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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1908)
n I f J V J J mimnij III 1 1 1 Time Card IftMH McCook Neb mmrn rXife la5J MAIN LINE EAST DEPART No 6 Central Time 1027 p m 2 500 a m 12 715 a M 14 942 pm main line west depaet No 1 Mountain Time 950 A M 3 1142 pm 5 Arrives S30 p M 13 1025aM 5 S50 A M IMPERIAL LINE No 176 arrives Mountain Time 505 p m No 175 departs 710 A M Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars seats free on through trains Tickets sold and baggage checked to any point in tho United States or Canada For information time tables maps and tick ets call on or write R E Foe Agent McCook Nebraska or L Wakeley General Passen ger Agent Omaha Nebraska RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS Mrs T J Cain and the baby ar rived home from Holdrege Sunday Supt E E Young of the McCook division was in Lincoln Monday on company affairs A crew was taken off of the Red Cloud run last Friday in the interest of retrenchment and economy Ray Lyon of the telegraph office left Sunday ou a vacation in the west to visit in Salt Lake City and other points west Henry Best of the dispatchers office is passing a short vacation in Salt Lake City and other places west leaving on Sunday Miss Nellie Ryan is filling his position and Miss Maude Jones is substituting for Miss Ryan THINK OF IT Sanitary Couch 4T5 DRESSERS COMMODES SPRINGS MATTRESSES and other furniture at equally LOW PRICES fr West FINCHS Dennison Street LOW PRICE LEADER I s wwvvAAvvNsWVAf Royal Worcester Corsets Jst arrived something for every figure a full and complete line stylish comfortable and durable NCITIO COfef aso Come in and let us 1 sell you a corset that fits feels and wears well These corsets meet every requirement for particular and intelligent trade Wash Goods Sale Come to our sole on Saturday May 23rd Of such reductions youve never heard On dimities lawns linens ginghams and Swisses Just the sort to make swell gowns for ladies and misses If the date you dont forget Youll have no cause for regret For the goods the store the prices are right And our clerks try to please with all their might Saturday Wash May I Sale I ffinHnifiSi Brakeman E L Hawkins is laying off Harold Weyle of Trenton is now oper ating nights at Stratton Mrs A J Brown returned first of the week from her visit in Iowa Trenton is pleased with the informa tion that 15 and 16 which go into ser vice May 31st will both stop at that place Adolph Goth general yardmaster at Red Cloud was in town Saturday looking after some personal business affairs Conductor Tom McCarl made some runs for Conductor Foley this week Conductoi Wyman had McCarls car meanwhile William Picklum spent last week in Beaver City on account of the illness of Mrs Ollie Picklum Charles E Pick lum was also there Dispatcher T B Campball is spend ing part of the week in Omaha as a wit ness for the company in federal court in the trial of the 28 hour cases against the Burlington A change in freight trains G3 and 6M was made Sunday The trains now run between Red Cloud and Oberlin instead of Red Cloud to Oxford Mr Larue has this run now Red Cloud Com Adv Conductor George H Pearce arrived home first of tho week from a great trip in the west of several weeks He saw many objects of interest and can interestingly tell about them He re turned to work this week W S Perry of Lincoln chief of bridges west of the river was in the city Saturday evening on his way west on an inspection trip of iron bridges His special left for the west on Sunday morning He will cover the entire sys tem west of the river in this trip Harvey Patterson who has been a brakeman on the Oberlin freight hdB secured a run on a fast freight out of McCook west Fletch Waugh takes his place on the branch train having been transferred from freights No 163 and 164 on the main line Republican City Ranger Conductor Frank Kendlen will be one of 160 or more candidates to take the 4th and highest degree in the Knights of Columbus at Omaha May 30th Only those who have been third degree Knights in good standing for two years are eligible to this degree The juris diction embraces Nebraska and South Dakota and is administered by John OHearne of Omaha Father Lough ran of 1126 will also take the degree at the same time This is the exclusive circle in the organization and a distinc tion much sought after To Enlarge Brotherhood ColumbiiB O May 18 Tho inter national brotherhood of locomotive en gineers at their meeting today decided to include tho countries of South Amer icn and Panama in tho brotherhood and a canvass of those countrios for member ship will be begun at once reduced Rates on Coal The Burlington has notified tho state railway commission that rates on coal from tho west would bo lowered 25 cents per ton Tho reduction applies to all Burlington transfer points west of and including Grand Island Goat No 1334 received new tires this week Tho 10G6 is being given extensive re pairs in the round house W J Russell wont to work in tho round house la9t Saturday Supt of Motive Power Roope came in on delayed 13 yesterday A C Paulson has opened a lunch room near the depot Red Cloud Brakoman Jack Annes is off duty visiting home folks at Beaver City Engineer M R Gates of Republican City was at headquarters Tuesday Engines 1932 and 1904 were given new arches to their fire boxes this week Engine 132 wont into tho back shop this week for a general overhauling Disptchers Knowles Cobb and Brown are with the bunch in Omaha this week Engine 280 was sent to the Oberlin line Tuesday and the 143 came in for repairs The 3186 still has that Baldwin stack but is uot making medicine to suit the case yet Round house Foreman Wiehe is with the bunch in Omaha this week attend ing federal court Fifty two cars of new ties are being laid in the 78 miles of track between Re publican and Oberlin No 13 was eleven hours late yester day the result of a bridge washing away down in Missouri Fireman Roy Hiler has returned from Republican and is now assigned to the McCook Holdrege local J W Chase is in charge of the round house nights during J M Trammells absence courting in Omaha Mrs Baker and daughter of Brush Colo have been the guests of Mrs A C Wiehe part of the week Frank OConnell went up to Denver Saturdav to witness the marriage of his sister Miss Kate to Mr Stevenin The Pennsylvania railroad has placed 1000 new freight cars in commission in the last week owing to increasing busi ness The Brush Wray local is bulletined for a conductor who must agree to pro teci it for a period of not less than one year Engineer M R Gates returned to his run this week and Engineer W W Archibald is at headquarters for the present John Brening has D O Hewitts lathe for the rest of the month while D O is in Orleans at work on his electric light plant Brakeman Williams went down to St Joseph Monday night to accompany the wife and baby who will make this their home Pilot repairs for 1018 spark arrester for the 1984 new front pony wheels for 2705 and stack repairs for the 1760 were minor repairs this week Nick Snyder was called down to near Kenesaw last night by news of the serious condition of his mother who was recently operated upon J R Pence has the car wheel ma chine while J B Miller and wife are visiting his home in Pennsylvania They left Tuesday morning The Wisconsin railroad evidently thinks it can carry passengers at as low as one and one half cents per mile They have already made such a rate for the Stiriners to the Twin Cities from Chicago Two crews have been pulled off the Oxford Red Cloud run and the Oberlin line crews are now running through to Red Cloud One crew is stationed at Oxford making turn around trip to Re publican A P Ely formerly in the Burlington train service is in Omaha this week a witness for the company in the trial of the 23 hour cases against the company He was conducting a belated and delay ed stock train Mrs H M Finity arrived home today from an absence in Wisconsin visiting relatives members of her family she had not seen for twenty years in LaCrosse Verona and other points Her young son accompanied her The company has had the ground north of the headquarters building en closed with a good fence which has been painted The grounds have been graded and will be seeded for grass This in the general interest of improve ments to properties H M MacKain who has been on the farm near Trenton since the cut in the shop force here was in town Tuesday Herb likes tho farm pretty well but his trade looks good to him and ho will be ready to report for duty when the work opens up again in good shape CLING TO ENGINES DRIVERS HAVE REAL AFFECTION FOR MACHINES Electric Locomotive Unable to Inspire Sentiments Such as Spring Up Between the Engineer and His Steed of Steam IT aint the same said the old engineer She aint alive The veteran waved his hand toward the two great machines that stood side by side in the train shed Theres your new fangled electric ho continued I call her the shilling shocker though she aint so cheap as she looks Costs 25000 good money But shes ugly hump backed and cold You cant get on terms with her cant feel a human interest She squats on the rails like a toad in a trance only theres something about the toad that tells you he can hop Whereas who would ever know that this black giant could pull a whole train from here to nowhere No I dont take any shine to this big lightning hug Me for her neigh bor here that has just steamed in with the limited Theres something for your eyes and the real thing in railroading Nothing cold about her And noth ing dead Shes panting for the road again this minute You can tell that by the way she stands Shes ready for the springing away as ready as the racehorse that prances at tho post And I want to say right now that theres nothing like the experience and the feelings of a man that stands at the throttle of a machine like this a living machine mind you and feels her bounding away over miles of steel through light or dark nerv ous and eager hut always obedient to the rein It sets me to talking a lot stranger but I cant help it You see Ive been at the throttle a long time I know engines And I dont believe any man who drives one of these electric critters is going ever to know his ma chine in just the same way It aint natural The thing cant make him understand Why you can give a regular talk to this slim racer under steam here but what can you have to say to this other thing and what can it answer back of itself -when it has even to pick up its power from a third rail an outsider Engines the steam kind begin to have whims and notions the minute they get to work They have to be broke like horses Ive seen em buck like broncos in the old times and Ive seen em refuse to make steam before they got quite ready Then sometimes they are coltish and just cut capers by the mile Mostly they settle down in the end but some of em stay pretty mean and sulky and only lit to draw local freights It takes a clever engineer to do nimble yard work And speaking of cleverness did anybody tell you of the old Delaware Hudson locomotive that jumped her self back on the track No Well she did it all right up the road from Binghamton Ive forgotten her num ber which makes no difference any way but she was an engine that the boys used to say had never done a mean thing and she seemed to be positively ashamed of herself when she left the rails that night It was stormy and dark when the thing happened and the train crew was about as glum as they could make em They thought they saw a long hard job and perhaps a long wait for a wrecking gang They swore a little at the machine but the engineer wouldnt stand for much of that and besides there was the crooked rail in plain sight that had done the mis chief Now some folks wont believe what followed but I do because as I say I know engines All at once when the boys were poking around that old Number Whatever-it-was just gave a hump and a jump and there she was back on the irons just as neat and as smooth as you please Say would one of these third rail jiggers be doing a trick like that Well hardly Yes Im prejudiced I dont deny it But I dont go so far as the other engineer who said once that he would sooner run over his best friend than reverse his engine A locomotive is sure enough the most human of ma chines and I know how a fellow in a jumper feels when his pet goes from the rails to the scrap heap But a life is a life and of course there aint anything made in iron and brass thats going to take the place of a man or a child They dont put so much fancy work on engines now as they used to It was the way once that an engineer or fireman dead stuck on his machine could put in all his leisure time shin ing the brass fixings All sentiment some fellow will say about this time And sure it is But sentiment helps some in the days work though it probably wont stand in the way of progress That dead one there with the hump is electric and scientific and new Its day is coming fast as near as I can see and some day there wont be any of us fellows who have handled the steam throttle Unless human nature gets some way electrified too there aint going to be much sentiment along the road then nor engineers tears for old machines that come to their doom in the scrap pile You need more too op wovist dont yoy J Tfi a3nbonn4 f3lct Cm- unbonnet ftbies 0J 30 yJ il - gg Besides it is 9ot wasting nogey to lpiwe several slirt waists because tley re good U9til tlpey ver out avay ad if you rest your waists you will get just s nucl wer out of tlpen nd you cn rgore ofte9 irjke 2l Bort you ik tlpea t tle following prices you would like to dd sone of tlpese waists to your coIIectio9 Good Lwn Wfclsts cxt 125 nd 15 0 Better Wists 510 0 nd 5150 sone fcre 50 0 You wort wdJst your rgoney if you buy your wadsts fron us CordiaJIy C L DeGROFF CO SSSWW sS MSI Look If you want a Side Walk Curb 5 Stone or Cement Work of any kind H N Rosebush Successor to Rosebush Northrup PHONE RED 196 5 The McCook Tribune One Dollar Per Year FiftySeven Varieties at The White House Grocery 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