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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
10
Poetry tribute to railroad engineers by Christopher Morley honoring the lives they protect and the precise skill behind steel-ribbed coaches. It extols the unseen labor keeping passengers safe on night and day journeys through trestles curves and grades.
A letter from Corporal C. F. Wykoff of the 19th Engineers R. R. in France describes life near the Mediterranean in southern France. He writes of ten hour workdays, train yard duty, and friends back home with notes on post Cody transfer and rank as lance corporal. Other local notes mention arrival of Mr Brandon in France with the 31st engineers and community updates about residents returning to Alliance and planning trips.
Two soldier trains will run thirty minutes apart and reach Alliance about seven thirty a.m. Friday. Road Foreman J. T. King from the Sterling division visited the city on company business. Engineer W. J. Mahoney and wife plan a trip to Yates Center and Camp Funston to visit relatives. "Red" A. M. Richmond departs for Omaha before enlisting. Mrs. Fern McFarland visits Fremont while Mrs. Harry Baird temporarily stands in.
George Mentzer, longtime vulcanizing worker at Pud Schaefers, is called in the next draft. He and wife depart for Douglas Wyoming for a few days before Mentzer joins the Wyoming contingent at American Lake Washington. Mrs. Mentzer will stay with her parents in Douglas during his absence.
Philip M. Thomas reached Manilla May 6 with his company quarantined for mumps. Harold B. Thomas finished radio school at Lincoln and heads to Plattsburg barracks NY for further training en route to France. Chadron Journal notes Supt Pate from Alliance joining western Nebraska summer school to teach education and mathematics.
T J Thompson left for Lincoln last Friday and his daughter Hazel joined him at Grand Island to begin school this week. Walter Peterson broke a collar bone at his brother Arthur's ranch when a horse fell on him. Dr Hirschman of Alliance attended. Roy Turton went to Denver and back. Mrs Otto Zamson returned from a trip east.
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