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Show The month of September, 1917 was a splendid month for both the trainmen and engineers from a standpoint of earnings. The shortage of both firemen and' brakemen is getting to be very serious. ser-ious. It was found necessary to use a wiper from the round house in order or-der to run No. 301 out Monday morning. ' Engineer Joe Arney reports two armyJjlankets stolen from his clothes cloth-es line. A $10.00 reward will be paid for' their return. Free room and board guaranteed to the party who stole them. C. M. Hoffman, Master Mechanic at Los Vegas, resigned, effective Oct. 1st. Mr. Hoffman expects to go to Jerome, Arizona, to accept a -high position with one of the large mining min-ing companies. Mr. W. F. Merry of the S. P. takes Mr. Hoffman's place at Los Vegas as master mechanic. The extensive Hot Water plant in the roundhouse is expected to be com 'pleted within the next few days and in operation. This will be a much needed addition to the shops. Engine En-gine boilers can be washed in much less time than formerly done without with-out chilling the boiler. The heavy travel the past week out of Milford to Salt Lake on account ac-count of the conference and State Fair was handled with that usual smoothness by' Agent Lichty, with the, able assistance of Mrs. Lichty. Another conference and State Fair and Mrs. Lichty will be a full-fledged ticket agent. D. & R. G. will be electrified. Reorganization Re-organization of merger is expected to reinstate Brown, vice Mudge. Electrification Elec-trification of the D. & R. G. between Salt Lake and Helper will be undertaken under-taken soon after the merging of the road with the Missouri Pacific and the Western Pacific, according to information in-formation which became current in 'local railroad circles yesterday. A second unit of electrification of the road will be along Tennessee Pass, in Colorado for a stretch of about fifty miles. A birthday party was given in honor of Miss Venice Baxter, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Baxter, at their home last Friday afternoon. Tables were decorated with many dainties, which were very tastefully taste-fully arranged. There were, present: pres-ent: Thomas James, Max-Hedges, Leona James, Aileen Baxter, Wanda James, Mrs. Allen Hedges, Mrs. Geo. A. Trent, Mrs. D. B. James. Miss Venice will long remember this, her ninth birthday. Conductor Dave R. Martin returned return-ed from Colorado Springs, Colo., last Saturday, where he had been visiting his mother who had been In ill health for some time. Conductor Con-ductor Martin reported for the service ser-vice and was marked up on his car. Sunday a telegram was received by Conductor Martin, that his mother moth-er had passed away. It was necessary neces-sary for him to return to Colorado Springs, which he did this last Monday Mon-day morning on No. 20. The readers read-ers of the railroad columns extend their heartfelt sympathy to Mr. Martin Mar-tin and family in their hour of sorrow. sor-row. The three soldier trains were handled han-dled out of Milford by the following crews Monday night and Tuesday morning of this week: First train, conductor, Blunt; brakemen Wad-'nett Wad-'nett and Adams; Engineer, Wad-dingham, Wad-dingham, Fireman Vincent. Left Milford 10:10 p. m. with four coaches, 1 baggage car. 10 box cars, 3 stock. 2nd train: conductor, Manning; brakemen, Calhoun & Robinson; engineer, Christensen; fireman,' Hanlon; left Milford 11:30 p. m. with 15 coaches. 3rd train: conductor. Holmes; brakemen, Bry-ans Bry-ans and Rhinehart; engineer, Cuddy; Cud-dy; fireman, Daniels; left Milford 1:30 a. m. with 13 coaches. The above trains were handled through Milford yards with promptness and much credit is due to all concerned. |