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Show SALT LAKE ROUTE NOTES Good liye Old Terminal Over-Time. We are really glad, clear old terminal ter-minal to see you go, You served us faithfully for a long time. You caused us many moments of anxiety, How to explain your presence We trust that your new field of labor la-bor will not cause the many eatings that you caused ua to get while with us. Again old Terminal we say Good Bye for evermore. With the threatened increase of 5 0 per cent on shoes, we would suggest sug-gest that our city dads have the gravel sifted and all rocks removed as a great many of us birds are going go-ing to have to go barefooted this spring. Attorney General Palmer has made one Grand Fisco in reducing the high cost of living. We wonder what became of that Million Dollar appropriation that was asked for in order to fight the high cost of living. Who is using it and what for. Show us results. Master Mechanic A. P. Neff return ed from Chicago last Sunday evening on 1st No. 1. He reports bad weather wea-ther both in Chicago and Omaha, but says there is lots of business. That Guy wrth the Blue racer bug made an average of 72 words per min ute sending to TM at Z office, Los Angeles An-geles last Sunday morning and TM never broke him. This is a good record when all of the stuff was cut. When the smoke wagons come out of the round house fifteen minutes ahead of call, figure terminal overtime over-time vanishes. ( The recent wreck on the D. and R. G. near Midvale, where one freight frei-ght ran into another Just ahead is said to be chargeable to no flagman being out to protect the rear of his train. This is purely criminal carelessness care-lessness and no excuse can be accepted ac-cepted for that class of work. Mrs. E. A. Burke, motherinlaw of Rev. R. D. Zook of Beaver, left for her home in Chicago Tuesday morning. morn-ing. There was a regular flock of commercial com-mercial men stormed the Union Station Sta-tion Tuesday morning to take train No. 2. Our station baggageman says they braught all their trunks with them too. We say that the roundhouse certainly cer-tainly has some jaz whistle. It evidently ev-idently is used to call every bloomin man that is on the place, making sleep at a premium during the daytime. day-time. Pass the Buck club has made some large gains in its membership lately. late-ly. ( Mrs. George A. Trent left on train Number 3, Wednesday morning for Santa Barbara. California, having been called there on account of her sister's serious illness. Fireman F. Singleton has gone to Salt Lake to buck the extra board. It has been said that it could not be done. This has been proven to be an error. Fireman Gould who makes the Blue Steam for Engineer Wad-dingham Wad-dingham was seen to smile when he was informed that he would get the 3710 in place of the 3401. Engineer Stirling is reported to be on the sick list. J. C. Haymond has been officially-appointed officially-appointed a trick dispatcher for the Salt Lake route located at Suit Lake. Supt. W. H. Smith and Trainmaster Trainmas-ter J. T. Warrenberg accompanied the supply train out of Milford Monday Mon-day morning in business car 103. One of our Milford friends who is a lover of doughnuts and coffee, noticed no-ticed a sign painted on the window of an eating hous- m Milford, setting set-ting fourth the; price. Doughnuts and coffee 10c. Well our friend desiring de-siring to save a nickel, stepped into the place and ordered his coffee and. When through he asked the xprice and was informed that it was 15 cts. He paid the bill and stepped outside to look for that painted sign. Lo and behold, it was not there. Stung again, begosh. Engineer Ike Rood is still down in Texas watching the cotton grow. Train Rules Ex. B. F. Scarborbough with examination car SL 600 is now in Salt Lake giving those their' dose of Medicine who failed to take it when he was in Milford. Some of the boys say that it is an awful dose they get, but all come away praising prais-ing Mr. Scarborough. Engineer Curry is visiting in Salt Lake. Fireman J. D. Johnston is still in the Holy Cross Hospital in Salt Lake. He is reported to be doing fairly well. There are to be no more layovers in Milford for the passenger engine-men. engine-men. The crews that arrive on No. 1 will take No. 2. back the following morning. Engineers Decker and Kuckenmis-ter Kuckenmis-ter left for Salt Lake to have a conference con-ference with Rules Examiner Scarborough. Scarb-orough. Firemen Gallenouer, W. Vincent, G and W. Moore, Plumber, Conners. C. I. Johnson, W. B. Smith and Nolan will have it out in the examination car. The supply train arrived in Milford Mil-ford last Saturday evening and remained re-mained over until Monday morning leaving for the east on the Irish mail The East side spout of the Milford water tank became blocked open last Sunday evening, causing considerable consider-able loss of water. Roundhouse fore man. A. E. Smith sent a diver into l tank and it was discovered that a block of wood had lodged against he valve which caused all the ex-' ex-' citement. |