Fiddling Contest and Railroad Safety Meet Highlight Borger Event
A Friday night program at the Municipal Auditorium features a three-number fiddling contest by Robertson and family Borger area performers plus square dance and popular tunes. Separately Plains division of the Santa Fe Railway held a bimonthly safety meeting in Waynoka with 100 plus officials and employees, reporting ongoing improvements in safe practices on Santa Fe lines and praising the railroad safety organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ero
Municipal Audium
Ader
Tri-States Association
Robertson
Borger
Plains Division
Santa Fe Railway
J. M. McCullum
Waynoka
Kenneth Chapman
J. W. Briscoe
W. W. Davis
E. L. Connor
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Plains
Rail safety progress noted with upcoming Amarillo meeting
The rail safety drive shows progress as a meeting is set in Amarillo on May 12, 1931. Local and visiting railroad figures from Santa Fe and Denver networks discuss wages, travel, and safety advances alongside community notes from Lubbock Clovis and Enloe New Mexico.
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Amarillo
Earl Brame
Santa Fe City
San Antonio
Laredo
New Orleans
Birmingham
Chicago
Santa Fe executives travel routes amid commission testimony
The Santa Fe division accompanied President Storey’s special train from Clinton to Amarillo and departed for Slaton. J. B. Briscoe, Santa Fe Superintendent, testified in Austin before the Texas Railway Commission. John Spann, Rock Island freight agent, and J. H. McEwin, Missouri Pacific traveling freight agent, trailed traffic around Pampa yesterday.
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R. W. Prentice
Santa Fe
E. A. Shields
W. B. Storey
Amarillo
Clovis
The
Storey
Clinton
Slaton Headquarters
J. B. Briscoe
Austin
Texas Railway Commission
John Spann
Rock Island
J. H. McEwin
Missouri Pacific
Pampa
Parrot Impersonates Traffic Cop Halts Seattle Driver
United Press reports in Seattle a man named J. B. Swanders braked to avoid a non existent traffic officer after hearing a shrill whistle. He found no officer, only a parrot in a nearby cage that mimicked a police whistle and drew his attention. A truck then rear ended his car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Seattle
J. B. Swanders
Swanders
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John Moore
Rome
Hugh Roden Rogers
Rick
Ister
Bow
America
EL Taos
Martha Washington
St.p Patricks
Masha Arstinagon Gardies Go. and
Polk Sts
Amarillo Bldg
Eh Finkler
Kors
Polk S
Newnn Roberts
Lubbock
W. F. Dale
Mirror Street
Mra
J. W. Stebbins and Sons
John Westley
William of
New Mexico
Harry Sager
Pierce Street
Ed Aimie
J. A. Willis
Denver
Farmers and Bankers Life Insurance Company
Fiske
Mr. Willis
H W. Clutter
Rock Island City
Oklahoma City
Inter
Mediate Stations
W. L. Sloan
Lamesa
Ray Work
J. W. Mode
Plainview
Childress
Edgar Norton
Tyler Street
Enloe
N. M
W. H. Carwile
Santa Fe General Passenger Department
W. M. Coleman
Pullman
C. D. Roberts
A. M. Morgan
J. E. Lester
H. G. Flanders
H. O. Wagner
J. A. Gillies
Slaton
New Spring
Polk St
Stetson
J. Levy
Portage
Greneinen Taser
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkiam
Ser Gompount
Parrott
Palo Duro Furniture Co
Cohn
Polk
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