Railroad News and Folks in 1916 Amarillo Area
Eight years after the T and S F established an employees death benefit plan, benefits totaling over 1.8 million dollars have been paid to 2,014 recipients. President Story extends the plan for another year. The summary outlines eligibility and benefit formula, plus local railroad personnel notes in Amarillo and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. & S. F. Railway System
W. B. Story
Charles Jensen
Board of Pensions
Chicago
W. T. Winslow
Amarillo
Canadian
Program for Cowboy Roundup Announced
Informal program for the Round-up of the Old Time Cowpoundhers on the T-Anchor Range announced by Mise laura V Hamner. Round-up Thursday at Hale's Park Canyon for old cowpunchers who came before 1890 features a forenoon program with a West Texas State Teachers College band movie and talks by Tarvon Gough Amarillo T F Turner Amarillo J D Hamlin Farwell Judge O H Nelson Romero and Dr J H Wayland Plainview. Afternoon campfire stories and songs by Earl Gough Hereford and Sandy Morrison Boys with officers elected to conclude the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mise Laura V. Hamner
Hale's Park
Canyon
West Texas State Teachers’ College
Tarvon" Gough
Amarillo
T. F. Turner
J. D. Hamlin
Farwell
Plains
Chuck
T-Anchor
Gus Lee
John Snyder
O. H. Nelson
Romero
Carson County
J. H. Wayland
Plainview
Earl Gough
Hereford
Sandy Morrison
Hoys
Cline family returns to Amarillo from Atchison home
Roy and Mrs Cline declare they left Atchison Kansas after six months due to homesickness. They say Amarillo is their real home and they proudly identify as Texans. Shorty Bullock notes camp life dangers but praises railroad safety progress and injury reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Roy Cline
Atchison, Kan
Cline
Globe
Atchison
Amarillo
Mr. Cline
Insurance Agents of Panhandle to Convene at Amarillo Exposition
Fire insurance agents of the Panhandle will meet during the Amarillo Tri-State exposition. Guy Saunders announces the meeting with G N Holton and his rate clerk from the State Fire Insurance commission to explain the commission's work. Lex Jarrell, president of the Texas Association of Insurance Agents, will attend. The gathering is expected to draw many agents during the exposition. France endures a severe summer with violent thunderstorms and hail affecting vineyards and resorts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Amarillo
Guy Saunders
G .N. Holton
State Fire Insurance Commission
Lex Jarrell
The
Texas
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Finklea
Finklea Electric Co
Polk St
By John Moore
Frances Fry
Santa Fe
Los Angeles
Calif
A. Peterson
Rock Island Lines
A. W. Skarda
Clovis
C. J. Galloway
W. KE. Goodloe
Santa Fe Division
New Mexico
Iof. Anton
Slaton
AH. Zook
Wellington
Kan
Wiley Pollard
Potter County
Roi Wooten
Walter Campbell
J. W. Rogers
V I. Carpenter
O R. Storz
J. Sprague
C BO Parks
Kansas City
Charlie Eddington
Belen, N. M
Commissioners’ Court of
Deaf Smith County
T-Anchor Boys
Shorty” Bullock
Stetson
Mallory
Blackburn Bros
Hart -Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Insurance Agents OF Panhandle
Paris
France
Toots and
Casper
Jimmy Murphy
Buttercup
Barry
Moaters
Romeo
Gout
Cinderella
Surious
Jrchy
Jes Foundd
Johan J. Champ
Hosses
Moon Mullins
Hoss
Whaww
Walton Forest Dutton
Blackburn Bldg
Home Fur & Rug Co
Hartford
Ordway— Saunders CO
Daisy Pennock
Abrams
POST
van Buren St
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