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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1929
Page
9
The notice extols Mother's Day as a noble tribute to mothers and recalls family devotion. It also announces John Moore's Santa Fe employees annual picnic at Jack Hall's ranch on Tuesday June 11, with free activities, food not provided, contests, a swimming pool, guards, and Santa Fe transport arrangements for workers.
Texas Lions at San Angelo discuss forming an all-state Lions band to lead state delegations at the national convention in Louisville. Benjamin A. Ruffin of Richmond VA urges respect for law. John Erhard of Dallas proposes rotating district conventions, a Texas service man, and halving the 50 cent per capita tax.
Leon Trotzky, exiled Soviet commander in chief, leads a quiet life in Constantinople. He rarely leaves home, with his wife and son handling affairs while he writes his memoirs in two volumes in English and German. His finances are modest but not crippled, and memoir royalties will aid him.
Two Alamosa youths aged 15 and 17 pled guilty to breaking into a local grocery and stealing 165 dollars. Police recovered all but 2 dollars. The boys, students at a grade school, were ordered to plant a tree and tend the lawn at the school until term end and to report to Judge James Hyndman twice weekly.
Mrs Eva Myers and Mrs Curtis Coble receive leave of absence to sight-see in major western cities and beyond. Walter T Price granted 30 days leave to visit Meridian and Mississippi relatives. J F Eubanks to visit Fort Worth before attending Houston Trainmen convention. R B Jones resigns to join Union Pacific in Nebraska. F F Harlan to travel to Kansas City for medical consulting. F L Shaw named circulation supervisor for News Globe Route 50. Tom Sparks recovering from Palo Duro canyon injury and resumes car sales with Oldsmobile. Sam Troutt, Denver yard engine foreman, discharged from Portales hospital after recovery.
Santa Fe funds a picnic project with about 300 dollars from city departments. Art O Leary, the Santa Fe dispatcher, travels to Clinton Oklahoma to review local workers on operating rules to take effect May 15 as Santa Fe assumes control of the line. A mixed-train service will run daily each way between Pampa and Clinton connecting with M E and T at Hammond and with KC M and O trains at Clinton.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Colby were observed motor touring the oil fields, continuing a journey through the region.
The report lists Santa Fe personnel on various assignments and travels including Troutt heading to Amarillo then Portales for a funeral, Briscoe at Waynoka and Chicago meetings, Prentice with a work train at Miami, Cravena attending a Chicago meeting, and Wooten returning home after visits in Columbia and Birmingham. Stallworth, recovering from tonsil surgery, is not progressing well and his sister left Amarillo for Clovis. The Santa Fe has received five steel cabooses.
A testimonial touts PRERLEAS STOMACAL as a remedy for ulcers of the stomach gas indigestion and other chronic stomach ailments. The letter from GIAMTTE of Hollywood claims four years of indigestion ended after two bottles and urges others with stomach disorders to use the product.
Cabooses labeled all steel have been placed under conductors Al B Stewart W N Van Shaw B Sparks F Cooper and H R Taylor with 25 in service from Amarillo The Fort Worth and Denver will reestablish the San Antonio Denver Pullman line on trains 7 and B via Fort Worth and M E T starting June 1 M F Rose Denver chief train dispatcher Wichita Falls visits Amarillo to review train and engine crew on the new standard book of rules
Officials report two daily sessions in the road master’s office as classes are examined under current procedures.
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