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Show Railroad News VIA WIRELESS KEEP YOUR EYE OX MILFORD WATCH IT GROW Trainmen's Board Line Up Friday April 12, 1918. West End Conductor Isaacs, Brakemen Ca-pell Ca-pell and Thompson. Conductor Stoyell,' Brakemen Yea-ger Yea-ger and Canutson. Conductor Manning, Brakemen Sexton and Bryans. Conductor Martin, Brakemen Snyder and Dickenson. Conductor Marksheffel, Brakemen Taylor and Cullenan. Conductor Wheat, Brakemen J. W. Card and Barnett. Conductor L. E. Evans, Brakemen Shields and McDonald. East End Conductor Berkhimer, Brakemen Smith and Calhoun. Conductor O'Rourke, Brakemen Spalding and Anderson. Conductor Blunt, Brakemen Bo-Dine Bo-Dine and Allen. Conductor P. J. Evans, Brakemen Williams and Card. Bast Local Conductor O'Hara, Brakemen Carpenter and Johnston. Day Yard Yardmaster Tullis, Switchmen Yeager and Thomas.' Night Yard Yardmaster McCafferty, Switchmen Switch-men Luedtke and Shoot. Laying Off Clinton, Ernst, Rine-hart, Rine-hart, Monroe, Flynn, Holmes, Russell, Rus-sell, Jordan, Gleeson. Extra Board None. A letter received from Con. Holmes states that his mother is still very ill and that Con. will not be able to return to Milford until some improvement is shown. Mr. Prescott, tariff inspector, was a visitor in Milford this week. Mrs. Angle, wife of general roundhouse round-house foreman, returned to Los Angeles An-geles this week after having spent several days with her husband in Milford. Conductor Gleeson is laying off on account of illness. Hurry back. Tom. Conductor O'Hara is carrying the bills on Conductor Marksheffel's car while Ed. is figuring how he Is going to catch his car again. Conductor Marksheffel is doing a turn on Conductor Gleeson's car while Tom is off. Come on, boys, the company will have a committee call on you with reference to the Liberty Loan Bonds. Remember the hand that feeds you. Subscribe. Lyle Rogers has been promoted to engine wiper. He is under the supervision su-pervision of Captain Berry at the local lo-cal shops. Miles White has apaln been made night caller vs. Lyle Rogers, promoted. pro-moted. Quite a few of the old bucks n round town are batching while their Vivos ro away. When their wives return they will just have a few dishes and pans to clean up is all. The present trains sure put a kink in the firemen's backs, especially the young tender birds that weigh 103 pounds. Among the things that will soon be "made in Germany" will be Yankee Yan-kee trenches. The business still remains good in movement of fruits, vegetables, live stock and ore. Don't forget the signal of the fire alarm when important bulletins of the war situation are received by special wire for the Beaver County News. The signal will be the following fol-lowing taps of the bell: ooo ooo ooo ooo - - . Bulletins may be read at all the business houses in Milford, and at the hotels. Supt. H. E. VanHousen went east on No. 2 Thursday evening en route to Salt Lake. Don't be an obstructionist even in small matters against your Government. Govern-ment. It is noticed by others. Properly locking refer doors may prevent some one from waking up in the Holy Cross hospital. The writer woke up in the Mo. P. hospital in St. Louis once because the local agent failed to properly lock a refer door. H. D. Teed, Supt. Telegraph of the Frisco system, passed away March 8th last. Mr. Teed was at -one time operator for the Northern Pacific, Santa Fe and Western Union at various points and is well remembered re-membered by old timers. A certain young operator called up some few nights ago and this Is what he said: "I ag see sleepy mh yand wont cog et al." What he was trying to say was: "I am so sleepy that my hand won't come at all," meaning that his hand was not responding re-sponding to the letters which he was trying to make on the telegraph key. You cannot flirt with the girls all day and expect to work nights, Red. Get your rest. The Southern Railway is using 27 locomotives which are marked TJ. S. A. These locomotives were built for Russian roads. They are of the decapod dec-apod type with two pilot truck wheels and ten driving wheels. . The first locomotive whistle was made in May, 1833. It wan made by a musical instrument maker in London. Lon-don. There have been several trains of late that required a third stinger. There were six bits worth of cars in the train (75 cars). Engineer Chrlstensen was called to Salt Lake Thursday morning on I account of Illness of his children. The following engines are in the I local shops for heavy repairs: 366H. 13411 and 3640. In for light repairs. 3408. Engine 3607 will be out or the shops and make her maiden trip up the hi-llne Saturday. V. W.- Smith and brldo of Colorado Colora-do Springs stopped over in Milford on their honoymoon trip to visit , with Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Smith, night roundhouse foreman, and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Martin. They left on No. 19 Thursday evening en route to the coast. Mr. Smith Js a conductor on the Colorado Midland Road. Talking over our present telephone between the Union station and the roundhouse sounds like this: Gobble w ht h 1 U tr g zip me R se t no f m Hello can you hear me? Zim k n d-p-r d m it. Outside of this it works fine. Mike drive in and drive out again, says that regular eating on varnished cars is fine for a time or two but as a regular diet, nix. Mrs. Chapman, agent at Black-rock, Black-rock, who has been under the care of Dr. Hunter in Milford for the past several days, has returned to Black-rock Black-rock and will soon resume her duties at agent at that point. It is quite noticeable that the game of 7 come 11 is getting to be quite popular among the younger set in Milford. Where do they get those bones with the black eyes? One little lit-tle tot was saying, Come big Liz. oh you feebe. Some game. That editor over in Beaver City went up to Salt Lake this week and got it out of his system, then came back. We know It because we saw it in the Salt Lake daily papers. If some more of them would do likewise like-wise it would be a benefit to the community and get what the country papers aro deserving, a square deal. |
