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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
8
The General Electric works employees plan an annual social at Swinney Park on August 12 with mayoral approval. Four to five hundred incandescent lamps will light the grounds for a community event not aimed at profit, featuring the famous Cornish City band for continuous music.
A large shipment of twenty boxes of bees was transported yesterday along the Pennsylvania Road toward Massachusetts. The boxes, each about a quarter of a mill, were consigned to John Shaingitel and Suaih Low, with Mas Athauga listed as a potential recipient. The scene drew attention as the wagons moved through town, creating a busy, buzzing display near the fort.
Brotherhood of Railway Fire men and Enginemen at 3 p y, World area, in hall. Fatternmakers' League of North Area at 1 p m in Yordermark hall. Wood Wire and Metal Butters No 34 at 8 p m 1227 Lafayette street. Journeymen Horseshoers No 82 at 8 p m in Suenger hall. Carpenters and Junners No 42 at 8 p m to Carpenters' hall. Beer Bottlers No 275 at 8 p m in New York Strode dealt.
A recently completed building houses a foundry division to support Fort Wayne Electric Works new lamp designed by J J Wood. Eastern tests show the lamp performs exceptionally well, with high praise for the design and manufacturability despite wind exposure of sixty miles per hour.
Bowser's Bracts Gomer issue distributed yesterday under editor E J Little. Next six months planned for salesmen in Bowser works territories with a prize for the top war record. Bert J Griswold features a neat item in the special Janta. Penny Train Stop at Winona Lake announced with train No 12 stopping daily except Sunday for Plymouth and western passengers.
The intense heat of Tuesday and Wednesday forced several workers at the rolling mills to leave work as oppressive conditions made it impossible to continue. Similar heat effects were felt in other shops, especially at the Pennsylvania plant where some men also quit briefly.
General Electric announces a ten day shutdown from July 2 to July 12 to grant all employees a vacation. The factory will resume operations on the thirteenth with full force and blast.
The local union of Meat Cutters and Butchers No. 424 aims to establish a half holiday each week and one half day is planned to be granted on Thursday afternoon after strike arrangements are finalized.
A local Wabash man reports no future special excursions to Detroit and notes normal traffic remains despite limited service. The article lists staff changes including leaves, sickness, resignations, transfers, and new appointments at Pennsylvania shops and the Wabash operations in Mackinac City and Boston.
About one thousand people attended the revival at the Tabernacle in Angola Indiana on Tuesday night where Evangelist Scoville preached. At the close twenty five persons went forward in response to the invitation as meetings continue nightly this week with four additions.
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