer hundred years has shown that he who wheels, to replace the wrought iron seems to be denied the railroads, un- ventures upon confident prophecy, wheels which, in turn, had replaced der a governmental policy of encour- whether of achievement or failure, is the original combination of wood and agement to all those forms of com- indeed rash. The one prophecy which iron wheels. peting transportation which, by rea- may be made safely is that there will son of public subsidy, are enabled to be change. Mr. Baldwin, as I say, was in no divert business from the railroads. In 1838 Mr. Matthias Baldwin an- wise lacking in insight or imagina- Upon a basis of volume business, nounced that his first-class engine, tion and yet in 1838 it appeared to American railroads provide the best him that the United States would and cheapest land transport in the never need a locomotive larger than world, all elements and costs con- his 26,000 pound model. The history sidered. During the century in which EDITOR'S NOTE of the Baldwin Locomotive Works shows to what extent Mr. Baldwin this miracle of transportation has The article appearing on this transformed a wilderness continent page entitled "Transport Prophecies changed his mind. The history of of the Pest" was written and pre- America shows how much the big into a nation, there was hardly a time sented before the American Rail- when there have not been those who way Magazine Editors Associa- engine, with its concentration of great felt that railroads had about reached tjon's Convention in Cleveland, Oc- power under the hands of one man tober .Z, by R. S. Henry, and wm at the head of one long train, has their final perfection, and those others the high spot on the program. already engaged in preaching funeral The article is quoted in the meant in mass transportation, with its Prisco Magazine through the cour- reduction of the actual cost of moving sermons in anticipation of the com- tesy of Mr. Henry, and will be of ing demise of the rail system as a great interest to all rail employes. people and things quickly and surely whole, or of some supposedly vital Mr. Renmj is the author of the through the great spaces of this con- book "Trains" recently published tinent. part, such as the steam locomotive. b$) the Bobbs-Mm-111 Companv, Of course no particular form of publishers, of Indianapolis. This Yet there was never a time in that book w one of the most interesting history when there were not those locomotive or car is vital to the rail- ever published. He ts a recogmizcd roads. There were railways when the histo~icm,and also the author of who felt that the railroad had ('The Story of the Confederac?~". achieved its utmost, that in today's only motive power known was the His title is Re ional Research muscle of men or animals, or the Director, ~ssodntgnof Railway language of sports it was "through". Executives, at Nashville, Tenn., and Fifty years ago, in 1883, a National pressure of the moving winds. In a appreciation is hereby acknowl- fundamental way these primitive rail- edged to him for permission to Exposition of Railway Appliances was roads accomplished the same result as pziblish tlre addless. held at Chicago in the Interstate Ex- the most modern roadbed in that they position Buildings fronting on Lake made it possible to move goods with Michigan, with an area of 11 acres. less power than would have been re- which had cylinders 12% x 16 inches, Note two items in the contemporary quired on the common roads of that and which weighed 26.000 pounds, description of the Exposition-"A day. was as heavy as would be called for, huge locomotive made for the steep The essential thing, then and now, and as large as he intended to build. grade work on the Southern Pacific is the road of rails. When rails were Mr. Baldwin certainly could not be was the object of general admiration. adopted there was no other way to accused of lack of vision or lack of The engine weighs 60 tons,. is 60 feet make a smooth road. Other surfaces imagination. In the 7 years before long, and has two sets of cylinders have been developed but the road of he decided that the American locomo- and steam-chests." A rival in this rails remains unique in its power to tive had reached its full growth he general admiration was "the cars of guide the wheels of long trains of had pioneered in many fields of design the electric railway, the baby-rival of burden-bearing vehicles pulled, with and construction. Just 4 years before steam, and perhaps destined to sup- the minimum expenditure of energy, he had built a 17,000 pound locomo- plant it in the future", which ran by a unit of motive power. The rail- tive which hauled 19 loaded "burden around the main gallery every day guided train is the essential of rail- cars" on the Main Line of Public and ho-ur. roading which, in spite of present Works of the State of Pennsylvania Magazine editors will be impressed efforts to handle truck-trailer trains with such success that the Legisla- by the fact that E. H. Talbott, Editor on the public highways, can truly be ture decided to give up horse power of the Railway Age, was presented duplicated nowhere but on the road and adopt steam. He had perfected with a twenty thousand dollar private of rails. a type of joint for steam pipes which car for his,part in the success of the This fundamental fact, which seems enabled him to carry 120 pounds of Exposition. In order that their envy to be pretty generally overlooked by pressnre at a time when the famed may be complete, let them hear what November, 1934 Page 5

sort of a car was given to railway railroads. A company has also developer of electricity, the plan been formed for the introduction of Edison contemplates the estab- editors 50 years ago: of electro-motors on tram-ways. lishment of stations at intervals On September 6, 1883, an ordinarys of ten miles, where dynamo-elec- "His car is simply designed to horse-car was propelled by the trical machines may be placed, to eshibit a model railway coach. It Faure Sellon Vockmar accumu- communicate their stored-up en- is a perfect beauty from wheels to - - lators of the French company for ergy to the rails, and thence s!~ the deck-lights. The parlor is finished a distance of 30 miles through the apparatus in the locomotive. in solid mahogany. The larger principal thoroughfares of Paris, pleces of the silver service are en- and during the trial of 6 hours no Mr. Leo Daft had an even more re- graved wit11 representations of old accident occurred through t h e markable experimental locomotive in hlstorlcal locomotives and cars. In frightening of horses . . . For ele- a mahogany case are working vated city railways they have the service on the Saratoga, McGregor m o d e 1s o f the Westinghouse advantage of being free from and Lake George Railroad, according brakes, so arranged as ro show smoke and cinders. If run upon every movement of the engineer in longer railroads, the fact that each to Mr. Kennedy's book. The Daft handling them, and being, in addi- car contains its own motor would, locomotive, named tlie "Ampere", tion, actually connected with the perhaps, make the use of single brakes of the whole traln, so that passenger cars advisable, so Qhat made its trial run in the fall of 1883. an occupant of the car can stop at our trunk lines and local lines pleasure. There are also an ob- would resemble street-car roads; "This was the first utilization of servation room, bedrooms, kitchen in such event the results of col- an electric locomotive in the draw- and pantry. The chief rooms are lision, as has been suggested, ing of ordinary passenger coaches finished with the ricllesr woods. would not be so disastrous as at for practical and public purposes. native and foreign, in thelr natural present, and the wear and tear of The experiment was a complete colors, and furnished with mirrors, rails would be less." success-the little engine moving carpets and ugllolstery in keeping on easily with its load of seventy with the other feature of the car- Mr. Kennedy felt "tolerably cer- passengers, amid the loud cheers riage." of the crowd, whose skepticism as tain" that man would "harness the to t.he a%ilities of the motor was Mr. Talbott's car cost just as much lightning to the street cars". completely removed. The recently as "the elegant private car of Presi- f o r m e d Massachusetts Electric "It seems probable too " he adds Power Company has also success- dent Vanderbilt", in which "he often "that the discover; of 'so delicat; fully tried a Daft electric locomo- travels a hundred miles in a hundred and conveniently generated a mo- tive upon a railroad near Boston, tive power wlll have the effect of and proposes to inltroduce the pow- minutes; the mere conception of such stimulating the invention of aero- er upon an extensive scale . . . The speed almost takes away one's nautical vehicles . . . In short, it Daft motors have attained a Speed looks as though electricity were to of 70 miles an hour, and have as- breath", bnt President Vanderbilt's be the supplanter of steam as a cended grades of 2,000 feet to the car was equipped with the novelty of motor, at least for many kinds of mile . . . One of tlie curious things electric call bells. work . . . It would not be at all discovered by Mr. Daft is that the surprising if people now living electric current itself exerts a "Travellng at the present time should see the day when trains of tractive or adheslve power, making is a very luxurious thing.." wrote flying cars propelled by electricity the wheels bite the rail more firm- Lieutenant Bradley A. Fislte, after- shall fly between New York and ly: But a more wonderful thing ward Rear Admiral of the United London, between London and Yo- st111 is the way in which the ad- States Navy. "But what will it be kohama, and between Yokohama hesive power of the wheel is in- w,hen we can sit at an open wln- and New York via San Francisco. creased by electro-magnets . . dow and gllde along at the rate of and .when air lines in the strict exert a tremendous pull downward sixty miles an hour without fear sense of the word shall 'be estab- upon the rail, and thus bind it and of smoke or cinders; when electric lished in ten thousand directions the wheels more closely together, bells are at hand leading to the ln- over the surface of every country so 'that the adhesive power of a accessible retreats where porters on the globe. The first electric ten - ton electric locomotive is now secrete themselves safe from airship has already mounted into greater than that of a forty - ton discovery; when we can start from the atmosphere. On October 8. steam locomotive, and most of the our homes to take a car for Bos- 1883, Gaston Tissander and his wear and tear is avoided." ton, as we now start to take an brother made an ascension from Mr. (Kennedy's reactions to the elevated train, knowing that if we Paris in their electric car. The miss one ear, another will soon be balloon was ellipsoidal in shape. dawning developments o f electric at hand: when electric incandes- the car made of stout pieces of traction show, at least, that the cent lamps, which cannot. in case bamboo lashed togerher and fur- of accldent, scatter burning oil in nished with a propeller, rudder, skepticism of things new which had all directions, shall All the car with batteries, etc. The aeronauts say hampered the early days of steam a mild and steady light: when that they foresee the possibility of dispatches can be received on directing their course at will by traction was entirely evaporated by board a train in motlon as well as means of their rudder, operated by the middle '80's. at an offiee: when the cars shall electric power. be heated and meals prepared by "In the meantlme pending his Joseph Whitehead, who had been electric stoves, which cannot, in more perfect instailations as a fireman of the Stockton & Darling- case of accldent. eet flre to the car navigator of the air, the proud -all the electricie needed for genie of the clouds has been per- ton on Stephenson's Locomotive No. these and numberless other pur- forming some very useful and 1 "in the days when a strong head- poses being derived from the same humble labor upon a number of convenient source-the conductor electrical railways in Europe and wind used to bring t,he locomotives to carrying the current which fur- America." a stop", was still living, as was Peter nishes the propelling power?" Mr. Kennedy mentions the inven- Cooper, who had built the Baltimore Lieutenant Fiske, like many others, tion of Professor Werner Siemens, of & Ohio's Tom Thumb, and Horatio was looking forward to an early day Berlin, who would be known "as the Allen, who had persuaded the direc- when electric locomotives would fur- father of the electric railway system. tors of the South Carolina R. R. to nish the power for American trains- if there should ever be such a sys- build their line without the custom- Mt his mention of open windows tem"; and also the experiments of ary path between the rails for the shows that he had no pre-vision of Thomas A. Edison, who was operating equine motive power. These patri- air-conditioning. Nor, as his mention an electric railway 2% miles long archs had seen great marvels not only of flre in case of accident indicates, from a point on the Pennsylvania in the United States but throughout did he foresee the all-metal coach. Railroad to Metuchen, on which an the world. In fact, by 1884, it was "It really looks as if the hour of electric locomotive drew a passenger believed that "railway travel has ap- doom had struck for steam," wrote car containing 40 people at the rate of parently reached perfection as far as W. S. Kennedy in his book on the 29 miles an hour. respects hxurious appointments and "Wonders and Curiosities of the Rail- From Mr. Kennedy's description, in furnishings". It must be confessed way", published in the summer of fact, it looks as if Mr. Edison's device that the description of the saloon cars 1884. was at least a first cousin to per- on the great Mne between Saint "Various companies llave been petual motion. Petersburg and Moscow somewhat formed In the United States for the bears out the belief. The cars were introduction of electric motors up- ''Slnce the dynamo-electrical ma- on horse railroads and elevated chine is sn absorber as well as a two stories high, with a winding stair- case to reach the sleeping satuon in recently been fitted wli the second story, whose windows af- wheels suited for any ga forded a fine view of the country. The manual block was The first floor had elaborately fur- safety system, the autor nished drawing rmme and private having been fully dc compartments, wlth easy chairs, sofas America the most col and divans. There were double win- was a "pivoted disc on dows, closely fltting doors, handsome with one face painted toilet rooms, portable card tables, other white". In Great games and books. The cars were semaphore was in more steam heated from a heater at one A signal marvel was th end, yet they lacked the vestibules so terlocking station at C; Bmlliar to us now, and they were in London. The numbc lighted by wax candles. handled by these prirn~~~vesignal ture. They had weather then that was "The height of luxury in travel has systems is hard to realize. At Clap- weather. The first train of the been reached by royalty in Europe ham Junction, in London, 1,600 trains Northern Pacific to cross the Missouri and nabobism in America," wrote Mr. a day passed. River did so on February 12, 1879, on Kennedy. This had gone to the ex- Electric car lighting had been tried a track laid on ice 3 feet thick. Over tent of bathing cars on some few lines by the Pullman Company on the Lon- this ice bridge was hauled the ma- in America, with "alcoves furnished dowBrighton line in England on Oc- terial for the western extension of the with bath tubs and suitable appurte- tober 14, 1881. "The 12 little incan- line. In the eummer of 1880 at the nances". It was said that when the descent lamps employed gave out a curiously misnamed town of Monot- Queen of England traveled from fine. mild, equable white light", it was ony, on the Kansas Pacific, a thunder- Windsor to Balmoral she "traverses reported. In the underground rail- storm and waterspout washed away the length of England in a single roads of London, which ran through 6,000 feet of track, put the prairie night, reposing in a royal car". a tunnel under the Thames, the cars under 8 feet of water, and engulfed Napoleon the Third, Emperor of the were "lighted" by painting one half of an entire freight train, of which no French, went about in a "suite of t h e interior with phosphorescent trace was ever found. It was on this traveling apartments consisting of paint, by whose ghastly glow passen- same railroad that a sail car with a nine railway coaches, communicating gers could read the faces of their mast 11 feet high, carrying a triangu- with each other by tastefully deco- watches. lar sail with two booms, was said to rated bridges". Note again the ab- Smile if you will at some of these have made a speed of 40 miles an sence of vestibules even on the im- primitive-seeming devices and de- hour, with the wind right abeam and perial train. However, along with velopments, bqt there can be no dis- the sail close hauled. The skeptical clocks, chandeliers, a thermometer count of the achievement of the rail- may see a picture of the car in the and barometer, the train had tele- roads of that time in the conquest of Scientific American. On the Union graphic apparatus for communication nature. British engineers had already Pacific in 1875, at Potter Station, a with the several apartments. carried the rails over the road train of Pullman cars was caught in In spite of his enthusiasm over the traveled by Cortez and Maximilian, a hail storm and so bombarded by splendor of royal trains, Mr. Kennedy chunks of ice 3 or 4 inches in di- noted that "For a high rate of speed ameter as to give the woodwork on over long distances the New York and the south side of the train the ap- Chicago Limited beats the world. It MRS. J. M. KURN DIES pearance of having been "ploughed". whirls over the 913 miles that sepa- Sincere sympathy is extended The double windows of French plate to J. M. Kurn, Trustee of the St. rate the two cities in twenty - five were broken, the curtains torn in hours." Louis - San Francisco Railway Company, and to relatives, by shred%, the wooden shutters broken At this half-way point in railroad the family of Frisco employes (who remembers wooden shutters in history the movement for standardiza- throughout the system, in *the cars now?), while the lady passengers tion was just well under way. Stand- loss of his wife on October 25. ard time had been adopted by the Mrs. Kurn died at her home, fainted or had spasms, according to railroads in the fall of 1883. Before 5044 Westminster Place, St. temperament. then, 53 different, timea had been in Louis, at 5:35 p. m., after an Ill- Of one thing we may be sure: the use on various American railroads. ness of a year's duration. She people of 60 years ago did not take Between Boston and Washington 6 was 57 years of age. Mrs. Kurn was born at Canan- their railroads for granted. They different times were used. The 14 were still close enough to a day when 6 daigua, N. Y., and was Miss railroads at St. Louis used different Gracia Irene McMillan before transportation was painfully slow and times. Within 6 months after the her marriage. She and Mr. impassibly expensive, to have some railroads put in W. F. Allen's new Ku,rn moved to St. Louis in 1918. "Hour System" on November 18, She was a lover of the out-of- realizing sense of what the railroad 1883, 78 large cities followed suit. doors, an enthusiastic golfer, meant. The science and the art of Standard gauge was emerging from and spent a great deal of time transportation by rail was not yet de- the confusion. The Atlantic & Great at their Pensacola, Fla., home veloped to the point of today's daily where she enjoyed the deep sea miracle of organization whereby a Western had just changed to standard. fishing. It was anticipated that the Erie, the Surviving are her husband hundred thousand or more cars are Ohio & Mississippi, and the Grand and a sister, Mrs. Ida M. Had- loaded with freight on tens of thou- Trunk would soon follow sult. it waa sell. sands of sidings, assembled by switch not mentioned, but In fact the lines Funeral services were con- engines into yards and made up into south of the Potomac and the Ohio ducted from the Second Presby- long trains to be pulled across the Rivera were to follow suit within 2 terian Church at 3:00 p. m., years. In Europe a through train be- October 27. country to destination, there to be tween St. Petersburg and Paris had (Now tzirrz to Page 15, please) 87%of Rail Mileage Now O~eratingat a Loss

HE need for additional revenues May, 1933, to April, 1934, the reverse Need for Additional ' to meet rapidly rising costs of is now true. Net income, which had Revenue to Meet Toperation was urged by Dr. shown substantial percentages of in- Julius H. Parmelee, Director, Bureau crease over the previous year in every Costs Is Urged of Railway Economics, who appeared month from May, 1933, with but a as the first witness at the hearings single exception, declined 23 per cent before the Interstate Commerce Com- in May, 1934, and dropped 73 per cent 20.4 per cent, which, on the basis of mission on the rail carriers' petition in June, 1934, below the levels of the 1934 consumption, represents an in- for increases in certain freight rates. previous year, while net income of crease of $134,367,000 in railway op Tracing the course of railroad traf- $30,000,000 in July, 1933, was replaced erating costs. A still further increase fic and earnings throughout the last by a deficit of $7,000,000 in July, 1934. in expense arises from the operation five years the witness said that in the Traffic Continuing Decline of the Railroad Retirement Act, which first seven months of 1934 deficits became effective on August 1 and the were incurred by companies operating "Judging from the most recent constitutionality of which is now be- more than two-thirds of the total rail- figures which show continuing de- ing questioned in the courts. way mileage of the country. clines in freight traffic during August "The actual net railway operating "In 1929," Dr. Parmelee testified, and the first three weeks of Septem- income earned in the first seven "railway companies operatiug 4 per ber, 1934, the downward sweep of the months of this year amounted to $261,- cent of our total railway mileage in- curves of traffic revenues, and net 000 000. Assuming, in spite of the curred deficits. The proportion of earnings has not been checked. This present downward trend of traffic, total railway mileage operated by car- may be more clearly visualized if I that the net earnings of the last five riers incurring deficits increased to 16 call attention to the fact that in every months of this year will equal those per cent in 1930; increased again to one of the first 26 weeks of the year. of the same months of 1933 -$254,- 42 per cent in 1931; and rose still fur- to June 30, an increase in carloadings 000,000-this would yield a total net ther to 68 per cent in 1932. There was was reported, averaging 15.4 per cent railway operating income for the year then a decline to 58 per cent in 1933, for the period; while in every one of 1934 of $515,000,000. From this esti- but in the period from January 1 to the 12 weeks since July 1 a decrease mated total, however, there must be August 1 this year, this percentage in carloadings has been just as regu- deducted, for the period August-De- has risen again until now 67.4 per cent larly reported, averaging 4.4 per cent cember, sums of $17,000,000 represent- of the railway mileage of the country for the period. ing increased wages; of $55,000,000 is being operated by companies which "In addition to the downward trend representing increased costs of mate- have incurred a deficit so far this of railroad traffic and gross earnings rials and supplies; and of $26,000,000 year. from the present low levels, the car- representing the cost to the railroads "Companies operating at a net loss riers find themselves confronted with of the Railroad Retirement Act. in 1933 reported an aggregate deficit immediate and substantial increases Expect Net Deficit of $73,000,000 of almost $153,000,000. This repre- in their operating expenses which will sents the extent to which considerably tend to reduce even further the level "This would produce a net railway more than half the railway mileage of net earnings. operating income for the year of last year operated in the red. The "After protracted negotiations early $417,000,000 and would leave, after the corresponding aggregate deficit of in 1934, agreement was reached be- payment of fixed charges, a net deficit companies operating at a loss in the tween the carriers and their employes of $73,000,000 for 1934 as compared first seven months of 1934 is approxi- to restore gradually the 10 per cent with a deficit of less than $6,000,000 mately $99,000,000. deduction in railway wages which had in 1933. Furthermore, had these three been effective since February 1, 1932. items of present and prospective in- 26 Roads in Hands of Receivers One-fourth of the deduction was re- creased cost been in effect throughout "As of August 1,'1934," continued stored on July 1 this year; a second the entire year 1934, it appears that Dr. Parmelee, "twenty-six Class I one-fourth is to be restored on Janu- the final results of operation for the railroads operating a total of 40,565 ary 1, 1935, and the remaining one- year would have been a net deficit in miles of line were in the hands of half of the deduction is to be restored excess of $280,000,000." receivers or trustees in bankruptcy. on April 1, 1935. The complete res- Twenty-two of these 26 companies, toration of the wage deduction, on the AGENT WINS PRIZE operating 37,910 miles of line, went basis of the estimated 1934 payroll, F. K. Shrock, agent at Perry, OkIa., into receivership or trusteeship dur- will increase railway operating ex- decorated his automobile to resemble ing the years 1930, 1931, 1932, or 1933. penses by the annual total of $156,- a Frisco locomotive and entered it in Twelve companies with 20,149 miles 195,000. the parade at Perry on September 17, of line were placed in the hands of "Furthermore, current railway op- in connection with Cherokee Strip receivers or trustees in the year 1933 erating expenses have not yet fully opening celebration. The decorated alone. reflected the substantial increases car was awarded third prize by the "In addition to the serious situation which have occurred in the prices of judges. reflected in the foregoing figures, the various materials and supplies 1Mr. Shrock's granddaughter, Jan- study of recent results in the net in- used in railway operation. From May. nett Dyche, added much to the entry come factors brings out the fact that 1933, to the present time the prices of when she dressed in overalls and whereas net income generally in- materials and supplies used in railway carried a huge oil can, representiiig creased over the preceding year, from operation have shown an increase of an "engineer". ' :. 1 Page 8

J. Freeman Wasson, employed at Ralph Blank, in his recent appear- by way of one of the railroads out the Frisco Reclamation Plant, Spring- ances before various American Legion of that city. They came out after the field, Mo., turned in a tip that eight gatherings in Kansas City and sur- train had gone and Laddie Ivy, por- young ladies were contemplating a rounding towns, gave much publicity ter on No. 106, persuaded them to get trip to Kansas City via the bus. to the Frisco in an effort to interest their tickets changed, Frisco-Memphis- Passenger representative immediate- the Legionites in going via Frisco to IC instead of waiting over until the ly got in touch with these parties the convention, which was held next day as they had planned to do. Mr. and routed six of them by rail. A let- in Miami, Fla., October 22. Mr. Blank Ivy was extended appreciation for his ter of appreciation was sent to Mr. appeared in the various entertain- alertness by T. H. Banister, traffic Wasson by J. E. Potts, president of ments as a one-man band. He had manager. the Springfield Men's Club. an assistant who also performed while Mrs. H. B. Wilson, wife of Frisco Mr. Blank passed out Frisco adver- trainmaster, Joplin, 1\10., was instru- Through the splendid handling and tising circulars among the audience. mental in lining up two of her friends. switching given to some lumber ship- He is to be highly commended for Mrs. Carmie Helm and Mrs. Fagan ments by the 0. R. Bradfield Lumber his efforts, and for his loyalty to the Hinckley, for a trip, St. Louis and Company of Tulsa by G. R. Warren, work of the Sunnyland Club. Mr. return. These two patrons were dele- yardmaster at Tulsa, Okla., the Blank is a yard clerk in the 19th St. gates to a convention. Frisco ,has been receiving some splen- Yard, and also a member of the did business. This business was se- American Legion. Mrs. Sherwood Ellis, wife of Sher- cured through the personal solicita- E. G. Gabel, passing record typist, wood Ellis, engineer, Southwestern tion of Mr. Warren and he has person- is making a every effort to secure a division, secured a shipment of auto- ally seen that prompt switching serv- shipment of 60 carloads of pipe from mobile tires from a concern in Okla- ice was given upon arrival of the cars. Birmingham, Ala., which is to be used homa City to Akron, Ohio, and also J. E. Payne, traffic manager, ex- as a water line from the city limits secured two tickets from Oklahoma pressed sincere appreciation for the to Welborn, Kans. Mr. Gabel is be- City to Cleveland and one ticket. splendid work Mr. Warren has done ing assisted by all the employes on Oklahoma City to Chicago during the to secure this business. the terminal who live in the Quindaro mouth of July, 1934. Township. He has spent much of his The tires were lined up to move J. E. Potts, president of the Frisco spare time out of office hours work- via another route and the passengers Men's Club of Springfield, Mo., re- ing on the proposition and deserves were also routed other than Frisco. ports 25 car load shipments, 103 LCL much credit as a loyal Sunnyland shipments and 26 passengers secured Club worker. The Frisco Employes' Club of Joplin by members of that club during the A. J. Finn received a telephone call reports ,that during the month of Au- month of September. The car load October 3rd from a leading contractor gust, two round-trip World's Fair tick- business was secured by Ethel Cope- who said that he was soon to receive ets were sold to Chicago, and during land, accounting department; Grace fifty (50) carloads of cement, and September, five were sold, as a direct Jochum, general manager's office; L. that the Frisco would get the busi- result of solicitation by members of H. Riddle, Eastern division; Matilda ness. Mr. Finn at one time favored the Joplin Club. Hoffman and I. A. Uhr, signal depart- this gentleman by making a few ment: F. M. 'Barry, C. B. Frump, Selma minor repairs to one of our crossings A story in the Springfield, Mo., news Hoffman and G. F. Linster, all of the so that he could drive his trucks over recently stated that Selma Hoffman. telegraph department, and Flo Ble- it, and in appreciation of this service, a member of the Frisco Girls' Club vans, meohanical department. Selma has promised the business to the at Springfield, Mo., was the winner in Hoffman and J. W. Kastler, both of Frisco. Mr. Finn is another loyal a contest to secure carloads, LCL the telegraph department, secured the Sunnyland Club worker, ever alert for shipments and passengers for Frisco LCL shipments. The passengers were ally tips of new business. Lines at Springfield, Wo. Miss Hoff- secured by K. C. B'ean and Bro Mitch- Joe Schwartz, machine shop fore- man secured 14 carload shipments and ell of the accounting; E. A. Warren. man, is also on his toes, always on 46 LCL shipments in the contest, record; C. N. Thompson and Orville the lookout for any possible business, during August, 1934. Coble, general manager's office; M. and frequently turns in valuable tips. Investigation discloses that Miss G. Cooper and Mary C. Carr, claim A month ago, Mr. Schwartz turned in Hoffman found the Ozark Motor & department; John Willie, signal ; F. a tip on the Shrine Conventon at Supply Company, of Springfield, and L. Pursley, FLDC department; F. E. Wichita, which is moving by special the Merit Oil Company, of Webster Feyen, N. A. Sutton and F. C. train out of Kansas City, also a move- Groves, Mo., were not specifying rout- Schmidt. telegraph; J. G. Hayes, me- ment out of Joplin, but it seems that ing on their shipments and the Frisco ohanical. the Frisco was unfortunately unable was not getting its share of the busi- Other em~loyes have reported to secure the business due to some of ness. prospective business amounting to 45 the other roads having more direct Through influential friends with cars, 305 passengers, but this business routes. However, Mr. Schwartz de- both companies she secured the ship- of course has not as yet been secured. serves much praise for his efforts ments for .Frisco Lines. These com- and his loyalty. panies furnish her with a record of The following loyal Sunnyland Club their shipments for each month, and workers of Kansas City, Mo., deserve Recently two colored passengers the business has deflnitely b e e n snecial con~mendationfor their cease- showed up on the platform at Bir- thrown to the Frisco. less efforts to secure traffic tips: mingham. Ala., with tickets to Chicago (Now turn to Page 20, please) November, 1934 Page 9

Ball Fans Greet Cardinals 1933 WAS SAFETY PEAK FOR RAILROADS Reports from the American Rail- way Association's safety section of the Safety Congress, held at Hotel Cleveland, October 3, were to the effect that despite several major acci- dents the co~intry'srailroads in 1933 established their greatest safety rec- ord. The year's total of 5,623 train acci- dents of all kinds occurring on the road and in the switching yards is the smallest number ever recorded, ac- cording to G. H. Warfel of the Union Pacific System, chairman of the com- mittee on train accidents. There were 153 persons killed and 1,252 injured exclusive of trespassers. K. C. CLUB SPONSORS WRESTLER It was a gay group of fans which left Oklahoma City on October 4 on "The Daily Oklahonzatt and Oklahoma City Times" baseball special for St. Lo&, where they has been anticibated witnessmg the Cardinal-Detroit ganzes over the week-end. The phofo- on the section gang in Kansas City. .,ornbh -. above shows them wdoadino from the Frisco Sbecial at St. Louis. W. L. is proving himself a wrestler of no Huggitts, Jr., trafic manager, acc&&nied the party. - mean ability. As an advertising scheme, Mr. Plum is being sponsored NO PER DIEM CHARGE ber 7, spotted and car made empty at by the Sunnyland Club as the "F'risco 4:00 p. m., went forward on train 350 Texas Fast Freight". Agents throughout the territory are at 4:45 p. m. same date. Although only 24 years of age, he intent on the campaign of reducing Cases noted during August in- has received recognition as a coming the payment of per diem on foreign cluded: MoPac 77256, autos, arrived champion when he has appeared in equipment on Frisco Lines. Every FOREMAN, ARK., No. 737 at 11:15 various towns in Iowa, Kansas, Okla- effort is made to see that foreign cars a. m., August 25. Autos unloaded, car homa and Missouri, and particularly are moved in and out of the stations retu~ned to MoPac at Hope, Ark., in Kansas City. without delay, and according to J. H. train 736 same day; the following The Kansas City Sunnyland Club is Doggrell, superintendent of transpor- cars received at BIRMINGHAM, ALA., proud to put him up against any 170 tation, some unusual cases have been from the L&N, August 27, at 3:05 pound wrestler in the field. recorded during the months of Au- a. m., MP 52417, CBQ 59038, RI 75390, gust, September and October. N&W 27726, B&O 112339, CBQ 54350, A FINE PERFORMANCE During October the following cases SP 74898, ATSF 58677, ATSF 59775, A splendid performance of train were reported: Cars L&N 47742 and CMStP 105042 and CBQ 66772. These 833, September 25, J. R. Abernathy, 22167 received at ELSINORE, MO.. in cars were made empty and delivered engineer and T. E. Miller, fireman, train 867 at 7:00 a. m., October 10, back to the L&N at 7:20 a. m.; on was reported for special mention in cars made empty and moved out 11:OO August 24 the following cars were the Frisco Magazine. a. m. same date, forwarded in train ~eceived at BIRMINGHAM, for the In the movement, Chaffee to Yale, 866 at 12:30 p. m.; T&P 17249 50073 Alabama Packing Company on the handling 98 loads and 65 empties, and 60997, lumber, received ROSE- Birmingham Belt, L&N 15757, 19191, train handled 345,781 gross ton miles UAND, ARK., 5:00 p. m., October 4, 19363, 18859, 19342, 19001, 19429 and on 18 tons of coal, 12 hours on duty. train 849. Cars released 10:OO a. m., T&NO 113r169. Cars were received at With the amount of work and ton- October 5, and moved out empty train 6:50 p. m. and made empty and de- nage handled by this crew using only 849, October 5, at 3:00 p. m.; UTLX livered back to the L&N at 10:30 p. 18 tons of coal. J. S. McMillan felt 19258, gasoline consigned MENFRO, m. same date; the Frisco received the that the movement was well worthy MO., received 10:OO a. m. and released following cars of cattle for packing of mention. 1:00 p. m. same date, moving to St. houses on the BIFUMINGJHAM BELT Louis, train 834, same night. on August 21, CBQ 59648, 67108, 57783, Cases reported during September 57758, 59397, 59823, 57420, 57564, fixtures, Beatrice, Nebr., Union Pacific included: ATSF 129181, flour and 59664, 58641, 66758, 68231, 69532, waybill 2414, August 14, moved out of feed moving to MENFRO, WO., re- LH&S 4131, SP 70678 and L&N 88091. Beatrice, Nebr., 4:15 a. m., August 15, ceived train 833, September 24, at These cars were received at 11:15 a. out Kansas City 8:00 p. m. same date, 7:00 a. m. and released 4: 00 p. m. m., August 21st, and released and re- arrived Demopolis train 231, 1:15 same date; C&NW 138122, malt, re- turned to the L&'N at 3:35 p. m. same p. ~n.,August 17, delivered immediate- ceived WITTENBERG, MO., train 833, date. ly and car made empty by 5:00 p. m. 10:lO a. m., September 13, consignees WITTENBERG, MO., NP 41320, car Moved out empty train 232, 3:00 a. m. the lath, first available train. at Old Appleton, 19 miles inland, noti- of malt received in Train 833 at 9:30 fied by telephone at 10:20 a. m., car McMULLIN, MO., CB&Q 58872 ar- a. m., August 21. Car made empty empty and ready to move back to St. rived at 10:OO a. m., No. 845, August Louis at 3:30 p. m. same date; RI and ready to move at 3:00 p. m. same 14. Car was placed and unloaded and 142333, car corn, received at LOR- date. moved out on No. 832 morning of the RAINE, KANS., at 2:40 a. m. Septem- DEMOPOLIS, ALA., UP 13880, store 15th. Page 10

MERITORIOUS SERVIOE 1934-Important Conventions -1 93.! Below is a list of important conventions which will be held during 1934 RIVER DIVISION and 1935. September 27-T. M. Hudson, agent- The frafic department will welcolne any informdion ihat might be of a- operator, Ffeemont, Mo., received a sistance in securing travel to these meetings. Any communication in connection thcrezwith, should be addressed fo J. W. Nourse, general passenger agent, St. phone call on September 8 that bridge Louis, Mo. near Low Wassie was on fire. He 1934 MEETINGS rounded up as many section foremen American Petroleum Institute...... Dallas, Texas ...... Nov. 12-15 as he could locate and drove to the Order Eastern Star Grand Chapter .... Tampa, Fla Nov. 1E-23 fire. It developed that the report ...... Southern Medical Association ...... San Antonio Nov, 13-16 mas erroneous and bridge was not on ...... fire, but agent's actions would have 1935 MEETINGS prevented possibility of great damage Western Fruit Jobbers Assn ...... San Francisco ...... Jan. 29-Feb. 1 had there actually been a fire. Mr. National Educational Assn.- Hudson was commended by J. S. Mc- Dept. of S~~perintendents...... ~tlant'icClty, N. J ...... Feb. 23-28 Millan, superintendent. Shrine Directors Association ...... St. Louis, Mo...... March 6-8 August 30-W. 0. Cook, engineer; American Zinc Institute...... St. Louis, Ma...... April C. Daugherty, fireman; J. R. Johnson, Southern Baptist Convention ...... Memphis, Tenn...... ,May 15-20 conductor, and George Hyram, porter, Klwanis 'International ...... San Antonio, Tex...... May J. IV. R. 31. West and Davis, brakemen, Northern Baptist Convention...... Colo. Springs, Colo ...... May or June the crew on traln 808, August 13, Shrine (A. A. 0. N. M. S.) ...... Washington, D. C;...... June discovered truck or road contractor American Institute of Banking Omaha, Neb June 10-14 on fire, arrival St. Marys, which ...... truck was located near gasoline U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce ....Columbus, 0...... June storage tank on house track; above M. 0. V. P. E. R. (Grotto) ...... Knoxville, Tenn...... June crew cut off the engine and pulled out National Educational Assn ...... Denver, Colo...... June one stock car and three others, some Cooperative Club International...... Oklahoma City, Okla...... July of which were partly loaded, placing Knights of Khorassan (D. 0. K. K.) .... Toronto, Ont...... August them on tracR where they would be United Spanish War Vets ...... San Antonio, Tex...... August out of danger in event the large gaso- Rotary International ...... Mexico, D. F...... June 17-21 line storage tank caught fire and ex- Lions1 Clubs Internatlonal...... Mexico, D. F...... ploded. Each member of the crew had his record credited with five merit marks. drop you a note of appreciation for APPRECIATION the service rendered, because tlte cow- pressor toas badly needed." To the Junge Baking Company of Joplin, Wo., from C. W. Merkle, of the traffic department, Menasha Products Company, Menasha, Wisc., dated Oc- To E. G. Baker, general passenger The following permanent agents M. tober 4, 1934: agent, Kansas City. Mo., from M. mere installed at the stations which Grimes, Chiropractor, Tulsa, Okla., "We certain& want to thank you follow their names : for your prompt handling and the dated October 12, 1934: trouble you went to In ha.ndling the "On Honday noon, the 17th of last Frank A. Thomas, Boynton, Okla., prepmjm.eat ioith your agent of the September 20; Clyde Purtell, Leflore, Frisco Line, and you might say to month, I Ieft Tulsa for Moline, Ill., him that the Frisco Tvavelino Real-e- via Eamm City cm the Frisco. Thjs Okla., September 21; George A. Bond, sentative traveling through kenckha was, withorct doubt, the aaddeat trip Hulbert, Okla., September 27; William mct of Milwaukae, W~R.,is truly a I Itad ever taken, d?re to the fact that Summers, Butterfield. Mo., September hmdred oer cent Friaco man and I loas veturning the body of my favovs of- thia In'&, shown at out- mother. who had gnssad away o day 29; Axel G. Johnson, Medora, Kans., 2y4ng stations in ot?w te??ito?ies, previous, lo Mo&&e, fov buvial. October 1; Bert M. Gregory, Strauss, are app?-eciated by %a. "Upom alighting Jrom the Pullman Kans., October 1; Wm. D. Wilson, CM the train pulled isto the depot, T heard someone speak nty name. I an- Bennington, Okla., October 3; Cecil swered and turned to meet a man L. Siler, Exeter, Mo., October 4; John To Harry Granger, TF&PA., Frisco tohont I had never ntet before. He was wearing a blue unlform and I B. Patrick, Arkinda, Ark., October 5; Lines, Ft. Worth, Tex., from the later learned he wns n conductor by Ralph W. Roseberry, Haworth, Okla., Rasmusen Engineering Company of the +tame of E. M. Gfree. He kiitdly assured me that nty nzother's body October 5; Wiley R. i\Iills, Springdale, Ft. Worth, Tex., dated October 15, toouEd be given the best of watchful Ark., October 6; Virgil L. Banks, Le- 1934: cave and that there would not be a possible mistake mads tn the transfer flore, Okla., October 8. ((We recentzy placed a ~wshorder of her hody to the Golden State The following were installed tem- for one compressor, weighing &,3$5 Limited. Never hmi an occasion so pounds with a comer?&in BuffaZo, N. pleasantly affected me as hda under- porary agents at the stations which Y., to be shtpped to the City Packing standing and kindness. This bdng follow their names: Co., Ft, Wovth, ?-outing same via your the case, I want to thank OUT rail- lines. rond nnd tell you that just such oc- James J. Morgan, Kewanee, Mo., "This shigntent moved out of Bzcf- cnsions cw this cause one to feel tlmt September 27; Robert P. McCoy, falo on October and, New York Cen- not all big business is cold and com- tral to St. Loats. RWsco to Ft. Wo?-th me)-&ally masping. Johnsons, Ark., October 4; Thomas F. and was received by the City Pack- "I wish to thank you /or your ex- Underwood, Oklahoma City Ticket ing Comgamy on October 6th, or only cellent service and kind smplayes, and four daz/s enroute. Ina-snauch as this say that I wish your road inuny auc- Office, October 8. wap such excellent time toe tobh to cessful years." Page 11

.a&. " ""WS OF THE FRISCO CLUBS

Frisco Sunnyland Club Kehoe, pregident of the club, to be Eastern points to Wichita, and James Kansas City, Mo. tireless in their eftorts to secure traf- Ansboro secured a shipment of shoes fic tips and not to become discouraged from St. Louis. lue ~unny~anab~uu or nansas City by failures, but according to the old S. P. Haas talked on general busi- opened its fall festivities with a dance maxim, "if at first you don't succeed ness conditions and expressed the be- and floor show at the El Torreon Ball- try, try agaln"; that It is the duty lief that business in general was hold- room the evening of September 21. of every Sunnylaud club member to ing up well for this season of the The affair was offered without charge turn in every possible tip which will year; however, he felt it would be to Frisco employes, their friends and be turned over to the traffic depart- necessary for every member to put patrons, in a special effort to give ment where the business will be se- his or her shoulder to the wheel. wide publicity to the New Texas Fast cured. if at all possible, by the well- Freight Schedule, as it is believed trained service salesmen in that de- Afton, Okla. that as the new schedule and service partment. Fifty-seven employes, thirty - one become familiar to shippers, phenom- While it I8 only natural that mem- visitors and ten officials were present inal increase in business will result. bers of the Sunnyland Club feel their at the October 15th meeting of the 2,000 There were close to people in club is successful and doing really Frisco Employes' Club of Afton, Okla. attendance at this affair, and when worthwhile things, it was gratifying Special invitations had been sent to their attention was attracted by the to MY. Kehoe, president of the club, officers and patrons and the response floor show, the following announce- to know that the work of the club is was indeed gratifying. ment was read and reflected over the becoming recognized by others out- A report of the business secured at entire auditiorium by loud speakers: side of Frisco circles, when he re- the Afton station, Arst nine months "I have an announcement from ceived a call from a neighboring rail- of 1933 compared with the same T. C. Kehoe, president of the road requesting permission for a com- period of 1934 showed an average in- Frisco Sunnyland Club, the ein- mittee of their employes to sit in at crease of over $1,000 a month. ployes organization of the Frisco a club meeting and also asked to bor- E. E. McGuire, representing the Railway, which is sponsoring the row a copy of the club's constitution general manager's office was the first program and dance this evening. and by-laws, as they were endeavor- speaker on the program and dlrected He wishes to call attention to the ing to organize a similar Employes' his remarks to general business con- fact that the party is being given Club. ditions, new freight service, new in the interest of the Frisco Rail- equipment, fares, rough handling, etc. Business secured by members of way and to take this opportunity Others who addressed the meeting the Frisco Sunnyland Club of Kansas of giving publicity to its splendid included: J. A. Moran, superintend- City, Mo., according a report issued service, both passenger and freight, to ent, Northern division; C. T. Ma- by J. R. Coulter, traffic manager, and bringing to your especial at- son, superintendent, Southwestern di- shows five carloads, 49 LCL ship- tention the New Texas Fast vision; C. K. Sims, assistant super- ments and one passenger secured Freight schedule which was inau- intendent; H. W. Hale, assistant au- during the month of September, 1934. gurated on September 4th. This perintendent; J. El. Springer, DF&PA, This business was all secured by train leaves Kansas City at 9:00 Joplin; J. H. Barcus, president, Jop- employes of the transportation de- a. m. daily and arrives at Fort lin Club; J. H. Douglas, agent, Joplin; partment at Kansas City, the 5 car- Worth at 9:15 a. m. the next day. B. H. Crosland, roadmaster, Ft. Scott, loads having been secured by C. C. If you, or any of your friends or and others. Lacy. R. P. Ruisinger secured 35 of acquaintances contemplate making Mr. Mason expressed his apprecia- the 49 LCL shipments reported. shipments to or from Texas, and tion to the shippers for their support Other employes in this department, are looking for faster, more effi- given the Frisco in his territory, and responsible for the balance of the cient, and >moreeconomical service, J. E. Springer talked for a few business, include: F. H. Fenner, J. a visit to the traffic department of moments on "The Human Element". J. Fitzgerald, H. L. Herman, E. M. the Frisco Railway will prove a The addresses were all interesting Martin, L. W. Poncik and A. J. West- decided advantage. and of an informative nature and erman. "Mr. Kehoe hopes that each and added greatly to the program. every one of you are having a good Air Capital Club Following the presentation of the time this evening and will watch Wichita, Kans. officials, the professional men of the for future affairs of the Frisco At the October 12 business meeting City of Afton were invited to address Sunnyland Club, and it is his de- of members of the Frisco Employes' the gathering. All of them were sire that all of you will become Club of Wichita, Kans., H. B. Sigler, complimentary in their remarks re- members of the Frisco happy fam- conductor, reported having secured garding Frisco service, and W. M. ily here in Kansas City." routing on 19 cars of canned goods, Estus, president of the club, told the The officers received many compli- fruits, vegetables and coffee from merchants that their presence was ments from those in attendance on various points. Mr. Sigler continues, always welcome and that they had be- the success of the affafr, and the club meeting after meeting, to report car- come a real part of the club. members are anticipating many such load shipments secured through his Clint H. Baker, restaurant owner of - enjoyable evenings during the coming efforts for this club. Afton and ,a 100% Frisco shipper, winter. Ralph Dinsmore, president of the arrived at the close of the meeting The members of the Suniiyland Club club, reported securing routing order and served sandwiches and coffee to have been continually urged by Mr. on two carloads of chocolate from those present. Ted Shedlebar and his Page 12 orchestra furn, of all the pop1 ing was comic best held by th Friscc St. Louis, Mo. Eighty- one members and three guests were present at the September 27th luncheon of the Frisco Girls' Club of St. Louis, Mo., held at the American Annex. The August meet- ing of the club was postponed ac- count of the death of Victoria Mat- rose, a member. Following the luncheon, a report of business secured by the members was A red Frisco fnmify lirres up for a picture. Mr. ard Mrs. L. P. Bztrck, of 3402 made for the months of July, August Magrrolin Aveizuc, St. Louis, pose for a picture with their 12 ckildrett. Mr. Bwrch and September, which included: 4 zs diirirzg car steward on Frisco trains, St. Louis to Oklahoma City. Names of the carloads of freight secured by Miss family, from left to right: Mr. Burch, 48 years old; Mrs. Burch, 46; Verrtof~,20; Pollock, head nurse at the Frisco Leonard, 21; Aubrey, 22; Mclba, IS; Wilbur, 14; Wilma, 15; Mrs. Aliarguerite Wooldridge, 23; Mrs. Florerlcc Dodds, 25; Robert, 12; Edgar, 10; Keweth, 8, aitd hospital; 4 carloads and one passen- Richard 6. Mr. apzd Mrs. Bzwch have beelt vlarried tzweitty-six years. ger credited to Margaret Leahy, ac- connting department; 2 passengers each for Agnes Larkin, secretary to General Agent Cummings, 7th Street Employes' Club of Ft. Smith, Ark., lowed by C. 0, McCain, represented Station, St. Louis, and Minnette meeting held in a coach at Garrison by Mr. Tidwell and Mr. Presson and Juhlin, freight traffic department, and Avenue. September 17. The meeting Mr. Letizell, so that any employe 3 passengers each to Lucille Meyer, was called to order at 7:30 p. m. by calling the office of the superintend- of the purchasing department, and George Hinnant, president, who out- ent, division freight agent, train- Lil Kulage, secretary to auditor- lined plans for the fall and winter master or agent will receive credit revenues. activities. Short addresses were also for his traffic tip on the regular tip made by A. M. Leitzell, C. 0. McCain, Ella Ecklekamp, president of the form. 0. L. Young, W. C. Schultz and H. H. club, expressed sincere appreciation About 50 members promised to at- for the efforts put forth by the girls Hedges, the latter of the Railway Ex- in securing this business. press Agency. tend the meeting of the Northwest Mrs. Chic Sally, wife of operator Music for the occasion was fw- Arkansas Club to be held at Winslow at Pacific, Mo., was introduced. She nished by the Frog Stickers in a pro- on October 18, and several cars were told of her plans to attend the Ameri- gram of old and popular pieces. The offered to take members of the club can Legion Convention in Miami, Fla., musical program w a s furnished there. in October and made a very interest- through the courtesy of S. Kelton, A dance, to be sponsored by both ing short talk to the girls. dispatcher. G. H. Garrison enter- the ladies' and men's organizations The guest speaker was Thomas tained the group with tricks of magic. was discussed, and plans were made O'Donnell, traffic manager of the A motion was made and seconded for a date, which was finally left open, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, St. that an auxiliary to the Ft. Smith to be decided by the committee, the Louis. Mr. O'Donnell is a brilliant Club be formed and the date of Sep- dance to be held around the end of speaker and left a real message with tember 27th was set as a date for the October. The president was asked the girls. His fund of Irish stories organization meeting. Through the to appoint a committee. is always used to advantage. courtesy of the Frisco Association of Question of posting bulletins in the Rose Resnick, passenger represent- Metal Crafts and ,Car Depantment Em- Union Station for the benefit of the ative, gave a very interesting talk on ployes, the use of Woodman's Hall the solicitation of business for Frisco passenger men, was brought up by En- was offered for the use of the Frisco gineer Nulph, and it was ordered that Lines among women's clubs. Club and the offer was accepted with Two attendance prizes were award- a bulletin of the meetings in the fu- thanks upon behalf of the club by ture be placed at the Union Station. ed, the winners were Betty Doyle and Resident Hinnant. Ellen Roach. Seventy-five members and visitors Joplin, Mo. attended the October 8 meeting of Members of the Frisco Employes' The Frisco Girls' Club of St. Louis the Frisco Employes' Club of Ft. sponsored a card party at the Mel- Club of Joplin, Mo., held their month- Smith, Ark., meeting in the baggage ly meeting at their club rooms, 10th bourne Hotel on October 6. Approxi- 100 W. room at Garrison avenue. G. and Main Streets, October 4. The mately 100 persons were present and Hall, master mechanic of Sherman, 56 business meeting was preceded by the there were sleepers sold. H. E. Gabriel, 0. L. Young and E. L. Home made cakes were donated by usual covered dish dinner, served by Collette were among the guests pres- the members, and the club sold ice the Ladies' Auxiliary. Approximately cream with the cakes, realizing a ent. 40 persons were in attendance. total of $35.00 from this sale, and the A number of good tips were read The regular business session was sale of the bridge tickets. by Geo. Hinnant, president of the called to order by Roy H. Barcus, club, and then some complaint was president, and minutes of previous Fort Smith, Ark. heard about not being able to secure meeting read and approved. Treasur- Approximately 50 members attend- tip blanks and Mr. Young offered the er's report indicated a balance of ed the first fall meeting of the Frisco services of his office, which was fol- $7.34 on hand. November, 1934 Page 13

Letters, extending welcome to the Purdy Products Co., and J. W. Halter, Monett Women Asked to Aid Program new manager of Montgomery Ward & Company were read. N AN effort to further increase the $6,096.26. The City tax for Monett It was decided by the members solicitation activities of the Frisco anbolinted to 8476.13. "The Frisco is the heaviest con- present to drop the plans for a dance I Employe Club members, C. J. Kunz, sumer of water and electric current in connection with the card party to president of the club, addressed a let- in Monett which is all bought from the City, paying them approximately be given on October 25 in connection ter on September 17 to the wives of 88,500.00 a year. The Railways Ice with raiaing funds with which to fi- the employes and to all women em- Co. furnished the Frisco twenty mil- lion (10,000,000) pounds of ice in 1983, nance the Christmas party. Mr. ployes of Monett. In the letter are this consumption being rwpomible for Moult was appointed chairman of a a number of selling points which are 75 per cent of their present payroll, committee to arrange for tickets for valuable to the purchasers of sup- which approximates $10,000 a year. "The Fhco payroll is more than the card party. plies for the household and families $50,000.00 monthly with about 500 J. E. Springer reported having ,of the employes. The letter in its employes at Monett, but we still have a large number of former employes on solicited and secured through Con- entirety is quoted below: the furloughed list who were placed ductor Lane, one fare, Joplin to hs there account of unfair motor com- "To the Fhco Ladies: petition. These men w0~~1dprobably Angeles, Calif., from Mr. Lane's niece "It has been my intention for some be working today if our railroad was who had purchased through bus ticket time to address an appeal to the ladies accorded the comideratbn that is of the Frisco family, asking for their properly and justly due from all from Charlotte, N. C., to Los Angeles, Support in our campaign to get more Monett mmhants and patrons. but was induced to travel by rail from traffic for the Frisco. '

gomery, treasure]r; Arthur Davis. Frisco Employes' Hospital Association secretary and Wn2. Kennedy, assist- .ecelpta and Dl~buraeluentsAfter June 30, 1034, Through BeBiember 30, 1034 ant secretary. Ch airmen of the vari- ous committees are: C. Eugene Wil- liams, Charley A,nderson and Bill Muchell. RECEIPTS : Most of the meerlng was zaKen up assessmenrs on members $44,508.85 in the election of the above officers. interest on securities in Treasury ...... 1.615.00 and each member pledged his sup- donation by Trustees, St. L.-S. F. Ry. Co., Dbtr...... 162.61 sundry accounts collectible...... 781.78 47,018.14 port to the activities of the club. proceeds or $5.000 St. I~uis-SanFrancisco Ry. Go, 6% Ft. Smith, Ark., Club Equip. Trust Gold Notes, Series 71-D, matured Jan. 16. 1934, paid July 11, 1934 $ 5.006.00 5,000.00 was - A meeting held 8 p. m., Sep- $68.111.50 tember 27tl1, Fort Smith, for the pur- pose of ~rganizinga Ladies' Auxiliary DISBURSEMENTS : to the Employes' CInb at Fort Smith. payrolls ...... This meeting was attended by 12 professional, ordinary and emergency services ...... labor, material and supplies ...... ladies and 17 men. The meeting was provisions ...... called to order by Geo. Hinnant, drugs ...... light. water. ice, gas, fuel and telephones ...... president of the Employes' Club, and all other expenses ...... then turned over to Martha Moore Balance September 80, 1934. P. M.. at: of St. Louis. First National Bank. St. Louis. Mo ...... 20.072.56 Miss Moore explained the purpose of the club and outlined the manner in which we might elect officers, also * Subject to $239.42 of pay-drafts and vouchero outstanding at close of bushess explained how some of the other clubs September 30, 1934. are working and the manner in which they carry out their work, some of THE ASSOCIATION OWNS : the clubs hold joint meetings with Par Value the men's clubs, have dinner meet- Kansas City, Mernghfs and Birmingham R. R Co. General &fortgage 1% Bonds [matured March 1. 1934) unpaid ...... $ 7.000.00 ings, afternoon bridga parties, etc. Kansas City. Memphis and Birmingham Rakoad Company 5% Miss Moore also suggested ways in Assented Income Bonds (matured March 1. 1934) unpaid ...... 35,000.00 St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company Equipment which we could get business and telI Trust 6% Gold Notes. Series 71-C (mature Jan. 15. 1935) ...... I0,000.00 our friends about our railroad. Seaboard Air Line Ry. 5 5 % Receivers' Certiflcates of Indebtedness. Series "BE" (First Series due February 1, 1935) ...... 6,000.00 The following officere were elected: City of Tulsa, Okla.. 4g% Street Improvement Bonds Mrs. E. L. Collett, wife of division of 1927 (mature Aug. 1. 1935) 18.000.00 engineer, president; Mrs. H. E. Ga- The New York. Chicago and St. Louls Railroad C6. Equipment Trust of 1924 5% Gold Certlflcates, Series L (mature March 1. 1936) ...... 3.000.00 briel, wife of assistant superintend- Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marle Ry. Co. 6% Secured Notes ent. Erst vice-president; Mrs. Geo. (mature August 1, 1936) ...... 1,500.00 Consolidated Electric 8 Gas Co. Five-year 6% Secured Gold Notes Hinnant, wife of car clerk, freight (mature Ailg. 1 1937) 5,000.00 offlce, second vice-president; Johanna The Chicago, ROC; Island and Pacific Railway Co. Equipment Trust of 1923 5% Serial Trust Certificates. Series L (mature June 1. 1938) .... 2.000.00 Ruge, secretary, division freight an& U. S. 3%% Treasury Bonds (mature June 15. 1940-1943)...... 55.000.0n passenger agent, secretary, and Mrs. U. S. 3% Treasury Bonds (mature April 15, 1944-1946)...... 30,000.00 U. S. First Liberty han (Converted) 4?4% Bonds C. E. Durham, wife of secretary to (mature June 15, 1947) ...... 15,000.00 superintendent, treasurer. Certificates of Deposit for St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. Prior Lien It was decMed to hold the first Mortgage 4% Bonds. Series A (mature July 1, 1950) ...... 19.000.00 Certificates of Deposlt for St. Louls-San Francisco Ry. Co. Prior Lien meeting Monday, October lst, 2:38 Mortgage 5% Gold Bonds, Series B (mature July 1. 1950)...... 11.000.00 p. m., as an informal afternoon meet- American Telephone L Telegraph Thirty-five Year 5% Gold Debenture Bonds (mature Feb. 1. 1965)...... 5.000.00 ing at which time it could be decided Certlflcates of Deposit for St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. Consol. when and where to hold regular meet- Mortgage 4%% Gold Bonds Series A (mature March 1, 1978) ...... 25.000.00 CommonwealOl Edison Company First Mortgage 4% Gold Bonds. ings, committees appointed, etc. Mrs. Series F (mature March 1. 1981) ...... 10.000.00 Young offered her home for this Pennsylvania Power & Light Company First Mortgage 454% Gold Bonds (mature April 1. 1981) ...... 4.000.00 meeting. New York Central Rd. Co. Refundtng and Improvement Mortgage All mem'bere were requested to get 4%-. % Gold Bonds. Serles A (mature Oct. 1. 2013) ...... 5.000.00 in touch with at least five ladies who (As at close September 30, 1934) ...... $266,500.00 were eligible to membership and in- vite them to attend the meeting. St. Louis, Mo., October 1. 1934. L. 0. WILLIAMS. Treasurer. 0. L. Young addressed the meeting and pledged his support, also made .some interesting and beneficial re- marks. C. 0, McCain offered his help Hunters", a string band of three, full for the purpose of keeping the public in any solicitation matters and 8Ug- of pep. and rhythm. informed, keeping old friends and gested that the ladies could be of' A great deal of credit for the pro- making new ones. special help in securing passenger business. gram is due Mr. Winn, who provided Meeting adjourned. for the building, lights and greater Muskogee~ OkZa. part of the program. All employes New officers of the Colored Club of who were present seemed to feel that Muskogee, Okla.. were elected fit a Thirty-three members of the Ladies' these meetings in surrounding towns meeting of members of the club on Auxiliary to, the Frisco Employes' and communities are not only helpful October 8. The new aElCers are: Club of Ft. Smlth. met at the hnm- for the purpose of employes getting Pleas Wilson, president; E. G. G11. of Mrs. 0. 'L. Young, wife of su in closer touch with each other, but more, vice-president; Jerry Mont- intendent, on the afternoon of C November, 1934 Page 15

ber I. This wm the first meeting of ARKANSAS CATFISH! the auxiliary since its organization on the night of September 27. The meeting was called to order by the president. who gave a brief outline of the work to be done by WlLLlAM SAMUEL LESTER the club, the reason tor its organiza- WILLIAM SAMUEL LESTER, pen- tion -and the different ways in which sioned conductor, died dl hia home in the ladies can be of assistance in Monett, Mo., on September 30. He helping to get business for the was 67 years of age, born December Frisco. 4, 1866, at St. Louis, Mo. He began It was decided to hold monthly his railroad service an brakeman on meetings, on the firet Monday of each the C&A Railroad, coming with Frisco month. alternating, one month meet- Lines as freight brakeman at Pacific, ing will be held in the afternoon, the Mo., in 1883, working between Dixon next month in the evening. The and Pacific. He was promoted to the afternoon meeting wlll be a social position of conductor, running out of meeting, the evening meetings will Monett on the Northern division in be business meetings. The afternoon 1895. His pension allowance was meetings to be held in the homes and $57.75 a month and during his lifetime the evening meetings will be held in he was paid a total of $115.50. the li'risco building (exact room to Sixteen catfish caught under one be decided later). The hostesses for log at one sitting! the social meetings will be decided Eight Out of alxteen caught weighed upon at a later date, or will be agreed 178 pounds, and five of the Bh, showu WILLIAM GEORGE BROWN upon by a committee appointed for in the photograph above, averaged 19 WILLIAM GEORGE BROWN, pen- this purpose. to 23 pounds each. sioned conductor, died at his home The question of a suitable name The picture was made at Hope, near Koshkonong, Mo., on October 12. for the club was left open until the Ark., and the fish were caught by W. He was born in Washington, Ill., next meeting. All members are to J. Bateman's fishing crew, and mascot. January 24, 18'62, and was educated suggest names for the club and the W. T. Jr., with A. E. Marsoni, agent, in the schools there. He began his matter will be settled at the next and J. G. Barber, car inspector, serv- service with Frisco Lines September business meeting. ing as umpires. 9, 1881, as a brakeman out of #an- A motion was carried to have the sas City and was promoted to pas- secretary send report of each meet- senger conductor out of Ft. Scott in ing to Miss Moore in order that our 1886. His pension allowance was activities will appear in the Frisco WILL ROGERS USES FRISCO $74.70 a month and during his life- Magazine. time he was paid a total of $4,623.50. A motion was carried to have a con- (Continued from Page 3) stitution for the club, the chairman ous pictures he had made, and I told to appoint a committee for this pur- him the adoration of crowds such as pose. he had just left showed him his popu- TRANSPORT PROPHECIES The president will appofnt. com- larity. He remarked that it really (Contimad from Page 6) mittees before the next meeting to did, and that the public paid the switched again to thousands of sidings take care of the different parts of the "freight". for unloading and delivery. That work of the club. And then I pulled a card out of my marvel we take as a matter of course, A motion carried to assess dues, to pocket. One of my own. "Everybody but, in its combination of the flexi- be paid mon'thly, 10c per person, to else has asked for an autograph, and bility of the individual carload with take effect with this meeting. if you don't mind, would you give me the economy of mass transportation Meeting adjourned. Next meeting one?" in trains, it is the backbone of the will be held November 7:30 p. m., 1st. He took the card and wrote, "This American transpontation system, and Frisco Building. is a real train. Will Rogers." of the whole plan of mass production St. Louis Men's Club I thanked him, told him how much on which American business js built. I had enjoyed the visit with him, The men of the '80's with thefr dif- Approximately 500 employes and wished him a pleasant ride and a de- ference in gauges, in times, In condl- friends attended the sixth fnformal lightful visit and rushed to the vesti- tions, could hardly have foreseen the dance given by the St. Louis Men's bule as the train stopped at Tower accomplishments of the coming 50 Club at the Century Boat Club on the Grove. years, yet they had a clear perception night of Ootober 20. of the marvel and the romance of rail He's just as honest and sincere, and Paper hats, serpantine and balloons transport. "To four things," wrote human as he appears in his pictures. were furnished free by the club in Mr. Kennedy in 1884, "the rush of a And it is that naturalness, that can't keeping with the near Hallowe'en fast express train may be likened- be faked, that draws his admirers festive season. The "Meteor" and a hurricane, a prairie Are, the from every walk of life. No movie "Sunnyland" tall signs were placed on thunder-trample of a herd of wild star has so great an appeal to folks each side of the orchestra rostrum, animals, and the battle-charge of ln general as Will Rogers. a whlch furnished a means of adve~ regiment of cavalry." tising for the Irl6ce Lines as well as I got a big thrill in securing the being highly decorative. Ten nfw little Interview, in meeting him per- silver dollars were given away for at- sonally, getting his autograph and his Each year the rivers discharge tendance prises. It is expected that comments. about 6,524 cubic miles of water into another-dance will be given before the And. I. thought so much of the photo- the ocean, and about 160 million year is out. graph taat I put it on the front cover! tons of salt. How Old? - To Be Convinced MISTAKEN "How old are you sonny?" asked "I can't ,marry him, mother, he's "So you're back in the Navy again, the inquisitive old man of the little an atheist and doesn't believe there is ch? I thotcght you were a farmer." boy on the beach. a hell." "YOUmade the sa~ren~istake I made." "Six," came the brisk reply. "Marry him, my dear, and between "Six," echoed the old man, "and yet us we'll convince hlm that he's Served Him Right you are not as tall as my umbrella." wrong." The somewhat meddling head of a The boy drew himself up to his full large department store was passing height. "How old is your umbrella?" A HYMN through the packing room one day he asked. "Whenever I look at that girl I when he saw a boy lounging against . . think of a hymn." a wooden box, whistling cheerfully. AN UNKIND CUT "Which one?" The chief stopped and looked at him. "That. was the unkindest cut of all. "How Firm a Foundation." "How .much do yon make a week?" a; the poet says." he barked. "What was?" OTHER USES "Five dollars." "I showed her one of my boyhood "This liirinzent makes tny am s?izart." "Here's a week's pay-GET OUT!" ptctu,res with my father holding me on "Why not rub sorne on yoiw head?" When the boy ha? departed, the his knee and she said, 'My, who ISthe boss turned to one of his subordinates. ventriloqulstl' " "When did we hire that boy?" he de- FAMOUS THIRD INNINGS manded. "We never hired bim," came the NOT SO GOOD The Bibical story of the cre- astonished answer. "He just brought "How's the new incubator?" ation must have been written in s package firom another llrm." "Well, I guess that it is all right, but by a baseball reporter, because f'm a little worried about it. It hanr't it starts out-"In the big laid an egg yet." MY ERROR . - inning-". Old Gentleman: "A deplorable Politlcs sign of the tirnts Is the way the "Yes," said the candidate, "I'm go- Whoa! English language is being polluted by ing among the farmers today to a Two church members met on the the alarming inroads of American pumpkin show or jackass show or street one Monday morning. Said slang. Do you not agree?" something of that so~t. Not that I one, "I didn't see you in church yes- His Neighbor: "You sure slobbered care for pumpkins or jackasses, but I terday." a bibful, mister." want to show the people that 1 am "I know you didn't," replied the one of them? second, "I was takihg up the collec- NOT SO GOOD tion." "Near sighted, eh? Haw maq liws NO USE can you read ora this chart?" "Brother ones;" said the deacon, TOO FAST "What chart?" "can't you all donate some small con- An amateur motorcyclist was given trlbutlon to de fund for fencing in a trial at a race track meeting. He - Met:Ont' Better ' the cullud cemetery?" was plucky but inexperienced, and in "I met the laziest-man in the world "I dunno as I can," replied Brother the first race (over four laps) though today. Jones. "I don't'see no use in a fence he was an easy last, he went on in- "Oh yeah? How does It feel to be around a cemetery. You see, dem nocently to complete a fifth. The feat ex-champion." . what's in there can't get out, and was greeted with ironical applause. dem what's out sho* doan wanta get The rider drew up at the judge's WHERE IS IT? in." stand. "Did I bring your wrench back last "Haw 1 won?" he inqu,ired. month?" - OK "Well, no,'* repiled the judge, kind- "No, you, certainly dld not." ly. "Am a matter of fact you were. "Well, can you beat that1 Now - ',''Naur, louk here, Dorothy," said her last In that race, but you're a lap father sternly, "yot4r mother tells me what am I g6lng to do? I wanted to you've &en naughty all dq loltq. The ahead in the next." borrow it agaln." .- next tinre you throw rnud at your sister's clean dress you'll go to bed without Repairs Needed DETROIT BLUES supper." "What'a the matter with Betty and "want to go to the ball "The next time I throw mud at Doris:' Jlm? Have they had a new quarrel?" morrowY . said the child, "I'll wait until after sup- "No, the patch came off their dd "NO,I'd rafher go to the mo per." one.'' , ,A .. sure of a happy ending therp. Page 17

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SOUTH TRAIN YARDS vacatlon spent in New York. Washlng- Mr. ann Mrs. W. H. Brooke motored ton and Chlcago. Was accompanied by to Warsas, Mo., October 14, for a brlef SPRINGFIELD. MO. my sister, Miss Lucille Robinson. While vldt wlth friends. in Chlcago we were the guests of Ches- JESSE L. BRANDON, Reporter ter Scott, a former Frisco employe, who Is now an offlcer of the Chicago Mr. and Mrs. C?. C. Donica spent Sat- police force. We both enjoyed a most LOCAL No. 17 urday and Sunday, October 8 and 9. pleasant trip. WEST TULSA, OKLA. visiting wlth friend$ in Kansas City. Edward McGraw, locomotive wiper, Ray Twlgger, Carl Dashney, Frank and hls wife, ,Mrs. Epsie, are off on Brown and John Boyd all attended thelr vacatlon to Atlantlc City, N. J., H. C. PRICE, Reporter court here in SprlngTield. and Chicago. M. L. Guinney, master mechanla chief Jesse L. Brandon, wife and daughter, At this wrltlng Mrs. Margaret vislted with frlends a few daya at clerk, and Wife spent a few days In Brown, wife of Ed. Brown, engine Teennessee on a Vacation. Qravols Mills on the Lake of the wiper, Is convalescing .In the hospital 0&ks. They report a nice time and Eugene Rankln, son of John Rankill, after a recent operation. Our well fireman, is home on a vacation from the a good catch of Ash. wishes are exvended to her. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown spent Sun- Naval Academy in Indianapolis. Mathls Simmons, roundhouse em- G. I. Alesander, boiler foreman, and day, October 14, visiting with friends in ploye, was suddenly s.Lrlclten ill with Rogersville. wife spent a few days in Memphis and my Twigger, extra man. worked a appendicitis and was rushed to the Knoxville, Tenn., with friends and rel- hospital. We wish lor him a speedy atives. few days at freight house during the recovery. absence oC Mr. Brandon. Herb Dellis, machinist, is off at this Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Robertson of West Mesdames Florence Smith and AZzora writing with an injured foot Tulsa spent the week-end wlth Mr. and Harvey, wives of Albert Smith, ma- H. F. Phillips, blacksmith, is return- Mrs. M. T. Sartore, coach truckman. terial man, and Rev. Isaac Harvey. car ing to work the first of November after Homer SmlC'h and huh Bunch lald oiler, respectfvely, spent thelr vaca- a sisty-day illness. tlon In Pensacola, Fla., and reported C. C. Bohannan, fireman, is back in OK the afternoon of Sunday, October 7, a pleasant one. to.. hear.. the World Series baseball the St. Louis hospital on account of Bro. Will Stevenson, Iocombtive game. illness. Lee Howell has moved to his new wlper, accompanied by hls wlfe. Mrs. C. E. Hart, night pipeman, has a new home on South Nettleton avenue. Anne ,Stevenson, took In the World's Chevrolet sedan. Ray Twlgger and Homer Smith went Falr on their vacatlon In Chlcago. He Lon DeMont. coach painter. is in the flshlng but only caught a bad cold. was guest of his brother, whom he Tulsa hospital with an appendicitis op- hadn't seen for a number of years. Mrs. Louls Sweetin has returned from eration. We wlsh Lon a S~eedv- - re- Oklahoma City where she visited with H.L. King, car department employe, covery. her sister and family. and ex-president of our local is back Lawrence Frear, electrician, who has Mrs. R. N. ~IcDonalU, wlLe of car on the job after having been off quite been off for the past two and one-half clerk. is attending a convention at a length of time due to illness. Glad years is back on the extra board in Hannlbal, Mo. to have you back wlth us Bro. King. T111sa- dMr. and Mrs. Fred Snow are visiting Your future depends a great deal Jack Hendricks, electriclan. spent friends and relatives in Tulsa. on your working safely. An accident fifteen days in Florida fishing. . lMiss Blanche Handley has been a,b- could mar a bright future or even elim- Tom Hurszer, boilermaker, came in sent for some tlme account sickness. inate your present esistenc. So work wlth a bfg smile. An eight and one- safely every day. half pound baby bog! Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Hurszer. COACH YARD-KANSAS CITY, MO. Ed Heffner, electrician, is off on a . WATER SERVICE DEPARTMENT fifteen-day vacation. . John White, division chairman, has J. J. SULLIVAN. Reporter SPRINGFIELD, MO. been promored to coach track foreman at West Tulsa. W. M. "Dutch" Stremmel, formerly CLAUDE HEREFORD, Reporter The Burlington Zephyr paid us a chef on the Kansas City-Florida Spe- vlsit the slxteenth and it was estl- cial, stopped In to shake hands with Arthur Buck fs the new owner of mated that over thlrteen hundred hls many friends here on September a Wright County Iarm near Hartville, people an hour went through It. 23, whlle en route from Ft. Worth to Mo. Mr. Buck already owns a small hls home in Los Angeles. farm near his old home and needless Mrs. Jack Holderness has returned to say the recent purchase indicates from Denver, Colo., where she was the ties of the childhood days. MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT called bv the death of a niece who was Chancey Buckmaster Is also reported KANSAS CITY, MO. fatally injured in an automobile ac- to be a recent purchaser of farm cident. acreage. Louis Langel returned home on Oc- John Bumner is busy at present at W. C. DERCROZvIBIE, Reporter tober 13 after a thtee months' sojourn bebanon helping to get ready for the at the Frisco hosliltal in St. Louis, buildlng of the new coal chute to re- John W. Ehnl and wlfe recently where he underwent a major opera- place the old chute destroyed by flre made a trip to New York. "Wex" says tlon. Louts speaks most highly of the last month. there is no place like New York, )but I excellent treatment he received at the Now that the drought has been suggest that he try our great Rocky hospital. broken In most of the affected areas Mountains some time. The Kansas City-Florida Bpeelal ha6 and the World Series ball -games over, Hollis Fouts completed his appren- its appearance Improved some last we can devote our spare time un- ticeship as a machinist recently and is week and made a bld for better ad- dividedly to our flshing until the duck now a full-fledged machinlst. vertlslng by the lnstallatlon of dual and quail seasons open. Earl Hicks, ni~htair man helner. tall slgns to the sear of the cafe-lounge has returned to work after beingaoff car. The new signs are made of bright some time on account of Illness. enamel, are Indirectly llghted and take I hope the readers of these items the place of the old plate grass slgns FLASH-- will pardon a personal reference, as I whlch did not show up so well In the THE FISHING TRIO. DENHAM, would like to mention the fact that d< AKRIDGE AND GANNON OF THE the writer has purchased a new Dodge STORES DEPARTMENT, WENT TO sedan. Anyone who would like to see THE BIG LAKE RECENTLY AND how the new Dodge performs Is in- IEMPHIS, TENN. CAUGHT A CRAlPPIE. vited to take a ride with me. - The Hereford famlly held a reunion Fred Chaffin. engine Inspector, spent dm, Reporter at the old pioneer homestead at Ne- several days visitlnp hls mother in the - vada, ~Mo., October 7. Elght children Ozarks. Robert Cleveland, third-class machin- (the youngest 46 years of age), were "What ho" seems as though every- Ist. lost his brother. We tender him our together for the Arst tlme since the body on the .4 to 1230 a. m. shlft was sympathy. death of the parents In 1926. Some worried the other day and what was Yours truly. the reporter. has re- forty members of the famlry enjoyed the worry? Well It hapDened thaV cently returned from a seventeen-day the occasion. . George Willis was late for work' N can you account for that). H. S. Green, foreman of Rasedale Clarence Gott, machinist, ha8 Scott spent three weeks in rip truck, suent two weeks' vacation turned from a very successful Wyo., visiting son and ad home resclng and taking it easy. trip on the Osage river at Osce Wm. Fuller ~nsyectorac the freight Proof that the big one dld !ea, wife and son recently house, and family syent fourteen days away he is exhibiting Che he. World's Fair. A -eood time visiting friends and relatives in Pitts- twent>-six (26) pound drum pcurcn 1s was enjoyed by all. burg aid Joplin. Grady Seiglar worked the largest fish of that specie that has The dance held by the li'rlsco Bunny- Lor Puller. ever been caught down there. He also land Club, September 21, at the El Tor- Jess Wright. oiler at the freight caught nineteen other fine flsh. reon ball room was a very pleasing house, and family spent ten days vis~t- event and all those that attended es- Ins frienas and relatives in Arkansas. peci.ally enjoyed the flooi show. Every- aames Kissinger, extra oller, and body will be waiting.for notice of the family will spend four days visiting RECLAMATION PLANT neat event which will be held some friends and relatives In Richland, Mo. time soon. Ko'beru Everitt spent last month SPRINGFIELD, MO. Wra. Ira Jones and daughter recently vmisiting with his friends and Dr. and spent a month Ln Soutnern California. iWrs. Harold Claypool, of Hume, bIo., T. 0. CHSPMAN, Reporter Well, I guess we will hear nothing last week in Rosedale, Kan., with his more about baseball until next season. sister, Mrs. Roy Watts, wife of Inspec- Let's hope all of you picked the win- tor Roy Watts. Mr- Everitt returned Mrs. E. L. Fuerst has recovered from ner. Among the winners of jack pots to his home at ChatTee, Mo., where he a recent illness, we are pleased to re- were Joe Hammons. E. W. Brown, Lee lives with his sister, Mrs. J, L. Mumma, port, and is again able to drive her Taylor, Chas. Frlzzell, Ben. Cummlngs wcife of assistant superintendent there. husband to and from work. and John Colafiower. They tell me Stewart Yockev. messenaer in the Our sympathy is extended to Mr. and John Colaflower was touched by his Nineteenth street yards, is-on his way Mrs. Hugh Doran in the death of her friends when thev had found out he to Nortin, Kan. After that he will go mother, Mrs. J. F. Faught, who died at won a jack-pot. on to Chicago and take in the sights her home, 1644 College street. She was

Virgil Sanders, coal chute man at of 'the World's Fair. Stewart is expected 67 vears old and a native~ .---.nioneer of Kansas City informs us of the death to be back bv October 21. ~reknecounty. of his brother "Earl," SepCember SO. R. E. ~raden,inspector ~t Rosedale, Charlotte Marie Stapp, 8 years, We sincerelv exnress our deeoest and family decided to go to a show as daughter of Charles Stapp, and sister sykpathy to-you and your family. the story goes. Raasie and family left of Lewis Stapp, died October 11, at We are very sorry to learn of the on 117 and arrived in Joplin at 12:30 thelr home, route No. 11, of whooplng death of Rev. James L. Cllck's wife, and went to a show. After the show cough. We extend our condolence to who ,passed away September 12, at the they caught 118 for Kansas City and the bereaved. home of her sister. Mrs. Birdie Hatton. came hmoe. All had a good time. Eddie Fuerst had on display a mam- at ~eakcy,Ark. Rav Bennston. oiler at Rosedale. war- moth peach, which he says he grew In Lewis Baker and wife spent the off two dais account of sickness.' his orchard. This peach measured month of August in Chicago and New Dan Cronin, night general yard- fourteen inches in circumference and York with relatives and friends. They master, spent two days visltlng friends was a "peaoh" sure enough. also visited at Washin~ton.D. C.. and near Ottawa, Kan., recently. We wish to extend our sympathy to many other eastern cities. Gerald Chain in the loss of his brother. Clyde, who was murdered at Nixon, NORTH SIDE SIDELIGHTS Texas, this month. The remains were JEFFERSON AVE. COACH YARDS returned to hls old home, Nixa, Mo., ElldERY HAGUEWOOD, Reporter for interment. ST. LOUIS, MO. Floyd Salsman one of our force It's the same old story every year who took the opportunity to vdslt the JOHN W. HOLDREN, Reporter at this time when there is so much World's Fair at Chicago this month. baseball talk, news is bound to suffer, Floyd says a fellow can sure get an John Jenkins, who was injured In an and this year with our own favorites "eye full" there for his money. automobile accldent sometime ago, ex- winning the championship it was even We are informed by James Camp pects to be back to work in a few more so. that he has been authorized and duly days. We all hope to see you back Willlam Gooch, welder, and Mrs. appolnted ta flll the positlon of re- soon. John. Gooch, also Clarence Gott. Louis Taylor. porter for the Frlsco Employes' Maga- Otho Harvey and wife s ent their and Frank Lilley, machinists, attended zine, from and under the heading of vacation on a trip to WashTngton, D. some of tlhe games in St. Louis. our New Local Number 3. We welcome C.. New York, Cleveland and thelr home Wm. H. Schaller, machinist on the you "Jlmmy" with a smile and all the town, Mlchignn Ciw. Otho reports day shift, attended the Arst two games best wishes that we are capable of be- they had a wonderful time. of the World's Series at Detroit. He stowing. By way of explanation, Bill Derrick was on the sick list re- also visited a sister who lives in De- members of Local Number 3 are com- cently for about ten days. troit. posed of employes at the Reclamation Mrs. Floy Jones and son returned Mrs. E. E. McCauley is mourning the Plant, whlch the writer has been en- from a three weeks' vlsit wlth her death of her mother which occurred deavoring to serve as reporter. but parents in Texas. during the past month. The sympathy owing to the large number, scattered Willie Siems is back on the job after of t~heroundhouse employes is extended through the various departments, have having spent nine weeks off on the to Mrs. ~McCauley. iMr. McCauley is a no doubt unfntentlonally neglected to sick list with a fractured Anger. machinist on duty at the passenger cover many news Items each month. Clarence Smith and Floyd Earnhart station. So with Mr. Camp also in the fleld, we had a narrow escape from serious in- Sympathy of the roundhouse em- hope to better and more thoroughly jury recently when their machine was ployes is also extended to Claude cover the news of the Reclamation struck by a large sedan and turned Campbell of the boiler shop and sec- Plant hencerorth. over. They received only minor cuts retary of Local No. 1, in the loss of The dead frelght office of the Brisco and bruises. his father, whose death occurred dur- railroad is not what the name implles, lng the past month. in fact, it is qulte a busy place. A Geo. A. Alward, sheet metal worker, carload of tins of honey whloh had KANSAS CITY RIP TRACK is the proud owner of a brand new been slightly damaged in shlpment was Chevrolet sedan DeLuxe. received at the office recently and the LEE WARFORD, Reporter Burl Hough, maohinist on stocker men began the process of unloadlng. work, is putting the finishing touches After the doors of the car were opened, F. B. Scott and family are to spend on a flne new garage at his home at according to Charley Smith, manager three days visiting friends in Chicago. 1101 E. Commercial street. of the office. a couple of bees flew into This will be their second visit to the Ray Rader, extra machinist flrst the car. After a thorough investiga- World's Fair. class, is now numbered among the tion, they buzzed out seemingly in the Billie Kane, yardmaster at Rosedale. home owners, having purchased prop- best of humor. In an Incredibly short recently bought a new Plymouth. Now erty at 924 Hamilton avenue. period of time they ~eturnedwith all watch him strut. Don Monroe. supplyman, has bid in the bees In Greene County. "It was Wm. Bacus inspector at Rosedale on the position of brown hoist operator not half an hour after the unloading the midnight bhift. is now back to work at Lebanon while the new coal chure began that there were at least a thou- after being off three months account is being built at that and bees swarming al.1 over the plat- of an accident. Mr. Bacus says he sure Ross Davls. electr~c~~~~~;?njoyedthe form and in the car," Charley advises. received good attention whlle at the World's Series ball games very much "We proceeded with the job but we Frisco hospital at St. Louis. as they came to hlm through his new had to be awfully careful not to make Dan Ashford. fireman at Rosedale on Atwater Kent radio. the little felbws angry. They were the afternoon job in the east yards, has We are glad to inform all concerned honey bees, and a honey bee wlll -not had sickness at his home. His son, that our former la5or foreman. Chas. molest a person unless they are Arst Harold, was taken ill September 30 M. Gibson, 1s improving rapidly. Mr. molested. So we did our bet at to act and was taken to a hos ltal. October Gibson IS now at hla home on East as though they were not there. but that 6 he was operated on for a ruptured Division ntreer road and wa are in was not such an easy proposit fon." The appendlx and at thls writing Is doing hopes that he wlll soon be able to re- honev, Charles advises, was soId everal nicely and Is expected to recover and sume htn former duties at the round- hours after the unloading. IHowever, be at home by October 20. house. the bee8 remained for appro~xlmately November, 1934 Page 19 ' three days after the honey had been cars the Dast few weeks. Those ln- ent. General Chalrman Warren gave an moved. He remarked that if they cluded are Oscar Linder. Floyd Penn, Instructive talk on the merits of our or- hadn't left when they did that he had Ben Davis, William Miller Ray Van- der at the October 5 meet. a sure way to suggest it to them. This Gilder nnd your scribe. 3lo'del A Fords Born to Blrs. Gene Pikesly a daughter. way he stated was a fire hose and we seem to be the predominating car in named Barbara Ruth, on October 1, agree that he had a very good plan demand. weight 6 pounds 11 ounces. or war arranged before the general Reports are that Chester Smlth, yard Born to Mrs. Henry Pruggel; on Oc- retreat became apparent. laborer, recently was married. But tober I. an £ daughter, named Ohester denies it. So we are inclined Nancy Rose. to believe it was all false. Mr. and Mrs. .Ward Melton were called MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT ATTEND EVERY MEETING OF to Springfield on account of the sudden YOUR LOCAL. death of Mrs. Lydia Faught. Mrs. Faught THAYER, MO. was an aunt of Mrs. Ward Melton and the Amos boys. LOCAL NO. 5-%ST. LOUIS, MO. George Condon had the misfortune to break his arm on October 3. He is get- Susie Fry daughter of Riley Fry. ting along as well as cam be expected. machinlst, w'as married to Claude Rice, D. L. PARKER, Reporter We are glad to see Herbert Sellars We September the 16th. wish them Local No. 5-B met on October 5, regu- back at work again, recovered from much happiness. lar meetlng nlght. H. D. Warren, gen- what seemed to be a serious injury to Mrs. J. R. Fisher and Mrs. T. E. his- - - - eve.-.-. King, wives of engineers, attended the eral chairman, system board, was pres- John Abbot has a new Pontiac sedan. Grand Chanter of the Eastern Spar at ent and made a wonderful talk about Mr. and Mrs. Neal Garner visited the St. Louis. how each member should play his part World's Fair at Chicago, inspected the Regret very much to announce that In helplng to make this local a num- famous Slitz brewery at Milwaukee, and Chas. E. ~Naxwell, whlle working at ber one good local; how each member went to see mother nature doing her the new coal chutes, had the misfor- should put hls shoulder to the wheel stuff at Nlagara Falls during thelr va- tune to have his foot run over and it and do everything that he possibly cation this summer. was necessary to take him to Spring- can do to make this local 100 per cent. W. B. Smith, bollermaker, here, and fleld hospital where it was necessary The officers and good members are go- Mrs. Inez Jones, of Sprlngfleld Mo., to have his foot amputated. Ing to do all they can to meet Mr. were married in Decatur. Ill., 0ctber I L. D. Criswell and wife made a visit Warren's demand. and are at home at 6838 Wler venue: to Birmingham. H. A. Plckens, g13neral secretary, We wish to thank the "Kid" in behalf Frank Bates, engineer, and the system board, was In the clty October of all the boys, for those flne'cigars. All wrlter were In West Plalns looking 6. He spent the evenlng at 121 South wish them many happy years of wedded over the new Masonic Temple and Compton avenue, residence of D. L. life. where they promoted two candidates Parker, checking over the records from Mr. and Mrs. Claud Deskln visited the to the Masters' degree. bril 1. 1933. to September 30. 1934. World's Fair recently. From Claud's re- Raymond Lowe, son of C. T. Lowe, It was a little longer job than I ex- port, we judge that Mr. Ripley and machinist, Is now visiting at Lincoln, pected. Mr. Plckens taught me just Henry Ford have about stolen the Neb. how the records have to be kept, a whole show. Geo. W. Mitchell and son, Joe, are few things I did not know he made Mr. and Mrs. George Mott took in the now in Little Rock. clear and plaln to me. Glad to co- World's Fair the latter part of August. Frank Haas, son of Wm. Haas, fire- operate wlth hlm every way I can to They enjoyed their trlp. from all re- man, is now vlslting at Little Rock. help make thls local 100 per cent. Mr. ports. Glenda Haynes, daughter of J. E. Pickens visited Local No. 6-B and made Haynes, fireman, is now in Memphis. a very Interesting talk, enjoyed by all the members who were present. B. & B. DEPARTMENT Ray E. Davls, flreman, is now in St. We extend svmpathy to Richard Bass Louis at 'the hospital. SPRINGFIELD, MO. J. and family on account of his daugh- Mrs. T. Mooney and son. Bob, are ter's death. now on a vlslt to Memphis. ARTHUR BUNCH. Reporter Mrs. I. W. Hill. wife of car Inspector. and Mrs. Harry Boas, wife of brake- LOCAL NO. 32-NEWBURG, MO. Charles Baron is reported getting man, are now on a vlslt to Springfleld. along splendidly after an operation which - was performed at the St. Louls hospital. E. F. FULLER. Reporter Roy Hlll suffered the effects of a sore LOCAL No. 3-SPRINGFIELD, MO. - eye recently, which was the result of a C. Burnett, engineer of Tulsa. spent wrench slipping while he was workina a few hours talking to old nelghbora and JAMES L. CAMP, Reporter on a bridge. friends around Newburg. Clyde Cunningham. B. & B. foreman. Mr. and Mrs. J. Umlauf visited rela- was off work for a few days with an Locai No. 3 held Ita regular meet- tions in Yonett. infection of some klnd in his foot. ing Tuesday nlght, October 2. Gen- Mrs. E. F. Fuller and Mias Mary Roy Smlth was called to Willow eral Ohalrman H. D. Warren, Division Stags were St. Louis shoppers. Sprlngs, Mo., recently, on account of hls ChaIrm~an Burl Hough and General Mr. and Mrs. Harry Morgan, of Sprlng- father being very ill. Roy reports hls Secretary Howard Pickins were pres- fleld vislted Mr. Morgan's daughter. father is getting better. ent. Brothers Warren and Hourch nave ~rs.'K. G. Stoll. John Luttrell has been sufferinrr for us some Interesting talks on the good Mrs. S. T. Medlock Is Spending a few some time with a carbuncle on his-arm. of the order. days with her mother at Conway. Ed. Euliss has been on the sick list Every member should attend meetlng The stork visited the home of Mr. and recently and had to be absent from work. November 6 as It wlll be tlme for nomi- Mm. Ferret Barnett with an 11-pound Oran Hill was pulled out of service natlon of offlcers to be elected In De- daughter. whlle acting as foreman when Jim Car- cember to serve In the coming year. Mr. and Mlss Iva Flte spent a few ter laid off to go to the World's Serles Herman Reason, yard laborer, re- days at the Century of Progress at Chi- ball games, as the result of getting his cently went to Peach Orchard. Ark. cago. motor car hft. and Induced the former Miss Lily Ma; Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Palnter and son. Mr. Gelwlx. with Max Mitchell and hls Mustaln that two can llve as cheaply Jack: Mrs. C. D. Ward and sons. C. son Fred. went to one of the World's as one. Congratulations Herman, and D. and CharIes. and Miss Alice Flint Serles games at St. Louls. Mo. we hope that Mrs. Reason will listen attended the CardinaI-Cincinnati game to reason at least part of the the. on September 30. Julius Chmtain. yard laborer, was hit Mrs. E. F. Fuller and Miss Mary by a tax1 whlle on the way home from Stasaa attended the Methodlst Confer- LOCAL NO. &ENID, OKLA. work one evenlng recently, and was ence-at Carthage. palnfully Injured. Mr. Chastaln is re- C. Roach was seen rldlng around in FRANK HARKEY, Reporter cuperating at the hospital, but we are a late model Chevrolet. Informed that he will suffer the per- Mrs. P. G. Shockley. of Springfleld. J. P. Haley and wife motored to Du- manent loss of one eye. visited her husband, who is on the hill rant. Okla.. the past month to vMt his Arthur McClellan, yard laborer, ac- job. mother, but he had to hurry back In companied by Richard Pickett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hellms are the proud order to gather his pears off a large tree John Plckett, hcist engineer. returned narents of a ten-pound baby girl, born about ten-foot hi~h. He furnished all of recently from a week's fishlng trip in October 9. his neighbors with pears, and now Is the Arkansas Ozarks. Art reported having trouble flndlng a place latge very good luck and a flne trlp. enough to store the other two pears- We wlsh to extend our sympathy to LOCAL No. &ST. LOUIS. MO. and they are not large pears. either. the bereaved ones In the death of . - Roy Jackson and family have returned Clyde Chafln, brot'her of Garrell Chafln, E. R McNABB and I?. C. HENN. from the Century of Progress In Ch1- yard laborer. recently at Nlxon. Texas. Reporters cago, where they spent an enjoyable Leonard Clark, yard laborer. has just -- - week. returned from a vistt to the home of Local No. 5 gave a dance September Walter Poe and wife. also. have re. his parents at Myrtle. Mo. Leonard's 21. whlch was well attended. H. L. turned from' vlslting relatlves at Mill- father returned wlth hlm for an ex- Plckens. seqretary to General Chairman town. Ind.. and the Century of Progress. tended vlalt wlth relatlves here. Warren. and Joe Fostner and a host of J. A. Barkley has been OK the pmt Several of the boys have been trading other frlends of local members were pres- two weeks. ill. He L improving rapldly Page 20

as our news goes to press, and we hope College and editor of the Drury Mirror. "FROM THE WATCHMAN'S to see him back with us before long. An interesting reunion is being held Members of Local No. 8 and their fam- this week in Hillsboro. Ill. The three SHANTY" ilies enjoyed a barbecue picnic. October Millard brothers, all past eighty years of age, Phillip A. >Illlard. 86, of Bel- Railroadin' doesn't mean to me 12, 6:30 p. m.. at C. P. Clarlfs ranch lingham. Wash.; Charles H. Mlllard, 82, north of Enid. Enjoyable games were Just an engine on a track, nlsvecl after dinner and a very good time of Springfleld. Mo.. are meeting with Frank Millard at his home in Hillsboro. Nor a sandhouse nor th' office bas reported by all. They are all in good health. Charles K. W. Recknagel. A. R. A clerk. has H. is a carpenter and was an employe Of th' master maniac; been wearlng the blggest smile we have of the Frisco until the retirement of It's not just to know th' feelin' seen in a long time. He says he is a age limit. He has been a resident of father now and that Edwin Karl weighed Springfleld for 48 years. Of a seatbox in th' cab, eieht------and one-half pounds when he ar- rived September 27. Or to hear th' airpumps wheezin', MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT Or to feel th' drivers grab. LOCAL No. 24 OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. An' it's not th' sounders clickin', RAYMOND F. DEES, Reporter FRANCIS N. JONES, Reporter Nor th' brass-tongued whistle's wail- John Garner and Miss Coidelia San- Among those who attended the ders were married September 15. Con- Wor'lcl'a Series in St. Louis were: E. J. Or to see th' local humpin' gratulations! John is the son of F. J. ms~elin. Lee Harder. Fred Barnhart. With Number Ten right on 'er tail! Garnel. roundhouse foreman. here. ~oe~ailey and Francis Jones. Mrs.' 0. B. Holmquist and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Howard and It's not just th' little pumphouse. May Belle, wife and daughter of loco- small daughter, hTeva, visitecl Mr. How- Down b'low th' river bank. motive inspector, were recent visitors in ard's mother in Francis, Okla., the early Memphis. part of October. With a wheezin' pump an' boiler, Hachinist J. H. Branam was a recent Mr. and ~Wrs. Ray Stewart have re- An' a coal pile, an' a tank. visitor in Birmingham, Ala. turned from a visit in the East. They Carman Robert Lanun has returned to also attended the World's Series games- work after an absence of better than 24 in St. Louis. There's a subtle fascination months. Glad to see you back, Bob. Wm. Temple and Robert Bonner at- In th' "jack's" deep-throated roar- Third-class Boilermaker Dave Amison tended the World's Series games- in St. was a recent visitor in Pork, Ala. Louis. But that alone can't make a railroad, Stationary Fireman J. T. Lewis has Grover Goocle has returned from a For it's all o' these an' more. returned to work after an absence of visit wlth relatives in Mena, Ark. Mr. It's th' men who keep 'em rollin'- three weeks. Goode's father, of El Reno, Old%, ac- We extend our sympathy to Howard companied him on the trip. Ever'thing a-clickin' flne- Dyer in the loss of his father. The el- Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Watters had a It's that sorta chummy feelin' der Dyer was around 80 years of age most enjoyable visit with friends and and had been ailing only a short time. relatives in Texas this summer. King Among th' boys along th' line. has a catflsh story which is too low to relate here. but I am sure that he For when a train goes poundin' by me. BACK SHOP NEWS will furnish details on request. H. D. Warren, general chairman of Tain't just a string o' cars I see, ALEX WATT and CLAUD C4iKPBELL. the Frisco shop crafts. was a visitor But a grimy hand that's lifted, . Reporters here the latter part of October. Tony Phelpn, of Tulsa. was a visitor Like a friendly word to me. H. D. warren, general chairman, F. at the shops, the 17th of October. Tain't equipment, signals, orders, A of M. C. and D. E., was present We wish to commend the men who Or th' dee-pos 'long th' route; at' Local No. 1 regular, meeting, October handled the World's Series train out of 1. He made a very interesting talk. Oklahoma City, especially Mr. Jordan. Loaded cars don't make a railroad- We are sorry to report the death of who seemed to have unbounded energy. It's th' men who wheel 'em out! Marcia Johnson, daughter of Ben John- and we heard several very favorable son which occurred on 'October 7. Mr. comments on the trip. It made us quite -GUY ~oh;lson is a stencil cutter in the paint proud that we were Frisco employes. PHILLIPS, shop. Fred Rubin, nlght machinist, is still off with an infected arm. NECESSARY SERVICE Al. Ball, stationary engineer, is check- Reductions in freight rates on Railroad service is necessary serv- ing off the days now unt~lNovember 10. He says that the quail are a little scarce live stock and feeds made by ice. No matter what happens it can- this year, but he wlll wager that he wlll the western railways in the not be allowed to fail. Railroad. get his limit. drought-stricken areas resulted Oscar Painter. machinist and wife service has thus far been supplied by have returned from a week's visit in in a loss of revenue to those private capital: that is, the railroads Northern Nissouri, where they visited carriers amounting to $3,593,000 have been built, equipped, and added relatives. in the period from January 1 to by the expenditure of dollars The boys of the back shop are glad to to August 1, 1934. When the see Al. Boles back to work after havillg saved out of the incomes of private been oPf, suflering with injuries he re- similar loss in revenue through ceivea when he fell in the drop pit In the reduced rates on live stock and individuals. roundhouse. feeds made by flfteen western These individuals were not think- The shop boys extend congratulations to Leo Ketchel and wlfe, who announce railways in 1933 is added to this ing of the pubIic needs; they were the birth of a daughter on October 8. total, the contribution of the looking for an investment for their They have named he? Bernadine. western lines to the relief of Mrs. Claud Campbell, wife of Claud savings that would pay. Destroy rail- Campbell, your scribe, has returned agriculture has been in excess road profits and you dry up the from St. Louis, where she visited her of $4,lOO,OOO. sister. Mrs. Emma Von Gunden. stream of capital that has thus far Irvan Burges, of the McCurdy Paint The normal charges upon this built, improved, and extended the rail- traffic in 1934 would have been Company, and family, and Dean Peck. roads. chairman of the shop committee, and $105.72 per car. Under the wife spent a few clays flshing on the rate reductions voluntarily made -From the ExeczJivc's Magazine. Lake of the Ozarks. They report a very flne catch. by the western railways, this The boys in the north shops are trying business was actually carried THE HONOR ROLL to get back to normal after the excite- for $63.09 per car, or for 59.67 ment of the World's Series. (Contitwed from Page 8) Dick Tyack. machine foreman, and per cent of the normal rates. wife have returned from their vacation, In other words, there was a sav- This business has been worked up whieh they spent flshing on White River. ing to the shippers of 40.33 per to its present status over a period of Bud Dailey, of the machine shop, is spending his vacation flshing in the Jkke cent of the normal freight several years, and Miss Hoffman con- of the Ozarks. He says that the Ash charges, this saving averaging tinues to give it her personal atten- are lar e. $42.63 per car. tion. Niss Setrenla Watt, daughter of Alex -L. E. WETTLING, Manager, Watt. sheet metal worker. attended the Statistical Bzcreau, Western She was commended by the presi- Inter-Colleginte Press Convention in dents of both clubs at Springfleld and Chicago. Whlle there shc attended the Lines. World's Fair. She is a senior in Drury by her superior officers. Noventber, 1934 Page 21

Fellin, won $2,588.00 on a 254 ball ticket Stanley Graham, son of W. S. Graham. -the 8 high teams. "Bud" llves in Pe- has returned from a two weeks' vaca- ( EASTERN DIVISION oria, Ill.. and was his famlly thrilled at tion spent in Omaha. Neb., and Kansas I b1L.V. the wire they received from him telling of his winnings! Congrats Mr. Fellin! Friends of Mrs. John Balke welcomed A Frisco party from this off,ica to see her back to Clinton after living in LOCOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT the Sunday game of the Serles in St. Springfleld for the past year. Mrs. MONETT, MO. Loub was composed of Irene Schaller. Balke entertained the Auxiliary of the Lillian Yatea. Eunice Hagerman, Joanna -- -- Engineers of Springfleld last week- Brady. Helen Heflin, Lela Pride and about twenty members motored UP and MARGUERITE FROSSARD, Reporter Maud Mills, and they certainly had a enjoyed a very pleasant day. grand time. The Hi-line has enjoyed vely good Oren Davis, supplyman, and family Speaking of sun-splashed October in business the past few months. Most of enjoyed several days' visit with relatives the Ozarks-well, there is Just no place the boys who have been off. for long are at Jefferson City the flrst of October. in all the world like It to go Ashing- back working Also stopped at the Lake of the Ozarks at least that is the view of Helen Deck- C. B. ~tapies,engineer, is remodeling for a short while on their return trip. ert who went with a party of friends his home. thinking they might snare an unsuspect- on a three-day flshing trip to the Lake ing Ash-but no luck! of the Ozai-ks; stoppini in-a rustic cabin An ulcerated eye has caused T. L. near Lovers Leap, and Ripley, it or not, Hanlon locomotive inspector, to lose Helen caught a 26-inch Jack Samon. OFFICE OF DIVISION AND STORES considekable time during the past six Anna Helbig and Savina Fellln also ACCOUNTANT weeks but he is now able to be back took advantage of the Ideal flshing SPRINGFIELD, MO. on the job, aided and abetted by a pair weather and motorcd to the White River of colored spectacles. Dam where they too made good catches. Omaha. Nebraska, was the place se- Bertha Sutherland spent a few days ILA COOK, Reporter lected by W. G. Kinsie, lead machinist. in Lebanon; Lenna Solomon visited her and family, for a week's vacation trip nephew Lynn Solomon. Sunday October and visit with relatives. Bobby. small brother of Miss Zella 7. at ~illiamJewel College 1; Liberty Shawley of thls department. has entered And still the Century of Progress Ex- and the same week-end Lillian Brooks ~ositioncontinues to draw enthusiastic the Shriners' hospital for the thlrd ma- and a party of friends toured the Ozarks jor operation in three years. He was and anlmated visitors. Raymond Eng- stopping at Roaring River, Harrison, Eu- Ilsh. machinlst a~prentlce.and wlfe are sevrrelv-- -~- burned when some playmates reka Springs, and returning by way of threw coal oil upon him. spending a few days there at this time. the School of the Ozarks. They certainly Miss Maie Beaman and Barbara Mur- and L. A. Coggln. machinist, has just re- are Ozark Boosters. Mr. and Mrs. Oran rav ~~entthree days during September turned. Rowton enjoyed a similar trip last Sun- ;zca[

lightful ten days' vacation whlle visttlng between the two clties. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Hogan have been entertaining as thelr house guest. MISS Margaret Hastlngs of Osawatomle Kan. 'I'hls Is one or a serles or bdvertlsements sponsored by rallmad Dr. %Villlam West, our local sdrpeon, employe mapaelnes mhioh comprlae The Kollogg Group: It Is has just returned from St. Louis where designed to acqualnt adr7erllsers wlth lhe rallroad fnrnlly market he attended a meethg of the Frisco surgeons, held at that place. Mr. and Mrs. H. L Joyce have been enjoylng a pleasant visit from Mrs. Joyce's mother. Mrs. H. W. Hudgen of I Springdale, Ark. Mrs. Hudgen wlll leave in a short time for California and from there will sail for Honolulu where ' A MERCHANDISING SERVICE she will vlsit her brother. She expects to be gone about six months. C. J. Kunz, local agent, went to Spring- . . . . a much over-worked term which we dislike to use. field where he attended an' sccldent Pre- vention and Better Service meeting. Mrs. A. T. Brown, widow of the late However, it is the only phrase which accurately explains a service A. T. Brown, local agent at thls place. which we have created and which operates through our Division was married to Lynn Ramey. of Cage Girardeau. Frisco roadmaster. The Correspondents' Organization. wedding took place in St. Louls, and after a visit at that place they wlll re- turn to Cape Girardeau where they mill i It enables us to give advertisers make their home. I W. S. Lester, formerly passenger con- ductor on the Kansas division. having been retlred from service account of I11 COMPREHENSIVE MERCHANDISING health, passed away at his suburban home near Monett recently. A large. number of out-of-town friends attended CO-OPERATION IN STRATEGIC his funeral. TRADING CENTERS - RAILROAD TOWNS

This organization concentrates its work on the jobber, the retailer, GENERAL STOREKEEPER'S and on the consumers, who are, in this case, railroad people. It is OFFICE-SPRINGFIELD, MO. done through personal calls, letters, survey work, and stimulating DOROTHEA HYDE, Reporter the interest of retailers in our advertisers, and in the pushing and A sigh of relief, hot weather has at displaying of their products. inst ceased. We're all full of pep and are we going places and dolng things? Barbara Murray and Maie Beaman have We have been genuinely successful in accomplishing tangible results been vacatlonlng in San Aatonlo. Texas. The young ladies seem to like it there for certain of our advertisers. for they go every year, and we're just wondering-what is the attraction? The We would be glad to write you in detail concerning this organization same moon that shlnes there. shines here, girls, it just doesn't look so large. Any- 1 and its work-how it could be applied for you. We would be way, Barbara says she would like to make pleased to submit evidence of its effectiveness for some of the leading her home there. I think we better start I saving our pennles. What do you say? I national advertisers. Address us: Hugh FitzJohn ob Tulsa, brother of Jacque FitzJohn. spent the weebend of October 14 in Springfleld with the folks at home. THE FRISCO EMPLOYES' MAGAZINE Mr. and Mre. A. W. Elume motored to Columbia. Mo., and spent a pleasant 835 Frisco Building Sunday with theif son, Paul, recently. Hap Gibson went to Chlcago to see St. Louis, Mo. the city in general, and you know he ended UP out at that Fair arain. He reports the grandest time In a long time. Take it from us, he dldn't mlss anything either. Serving the railroad family of the Frisco Railroad System. Jake Fullerton's car wouldn't start Homer Weber thought he would be the good Samaritan and went down to Jake's house to help him start out They did a good job, for the car started and Jake drove off with Homer following. Jake hadn't gone but about a block 'till he heard a crash. He IoolcecI back and Ho- mer was driving on the wrong side of Member of: The Kellogg Group of Railway Magazines the highway and ~othit. The boy who hit him was an ex-prize fighter, so he thought it best not to argua The re- Other publications of The Kellogg Group are: sult was, about all Jake got out of the deal was half interest In a new palnt job Bnltlmore & Ohlo Magazlne XIllwaukee Magnzine on Homer's car. We hope in the near Chicago & Eastern Illinols Flyer JIlssourt Pdclflc Llnes BIngazlne future Mrs. Weber will take Homer out for a little alring and teach him to drlve Express Messenger Norfolk & Western Magazine the little wagon. Krle Ihllroad 3Ia:nzine The Rail H. G. Mayabb and ramily oC Flap.- Illliiois Central 31.1gazine The L~tlroadEmploye staff. Ariz., spent a few clays of this Loulsvllle & Nauh~ille JIagazlne Thc Santa Be JIngnzlne month with his brother. E. 4. Mayabb and famlly. Mrs. J. C. Kerr and arandwn. JOhh Robert Gibson, went to St. Louis Sep-, tember 27 to visit friends. Mrs. Clyde hllerton has Just returned The KELLOGG GROUP, Inc. from an extended visit with her sister I1 in Chicago. 1 176 W. Adams St., Chicago, Ill. 522 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Glad to report one of our number w- I lucky enough to see one game of the World Series. ?t beinc none other than I Al Denham. Seeing is Itnowinp. and he now knows that Joe E. Brown has the "blggest mouth !" November, 1934 Page 23

.. .. Paul Lowery haa been haulng sn bW* ful time. The last two games Of the! series he bet on the Tlgers. His wife took the Cardinals, and the winnef was to be boss for the evening. Paul lost both times-to flnd himself caring for the baby, washlng dlshes, sweeping, etc. The last night he put something In the sink and stopped It up, and on top of having to unstop the sink he messed the kitchen all up and had to scrub the floor. Said he sure was worn out when time came for bed and then she had the crust to make him unlace her shoes. Am sure if Mrs. Lowery could have heard him Ilaughing and telling how he was going to make her mow the lawn Lr he won. sha would have made it harder on him t han she did. Inventory has bmuaht back For a short time- some or our dlrls matrimmy took away. They are Mrs. Hart How- ard. Mrs. Fred Scharf, and Mrs. Dean McFarland. Another that cannot be for- gotten is that little 'ood natured red haired Ruth Uselton. She Is working on Inventory, too, and is she a sensa- tion sround thin dace? Mary Ella Weber. daughter oi Mr. and Nrs. Homer Weber, fell at schoot nnd broke her arm recently. Homer re- ports she is getting along nicely. D. W. Morton. father of Iiladge &for- ton Is at the present time quite ill. The earnest hope of this office is that he will soon recover.

SIGNAL DEPARTMENT SPRINGFIELD, MO. LAVA CERTAINLY DID THE TRICK. MATILDA C. HOFFMAN. Reporter SAY, HOW DOES A BRIDE KNOW YOU FORGET C. A. Hamm, signalman. Springfleld. Is spcndlng his vacation with his daugh- ter, Mrs. Ed Krouse, at Wakeeney, Kan. Mr. Hamm always looks forward to these visits with a great deal of pleas- ure and we are sure he is having his usual good the. Mrs. Albert Barnett, wife of signal maintainer. Cordova. Ala.. is visiting- in ,Hoxie, ~rk. MARRIED YOU. B. M. Shaller, signal maintainer at Marion. Ark.. Mrs. Shaller and son, Robert, visited in Oweola. Ark.. recently. C. H. Johnson who has been tempo- rarily employed as draftsman in this office for the past few months has re- sumed his dutles as assistant signalman In system repalr gang. ROY Testerman, signal maintainer. Rosedale, and Mrs. Testerman visited relatives In Norwood and Buffalo the SOME ON MY middle of last month. LEAVE THE HANDS

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PEARL A. FAIN, Reporter Understand Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gan- Don and Junior Journeyed to St. Louis .via Frisco one veek-end recently. ing glycerine-used in most expen- The steel bridge gang under B. h How Lava gets any grime Kilburn and B&R men under Ebb Nease sive hand lotions-and other oils in have Anlshed the clearance of tracks in fast. Helps the abandonment of the Chadwick . . Lava protect the skin, heal up little Branch south of Ozark, No. It hardly nicks and scratches, keep hands looks natural now to etter Ozark with- prevent infections out R0infi under the old bridge which from cracking. has stood there for years. Tomorrow night, after the whistle Lava helps prevent infections be- Geo Mutz is quite p~.oud of the new Ford V-8 truck whlch he has been op- blows, look around you in the wash- cause it kills germs. Against most eratina for the Frisco for the ~asttwo room. More than likely you'll find month: though tve have failed 'to men- deadly diseases it is even more effec- tlon it. most of the men washing up with tive than carbolic acid. The mascot of the storeroom died sometime during tAe nlght of Septem- Lava Soap. Lava outlasts ordinary soap 3 to ber 18, having been Rlt by a switch en- Ask any one of them why and he's 1. Works well in any water, hot or gine. Our mascot had no particular name, alwavs answer in^ to "Here. Doq," likely to say, "because it gets grime cold-hard or soft. Get Lava today. but he had been a frlend of the em- faster than any soap made and, be- ployes for the pa$t seven or eight years and was judged to be about fourteen, sides, it's easier on the hands." years old, However a pretty cat has wandered in to take'lts place and it is Here's how Lava works. Its thick, Takes the Dirt.. . beginning to be quite a pet. heavy lather and fine, powdery Protects the Skin Anyone wishlng to purchase wooden buttons, buckles, or what-have-you- pumice team together to get any call at the home of "Uncle Joe" Wllson A Procter 8s at 1634 N. Clay. and see his assortment. grime in less than a minute. Sooth- Gamble Product

n October 8th to 15th. OFFICE OF GENERAL AGENT was selected as the mlclal route trom . Genest Morgan are the KANSAS CITY, MO. the Stale of Missouri. Our railroad ."...of a 10% Pound boy, was also designated as the official ..-... -.r.rrr. ALL^. M. route from states of Kansas, Oklahoma Yr. and Mrs. W. S. Johnston spent MARK CASSIDY, Reporter and Arkansas. We have enjoyed the October 5th and 6th at Piggott, Ark., able SUnDOrt of emu~oresof other de- attending the County Fair. Mr. John- Ed Liley was awarded the position partments in lining up the delegates. ston entered his Percheron stallion in of check clerk in the warehouse, Pete Yard Clerk R. F. Blanke gave un- thehorse show and brought home the Fracul returning to Centropolis to the stintedly of his soare time in dis- blue ribbon. position vacated by Ed. Ray Ruisinger tribut~nginformatidnal matter regard- Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Crocker vlslted was awarded the position in the local ing the convention among his Legion friends and relatives in St. Louis, Oc- office. This is the flrst time, in nearly acquaintances. tober 7th and 8th. three years that Ray has been assigned There Is sadneas in the hearts of Whlle attending County Falr at to a regular position. We welcome the General Agent Newman and family Carrollton, Ill., in September, Mr. M. H. ^orodieal's return. through the loss of their pet dog that Stubblefield. retired train dispatcher, craTg Lacy has returned from a mo- had deeply entrenched itself in their Chaffee, fell and fractured a bone in tor trip to Minnesota. Craig left the rrfeections thru the eleven years of its his right hip. We are glad to report, last week in Seatember. returnlnrr Oc- existence. however. that Mr. Stubblefield is back tober 1 after having spent several-days Coordinator Bastman was in town home and getting along nicely. fishing in the Minnesota lakes. recently. sueakin~before the Missouri- 311's. J. L, Mumma has been in the Ed Kelley, our ardent baseball fan Kansas Shippers' Advisory Board hospital at St. Louis the past few (especially World Series games), made Neeting. Special emphasis was placed weeks. Mr. Xumma advises Mrs. the trip to St. Louis to see the Tigers on his remarks, since they had refer- Mumma Is getting along fine and ex- and Cards tangle. Standing room was ence to proposed unification of termi- pects to return home this week. at a premium, but Ed will be satisfied nals at Kansas City. for another year. Solicitor Marc Glover put on a whis- Stuart Yockev made an Cxtended pering campaign recently that wasn't visit to ~hicago,via Norton, Kansas. a wow, and when Xarc can't talk or He was able to get in on the closing laugh this place is like a morgue. I NORTRERN DIVISION 1 days of the Falr, but says that that Our sympathies are extended to was not his intention In eoinr. I wonder Depot Passenger Agent Giffee and if he followed any of the advice And; family in the loss of his sister-in-law, and Ed gave him the evening he left. who passed away October 7th. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT Don't forget the Charity drive that After suendine nearlv her entire life begins very soon. at the same r&idence. Miss Walters FORT SCOTT, KANS. has moved. Now that's news. If it were Miss Stewart, City Passenger and Ticket Agent Werner, or others we BLANCHE BICKNELL, Reporter TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT could name of the Order of the Rolling KANSAS CITY, MO. Stone, it would not excite attention. L. J. Timberlake and wlfe have re- turned from a week's vacation went ROY E. NARING, Reporter in Chfcago, rlaiting relatives and friends, and taking in the World's TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT not withstand in^ a lull in business Fair. Mr. Timberlake says he certain- FT. SCOTT, KANS. ly enjoyed Sally Rand in the "bubble in general, we are enjoying-a nice in- dance". The Timberlakes were ac- crease over last year at this point. companfed to Chicago by their friends, Our new service between Kansas Citv ALICE HOGAN, Reporter Mr. and Mrs. John Balocca. and Texas has helped to achieve thit increase. The semi-annual CCC move- Mrs. A. D. West, wife of swltchman, Mrs. Edith Austin, chief telephone ment is again on with the result that operator, who has been tn the St. Louis is visitine- relatives in Detroit. we enjoyed several special train and hospital for the past four rnOnth6. had Yard Clerk Marvin Darling worked party movements between encamo- a very ,happy birthday, September 30th. a few days in the trainmaster'a office, ments. Her many friends showered her with relieving Car Tracer Clerk Lloyd Gard- Solicitor Young was looking them greetings, gifts and flowers. Ft. Scott ner, who attended the ball games in over pretty closely during the early friends sent her a huge box of pink St. Louis. games of the late World Series only roses, one for each year, with a card General Agent E. A, Miller and wife to lose his gains during the last twb attached to each rose. have returned from a short visit in games at St. Louis. Solicitor Sachen The wire chief here feels they have Chicago. and yours truly also took a fall. been relieved of some trouble near C. C. Blevins, has returned to' Cherry- We are looking forward to a nice Kansas City. On October 5th the spe- vale, after having worked here one passenger business to the American cial servlce department caught. tried week in the freight office. Legion Convention at Miami. Florida. and sentenced a wire thief to one year latter part of October. As previously in jail. Conductor J. 3%. Schmitz is visiting announced in these columns the Frisco J. A. Hamm, formerly a dispatcher relatives and friends in Ida Grove, I0 wa. Mfs. Wm. Taylor, wife of conductor, is vasiting in Middletown, Ohio. Mrs. Frank Sherer and daunhter. Mary Martha, family of brakeman, are The First National Bank FIRST NATIONAL BANK spending a few days in Chicago. 1 1 Lloyd Gardner and wife have re- and Trust Company turned from a few days' visit in De- I OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 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here, and sfnce first-trlck operator at down to work a~ain.What. with the Edward passed away, October 2nd. excitement, the Griety, radloa blasting after several monrhs illness. We es- forth t'he play-by-play account of the tend our sincere svmwathv to his wife. games from every window, and argu- mother and famiiy. - ments and talk, pro and con, the calm R. H. Hubbart, trainmaster, cele- and quiet seems like & lull Collowing brated a birthday anniversary Septem- the storm. OF course It Isn't hecom- ber 27. On returning to his office after Ing a gentleman to drag about him- lunch h~ found a cake, candles and se!f. but when it comes to picking the everything. wlnners, will refer you to Bill Ed- W. 0. Long, late night wlre chief, wards, tlmekeeper, master mechanic's JtLI UtNlM IN LEE and Mrs. Long spent flrst half of Oc- office, and Charles Strobel, machinist. tober vlsiting points in Tennessee, I want to thank these boys for their nlississlppf and at ChafYee. 310. R. A. clonations, and wish them better luck Pearson relieved Mr. Long. next tlme. BE WASHED OUT! Lloyd Gardnet, tracer clerk, and Mrs. Nick Fracul had promised us the Gardner have returned from a pleasant use of the radlo in his car for listen- vacation trip. "Buck" took In the flrst ing to the broadcasting of the World two World Series aames in Detrolt and Serles, but on the eve of the battle. they spent a few-days in Chlcago on or rather that afternoon, some villian their return trip. stripped Nick's car of the rad~owhile With the increase in business an ad- it was parked in the coach yard. Of ditional dispatcher has been put on course, we were all much disappointed, here. The Afton dbpatcher, from 8:OO but the loss was a real blow to Nick, a. m. till 4:00 p. m., bid In by 31. \IT. as his car radio was hls special pride Sullivan. G. W. Sappington has taken and joy. the relief work here, whlle H. 31. Cloud While we are st111 speaking of Nick. took second trick formerlv held by Mr. I want to announce that he is now Sullivan. the masterful coach oC a girls' basket- ball team. I might add, rhat Nick's starched in-1716 ex- heart is really In this new adveuture OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT of his, and that he spends most of his TERMINALB evenings leaching the glrls the fine points of the game (of basketball, I THEH.D.LEEMERC.COMPAW months longer to KANSAS CITY, MO. DEPT. R-lt wear it out You'lllike mean). h.the..Bi.pMInn2."~"p:..#i,J.Kmm CB their better tailoring Alonzo Finn is again working into h Fraoemo.Cai. SSI~~S,k-J too. SO wear Lees: TOM KEHOE, Reporter shape on the Ping Pong Courts, get- The few more cents Cing ready for a strenous season, and the cost w~llcome Thanksgiving Greetings are again in is anxious to llne up any contestants bats manr times in order. It's the same old story-some who can give him a good stiff game. _--extra wear and com- of us feel we have much to be thank- We regret very much the loss ful for and others feel there is very sustained by F. W. Roclchold, assistant little, but, at leasl: we can all thank yardmaster, as the result of a Are FREEEfF,F$,fefZ: , the weather man for extending the which partially destroyed his apart- ItDenim and tbe name summer weather far Into the fall. ment the morning of September 18. oxERA!&Splay sulm ofyour neareat Lee dealer. which has, no doubt, relieved the heat- Alt'hough his losses, through damage ing problem for a great many people, to furniture, clothing and money, were as well as furnishing a pleasant setting considerable, Mr. Rockhold felt his for many happy fall outings. Again. greatest loss was the destruction of Inqutr discovered that the stork had may we extend to each and every one the only picture he had of hls son, who visltedl. hls home during the night, of our readers and friends a very is deceased. Mrs. Rockhold, who was leaving a nice baby girl to Mrs. happv Thanksgiving Day. and trust, as at home at the tlme of the Are. Ior- Poncik'a sister. who is visiting at they 'look around. they may And many tunately escaped without injury. Loule's home. things to be thankful for. We were wondering why the beam- I guess this Is what you might call Now, that the World Series (The Ing smile and proud manner of L. W. a true Ash story, or something. Any- American Blue Ribbon Classic) has PoncIk as he entered the office the way, the joke seems to be on Mrs. Roy come to an end. we can all settle morning of September 26, and upon Clark, wife of brakeman, and it hap-

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// JRS, DOC, 4LY SAID at Dallas, were Mrs. C. C. Jordan and count illness for some time, le now back Delnhine: also Mr. and Mrs. L. R. on the job feeling Ana ~eabh. There were others, but they C. F. Cline, meclianlc, Wrt Smlth didn't tell us. roundhouse, is In the St. huis 1IOSpltal. The B. & B. gang is here fixing up We hope to see Mr. Cline back on the several of the buildings, including a job soon. new floor in the back shop. Also the Mrs. C. H. DevenDort, wife of cashler paint gang is giving the buildings a at the Fort Smith Erelght house. has coat of much needed paint. been ill for some time. but Is now well on the road to recovery. J. W. McDonald has just liad hls cars V. P. & G. S. OFFICE-FT. WORTH overhauled for the winter and will - change over to a new kitchen soon. Mr. 31. B. SMITH, Reporter McDonald is now located at Fort Smith where lie is renewing portions of the Mrs. 0. H. AIcCarty, who now lives roundliouse roof. in California, has returned to her home G. L. Presson and family made a two after visitinc. with frieiids in FC. weeks' vacation stretch-out by taking a Worth for the past several weeks. trip down into Old Mexico. going to Just can't express how much we all Mexico City and from there to the coast enjoyed having Mrs. AIcCarty with us. in each direction. From what Mr. Pres- She was the guest of honor at our son says they had a very thrilling time. visiting the remains of old temples and first fall Frisco Emnloyes'. . Club lunch- eon. pyfamids. They had a lovely trip, both Think our first luncheon filled us all golw and returning. While in Mexico with enthusiasm and new determina- City Mr. Prcsson made the acquaintance tion to make this another suc:cessful of two bri'linnt gentlrmrn. Senors A. 31. clwb year. Plans for the fall activities Groso. editor, and >I. Platas, assistant were outlined by our president, Mar- editor of the Ferronales, a popular mag- shall Evans, followed by short talks azine ' of Mexico. After Mr. Presson's ER husband feared it was an at- by Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Oliver and departure from Mexico Messrs. Groso other officers of the company. We're and Platas went to the World's Fair tack of her old asthma, but the and other points in the United States. H all anticipat,ing an enjoyable occasion on their return home they spent a few eminent M. D. correctly diagnosed when we hold our Hallowe'en Dance at days as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. the Elks' Hall. Presson. Messrs. Groso and Platas paid the trouble as "Gas-ma"-overpower- Want to say here, the writer had a visit to our office and were very much the time of her life when Uncle interested In our telegraph office and ing smoke-clouds from a long-neg- Charlie Baltzell took some of us to the am sure they had a nice time and will circus-and what I mean is, we cov- tell their friends about their trip to old lected pipe and grouchy tobacco. The ered, every corner of the back yard and Fork Smlth. Of course. they used the met all the folks-I wouldn't have Brisco Llnes as much as possible. best tobacco in the world is unhappy missed it for the world. Had no idea The Northwest Arkansas Emplos~es' a circus was so much fun. We got Club of Fayetteville invited the Fort in an unclean pipe, and hubby's was autographs and pictures of all the Smlth Frlsco EmgIoyes' Club to attend far from the best. celebrities-friends of TJncle Chariie. their meeting whlch was held at Wins- And you should have seen them do low, joint with the public. There were their stuff", especially f o r Uncle Clean otrt the old pipe,friend. Pack Charlie. We had seats on the front' it with Walter Raleigh Smoking row in front of the "maln attraction" Sir ring. Little Jean Marie Moore certain- Tobacco. Then puff away and watch ly did enjoy it, too. We were tickled to see R. G. Bell, your Sweet Mama smile again. Sir our old friend, who is now sul~erin- tendent, C. C. C. Camp at Chattanooga, Walter Raleigh has a n~ildnessthat Tenn., who was here October 6th Co attend the wedding of his son, R. G., wins you, and a delicate fragrance Jr. that wins others. Sales of this choice FORT WORTH, TEXAS Kentucky Burley blend have boomed because it really L,IS the mildness CORPLPNE PLEDGE, Reporter mankind is searching for. a tin Mrs. 0. H. hIcCarty was guest of Try honor at our club luncheon, held Oc- .. .will ya, man ? tober 9th. Mrs. McCarty is looking splendid and we were all very glad Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation to see her and hope she makes us an- other visit real soon. LOGAN D. McKEE Louisville, Kentucky. Dept. K-411 By the time this is printed the broom-tails will be brushing the dust Drug and Book Store at Arlington Downs and will we be 7Send for +his having fun-well I reckon. Been I having some "high-class" hay move in MONETT, MO. over the Frisco for these horses.

I FREE Everybody talking about the Friscn p~~ Club Dance, to be given xovember 3rd 1 BOOKLET at the Elks Club. and looking forward to n gala time as usual. Harry Granger made a "clean- sweep" of his flsh pond recently and donated a wash-tub full of fish to the CORNER PHARMACY City Park Department. The formal opening of the Rock WE APPRECIATE YOUR Snrinas Arboretum. on October 14th. was attended by over 18,000 people and PATRONAGE there could hardly be a more beautiful collection of roses anvwhere. and all in Phone 43 MONETT, MO. bloom, too. -- I CENTRAL DIVISION I Monett Steam Laundry SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE FT. SMITH, ARK. Monett, Mo.

EAEL E. DODD, Reporter COME ON LET'S ALL PULL FOR J. L. Eurly, lnech~nic Fort Smith MONETT roundhouse, who has been off duty ac- about 200 attended this meeting, of division freirrht- and uassencer- aeent.- which 46 were employes from Fort b'ort Smitif. Smith. J. A. Winn, agent at Winslow. Niss Katherine Vogel, stenographer to had a nice program Brranged, which we chief clerk, superintendent's office, ac- enjoyed Immensely. Sherman Kelton. cornpanled by her mother, took a trip dispatcher of Fort Smith, took the Frog to Indianaplls, Ind., where they visited Hunters (a string band), of Fort Smith. wlth relatives. Miss Katherine reports who gave us some very lively music. they had an enjoyable vacation. which we all enjoyed. The Employes' Mrs. James Stowall, who has been vis- Club of Fort Smith agaln wishes to iting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. thank the Fayetteville club for this in- Young, has recently returned to her home vitation nnd hope we may all meet to- In Tulsa. gether again in the very near future. Mrs. E. L. Collette has returned from Since the last issue oh this magazine a visit in Little Rock with her son, El- the Frisco Women" Auxiliary has been mon, who is attending med~cai college organized at Fort Smith, which is gain- there. Mrs. Collette visited also in ing on the Men's Club by leaps and Jonesboro, A1.k.. before returning home. bounds, having 33 members present at Mrs. Geo. Hinnant, wife of the presi- THINGSare picking up, men are going back to work. the flrst meeting and If the men don't dent of the E'risco Emuloves' Club. is re- get to work on our membership they cuperating after a recen't illness.' But with business ready to take on more men, the gen- will soon pass us. which we don't want Mrs. Frank W. Hopkins, of New Or- eral aim is to be most selective in the type of men to happen, so all You men turn out next leans. La.. is the guest- of Mr. and Mrs. hired. It's the trained man who gets the preference meeting without fail. F. E. Brannaman. today. And many men are getting the training they Mrs. H. E. GabrieI. wile of assistant Mrs. Dewey Windes, who recently has. nerd by devoting their spare he10 study of Inter- superintendent, has returned from Cali- been a patient at S~arksMemorial Hos- national Corre~pondenceSchools Courses. Does this fornia where she spent the summer pital, has returned- to her home. Mr. interest you? Return of thir coupon mill prove your visiting with dau~hters livina in San Windes is employed at the roundhouse interest in your own self. Diego anc Nrs. Gab and ?&a but we ar .enden the US Box 8608-0, Scranton. Penna. Two big Erulnin fully about your couraein theaubieot marked X: ovcr the 0 Roadmnotom Mr. Beckr 0 Section Work 0 AirL Broker Shows." w 3 Bridao Enaineerinn il Rouodhouae Work service th( lilchioiet and Toalmrker taking Fort Smlt ter th and Piuefitten Football .- clal trains 1 A. $ A., ment to I Name ...... Age ...... Arkansas _ . - .- - - .-- - - .. lt 10 darn and cleaned up. In fact. Harry says Omswlirm ...... B>~~PZO#Cbu ...... The Razorback team used our Hne to some of the days he mopm up. Mr. Zian I3uren en route to Llttle Rock on Aules. roadmaster for the Arthur sub. ABdrm...... October 12 and the next day we had a used the burner about 7 days and cleaned Emploreas rl this Road will receiva I Spacial Dlscount svecial traln of students moving to Vnn out passing traclts. Rurw thence Missouri Parlac to L~ttle We are not going to say how Roclc Thls was a nlce t1ai.1 and we much cotton buslness we have. Wilt ewpe-t to have a repeater October 20 have to wait until the end 6t the season. to Fort Smlth thence Kansas City then count up. since so much or the BIRMINGHAM (BENERAL OFFICE Southern en route to Shrevepart. La., for cotton moves on single bale billings, we - a bi$ Kame at that point \Ire know the T ATTMA \x 4- have plenty of bills. Don't get to see Yz.LVI.- JHEW, Reporter Razorbacks are Eoinq over bls thls vear lnuch of Mr. Clairborne. agent. He has and we are happy to have the students his nose stuck in stacks of bills all dav And lore News-W, W. Wade, rate use our line Root for the "Po~kersI" long and far into the night. Clerk, office of traffic manager, and We are slnd to have Mrs Cha* E. JIercp, how onr tralnmaster Is beg- Mrs. Wade are also the proud parents Durham with us. Mr. and Mrs. Dur- ring for cars. Not that we like to hear of llttle Betty Ann, who arrived re- ham recently moved here from Rrrm- him make RUCA a fuss, but we are glad cently. More COngratUlatiOns. Would lnrham. Ala. Charlev is necreta~v to to be in need of cars. Shows there must seem the passenger deparl'rnent and superintendent. this division Wo hnpp he some buslness. freight department are running a race. Mrs Durham will like Fo~tSmith and Our passenger business continues to We still have three bachelor$ In the th~Frlsco folks here. hold up. Of course, we could use a ol'fice. Orwlle Loyd, clerk at Fort Srnitl~ lot more and still have hopes we will The neddlng of Mary Lella SIcGowen roundhouse, was off dutv arcount sick- get It. and %nnle Grayson Chew, daughter ness for some time but is now back on See several extra agents running of Mrs. Nellie McGow.en, secretary to the ?oh around and savin~they are ~oingto superintendent of terminals, and son A-;& clei-k'a posltlan has been cre- Fork at different nolnts. This would in- of the writer, was solemnized in the ated in Fort Smlth vard office-on nc- dicate there is still business on our lines. presence of a number of frlencls and count of Increased bus. relatives at Woodlawn Methodist hope they will have to Church, Saturday evening, September clerks berore the vear 22nd. Immediately followinc: the cere- Losrd 1s now holding mony the young -couple left tor on- clerk Job. cinnati an,d Chicago to visit the Rudotgh Balthel. fi. World's Falr. The happv--- pair- are now Smith yards, was OR a at home in Sycamore Manor. an InJured lep, but Mr. Agent H. H. Thomas, Townley, Ala., on the Job. fine as ever. ORlDA wife and dauahter. Margaret, were the We want 'to oomplin guests of thC writer recently. Aiester sectlon foreman. And now that the World's Series is the neat job they are d ., Reporter over, all inrerest is centered in foot- Smith yards. They h bail; always something to create ex- tracks and fllled in with trdmaster and citement on Saturday IbOfnlngs. Mrs. J. E. Bryant, and who is now at to raise several more. When th ey Ket - - this done we sure mill have som e nire the University of IOainesville, Gaines- looking tracks and won't have to wade ville. Florida, together with 27 other LOCAL FREIGHT OFFICE water to get through them in rainy boys had a most sucCessfu1 and en- weather, joyable tour during September, taking MEMPHIS, TENN. Mr. and Mrs. R. M IIcGIasmn s in Jacksonville, Florida: Washington, pent a D. C. (where they mere enterlained two VIRGINIA GRIFFIN, Reporter vacation in Chicago, taking in tI113 Cen- tury of Progrcqq. Thev report a great days by Senator Fletcher of Florida); time. Mr. XIcGlasson 1s ch~ef cln New York City. Niagara Falls, Cleve- H. Q. Flnnigan, OS&D clerk. re- erk to land, through Canada, and Chicago. turned to work September 17, having where thev attended the World's Fair. been off since Xuaust- 29 tvlth an in- and on return trip came through Ken: fected hand. tucky. visitinq IIarnmoth Cave. $1;; and-Mrs. J. T. Carrigan, 3Tr. and INTERURBAN CHATT C Mra. Mr. H. Stiles, wife of operator Mrs. W. 10. FarFh, and Mr. and Mrs. 4. here, has just returned from ; most A. Loeffel spent Sunday, September 88, Shippers of pleasant trip, having visited relatives in Chicago, and from what they say, Road Chatt Lumber Yard C in Clarkadale, Louisville, and in Day- they didn't mlss much of the Fair. Chatt Ballast ton, Ohio, was the guest of her daugh- ~Mrs.W. 0. Farris, wife oC nssistant ter, Mrs. Stevens. cashier, spent September 30 in Rip- 124 East First St. Mrs. J. J. Epple8. wire of dockmaster, mingham. PenSaColh. is enjoying an extended R. &I. Lillibrldge. receiving and cherlc . PITTSBURG, KANSAS visit with her slster in Portsmouth, clerk, visited relatives In Wlllow Virginia. Springs. Nissourl, October 1. 2 and 3. The foltowlnjg went to St. Louis Sun- We were very sorry to learn of the Chose who saw the circus Bay it was day, October 7, to see the Cardinals death of W. T. Clark's mother on Sep- well worth the price. and TIgers pl:ay-J. T. Carrigan, Mr. tember 18th, at Oakland City. Agent Morris at McCullongh passed and Mrs. W. 0. Farria, G. R. Humphrey, J. J. Drashman has been in the St. away October 12th. B. & B. Carpenter B. C. Scruggs .and son, B. C., Jr., J. B. Louis hos~italfor auite some time, but Lew Shenaut passed away at the Frisco Wright and sons, Joe, Jr.. and Bobby. understand he is getting along very Hospital in September. Sympathy is Only one of th em saw the game-J. B. nicely after the operation. We hope extended to the bereaved families. Wrig!lt, Jr., who stpod in line all he mill soon .be able to return to his Nessrs. Koontz and Pryor spent sev- mornlng. "Tul 'f luck. work at Yale. Niss Thelma Drash- man was in St. Louis a few days with eral days the first part of October In her father. Birmingham Terminals account high The new 200-ton Ogle concrete coal waters. BIRMINGHAM TERMINALS chute has been placed in service at M. P. and E. W. Shannahan have . - Thayer. The new coal chute, together been enjoying a visit from their with the changes in the passenger sta- mother, of Los Angeles. NELLIE NcGOWEN, Reporter tion, raise of tracks and various other changes, has made quite an improve- At last the bicycle fad has made Its M. H. Jones, conductor, and wife, ment at that place. way in this office. One of the em- were called to Nashville recently on Ringling Brothers-Bnrnum & Bailey ployes is coming to work on his new account' of illness of a relative. Circus was in town, October ,16th. A wheel and we are just wondering who J. L. Godsey, timekeeper, and family record crowd was In attendance and will be the nest to fall in line. spent the week-end of September 29th with relatives in Tunelo.-. Miss. J. G. Hughes, clerk, and wife have returned from a visit with relatives in Springfield. Dan KZeCkley. conductor, and wlfe Were called to Americus, Ga., October 8th, account of the death of Mr. Kleck- ley's brother. W. W. Phifer, office messenger, and wife are vislting Mr. Phifer's brother in Indianapolis. They will also visit' the World's Falr in Chicago before re- turning. Dr. B. S. Lester, local surgeon, was a recent vlsitor to St. Louis. w Mrs. Lula Campbell of St. Louis, h s returned to her hode after a she% visit to Mrs. Nellie McGowen. Miss Alevenia Smith, stenographer in the local freight office, is enjoying S&IS Leaky Tanks and a short vacation. Miss Esther Timmer- son is supplying for Miss Smirh while -L- :- ---.-.- Cars Permanently first-class car man, Williams, attractive DEARBORN SEALING COMPOUND is a non-deterio- ir Willlams. car in- ried, September 29th. rating product of the Dearborn Laboratories. In wooden .he bride's parents. tank and freight car service it is the one and only answer )n in Chicago, Mr. to the demand for permanence, ease of application.. and mill be at home to e c o n o m y. Dear- th Court West. s, wife of swit'chman, born Sealing Com- ires In Jacksonville, pound is prepared for application in a plastic condition. It spreads like soft 3, BRIDGE AND plaster and is ap- ATER SERVICE plied with a trowel &YALE, TENN. to wet surfaces in - 1/8 inch thickness. !KLES, Reporter Keys firmly to the pores, cracks and ang under Foreman joints in the wood. wed on the Southern Dries into a glossy r 21st. and are glving ver bridge at Mem- black, pliable coat- of paint which is ing that is odorless the appearance of and non - inflamma- ble. The coating- is not soluble in water after it sets. Sixty pounds cover 100 square feet. With t h e s e fea- KERITE tures and the rea- for sonable cost, the use of Dearborn INSULATED WIRES AND CABLES Sealing compound becomes a matter of good judgment For All Purposea in selection of a lasting remedy for leaky tanks and cars. -Under All Con- Also in wide use for sealing brick work, cracked con- crete, furnace settings and leaky roofs. 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