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I WEDDING BELLS 1
One of the most unusual happen-
ings to be recorded in the Frisco
famiry during the pest month, was
the wedding of Louise Lawean of
Lepanto, Arkansas, and Henry E.
Shumate, freight brakeman, southern
division, which took place in the of-
fice of E. E. McGuire, superfntendent
of terminals.
Cev. P. 0. Freeman, a minister and
also an engineer for the Frisco of-
fieiated. Everybody attending. and all
those officiating were members of the
Frisco family, wit11 the esceplion of
Miss Lawson, and she became a full-
fledged inember w11en Rev. Freeman
pronounced the words that made her
the wife of this Frisco brakeinan, of
seventeen years service.
Mr. Shuinote is an intimate friend
of Mr. JIcCuire's and he desired,
above all things to have a "quiet"
wedding. Instend of a church, 11;s owr:
home or the hone of tho bridc, he
chose the office of the terminal
~uperintendent.
Gut news travels fast, and this mes-
sage of his marriage was trat~smltletl
with radio speed, and just au Rev.
Freeman gronounced the find words
of Ihe marriage ceremony, the brlde
and groom were showered with rice
and Mr. Shumates' many FrIsco
hiends ant1 co-worliers ~iled in to
shake his hand and liiss the bride.
Their honeynroon was srrrrit in
Thaycr, TtIo., and later they rv\-nnt to
San Francisro lor a visit.
A Slogan
A butcher in a certain town had
read a good deal about the "AIilli
irom contented corns," and wanting to
keep up with the times, he placed this
xign in his window: "Sausages from
pigs that diccl happy."--The Independ-
ent.
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Oliuer and Thorburn to New Positions
UOILUOS L. OLIVEK
WO Important changea in the
. official roster of the traffic department
of Frisco Lines were
announced from the general ~ffices
June first.
Charles Thorburn, who has been
soliciting freight agent in the St.
Louis territory, has been promoted to
the positiou of traffic manager of the
fiIuscle Shoals, Birmingham & Pensacola
Railroad Company, a Frisco subsidiary,
wit11 headquarters at Pensacola,
Florida.
Thorburn succeeds Gordon L.
Oliver, who has been traffic manager
of the Muscle Shoals road for the
past year. Oliver has been promoted
to tragic manager of the Frisco's
Texas Lines. with headquarters ill
Ft. Worth, Texas, succeeding iV. C.
Preston, who resigned from the service.
Charles Thorb~~rn is a nat.ive St.
Louisan. He entered Frisco service
in 1900 as a rodinan in the engineering
department, and had become assistant
engineer h 1917. He enlisted
i!~ Nay, 1917, in the 128th Field Artillery,
and was discharged in 1920 \\.ith
FRXSCO RACES AT TULSl\
The horse rares on Thursday, .June
2 at Tdsa, Olilahoina \vers give!i
aver to the employes of the Frisco
Ilailroad company by the Western
Tl~orouql~bred hssocintion. The fenture
race was a mile arid one-sixteenth
run, carrying the name of the rail-'
way company. It carried a guarantectl
value of 5(;00.00.
J. W. Jamcs. executive amnt w:ls .
the guest of the manaremeut in the
tl-e rank of captain of engineers. He
saw service in Frauce wilh the 35th
division, 110th engineers, and after
his return to America in September,
1919, mas assigned to Mexican border
duty with the Ninth Mounted En-
gineers. He resumed his work with
Frisco Lines as assistant engineer.
following his army service, but trans-
ferred to the traffic departnlent on
November 1, 1925, as soliciting freight
agent, a positio~i he held at the lime
of his promotion.
Gordon Oliver came to Frisco EInes
April 15, 1926, from the Fort Smith
& Western Railroad, where he had
been traffic manager. He was imme-
diately sent to Pensacola, Florida, ae
traffic manager of the Frisco's newly
acquired hIuscle Shoals, Birmingham
& Peilsacola Railroad. Oliver was
born in Scotland and educated in Lo-
retto College in Edinburgh. He came
to Aineiica in 1903, and in 1911 be-
came coniiected with Frisco Lines at
St. Louis in the traffic department.
EIe lett the Frisco in 191:; to enter the
8ervice of the Ft. Smith & Western.
J
As mAny of the employes at the
Tulsa Frisco offices as l~ossible were
given the clay off, and six of the
events were namcd in honor of the
lollowing Fiisco employes; 1\Iiss
O'Rrien, .J. W. .Tames; A. W. Arnett,
passenger agent; P. E. Buesse, city
passenger and ticket agent; 0. H.
Reid, commercial agent and F. A.
Connell, traveling freight agent.
--
A Miss
stenards' st~ntl and JIiss 3Iarjoric Preacher (at the reunion meeting):
O'Brien. nri~ate secrctarv to the
general agent was chosen to place
"I haie only one regret-I miss so
many of the old faces I used to shake
the floral wrcxth aro~~nd the necli hands with."-London Weelily Teleof
the winner. gram.