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RETIREMENTM. C. EMPLOYEFred Rentsehler Was At Local Shops 45 Years.inidEvfamkpii:' Fred. Rentsrhler, tor years an’ employe of llie local Michigan!! Central shops, completed Ms ser-1 ! vico there., Saturday afternoon. having reached the age limit of 70 ■ years. Mr. Rontschlers’ fellow ■, works rs pvesenkd him with a trav-, cling bag and a bos of cigars as a I t ■1 lokru of the esteem in which they 1‘held the veteran employe. ~! Mr, Rentsehler first went, to iwenk nt the MarsJmll -shops on ! October 10. 18114. as a car repairer, fits wages uL (hat time amounted in eleven cents per hour. The men ; worked ten hours per day and veil reived $1.10 Tor each day’s work. Jhe road at- that time was known (( 1 as the O. J. fii M. 1). C. Dm ell Was ^st’lawtlhi\ master- mechanic at. the time, hut 1 was succeeded three years later by ill. F. Marshall.Mr, Rentsehler recalls th exact 1 f(. .. J date of each .change It^, the name y df the railroad, and i.the year; j,. p which the position of master l t)j mechanic changed hands. In 188ft ytlMr. Rentsehler recalls that F. W. Diebert, succeeded dVhv Marshall, while two years later A. II. Watts assumed the position. On dune Hi. 1WK5 Mr.'Watts- was transferred h Van Wert. Ohio. ; ..At that, time the force at the . Marshall shops consisted of only , iixteen men. ten of * the.se being : car upvxl’O-Ms. one si machinist., and... . t C 1 h.dlt; wr f tfl 11 /1 _
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Marshall Evening Chronicle
Marshall, Michigan, US
Mon, Apr 01, 1929
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