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JA/HTAt-ofOFhorn 'an tv, t,lltilCM' ‘ 1Oil 30 11*\m: i»\v. 1anclret* S' icioty 'and meil- ' dloan ' i M. 1PM. anna, dona 5 from ‘tnbri Lioneliff of hlo.« for won. lee led• tin I. n inlifetm-iTesi-M. C. EMPLOYEFred. Rentschler Was At Local Shops 45 Years.' dt Er: fat 1ini;SoipitI)' Fred. Kentsrhler. lor d5 years an ' employe ot the local Michigan:! Central shops, completed ids xer-!I vice there., Saturday afternoon,! having reached the age limit of 70 ■ years. Mr. Rontscbler'g fellow j , workers presented him with a Inn-, . cling hag and n box of Him vs as a I r ■ It kni of the esteem hi which they;1-* 'held tin?’veteran employe.- -! Mr, Rentschler first wont, to * wo! k nt the Mar.simll -shops on | October -10. 18B4. as a car repairer, fits wages at that time mummied in eleven cents per hour. The men ; worked ten hours per day and relic rived $1.10 for each day's work.''] he road at- that time whs known ] as the O. J, M. 1). C. Duvell Was \ master-'mechanic at. the time, hut ! was .succeeded three years hdev by ill. F. Marshall.Mr, Rentschler recalls tm exact1 fo [ date of. each .change h^ the name df the railroad, and i/o the year:ln fn which tire position of master l mcchauio changed hands. In Iflflft y,sh’In!sc I W Wl til tonthvcri*Mr. RrnUjehtor recalls that F. W. Diebcrt, succeeded -Miv Marshall, while (wo years later A. II. Walls ^ iisstuned the position. On dune Hi. j 1 \m Mr.'Watts was transferred, to Van Wert. Ohio. ..I At that, time the force at the „Mai-shall shops consisted of only ,sixteen men. ten of * these being 'tar upvxlveis. one a machinist., andmost of the others being designated »s helpers. It was In .IttHO that. 'Mr, IIehtschlor became; car lore*;'” man. and William I. Bedell, now, residing in Jackson, was foreman id lit' 1' vrfflnrl’ Intt'rr 1
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Marshall Evening Chronicle
Marshall, Michigan, US
Mon, Apr 01, 1929
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