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Railroader News Roundup Amid Tax Reminder and Staff Movements
A long railroad bulletin details a last day to pay poll tax and shows widespread staff changes. It notes moves to Fort Worth Dallas and Claude and updates on conductors switchmen engineers and firemen with postings, leave approvals, and illness absences. The Santa Fe Safety Club reports a January 23 chicken dinner with officials and district work trains bidding in crews across the system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Mitchells
Petersburg
W. H. Arney
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Elmer
St. Josephs
H. M. Holcomb
Dallas
G. E. Patterson
Sterley
A. H. Chesser
Hamrick Lodge
Brotherhood of Railroad
IOOF
O. B. Brock
George S. Babb
M. A. Boone
Tampico
Tex
A. T. Sanford
Childress
Ephram Daggett Hill
Denver City
Daggett
Switchman
V. M. Dutton
Jimmie Davis
National City
Cal
T. R. Cue
Clark
Claude
E. F. Morris
W. H. Stancsh
Oklahoma
Walter Brown
Lefors
M. R. Jennens
E. Hargis
Douglas Graham
Sterley-Dimmit
Golden Gloves
H. M. Pryor
South Plains
E. Harris
Hi. R. Settle
Quitaque
W. H. Greenroyd
Bill
Lubbock
Harry E. Mitchell
W. R. Jackson
T. H. Boggan
George L. Smith
Kentucky
L. A. Thomas
Thomas
Velmar Ellison
Dalhart
Texline
F. E. Weatherly
P. N. Ingram
Santa Fe Car Department Safety Club No. 1
E L. Duggan
Santa Fe
A. M. Hansen
J. T. Smith
Mr. Robinson
la Junta
T. M. Anderson
J. Walters
H. E. Dodd
F. B. Hagler
J. B. Steele
R. A. Smith
T. J. Mottingham
Carman
J. J. Gear
David Rob